John Dewhirst's Sister Calls for UN Trial for Comrade Duch

The sister of the only documented Briton to die in the bloodbath of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia is calling for the UN to put Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch on trial for her brother's torture and...

Protect Act: Operation Twisted Traveler Nabs 3 Sex Tourism Creeps

In 2003 the US enacted the Protect Act designed to prosecute US citizens who travel to other nations to engage in sex with children. Known as "sex tourism," travel to other countries by pedophiles who want to...

Drug-resistant Malaria Sparks Alert

The emergence of a strain of drug-resistant malaria parasites in Cambodia has sparked an alert among health care providers.  Malaria is a major killer claiming more than a million each year.  For those...

AIDS Colony Condemned: An Open Letter to the Cambodian Government

The Cambodian Government has been reportedly creating an AIDS colony, where families affected by HIV are being placed. The supposed AIDS colony is located in Tuol Sambo, a ghetto 25 km outside the capital of Phnom...

Sex Trafficking--It Happens in America, Too

When you ask the average American what they think of sex trafficking and where it originates, you will most likely hear, “Thailand, Philippines, Eastern Europe.” The majority of Americans don’t believe that...

Victimization of Tamil Peopel must stop - Elie Wiesel

Holocaust surviver, Jewish icon, and Nobel laureate, Professor Elie Wiesel stated that victimization of Tamil people must stop, and they should be able to live in peace in their homeland. " TAMIL PEOPLE STATEMENT:...

North Korea Crisis provoked to create fear in Japan and S-Korea.

By, Uwe Paschen.  The North Korean Crisis may be blown out of proportion to get Japan and South Korea to side with the US against China and Russia.  More and more articles from Asia start suggesting that...

Khmer Rouge torturer tells how babies were killed UPDATES

UPDATE 2:66 year-old Kaing Guek Eav said some of the people who were tortured and killed had blood completely drained from their bodies or were used for medical experiments."PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge prison chief told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court...

Barack Obama means "never again"..but

When asked regarding his visit to concentration camp in Buchenwald, as follows: "since the Holocaust, a constant refrain in the United States has been “never again,” but U.S. President after U.S. President has...

A Dollar Economy!

            Like many other curious tourists, it was the thousand year old temple complex that drew me to the land of the Khmers—<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Cambodia—Siem Reap to be precise. Spread across...

Cambodia sees higher sex trafficking

SINGAPORE - Cambodia expects an increase in prostitution and human trafficking as the unemployment rate climbs during the economic downturn, the country's secretary of state said on Wednesday "More women and more...

Cambodia's Vietnamese Community Drawn into Sex Industry

BY MATTHEW RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Just as there is a pizza shop or deli on every corner in New York City, so too there is there sex for sale almost everywhere you look in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On the infamous street no. 63, customers meander nonchalantly in and out of...

Former Khmer Rouge Official Warns of Civil War

Former Khmer Rouge official, now Cambodian prime minister warns of civil war if more than five are tried.Currently five former Khmer Rouge commanders are on trial or awaiting trial in their part of killing nearly...

Khmer Rouge Killer Comrade Duch Admits Crimes

The head of one of the Khmer Rouge's torture centres has admitted responsibility for crimes committed during the regime's four-year rule. Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Comrade Duch, is on trial before a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia. He is the first Khmer Rouge leader to...

Global Efforts To Protect Endangered Freshwater Giants

The National Geographic Society is collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund by launching the MegaFishes Project, an ambitious four-year effort to protect the Earth’s largest freshwater fish, while raising...

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