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Cambodia Deports Uyghur Refugees to China

The Cambodian government deported 20 Uyghur refugees to China despite protests by human rights groups.  Two of the original refugees have disappeared within Cambodia.  Included in the 20 deported refugees are two small children.  All have been labelled...

East Turkistan: Refugees May Get Asylum in Cambodia

The Cambodian government is considering the granting of asylum to refugees from East Turkistan.  Twenty-two people, including two small children have fled China via Vietnam to Cambodia. These ethic Uyghurs...

Genocide Trial in Cambodia Wraps Up This Week

The genocide trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, wraps up in Cambodia this week.  Prosecutors are calling for a life sentence for Duch who has admitted his part in the torture and death of over 16...

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...

Cambodia: Survivor of S-21 Prison Camp Testifies Against Duch

Vann Nath, a survivor of prison camp S-21, took the stand today to testify against Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch.  Duch ran the prison camp S-21 in which all but 14 out of 15 000 captives were...

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...

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...

UN Fears Over Thailand - Cambodia Border Exchange of Opened Fire

UNITED Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, has expressed concern over an outbreak of open fire at the Thai-Cambodia border.  Bangkok, the scene of recent on-going clashes and civil anti-government...

Divorce Cambodian style

And you think American divorces are weird!"(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets: ...

Condom lubricant is the best acne cure!

Condom usages are still taboo in many countries but Cambodian women have discovered a new way of life for Condoms. " Cambodian women have found a unique way to cure acne - a condom lubricant designed for...

Transgender woman speaks out on sex abuses, Khmer Rouge trials

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia have been accused of many atrocities, but today a 68 year-old transgender woman added a new dimension to the saga when she revealed shocking details of her oppression under...

Thai troops 'occupy second temple'

Amid border confrontation on the Preah Vihear temple, Cambodia now claims Thai soldiers have taken a further step towards confrontatio. Since Thursday, they have occupied a sencond temple called Moan Thom...

Polls open in Cambodian election

Millions of Cambodians are voting in a general election today, which is expected to see Prime Minister Hun Sen return to office with an even firmer grip on power."His Cambodian People's Party holds 73 assembly...

Top Khmer Rouge diplomat in court

" Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary has appeared before Cambodia's genocide tribunal to appeal against his detention. The 82-year-old has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Maoist regime's four-year rule in the late...

Ex-Marine convicted of using drugs and force to have sex

"LOS ANGELES - Following a three-week trial, a federal jury today convicted on seven felony counts a retired Marine Corps captain who traveled to Cambodia for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors.Michael Joseph Pepe, 54, a resident of Oxnard, faces up...

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