Exactly 30 years ago, a coalition of Cambodian and Vietnamese troops forced Pol Pot and his followers from power - after a four-year reign which left ...
George C. Wilson | Posted 12.12.2008 | World
Imagine a worst case scenario of terrorists sneaking just one nuke into New York City and setting it off at lunch hour. Thousands of people could be incinerated and the air poisoned for years.
Donald Steinberg | Posted 12.11.2008 | World
Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.04.2008 | World
CNN's Christiane Amanpour has spent much of the last 20 years covering conflicts in every corner of the world. Her new documentary, Scream Bloody Murd...
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.26.2008 | Entertainment
John Wayne found True Grit towards the end of his career and now Clint Eastwood has done the same with an unforgettable performance in Gran Torino.
Elena Lesley | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
Chants of "Obama! Obama!" and "Yes we can!" echoed through the popular Phnom Penh restaurant, while a supporter sporting an Obama mask worked the crowd.
Elena Lesley | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
As an American, I am always struck by the amount of attention paid to U.S. politics by citizens of other countries -- we certainly do not return the favor -- and this year, interest is especially keen.
Charles J. Brown | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 08.14.2008 | Living
Cambodia held its fourth parliamentary election on July 27th, 2008. As predicted Hun Sen's ruling Cambodia People's Party (CPP) came out on top with a...
Marianne Schnall | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living
At an upcoming Women & Courage conference Isabel Allende and Loung Ung will demonstrate that the most direct and powerful way to comprehend human suffering is through compelling, first-hand accounts.
Richard Walden | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
Knowing the Bush Administration's line on Cambodia's long serving government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, I inquired as to the nature of the Intl. Republican Institute's presence in the country during election time.
Elena Lesley | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
The ruling Cambodian People's Party has claimed over two-thirds of the vote in Sunday's election, a win that will tighten the party's grip on political power.
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living
I woke up in Phnom Penh one morning a few weeks ago to a loudspeaker blasting high pitched Khmer music and the sound of a voice repeating the same phr...
John Sauer | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Each day in developing countries more children die unnecessarily from water-related diseases than there are people in my hometown on Long Island, NY.
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
In Cambodia today, more than 150,000 people are threatened with eviction. Forty-five percent of the country's entire landmass has been sold off - inc...
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living
I have been writing about the positive experiences that I have had and the personal development that I have enjoyed while working in Southeast Asia ov...
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 06.19.2008 | Living
Arriving back in Vancouver after spending three and a half months in Phnom Penh I was dazzled by how clean and functional it was. It is easy to slip b...
Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living
Leaving law school for a semester in the middle of my second year to go work for an NGO in Northern Thailand was easier than I thought it would be. At...
Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.
Socheata Poeuv | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living
But it's my belief that despite the secrets we keep and the shame we hold inside, Cambodians truly want to be remembered and acknowledged.
AP | RICHARD PYLE | Posted 03.30.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer ...
AP | Posted 03.29.2008 | Entertainment
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Pop star Ricky Martin has taken his fight against child trafficking to Cambodia. Martin, who arrived in the country Wednesday...
AP | KER MUNTHIT | Posted 01.20.2008 | Entertainment
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian police blocked Mia Farrow from holding a genocide memorial ceremony Sunday at a Khmer Rouge prison, at one poin...
Carl Pope | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Cambodia won't be able to stop China from taking what it needs. And China has already shown that it will risk long-term ecological disaster to avert short-term economic upheaval.
Barton Brooks | Posted 12.04.2007 | Living
I imagine everything we do is based on a feeling, and on that day it all became clear for me. These children were going about their day in poverty - but happy - and their indifference to their need struck me. I no longer saw "global poverty" as a Sally Struthers infomercial that made
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BBC | Guy De Launey | Posted 01.06.2009 | World