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Cambodian-Thai Border Clashes Hurt Both Nations' Poor
By Mike Eckel - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- To call the fighting over the Preah Vihear temple on the Cambodian-Thai border a war is misleading. The fact remains, however, that it is a spasm of violence that no one really needs except for nationalist politicians who find it easier to sound the trumpets of war than tackle their own stubborn domestic problems. On one side is Cambodia, one of the world's poorest countries, where corruption is rife, poverty and disease are rampant, and a facade of democracy has been erected by a strongman prime minister. On the other side is Thailand, one of Southeast Asia's largest ...
Thai, Cambodian Clashes Resume at Disputed Border
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Machine-gun and artillery fire echoed across the frontier between Thailand and Cambodia on Monday as their troops clashed near an 11th century temple in the fourth day of fighting that has killed at least five people. The crumbling stone temple, several hundred feet (meters) from Thailand's eastern border with Cambodia, has fueled nationalism on both sides of the disputed frontier for decades and conflict over it has sparked sporadic, brief battles in recent years. However, sustained fighting has been rare. Cambodian officials say Thai artillery collapsed part of a ...
Cambodia Holds Day of Mourning for Stampede Dead
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Nov. 25) -- Cambodia's prime minister cried as he lit candles and incense to mourn the hundreds of festival-goers who were trampled to death this week in a riverside stampede Flags flew at half staff across the country and bars, karaoke parlors and nightclubs shut on the official day of mourning for the tragedy, in which at least 347 people were killed and hundreds more injured. A government investigation has found that thousands of revelers cramming a suspension bridge over the Bassac river Monday night panicked as it began to sway under their weight. Some shouted that ...
Cambodian Stampede Blamed on Swaying Bridge
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Nov. 24) -- A swaying bridge loaded with thousands of people sparked mass panic and set off a raging stampede that killed more than 350 people in Cambodia's capital, according to a government investigation. Crowds celebrating a water festival had flocked to an island for a free concert Monday and spilled onto a bridge to the mainland before the panic took hold. Bayon TV, which serves as a mouthpiece for the government, reported Wednesday that a committee found many people on the span were from the countryside and unaware it was normal for a suspension bridge to sway. In ...
Clinton Urges Human Rights Progress in Cambodia
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Oct. 31) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to improve its human rights record and ensure the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s. Clinton was in the capital, Phnom Penh, where she visited the main Khmer Rouge prison and torture center before appealing to Cambodian officials to overcome a legacy of impunity for abuses. The government has refused to allow a U.N.-backed court trying top Khmer Rouge leaders to prosecute lower-ranking members. Clinton toured the infamous S-21 prison where as many ...
Stir-Fried Tarantula: Food Photographer Snaps World's Nastiest Dishes
By Monica Garske - AOL News
(Oct. 12) -- Globe-trotting food photographer Neil Setchfield may get to travel the world for a living, but his seemingly glamorous gig can, at times, be very hard to swallow. For the past three years, the U.K.-based shutterbug has combed the globe in search of the nastiest, most bizarre foods that different countries have to offer for his new photography book, "YUCK! The Things People Eat" (Merrell). Setchfield told AOL News that the entire project began with a bag of stir-fried tarantulas he randomly picked up at a market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Courtesy of Merrell Publishers This ...
Embattled Court Indicts 4 Khmer Rouge Leaders
By Mike Eckel - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Sept. 16) -- A United Nations-backed tribunal today indicted four senior Khmer Rouge officials, setting up the most important legal reckoning yet with the radical communist movement whose utopian agricultural policies led to the deaths of as much as one-quarter of Cambodia's population in the late 1970s. The court, formally known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, accused Nuon Chea, the top deputy to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, of crimes against humanity, genocide and other charges. Also indicted were Khieu Samphan, who was head of state from 1976 ...
Beyond the Killing Fields? Not as Long as Brutal Wars Remain a Growth Industry
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields." In today's essay, Walter Shapiro notes that more than three decades after the genocide in Cambodia, all of us are still grappling to find a larger meaning embedded in the horrors of the Killing Fields. Decades from now when, alas, The New York Times is a distant memory ...
Monk Accused of Secretly Filming Nude Women
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(June 29) -- A Cambodian Buddhist monk with more than Zen on his mind has been charged in Phnom Penh with secretly filming naked women bathing in a temple's holy water and then sharing the clips. Charged with "producing and distributing pornographic images," Net Khai faces a year in jail if convicted, a prosecutor in the capital city told Agence France-Presse. A police chief said Net Khai, 37, has confessed to filming "hundreds of women since 2008," the agency reported. "They came to the monk to be blessed with holy water, but they were secretly filmed," said police chief Touch Naruth. "His ...
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