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Meknes international festival of animated cinema honours iconic French producer Didier Brunner, pays tribute to legendary Japanese anime filmmaker Isao ...

In a dimly lit ballroom at a Tokyo luxury hotel, Sok Chenda Sophea, the secretary general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia and the minister ...

LOS ANGELES—Girls' and women's sports may still be underreported and undervalued, but it seems it's a hot subject in the theatre right now. We recently ...

The Trump wrecking ball strikes again as he recognises Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. The unexpected and arbitrary nature of the ...

Ashland Contemporary Theatre: Tickets can be purchased at ashlandcontemporarytheatre. org, at Paddington Station in Ashland, Grocery Outlet in Medford, ...

Friday: How prosecutors say William Singer helped students cheat on college exams; layoffs at Disney; and broth from Nyum Bai in Oakland.

Director-producer Aviva Ziegler's feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on SBS and at Australian and international film festivals following the world ...

TORRINGTON – Students from Torrington Middle School along with sponsors, Stephen Hart, Kelsey Walker, Mary Perkins, Dave Burrill and Kevin Derby ...

In Cambodia, one buys drinks or snacks from vending machines that use banknotes rather than coins. Coins are not in use in Cambodia's modern economy, but ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said that it was Khmer Republic President Marshal Lon Nol and his allies that ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970.

Lon Rith, the eldest son of Marshal Lon Nol, was born on 18 March 1962. It was a time of conflict in the Indochina region that dragged Cambodia into the United ...

By Robert Speer. Oregon Shakespeare Festival bounces back from summer of smoke. Published on March 21, 2019 as Scene in the Arts&Culture section of the ...

Huy Yaleng's horror movie charts a criminal tycoon's downfall as he struggles with nightmares in which he is tortured by a former Khmer Rouge cadre.

Fair warning: It may be tough to find some of the 2019 Whiting Award winners on the shelves of your local bookstore. Most of the emerging writers have little ...

Lon Rith, son of Marshal Lon Nol, yesterday said his father did not commit a coup d'état in 1970 that resulted in the removal of Prince Norodom Sihanouk as ...

The discussion also marked the opening of an exhibition, “Four decades since the fall of the Khmer Rouge.”

The Supreme Court's March 19 decision on in Nielsen v. Preap rejected challenges to mandatory detention of certain noncitizens—“aliens” under the ...

Six Senses Krabey Island and Shinta Mani Wild are inviting high-end visitors to experience south Cambodia in style.

From the beginning of my career in international relief and development, when I witnessed aid being withheld from millions of Cambodian survivors of the.

Under immigration law, any immigrant whether undocumented or a permanent resident with a prior major criminal offense can be detained by immigration ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday received an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Communication from Thailand's Krirk University for his ...

According to the government, people living with disabilities make up two percent of the Kingdom's workforce. Army veteran Hin Bunthen, who lost both his legs ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the federal government can detain immigrants convicted of crimes without a bond hearing, even if they have been ...

Refugees impact Nebraska and the United States in many different ways. One Cambodian refugee has taken a journey that led her to Nebraska and to success ...

Now 51 years old, Chhim Sotheara lost his childhood as he spent his formative years living in the thick of civil war, genocide and conflict. And while he is unable ...

How far have you have travelled for a good feed? A few decades ago, crossing town for a meal would have been considered rather adventurous. These days, of ...

Phally Budock, who will enter the Church this Easter at St. Andrew Apostle Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland, has always believed in God, but for a long time she ...

Today is the 49th anniversary of the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule that paved the way for Marshal Lon Nol's Khmer Republic.

WARNING - DISTRESSING IMAGES EXCLUSIVE: Sokphal Din, 61, lost nearly 60 members of his family - including his father and six-year-old brother - under ...

A series of user arrests suggests the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, an avid and adept Facebooker, is placing new limits on freedom of expression.

Cambodian film-maker Rithy Panh talks about his latest film, Graves without a name, being shown in Geneva, which explores the lasting effects of the ...

In the first week of January 2016, a vast golden statue of Mao, rising up out of frozen brown fields, was unveiled in the middle of the Henan countryside in central ...

As children, Steven Em's parents escaped the bloody Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. On Friday they watched their son achieve a long-pursued dream: ...

University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine alum Seang M. Seng returns to his alma mater to inspire students with his story.

The latest review from the Chronicle's new food critic brings her to new robotic burger outfit Creator in SoMa, where she finds some tasty, moist (if well done) ...

Three Cambodian men were detained at ICE headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday and likely will be deported in the following weeks as the Trump ...

As I wind my way north on the narrow two-lane road, I realize Wyoming can't be far off. I squint over the steering wheel into the hazy distance, at a cone-shaped ...

ASHLAND — Some plays reveal insightful segments of little or unknown history. Less common are plays that do so in a style that's emotionally involving and ...

ASEAN leaders stumble over humanitarian crises. Catholics Muslims and ethnic Chinese have borne the brunt of the bloc's failure to act.

Suggestions by Sam Rainsy of a palace coup grossly overestimate factionalism in the CPP and underestimate Hun Sen's power.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, which took place from February 17 to March 16, 1979. Many people think that this war ...

As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia's mangrove forests, an ecosystem and a communal way of life face erasure.

A group of Cambodian refugees in the Bay Area received summonses to show up to ICE in San Francisco this week as part of a push by the Trump ...

In Maoism: A Global History, China scholar Julia Lovell explains Mao-era China's influence across the globe, funding insurgencies from Africa to Nepal to Peru, ...

Cambodia has remarkable sights and cheap accommodation - it's likely to become the new Thailand for Kiwis.

Prime Minister Hun Sen has spoken of falling in love and marrying his wife Bun Rany, and of their forced separation in 1976, against the backdrop of the ...

The Countess of Wessex is lending her support to a campaign seeking to help victims of war-related rape, sexual violence and exploitation - a cause begun by ...

This is one of dozens of photographs of Cambodian citizens, taken by journalist and UW alum Elizabeth Becker on her tour of the country in 1978.Elizabeth ...

A 2018 Supreme Court ruling paved the way for Veasna Meth to return to his wife and children in Sacramento in a case that has raised hopes for hundreds of ...

2019-03-06. Aja Wiltshire. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. Aja Wiltshire. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. Chicago, IL— Victory Gardens Theater continues its 44th season ...

The horrors of the battlefield are never far away in Tate Britain's retrospective of Don McCullin's work: the dead Khmer Rouge soldiers in a crater in Cambodia, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Decades ago, as the Khmer Rouge tightened its grip across Cambodia, more than one million people were killed and buried at ...

The couple met 16 years ago at the home of a mutual friend in Hollywood Hills, Calif.

At 5 AM on February 17, 1979, a massive artillery bombardment rippled across Vietnam's mountainous northern border with China. Waves of soldiers from the ...

Cambodian refugee Veasna Meth returned to Sacramento, California, five years after he was deported after serving time for a residential burglary. His removal ...

Almost two-thirds of Cambodia's population of 16 million people is under the age of 30, making the country one of the youngest in Southeast Asia. These young ...

Forty years after the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian church has multiplied but hopes a new generation can move beyond the pain of the past.

At Nyum Bai in Fruitvale, I like to sit at the counter to breathe in the scent of coconut and lemongrass and contemplate my relationship to the dead. With music ...

Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak Sokhonn highlighted differing international attitudes to ...

PUYALLUP, Wash. — For more than 10 years Jack Yam and his wife Orn Chan have worked 12-hour days, seven days a week. But you won't hear them ...

The movie, “In the Life of Music”, which features the Sisamouth classic “Champa Battambang”, screened in Virginia on Thursday to a crowded hall of several ...

The administration thinks it can use Vietnam's success as a lure in this week's summit. North Korea may be drawing the exact opposite lesson from its history.

Party General Secretary, President Nguyễn Phú Trọng and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to enhance the political trust between the two countries ...

The unassuming spot where movement's genocidal leader, Pol Pot, was cremated, his mountain retreat and that of 'The Butcher' Ta Mok, with their sweeping ...

Dawn on the Mekong. The whoop of a black-hooded laughing thrush serves as a wake-up call. Above swaying jungle palms, the first golden light of day seeps ...

Copy and paste to share this video. Copy and paste to embed this video. WATCH |. By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated PressPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Feb ...

While the leaders of North Korea and the United States debate banishing nuclear bombs from the Korean peninsula, the host of their summit this week, Vietnam, ...

Those forced out of U.S. by criminal convictions launch a tour company to try to help others like them.

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, will lead a top-ranking delegation on a state visit to Cambodia on Monday and ...

Chat with founder Channy Laux of Fremont's Angkor Cambodian Food.

The Khmer Rouge regime held power between 1975 and 1979, during which time some 1.7 million Cambodians are estimated to have died as a result.

Little, Brown non-fiction imprint Robinson has bought a “moving and insightful” account of a daughter's search for her missing father in the 'Killing Fields' of ...

In January, Cambodia celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Vietnamese invasion that ended the Khmer Rouge regime in the country. Every year, these events ...

The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge's monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war ...

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in late December 1978 and overthrew the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime on 7 January ...

During the Maoist reign of terror, more than two million Cambodians died of hunger, forced labour, torture and mass executions. For Premier Hun Sen, 7 January ...

The Khmer Rouge officially fell on Jan. 7, 1979, but the legacy of the regime and its genocide is still pervasive. Here's what to know.

As we cherish our loved ones this holiday season, 36 Khmer Americans will be oceans apart from their families in a place most have never been before.

Long-serving Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday inaugurated a monument marking the 1998 end of the threat from the communist Khmer Rouge ...

Twenty years since collapse of ultra-communist movement, policy hailed by Cambodia PM for ending war back in spotlight.

Christianity departs from any kind of moralism. What is good news for Duch, is bad news for those who consider themselves too be good and righteous.

Hot-on-the-heels of a landmark trial judgment in Case 2/2, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (also known as the Khmer Rouge ...

Agence Kampuchea Presse yesterday posted what is believed to be a short series of previously unpublished photos of life after the Khmer Rouge. The only text ...

An international tribunal dismissed a Dutch lawyer who had defended one of Khmer Rouge leaders. The lawyer's bar membership lapsed in 2016.

I had seen trauma before, but never an entire traumatized nation. All the adults I met were survivors or former killers.

BANGKOK — Cambodian and foreign investigating judges issued conflicting rulings on Wednesday on whether a United Nations-backed tribunal, which this ...

Dogged by political interference, the trials of the those responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians could be drawing to a close after officials stated ...

PHNOM PENH – Last week, around four decades after a Vietnamese invasion ended the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, a United Nations-backed ...

The two most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia were found guilty of genocide in court Friday.

UN-backed tribunal that convicted the last two surviving leaders of genocide faces closure without government's help. Associated Press. Sun 18 Nov 2018 21.12 ...

For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state ...

The only two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, in a ...

Court finds 1975-79 regime targeted Cham and Vietnamese people to create 'an atheistic and homogenous society without class divisions'

In a landmark verdict, two leading figures of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been found guilty of genocide. Ninety-two-year-old Nuon Chea, once ...

A potentially historic ruling on genocide by a tribunal in Cambodia on Friday could unsettle understandings of the past among Cambodians - and create a ...

Irrespective of what the United Nations says, on November 16, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), better known as the Khmer ...

Tribunal to decide Friday whether Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are guilty of genocide against Cham Muslims, Vietnamese.

Duch, 76, was given a life sentence for crimes against humanity after first trial at UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

In 1978, three young men on a gap year strayed into Cambodian waters and were discovered by members of the Khmer Rouge. Holly Baxter retraced the steps ...

After 33 years of ruling Cambodia with an iron fist, Prime Minister Hun Sen – a former soldier in the Khmer Rouge – looks set to strengthen his grip on power in ...