Tag: Cambodia
Thailand bans tourists from going to Cambodia
Thailand has imposed restrictions on all travellers heading into Cambodia, as the two countries remain locked in a bitter border dispute. The ban...
50 Years After the U.S. Left Vietnam, Another Retreat Is Shaking...
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a...
How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze
In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down.In Thailand, war refugees...
U.S. Move to Suspend Mine Clearing Funds Alarms Vietnam
The Vietnam War ended half a century ago, but American weapons from that era continue to kill people to this day. Unexploded bombs...
François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 86
The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest whose book “Cambodia: Year Zero” alerted the world to the atrocities being committed by the...
Hun Sen Adviser Wanted in Thailand Over Lim Kimya Killing
A Thai court issued an arrest warrant for an adviser to the Cambodian strongman Hun Sen on Wednesday, charging him with hiring others...
Former Cambodian Opposition Member Lim Kimya Killed in Bangkok
The killer was waiting by a noodle stand on Tuesday afternoon, on a busy street in Bangkok, with foreign backpackers milling around. When...
13 surrogate mothers convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia
Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia for intending to sell babies they carried through surrogacy.They were...
