Saturday 4th February, 2012

• Former Khmer Rouge commander Duch's prison term enhanced to life

  The Cambodia News.Net

  BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against ...

• Cambodian tribunal explains verdict vs Khmer Rouge leader

  General Sources

  ` Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily/ANN) - The Khmer Rouge tribunal issued a statement Friday explaining why the Supreme Court Chamber dismissed an appeal and sentenced former prison chief to ...

• Khmer Rouge Chief Jailer, Known as Duch, Sentenced to Life

  PBS

  extended the jail time of Khmer Rouge chief jailer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, from 19 years to a life sentence on Friday. In 2010, a lower court sentenced Duch to 35 years in prison -- ...

• Thailand growth forecast raised

  Asia News Network

  economy is set to see higher growth this year, driven mainly by domestic demand after last year's floods, but downside risks remain in the growth of trading countries, the Bank ...

• Two dead in attacks in southern Thailand

  UPI

  Two people were killed Friday in attacks by separatist militants in southern Thailand, officials said. A woman was shot dead while driving with her husband and son in Pattani, the Bangkok Post ...

• Cambodia still reeling from Khmer Rouge

  General Sources

  LIFE SENTENCE: Former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, attends his appeal hearing at the Court Room of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the ...

• Cambodia's Former Envoy To Brunei Fined US$470,000 For Embezzlement

  Bru Direct

  Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered the former Cambodian Ambassador to Brunei to pay almost US$470,000 in compensation and damages to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a ...

• Honda To Resume Production in Thailand Next Month

  Hispanic Business Magazine

  Japanese automaker Honda will resume production at its Ayutthaya assembly plant, north of Bangkok, in March, a top company executive said Wednesday. Pitak Pruittisarikorn, executive vice ...

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge judgment welcome, but raises human rights concerns

  Amnesty International

  The closure of this first case represents an important step towards achieving accountability for the mass crimes of the Khmer Rouge, and helping the Cambodian people draw a line under this tragic ...

• London welcomed Khmer Rouge verdict

  UPI

  A life sentence for the prison leader for the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia is an excellent outcome, London said. The U.N.-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia sentenced Kaing ...

• Court weighs fate of man who ran Khmer Rouge torture prison

  General Sources

  "Duch" ran a notorious torture prison in Cambodia in the 1970s He was sentenced in 2010 to 35 years in prison At least 1.7 million people died under the Khmer ...

• Former Giants, Warriors DJ killed in Thailand taxi tragedy

  Oakland Tribune

  Solomon Kahn, who grew up in San Rafael and went on to become a high-profile disc jockey for the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants, was killed Tuesday in Bangkok, Thailand, when a taxi ...

• Thailand - Dictators can thank Twitter for its new censorship policy

  Reporters without Borders

  "I know that some of the people working for Twitter were activists If we look at countries like Egypt, like Syria, like Yemen, of course all our tweets are breaking the law. And ...

• Burma back on the map: Tourism returns to South-east Asia’s forbidden land

  The Independent

  "Good afternoon," said the bored immigration officer after my flight from Bangkok. She glanced at my passport while tourists and business people waited behind me in the gleaming arrivals ...

• Wine-makers take their label fight to Thailand

  New Zealand Herald

  Napa Valley wine producers will go a long way to protect their good name - all the way to Thailand if necessary. That's the latest country which has given Geographic Indication status to Napa wine. ...

• Khmer Rouge's Chief Jailer Gets Life Sentence

  NPR

  February 3, 2012 A U.N.-backed tribunal's Supreme Court lengthened the sentence for the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer to life imprisonment on Friday because of his "shocking and ...

• Old land mine kills 8 Cambodian farmers

  Miami Herald

  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Eight farmers have died after their tractor ran over an anti-tank mine left over from Cambodia's 1980s civil war.The head of the Cambodian Mines Action Center, Heng ...

• CAMBODIA: The impact of truth-seeking on mental health

  IRIN

  Hong Sarath pictured outside Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, which judges in the on-going Khmer Rouge tribunal referred to as a "factory of death" PHNOM PENH, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) - On ...

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