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Cambodia, like many Southeast Asian countries, enjoyed a golden era of popular music during the 1950s and 1960s, when Phnom Penh, known as the "Pearl of the Orient" became an important cultural centre, a breading ground for the meeting of Western rock and pop and Cambodian music. Author Dee Peyok…

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Factbox-A look at past state leaders who faced international justice

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, considered a hero by compatriots for leading the 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian rule that led to independence, will go on trial on Monday for suspected war crimes during the conflict.

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Cambodian refugee who escaped the Khmer Rouge regime with her family now runs prospering mango farm

Muy Keav Ma escaped Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge as a child with her family. Australia offered her refuge, and decades on, despite seemingly insurmountable setbacks, she is now a successful mango farmer.

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‘After chaos, there can be calm’: Khmer Rouge survivor’s painting is a reminder of peace

In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Clare Arthurs shows us the painting she bought from renowned Cambodian artist Vann Nath that has become a beacon for her

The Guardian - AU

Cambodia Celebrates Return of ‘Priceless’ Stolen Artifacts

Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. Many, if not all, of the items displayed at the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

5 Oscar winners of Asian descent you might not have known

This year's Oscar nominations have brought recognition to numerous film artists of Asian descent. If any of them win (it's Michelle Yeoh's time, surely?), they'll join a small, distinguished coterie. The Academy Awards' history of winners of Asian descent goes back many decades, and while you may recognize recent names…

Tribune News Service

A collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

Cambodia's government said the pieces of jewelry that arrived back in their homeland included items "... precious metal pieces from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period."

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Collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

A spectacular collection of centuries-old jewelry has been returned to Cambodia

The Independent UK

Lessons from the Khmer Rouge tribunal

One of the saddest episodes of Southeast Asian history was the period during the 1970s that witnessed the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The group was driven by a warped ideology, and it perpetrated myriad crimes against the general population. Millions were killed and displaced through a range…

Bangkok Post

Cambodia’s Ties With West Threatened by Media Clampdown

One of Cambodia’s last independent news outlets, VOD, was forcibly closed. This was allegedly due to VOD naming the prime minister’s son, and not the prime minister himself, as the signatory of an aid to Turkey after its recent earthquakes.

The News Lens

Minnesota Buddhist temple opens up sacred dance troupe

Started by Cambodian refugees who had fled the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields four decades ago, the Buddhist temple of Watt Munisotaram has evolved into a majestic structure with golden spires dominating the snow-covered Minnesota farmland

The Independent UK

Beautiful Cambodia is exotic and friendly

People tend to look at you funny when you say you’re going to Cambodia, as if maybe you’re a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

The Orange County Register

Convicted Khmer Rouge leader moved to Cambodian state prison

Khieu Samphan, who was convicted by a U.N.-backed tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role as a leader of the communist Khmer Rouge when they ruled Cambodia in 1975-1979, has been transferred from the tribunal’s jail to serve his life sentence at a state prison

The Independent UK

Nate Thayer, rebel reporter who interviewed Pol Pot in the Cambodian jungle, has died

After tracking him for nearly a decade, Nate Thayer became the last Western correspondent to interview the murderous Khmer Rouge leader. Thayer died at his home in Falmouth, Mass., at age 62.

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The Independent UK

Nate Thayer, reporter who interviewed Pol Pot, dies

Nate Thayer, a fearless reporter who survived several brushes with death over decades covering conflict in Southeast Asia and was the last western journalist to interview Pol Pot, the leader of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, has died

Chicago Sun-Times

Multigenerational worlds collide in moving, funny and powerful ‘Bald Sisters’ at Steppenwolf Theatre

As a play, “Bald Sisters” is a prime exemplar of the American kitchen-sink family drama and a classic Chicago-style show,

Al Jazeera

Russia’s war in Ukraine challenges old comrades in Southeast Asia

Vladimir Putin’s absence from the G20 Summit in Bali also undermines talk of a Russian pivot to the Asia-Pacific region.

Bangkok Post

Will the final Khmer Rouge ruling close a dark chapter?

Last week, a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia upheld a genocide conviction for 91-year-old Khieu Samphan, the last surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge regime.

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‘Even their remains should be in handcuffs’: Khmer Rouge vilified

Cambodians reflect after the UN-backed war crimes tribunal issued its final judgement on the regime’s brutal rule.

The Conversation

A UN-backed tribunal on Khmer Rouge crimes just confirmed the conviction of key leader Khieu Samphan. What now?

A United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has just concluded its largest trial, concerning crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The tribunal’s appeal judges yesterday confirmed the conviction against 91-year-old Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, for his role in these crimes.

The Guardian - UK

‘I lost them all’: a family’s sole survivor recalls their slow death under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge

As a UN court upholds the conviction of the genocidal regime’s last surviving leader, Seang Seng tells how starvation and forced labour killed 23 people of his family

ABC News

Court upholds genocide conviction for last surviving Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan

The final verdict brings a close to a court process which stretched 16 years, cost $500 million and resulted in the conviction of three senior Khmer Rouge leaders.

Al Jazeera

Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan loses genocide appeal

Ruling marks the final decision by the court and ends 16 years of work by the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia.

The Independent UK

Khmer Rouge tribunal ending work after 16 years, 3 judgments

An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s is ending its work after taking 16 years to convict just three men of crimes

The Guardian - UK

Cambodia court rejects genocide appeal of last surviving Khmer Rouge leader

Judge upholds conviction of Khieu Samphan, 91, in what is likely to be UN-backed court’s last judgment

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