Thailand braced for huge protest
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Huge protests follows weeks of efforts to destabilize government Abhisit Vejjajiva's motorcade attacked by protesters on Tuesday Red Shirt protesters have declared Wednesday their D-Day
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Cambodia Aims To Decrease HIV/AIDS Prevalence To 0.6% By 2010
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
reports. To reach the target, the government has allocated between $45 million and $50 million annually to address the disease. Following efforts from the government and nongovernmental organizations,...
Pain of Khmer Rouge Era Lost on Cambodian Youth
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
TRAPAENG SVA, CAMBODIA — Thirty years after the killing stopped, Cambodia suffers from a particularly painful generation gap — between those who survived the brutal rule of the Communist K...
PM again refutes UK report purporting instability of Cambodia
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has once again dismissed a UK report claiming that the kingdom is among the top five countries at high risk of political instability amid the current global economic c...
Turning European
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Here in Cambodia and throughout East Asia, Asian women are highlighting their hair, getting plastic surgery to round their eyes and sharpen their noses, and even undergoing dangerous chemical peels to make their skins lighter.
Personally, I think the black, silky hair of Asian women are the most beautiful of all. And there are beautiful and ugly women of all skin tones.
Highlighting one’s hair to a different color may be nothing more than a harmless matter of preference, just like changing styles of clothing. But an over-obsession with the transformation to look more European might point to much more serious underlying problems, problems of low self-esteem and inferior complex. Frankly, I think some Asian women who have overdone these transformations look like freaks of nature, negating any beauty improvements they might have gained from the procedures.
As I am writing this Michelle Obama, first lady of the most powerful nation on earth, is touring the world as a Black smart and beautiful woman who has everything going her way. In fact, she was successful long before she became first lady. Perhaps, her prominent profile will foster a new paradigm that redefines people’s perception of beauty, status, and self-esteem throughout the world.
Of course, heavens forbid that Ms. Obama’s high profile should inspire light-skinned to darken their skins. That’s missing the point. Do you know what happens when light-skinned Khmer women try to get a tan? They don’t get tan; instead, they turn brown with unsightly dark patches that look like giant freckles.
Khmer jailer tells of torture experiments
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
The former head of the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious prison told today how he experimented with different torture methods in his early years to see how people reacted.Facing repeated questions from a...
Thailand on The World project on hold
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Plans to develop a Thai-themed island resort within The World archipelago off the Dubai coast have been postponed, according to the design consultant on the project.
Khmer Rouge jail chief details torture methods
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
PHNOM PENH: The Khmer Rouge regime's prisons chief Tuesday recounted his grisly past, telling Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court that confessions extracted under his torture orders were rarely true...
U.S. helped Khmer Rouge, genocide accused says
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Phnom Penh -- The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison said his group would not have risen to power in the 1970s if it weren't for the policies of former U.S. president Richard Nixo...
Khmer Rouge confessions
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Confessions extracted under torture in the Khmer Rouge's brutal prisons were rarely true, the regime's prisons chief admitted today. Kaing Guek Eav, or 'Duch' the director of the Khmer Rouge's mos...