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Rights group condemns closed Thailand royal defamation trial

Friday, June 26th, 2009
Darunee Charnchoengsilpakul [advocacy website] be closed for national security reasons. AI's Asia-Pacific director Sam Zarifi noted that although the closure of trials is legitimate under the

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Four Teens With East Texas Ties Have First H1N1 Cases in Cambodia

Friday, June 26th, 2009
DALLAS (AP) - Four American teens who went on a mission trip to Cambodia to help the needy, wound up needing help as they became the first cases of swine flu in that Southeast Asian country, officials...

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* Amnesty urges Thailand to open lese-majeste trial

Friday, June 26th, 2009
REUTERS, BANGKOK Saturday, Jun 27, 2009, Page 5 Rights group Amnesty International yesterday urged Thailand to open the trial of a political campaigner charged with insulting the monarchy after it...

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Thailand, China Sign Agreements to Boost Economy

Friday, June 26th, 2009
Thailand is looking to China to boost its ailing economy and to draw in Chinese investments, as other sources of foreign funds dwindle. The effort to build China's business profile in Thailand came ...

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H1N1 Confirmed In Three More African Countries; Cambodia, Indonesia Confirm First Cases

Friday, June 26th, 2009
AP/Boston Herald reports. Last week, South Africa became the first country in the region to confirm a 12-year-old, who had returned from the U.S., tested positive for the H1N1 virus. "WHO says Africa...

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Cambodian newspaper editor sentenced to year after publishing stories alleging govt corruption

Friday, June 26th, 2009
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A Cambodian editor whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official was found guilty Friday of circulating disinformation in a...

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Cambodia diagnoses 1st citizen with H1N1 flu virus+

Friday, June 26th, 2009
PHNOM PENH, June 26 (AP) - (Kyodo)?Cambodian health authorities said Friday a Cambodian woman has been confirmed to have been infected with the H1N1 flu, the first Cambodian citizen to catch the ...

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Laos places hope in cluster bomb ban at Berlin talks

Friday, June 26th, 2009
Berlin- The Deputy Foreign Minister of Laos, Bounkeut Sangsomsak, said his country had high hopes for a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs as nations concluded a conference on the subject in Berl...

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Former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Denied Release

Friday, June 26th, 2009
(AFP)--Judges on Friday rejected the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister's appeal for release from jail before his trial at Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes court.

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Okinawa peace museum to train Cambodia’s genocide museum staff

Friday, June 26th, 2009
NAHA — The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum said Friday it will begin later this year inviting over staffers from Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum for workshops on running p...

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