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POPSBBC Save the Sounds What is BBC World Service?World Service Newsroom We are the world’s leading international broadcaster providing programmes and content for radio, television, online and mobile phones in English and 31 other languages. Hundreds of reporters and specialist correspondents bring impartial news reports, documentaries and analysis from around the globe. We also offer a rich mix of other programming from arts, business and culture to drama, science and sport. BBC World Service is one part of the collected international-facing television, radio and online services which form BBC Global News.
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POPSTeacher sends former student a grenade as wedding present "And before her wedding day, she said he called to wish her happiness." Tear Sreyan, 21, told the police she had declined Muong Chhavry's advances as she was too young. She later left Battambang and moved to work in a factory in Phnom Penh, where she met her husband, Meng Sokun, 27.
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POPSFirst Khmer Rouge trial begins in Cambodia A born-again Christian, is said to have co-operated with investigating judges - and is expected to reveal important information about the decisions made by the organisation's leadership. His information could help in the trials set for later this year of four other defendants, analysts say. They include the surviving top leaders Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan, who are all elderly and in poor health. All four have denied any knowledge of the atrocities that took place under their rule. If preparations for their trials get bogged down, as seems likely, Duch may be the only man ever held to account for the Khmer Rouge atrocities, our correspondent adds.
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POPSKhmer Rouge's Comrade Duch on trial for deaths of 16,000 people A warning in advance - very disturbing photos of the victims clipped. On 17 April 1975, after years of fighting, Khmer Rouge guerrillas took Phnom Penh. It was the start of nearly four years of horror for Cambodia. WHO WERE THE KHMER ROUGE? -Maoist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979 -Founded and led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998 -Abolished religion, schools and currency in a bid to create agrarian utopia -Up to two million people thought to have died from starvation, overwork or execution
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POPSSEX-TRAFFICKING IS SLAVERY So much violence perpetrated against women, children and the weak and vulnerable. Wake up those men that support that. Those are your sisters, daughters, loved ones!
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POPSMcCain comes out on top in Cambodia: The Phnom Penh Post, Phnom Penh Cambodia Kaing Monika, the external affairs manager for the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia, suggested a Democratic candidate would likely have a more pro-trade policy, but was uncertain whether either president could rescue the world from a global recession. "When Bill Clinton was president, we were quota free and the garment sector from were promoted. But I don't know ... if McCain or Obama can end a big world crisis," he said.
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POPSCambodia As a Theravada Buddhist, I would like to visit Angkor Wat, a World Heritage. This is the symbol of Cambodia. The orange stole of monks and the ruin give beautiful contrast in the picture.
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POPSPHNOM PENH PAYING DEARLY FOR RATATOUILLE ! cows have to take back seat to the new filet mignon on the block , RAT cause when your thing fine dining your thinking filet of rat as your first choice and that would best served with a red wine ! a whole box of wine !
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POPSFilm Reveals CIA's 'Most Secret Place on Earth'
This film's analysis sets it apart from other books and documentaries on the subject, most of which justify the conflict, lauding the CIA operatives and their Air America pilots as heroes. The reality, as Alfred McCoy says towards the end of the film, was very different. "We destroyed a whole civilisation, we wiped it off the map. We incinerated, atomised human remains in this air war and what happened in the end? We lost." The covert nature of the conflict meant that U.S. forces were able to ignore virtually all the rules of engagement operating in Vietnam. Every building was a potential target and the civilian toll was huge. The situation grew worse in 1970 when U.S. President Nixon authorised massive B-52 bombing strikes on Laos, which remained classified information until many years later. American planes dropped an average of one planeload of bombs on targets in Laos every eight minutes, 24 hours a day for nine years, making it the most heavily bombed country on earth
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