US cables chart China’s rise in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH – On December 18, 2009, Cambodian police rounded up 20 ethnic Uighurs from safe houses in the capital Phnom Penh, where they had arrived earlier in the year seeking political asylum. A day later, the group, which included two infants, was driven to the airport in a bus with shades drawn over the...
Burma’s Dead Men Walking
A new Human Rights Watch report details how hundreds of convicts were beaten, forced to carry supplies for the military – and clear landmines with sticks and forks.
North Korean artist turns talents on repressive regime
A harrowing story of escape to the South, Song Byeok’s journey took him from propaganda to pop art.
Myanmar Ethnic Clashes Put Spotlight on China
MAE SOT, Thailand — On June 9, deadly clashes broke out in northern Myanmar between the country’s army and the ethnic minority Kachin Independence Army (KIA). The fighting reportedly erupted after Myanmar’s military moved to secure the Tarpein Hydropower Project, a Chinese-built dam that came online in January. The plant, which sits on a tributary...
Family Matters
On Sunday, Thailand will elect a new prime minister who belongs to a very familiar, and deeply divisive, family.
Will Thais Say Yes To Thaksin’s Little Sister?
There’s plenty of pageantry and talk of reconciliation but this weekend’s election in Thailand may be one of the most divisive in decades, writes Sebastian Strangio
Ghosts of the killing fields
An apparent unwillingness to try two Khmer Rouge commanders for war crimes reflects a growing mood to bury Cambodia’s bloody past
“You Are Followers of the Juche Philosophy, So I Can Put My Trust in You”
Reading North Korea’s comic book propaganda.
Cambodia: When genocide trials turn personal
Many former Khmer Rouge fighters say they are worried that the U.N.-backed tribunal will start to cast a wider net.
Slow justice in Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal
Senior Khmer Rouge officials go to trial later this month but there are increasing concerns that the government is meddling in the judicial process, writes Sebastian Strangio from Phnom Penh
Potemkin graft crackdown in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH – ON the morning of May 12, Cambodia’s local newspapers ran photos of a bedraggled figure being escorted from a small courthouse. The man, who wore a crumpled green shirt and clutched a water bottle as he leant on the shoulder of a security guard, was Top Chan Sereyvuth, a former prosecutor at...
