Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. Nations:[Cambodia] Activities:[2008 Myanmar Cyclone] 2008-05-10 'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65. Nations:[Cambodia][Thailand] People:[Sam Waterston] Activities:[Holocaust][Vietnam War] 2008-03-30 Americans overseas head to polls
Americans living overseas started lining up in hotels and coffee shops Tuesday to vote for Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, while others -- for the first time ever -- cast ballots online. Nations:[Indonesia][Thailand][Cambodia][Ireland][Philippines][Japan] People:[Barack Obama][Hillary Clinton] 2008-02-05 China pleads for calm in Myanmar
China issued an evenhanded plea for calm in Myanmar on Thursday after refusing to condemn the military-run government, while Southeast Asian nations expressed "revulsion" at the violent repression of the demonstrations. Nations:[Myanmar][China][Singapore][Indonesia][Philippines][Cambodia] People:[Christopher Hill][John Howard][Ban Ki-moon] 2007-09-27 Former Khmer Rouge leader arrested
Police arrested the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader Wednesday, serving 82-year-old Nuon Chea with a warrant on charges related to his role in the 1970s regime blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people. Nations:[Cambodia] 2007-09-19 Pitt and Jolie ready for fifth child
Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie are ready for another child, the actor said Sunday as he was promoting his new film. Nations:[Cambodia][Italy][Vietnam][Ethiopia] People:[Brad Pitt][Angelina Jolie] Activities:[Pitt & Jolie] 2007-09-02 China's influence spreads around world
For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables. Nations:[China][U.S.][Brazil][Sudan][Bolivia][Venezuela] People:[Mia Farrow][Hu Jintao][Deng Xiaoping] Activities:[Darfur Genocide Crisis][2007 China Toothpaste Crisis] 2007-09-02 Dengue fever rages across Asia
Dengue fever is raging across Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to warn that the region could face the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade. Nations:[Indonesia][Vietnam][Cambodia][Singapore][Malaysia][Thailand] 2007-07-31 Lonely memorial for China's forgotten war
Like sentinels standing guard, the sturdy pine trees at Malipo cemetery cast their protective shade on the rows of soldiers' graves commemorating China's bloody war with Vietnam. Nations:[China][Vietnam][Russia][Cambodia] Activities:[China-Vietnam Border War] 2007-03-31 Jolie adopts Vietnamese boy
Actress Angelina Jolie adopted her fourth child on Thursday, a Vietnamese boy from a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage. Nations:[Vietnam][Cambodia][Ethiopia] People:[Brad Pitt][Angelina Jolie] 2007-03-15 Angelina Jolie to adopt Vietnamese child
Angelina Jolie has filed papers to adopt a Vietnamese child, the country's top adoption official said Friday. Nations:[Vietnam][Ethiopia][Cambodia] People:[Angelina Jolie][Brad Pitt] 2007-03-02 Specter: Bush not sole 'decision-maker'
A Senate Republican on Tuesday directly challenged President Bush's declaration that "I am the decision-maker" on issues of war. Nations:[Somalia][Cambodia][Vietnam][Iraq] People:[Patrick Leahy][Arlen Specter][Dick Cheney][John Warner][Russell Feingold][Barbara Boxer] Activities:[110th Congress][Bush Admin.][Vietnam War] 2007-01-30
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