| May 20, 2007 | - In Sre Leav, Cambodia, villagers were raiding the graves of those killed by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. “I'm afraid,” said a farmer named Srey Noeun, “that the owner will take revenge on me because she died with nothing but her earrings, and now I have taken them. She'll say, 'Please give them back. They are all I had.'” On the other hand, Noeun pointed out, she had been able to buy some pork.
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The New York Time
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| February 7, 2007 | - Unusually cold weather in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, forced some local residents to wear socks.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| January 21, 2007 | - In Cambodia a Briton named Bowel Anpaul was arrested on charges of pedophilia.
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Phnom Penh Post
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| October 16, 2006 | - Lim Pov, a Cambodian taxi driver, was killed when two unknown assailants “chopped” him to death with a hatchet.
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Phnom Penh Post
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| July 1, 2006 | - A man in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, killed a 76-year-old nun by strangling her with a krama, then attempted to assassinate a monk, while the victims slept at a wat.
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Phnom Penh Post
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| October 9, 2005 | - A Cambodian couple was in trouble for biting their 12-year-old daughter so that they might drink her blood.
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AP
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| August 6, 2005 | - A Cambodian man found his mother after being separated from her for thirty years, then learned that she was also the mother of his wife.
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IOL.co.za
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Cambodia
privatized the Killing Fields at Cheoung Ek; a Japanese firm will plant flowers near the tower of eight thousand skulls and will raise admission rates.
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Reuters
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| February 4, 2005 | -
Cambodian opposition leaders were stripped of their parliamentary immunity and fled the country.
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BBC News
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| January 2, 2005 | - and Norodom Sihanouk, the retired king of Cambodia, said his country had been spared thanks to the warnings of his astrologer.
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Reuters
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| October 8, 2004 | - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicated his throne.
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New York Times
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| February 21, 2004 | - King Norodom Sihanouk said that Cambodian
homosexuals should be permitted to marry.
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Associated Press
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| December 3, 2002 | -
The Canadian official who called George W. Bush a moron was forced to resign, and the president, who tried very hard to prevent the creation of an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks, named Henry Kissinger to be the commission's chairman. Kissinger, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and Chile, said he did not expect to discover any conflicts of interest between his work on the commission and his work as an agent for various undisclosed transnational corporations and foreign powers.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Rwanda hosted a gathering of genocide survivors that included Tutsis, European Jews, American Indians, Cambodians, and Armenians.
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