January 9, 2012
Genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was backed by the US in ‘shameful foreign policy episode’ The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are displayed in a memorial to the genocide at the Killing Fields Museum outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Vietnam had saved his country in the 1970s, not invaded [...]
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December 17, 2011
The Ministry of Public Security on Friday launched a massive crackdown on crimes across the country. According to Lieutenant-General Phan Van Vinh, chief of the ministry’s Anti-Crime General Department, from now until February 20 next year, his department’s forces will perform raids on crimes in all fields. The department will focus on provinces and cities that [...]
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November 26, 2011
One area where the US indisputably leads the world is incarceration. There are 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every 100 Americans. The federal prison population has more than doubled over the past 15 years, and one in nine black children has a parent in jail. Proportionally, the US has four times [...]
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November 21, 2011
A Cambodian looks at pictures of former Khmer Rouge leaders “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea (L), ex-head of state Khieu Samphan (2nd L), ex-deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Ieng Sary (2nd R) and ex-social affairs minister Ieng Thirith (R) during their trial in Phnom Penh on November 21, 2011 Three top [...]
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October 28, 2011
Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]
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October 16, 2011
With paltry incomes hardly enough to scrape by on, poor and desperate workers are being brutalized by thieves, loan sharks, swindlers and other criminals Factory workers change shifts at an industrial park in Vietnam. Many workers at industrial parks in Binh Duong Province’s Ben Cat District have fallen victims to a variety of crimes [...]
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July 27, 2011
The lawyer for the gunman behind last week's attacks in Norway lays out his feelings about the case and his client, painting a picture of a cold and paranoid "warrior" who appears to be insane. The lawyer for the Norwegian gunman who claimed responsibility for killing 76 people in twin attacks last week said everything [...]
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May 16, 2011
Foreign tourists cross a street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Reader response to “Expats clamor over crime” page 8, Issue 83 Jumping the gun? I have been meaning to talk about the latest crime warning from the US Consulate here in Saigon. I just remember reading their warning wondering which crime they were [...]
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May 7, 2011
A cryptic warning from the US consulate has left foreigners wondering how bad crime really is in Ho Chi Minh City Foreign tourists in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Police in HCMC’s District 1 reported seeing an increase in camera, computer and bag snatching in tourist hotspots around town, particularly in the early evening, [...]
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April 19, 2011
Israeli soldiers fire a mortar round towards the Gaza Strip from the Israeli side of the border with the Palestinian coastal strip in 2009. The United States worked behind the scenes to help Israel contain UN probes into possible war crimes committed during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, Foreign Policy reported Tuesday. The online foreign affairs [...]
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