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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Enters Final Phase

BANGKOK Closing arguments began Monday in Cambodia in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison chief who is accused of crimes against humanity in the deaths of more than 14,000 people in the Tuol Sleng prison and torture house. The case against Kaing ...

From SETH MYDANS, International Herald Tribune,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Khmer Rouge,  United Nations

Bring on the Daisies, and Those Acts of Kindness

While 21 national leaders gathered behind tight security this weekend to address the region’s problems, some Singaporeans were out in the rain-washed streets handing out yellow daisies in the latest government campaign to improve the national character. ...

From SETH MYDANS, International Herald Tribune,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,  Barack Obama,  Lee Kuan Yew,  Lee Hsien Loong,  Deng Xiaoping

Cambodia’s Embrace of Ex-Thai Leader Stirs Tensions

BANGKOK — In one of his most provocative moves since being ousted in a coup three years ago, Thailand’s former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is visiting neighboring Cambodia this week, stirring tensions between the two nations and invigorating ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hun Sen,  Thaksin Shinawatra,  Abhisit Vejjajiva,  Khmer Rouge

Boy Who Fled Vietnam War Returns as U.S. Officer

DANANG, Vietnam Cmdr. H. B. Le, the first Vietnamese-American to command a United States Navy destroyer, had just stepped ashore on a formal port call, making an emotional return to Vietnam for the first time since he fled as a boy on a fishing boat at ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United States Navy

Phan Thiet Journal: A Harvest of Golf Courses From Vietnam’s Farmland

PHAN THIET, Vietnam It may be the most capitalist enterprise in Communist Vietnam by the rich and for the rich: a proliferation of golf courses that is displacing thousands of farmers and devouring the rice fields the country depends on. Until last ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ho Chi Minh,  Nguyen Tan Dung

No Place at School for Vietnam’s AIDS Orphans

AN NHON TAY, Vietnam The first day of school was a special one last month for the 15 children from the Mai Hoa orphanage here. They are infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and for the first time they would be allowed to attend the local ...

From SETH MYDANS, International Herald Tribune,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ho Chi Minh

After Typhoon, Tourists in Vietnam Venture Out

HOI AN, Vietnam The chest-high waters in this carefully preserved little town are receding and as the roads dry they are filling up again with tourists who had been trapped in their hotels. “We were in our room for three days,” said Sandra Hudspith, 62, ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Typhoon Kills at Least 41 in Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam Typhoon Ketsana headed west toward Laos Wednesday after battering central Vietnam with powerful winds and heavy rain, leaving behind blue and sunny skies but dangerously rising flood waters. The official death toll was placed ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Symbols of Vietnam's Embrace of Capitalism Falter

THUONG TIN, VIETNAM — Looking out across his green rice fields, Nguyen Van Truong can take pride in hedging his bets when he joined the global marketplace more than a decade ago and began to make money. When Vietnam began a tentative engagement with ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  27 Sep 2009

Analysts Question New U.S. Policy on Myanmar

BANGKOK The United States is embarking on a more difficult and delicate policy by deciding to engage with the military junta in Myanmar and should not expect the change to have significant effects in the near term, analysts and activists said Thursday. ...

From SETH MYDANS, The New York Times,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  National League,  Nyan Win,  U.S. Congress,  United Nations

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