Tag: cambodia

Hey Newt Gingrich, Come Visit Cambodia to See How Awesome Child Labor Can Be

Newt’s War on Poor Children – NY Times Newt Gingrich, American Republican candidate and professional blowhard, has recently decided that poor children’s primary problem isn’t economic inequality and a lack of access to quality education: it’s laziness. After calling out US child labor laws as “truly stupid” and suggesting that schools employ poor kids as […]

Cambodia Passes Drug Law Allowing For Up To Two Years of Forced Drug “Rehab” – UN Dispatch

Cambodia has a serious problem with drug addiction and trafficking, and last Friday, the Cambodian National Assembly passed a big new drug law with a 79-1 majority mandating stricter punishments for both users and traffickers. Although tougher possession penalties and longer sentences for the possession of drugs such as methamphetamine, morphine, and cocaine are part […]

Noam Chomsky: The Khmer Rouge Were Actually Pretty OK, Guys

Chomsky: Khmer Rouge? Shmer rouge! Khmer Rouge Apologist Noam Chomsky: Unrepentant Journalist Nate Thayer conducts a rousing take-down of linguist Noam Chomsky’s astoundingly long-standing denial of Khmer Rouge atrocities. Chomsky, as of 2011, still refuses to join the leftist Khmer Rouge apologists of the 1970’s in taking back his earlier works. No, he still believe […]

Romdeng Again: Great Food, I Still Don’t Order a Spider

Romdeng #74 Street 174 Telephone: +855 092-219-565 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Romdeng is the Mith Samlanh street kid’s charity Khmer training restaurant, affiliated with the more Western accented Friends, near Riverside. Set in an old colonial building, it’s a salubrious place to try authentic Khmer dishes for a pretty good cause. The waitstaff, cooks, and I […]

Ex-Khmer Rouge Leader Admits No Guilt on Third Day of Landmark Trial – Faster Times

The third day of the opening salvo of the Khmer Rouge War Tribunal in Cambodia saw Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state and leader of the state presidium, tell the court with great vehemence that he was not guilty for the war-crimes—that allegedly caused the deaths of 2.2 million—that the co-prosecution had heaped […]