International criminal courts usually begin their work with a mid-ranking defendant and impose a heavy sentence after their first conviction. The war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia were the first to do so. On Friday, the appeals chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia -- a mixed tribunal based in Phnom...
PHNOM PENH -- The Victorian writer Anthony Trollope once described his characters as ''ordinary people doing extraordinary things.'' From his Khmer Mekong Films studios here, Matthew Robinson and his staff create made-for-television tales of everyday people living exceptional lives. Dubbed ''the Pope of Soap'' by the British newspaper The Sun, Mr....
PHNOM PENH -- Peter Klashorst says it was just another regular day of heat, hawkers and honking in Cambodia's capital when his walking paintings caused a stir on the street. Portraits more than six and a half feet high and nearly four feet wide floated by -- the large canvases cloaking the men carrying them -- leaving pedestrians befuddled and even...
Phnom Penh er hovedstaden i Cambodja. Byen har ca. 2,234 million indbyggere. Det berygtede torturfængslel, og nu museum, S-21 ligger i byen.