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Cambodia's surrogate mothers risk jail for Chinese couples
AFP, Published on 21/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Pregnant and scared, Yin hides in a house on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- one of an untold number of Cambodian surrogate mothers risking jail time for lucrative payouts from Chinese clients.
Director turns back on homeland with latest film
AFP, Published on 22/11/2018
» NAKHON PATHOM: Wearied by the creative constrictions of junta-run Thailand, Palme d'Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is making his next feature in Colombia with Tilda Swinton, but promises to bring his key themes -- ghosts, memory and politics -- with him.
Sick throng Indian capital's new, high-tech clinics
AFP, Published on 19/08/2016
» NEW DELHI - For asthma sufferer Mohan Lal, regular visits to the Indian capital's hospitals were a nightmare of waiting in endless queues in sweltering corridors that swarm with mosquitoes.
Pele sells his memories for $5 million
AFP, Published on 10/06/2016
» LONDON - The three-day sale of memorabilia belonging to world football icon Pele ended in London on Thursday with the artefacts sold for the princely total of £3.4million (about 176 million baht, $5 million, 4.4 million euros).
Patriarchal India under pressure over marital rape
AFP, Published on 31/05/2016
» NEW DELHI - Almost immediately after Deepti's wedding at a traditional ceremony in the Indian capital, the horrific abuse began -- behind closed doors at the hands of her new husband.
Capital to ghost town: 40 years since Phnom Penh's fall
AFP, Published on 17/04/2015
» When black-clad Khmer Rouge soldiers first charged into Phnom Penh they were welcomed with cheers, remembers Chhung Kong, a teacher in the Cambodian capital during the 70s.
Cambodia's self-taught doctors, a Khmer Rouge legacy
AFP, Published on 10/04/2015
» When the phone rings, former Khmer Rouge soldier Ken Mon grabs a bag stuffed full of medicine, jumps on his motorbike and heads for an impoverished Cambodian village with the haste of any diligent local doctor.