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Troubled history at Khmer Rouge stronghold
News, AFP, Published on 04/05/2016
» Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime that wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population.
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Warren Buffett tumbles into 'The Confidence Trap'
News, Published on 04/05/2016
» Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, is a confident man. Having built one of the greatest businesses in history, and having become one of the world's richest men in the process, he sees great prosperity in the rear-view mirror, and more of the same ahead.
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Crackdown case risks NACC's credibility
News, Published on 04/05/2016
» The move by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to withdraw a case against former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, and three other senior figures who are charged with malfeasance in connection with the bloody crackdown on yellow-shirt protesters in 2008 will put the agency's credibility at risk.
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Malaria on verge of deadly return
News, Published on 04/05/2016
» The dramatic drop in malaria deaths since the beginning of the century is one of the great public-health success stories of recent years. Thanks to concerted investments in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, the number of people killed by the disease each year has declined 60% since 2000, saving more than six million lives.
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The trouble with tourism
News, Editorial, Published on 04/05/2016
» Four Thai men committed an uncivilised criminal assault on three foreign visitors last month. They also left the country with a black eye. The Hua Hin market assault on two British men and a woman triggered a series of reactions in the country from officials who should know better. Almost all of the reactions were wrong-headed.
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Property in Iraq fuelled by dirty money
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/05/2016
» Property prices in central Baghdad are as high as London's, even though Iraq's national income is down by 70% since the collapse in the oil price. Islamic State's (IS) bombs regularly devastate parts of the capital, and still the real estate market booms. Why?
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Steel firm not ready
News, Postbag, Published on 04/05/2016
» Re: "Myanmar plant snag to cost Milcom B100m", (BP, April 23)
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