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A young white Australian woman turned 21 and decided to have an "African" themed birthday party. After the festivities, she posted photos to Facebook. Ignorance, insensitivity and racism ahoy!

( TW: blackface, KKK, and general white stupidity/backflailing )

Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increased his sentence to life imprisonment ( Read more... )

Cambodia cancels festival as flood death toll risesPHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday cancelled the nation's biggest annual festival as he announced that the death toll from the worst flooding in over a decade had risen to 247 ( Read more... )

Oct 16-18 critical for capital

Wider and worse levels of flooding in store as huge volumes of water head towards provinces

Residents of many provinces face imminent flooding - or the worsening of existing flooding - as massive amounts of water move towards their areas from parts further north. The run-off water is set to reach Bangkok between ( Read more... )

Thailand, Cambodia Foreign Ministers to Face Off at UN

Thailand and Cambodia's are to make their case before the United Nations in New York over deadly border fighting that erupted a week ago. Cambodia wants U.N. peacekeepers sent to prevent further clashes. But Thailand rejects any U.N. involvement.

Thailand's Foreign Minister Kasit ( Read more... )

This is an attempt to help galvanize more on-line and off-line efforts to clear photojournalist, Go Takayama, of false charges made against him by the Cambodian government.

Excerpts of the back-story:

Photojournalist Imprisoned In Cambodia

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital Monday night, leaving more than 330 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge ( Read more... )