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Roof collapse at Cambodian shoe plant kills three - minister
ReutersPHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Three people were killed when the ceiling of a warehouse fell in at a shoe factory in Cambodia, a government minister said on Thursday, adding to concern about safety standards at Asian factories producing clothes cheaply for...Tags: Standards, Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Work Rules Contract Issues, Government, Science and Technology
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Metropolitan Museum says it will return Cambodian statues
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return two ancient statues to Cambodia after receiving convincing evidence they had been looted and smuggled out of the country illegally. The 10th century Khmer statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants,...
Tags: The New York Times, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Artists
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Special Report: How textile kings weave a hold on Bangladesh
ReutersDHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's garment boom has made Mohammad Fazlul Azim a wealthy man. Over three decades his empire has grown from a single factory to a string of plants that employ 26,000 workers and clock up an annual turnover of about $200 million....Tags: Business, Political Corruption, Government, Target, Dhaka (Bangladesh)
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RPT-SPECIAL REPORT-How textile kings weave a hold on Bangladesh
Reuters(Repeats to add video link: Witness: Race to the bottom fuels tragedy in Bangladesh: http://link.reuters.com/sex77t) By John Chalmers DHAKA, May 3 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's garment boom has made Mohammad Fazlul Azim a wealthy man. Over three decades...Tags: Business, Political Corruption, Target, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Walmart
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Southeast Asia's 2015 unity dream collides with reality
ReutersBy Stuart Grudgings BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei, April 26 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations have quietly begun to row back on a deadline of forming an "economic community" by 2015, confirming what many economists and diplomats have suspected for...Tags: Business, Burma, Asia, Southeast Asia, Laos
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ASEAN to reach out to China on maritime disputes
ReutersBy Manuel Mogato and Stuart Grudgings BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei, April 25 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations stepped up efforts on Thursday to engage China in talks to resolve maritime tensions, with Thailand calling on foreign ministers to agree a...Tags: United Nations, Vietnam, Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei), Philippines, Brunei
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FDR's Holocaust lapse
Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....
Tags: Judaism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nazi Party, U.S. Department of State, Hate Crimes
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Letters: FDR, Jews and the war
Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...Tags: Judaism, Nazi Party, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Religion and Belief
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Travel films & events: Presentation on Tour du Mont Blanc trek
FRANCE, ITALY AND SWITZERLAND Presentation Tricia Holbrook will look at hut-to-hut trekking through France, Italy and Switzerland on the Tour du Mont Blanc, and from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn along Switzerland's Haute Route. When, where: 7:30 p....Tags: Services and Shopping, Photography Supplies and Services, Armenia, Manhattan (New York City), Swiss Confederation
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Mexico trying to stop antiquities sale at Sotheby's in Paris
Another antiquities auction has turned into another international art dispute. This time it’s the sale, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Sotheby’s in Paris, of the Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico and Central...Tags: Theft, Government, National Government, Artists, New York City
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Khmer Rouge leader dies, eluding war crimes verdict
NEW DELHI -- The death Thursday of one of the last senior leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime before his trial concluded underscores flaws in the war-crimes tribunal process that threaten to undermine the pursuit of global justice,...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Civil Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defendants, Government
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Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary dies during Cambodia trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be put on trial for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, died Thursday morning. He was 87....
Tags: Revolutions, Police Arrests, International Court or Tribunal, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government
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