NEW YORK (Dec. 14, 2011) – The United Nations-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia ruled today that Ieng Thirith, a 79-year-old former senior member of the Khmer Rouge who was found unfit to stand trial, will not be released as ordered last month but remain in detention.

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NEW YORK (Nov. 4, 2011 — The United Nations reported today that it is increasing its joint efforts with Cambodian authorities and aid providers to offer food assistance to some of the thousands of people that have been displaced by severe flooding recently.

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Vivian Po & Cicy Wang
New America Media

OAKLAND, Calif. — Despite what he’s been through, Vietnamese Colonel Ne Lam, now 83 and residing in a senior housing unit in Oakland, looks young for his age. These days he’s recognized as a devoted Cambodian Buddhist monk, a community leader who travels back to Cambodia and Vietnam every year to do charity work. But to the survivors of the Vietnamese Dong Rek Refugee Camp, he was more than a leader. He was a life-saver.

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Cambodian Appreciation Day, an event to honor the selfless and noble attributes of the earliest community leaders, living and deceased, who put the traumatizing anguish of the genocidal Killing Fields behind them, to not only succeed in a new home but to ensure the help was there for others — will be held Aug. 5-6, all day at the Wat Munisotaram Cambodian Buddhist Temple, 2925- 220 St. E, Hampton, MN 55031.

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NEW YORK (June 14, 2011) – The United Nations today rejected media reports that it instructed judges at the tribunal in Cambodia dealing with mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge three decades ago to dismiss its third case, stressing that the court is an independent body.

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Yanat H. Chhith, the new Executive Director of Southeast Asian Refugee Community Home in Minneapolis. (AAP staff photo by Tom LaVenture)

By TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer

MINNEAPOLIS (May 11, 2011) – Hoang K. Tran, Esq., founded Southeast Asian Refugee Community Home more than 18 years ago and has served as its only director until 2010. After two interim directors he is finally able to retire as Yanat H. Chhith recently stepped in as the new executive director.

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Los Angeles-based Cambodian American band Dengue Fever will be in Minneapolis to perform and promote their new album, Cannibal Courtship on Friday, June 3, 2011 at First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry, 701 1st Ave North, Minneapolis. (Photo by Lauren Dukoff, courtesy of Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group)

By Ammala Douangsavanh

Described as everything from Cambodian psychedelic surf rock to global pop fusion, Dengue Fever is the vanguard of a new breed of music that mixes genres and cultures to create a sound that is at once foreign, but familiar.

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Brussels (April 23, 2011) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has stated that he is troubled by reports of renewed fighting over the past two days between Cambodian and Thai troops along the two countries’ border, which has reportedly claimed the lives of many people on both sides.

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U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (MN-4)

Washington, D.C. (April 19, 2011) – In remembrance of the Cambodian genocide, which lasted from April 1975 to January 1979, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (MN-04) cosponsored a Congressional resolution honoring the victims and their families.

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Brussels (March 30, 2011) – The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia dealing with mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge three decades ago today concluded the appeal hearing for the former head of a notorious detention camp who was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity last year.

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