A Cambodian court jailed an Australian woman for 18 months for falsifying documents and acting as an intermediary in a commercial surrogacy operation.
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For most residents of Cambodia, the postal system has a bad reputation. It can take weeks for an item to arrive from abroad, and without a computerized system, recipients often have to look up their package by country of origin in handwritten notebooks. Sometimes their arrival is accompanied by surprise customs fees, and sometimes it doesn’t arrive at all.
Bretton Sciaroni came to Cambodia in 1993, the year of its first democratic election after more than two decades of tumultuous rule by the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime, the Khmer Rouge, and then a Vietnamese occupation force. It was a second chance for a country that had only gained independence from France in 1953, and a second chance for Sciaroni.
While this construction boom has been enthusiastically endorsed by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, the absence of long-term planning could irreversibly change the face of some of the city’s most distinctive neighborhoods in exchange for short-term economic gains.
Duch said the policy of Khmer Rouge party leaders from 1971 onwards was to “smash” any enemies, a euphemism meaning execution. Executions of entire families was common, he said. "After 1975 when the parents were taken away and killed, the children would be taken away and killed" also, he told the court.