BUT after the Pol Pot regime provoked the Vietnamese into a full-scale invasion in 1979, Sihanouk again lined up behind the Khmer Rouge to oppose the occupation and the Vietnamese-influenced communist regime of Heng Samrin. Apparently reckoning Vietnam to
Published 16 Oct, 2012 08:31pm
NO MONARCH in modern times has embodied the life and fate of his country as completely as Norodom Sihanouk, who died in Beijing on Monday. He was king, then prince, then king again of Cambodia, amending his royal role according to the needs of the hour an
Published 16 Oct, 2012 12:12am
The democratic wave, which can be said to have begun in the 80s with the “people power” revolution in the ...
Published 21 Sep, 2009 12:00am
WHEN the Americans displaced the British in the Middle East after the British Suez debacle a half-century ago, they...
Published 10 Feb, 2009 12:00am
IT is amazing how swiftly a new crisis can knock into perspective one which dominated discussion only a short time...
Published 11 Oct, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: Mathematics and politics meet daily in every parliamentary decision, periodically in every election, and...
Published 06 Dec, 2003 12:00am
LONDON: There is no more ominously evocative symbol of communal conflict in the sub-continent than the corpse-packed...
Published 02 Mar, 2002 12:00am
LONDON: Even though Russia is no longer a remotely conceivable enemy, missile defence is still what a US president...
Published 23 Dec, 2001 12:00am
