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Maury Phillips/Getty Images With the Oscars just around the corner, here’s a question for you: What do the following movies have in common? “Blade Runner” (1982) “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” (2003) “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012) “Hail, Caesar!” (2016) “Pearl Harbor” (2001) No, they’re not all Academy Award winners — “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” got robbed! — but they all made use of L.A.’s Union...

Vice Media group is facing fierce backlash after publishing photographs of victims of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime that were altered to show some of the victims smiling.

12 Apr 2021 Vice Media on Sunday removed an article featuring digitally altered photos of Cambodian genocide victims with smiles on their faces after complaints from the Cambodian government and a petition to demand an apology from the media organization. The article, originally posted on Friday, showcased the work of Irish digital artist Matt Loughrey, who said he wanted to humanize victims of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, a Communist insurgency supported by China that tortured and killed up to 2...

The book "Nhum" "We believe that Khmer cuisine is an art form that sits proudly with Cambodias rich cultural artistic heritage," said Chef Nak. "Through books, teaching, TV and film, social media and exclusive private dining experiences, we hope to show the world the art of traditional Khmer living." Nhum: Recipes From a Cambodian Kitchen The tragic political history of Cambodia is well known – Angkor Wat, and the Killing Fields – but few outside Cambodia have ever experienced its ancient a...

Hear Rosanne Cash’s Powerful New Single, ‘The Killing Fields’ A limited-edition 7-inch benefits the Arkansas Peace & Justice Memorial Movement. Published on Rosanne Cash is reckoning with America’s harrowing history of racism in her powerful new single, “The Killing Fields.”The poignant song focuses particularly on the South’s horrific act of lynchings. “A few years of my own personal reckoning with painful issues of race, racism, privilege, reconciliation, and individual respo...

When Can We Visit Cambodia Again? Before I delve into specific Cambodia attractions, I thought it would be helpful to address the elephant in the room: When, precisely, will we able to visit Cambodia again? While some of you will be reading this in the distance future, when Covid-19 is nothing but a bad memory, the reality is that Cambodia remains off-limits to the majority of foreign visitors as of early 2021. Ongoing restrictions are complicated by a new outbreak of the disease, and the count...

Iowa History Month: When Southeast Asians came to Iowa Matthew Walsh © State Historical Society of Iowa A Hmong refugee named Shoua Her embroidered this “story quilt” that depicts her daily life in Laos, her exile to a refugee camp during the Vietnam War, and her arrival in the United States. She settled in Oskaloosa in 1976. In 1975, Southeast Asians who allied with America against communism faced torture, starvation and murder. The Tai Dam, an ethnic minority, fled pers...

Sir Leslie Fielding, pictured with his wife Dr Sally Harvey Sir Leslie Fielding, 2011 Sir Leslie Fielding, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex from 1987 to 1992, died peacefully on Thursday 4 March after a short illness. Sir Leslie served as a diplomat for much of his life, entering the UK Foreign Service in 1956. He went on to serve in Tehran, Singapore, Phnom Penh and Paris – introducing ballroom and disco to embassy circles along the way. He also held London-based roles in the We...

Richest people in Britain revealed (Image: NC) The journalist and his wife announced the arrival of their first child together yesterday after revealing their son was carried by a surrogate. In a statement to PA news agency, Jon said: “In our desire to seal our now eleven years of marriage with a baby, my wife suffered numerous medical setbacks and miscarriages. "Consequently, we will always be deeply grateful to our surrogate, who carried our embryo to term. "Amid these challenging times, we...

The Nazi Next Door The Nazi Next Door To his neighbours in Britain he was a jolly old gardener. To his neighbours in wartime Belarus, he was a ‘butcher.’ Meet the Shropshire pensioner hiding the darkest of secrets. Show more In a dusty attic in the Yorkshire hills sits the life’s work of John Kingston, a man who spent decades investigating whether his own stepfather, Stanislaw Chrzanowski, was, in fact, a Nazi war criminal. Whilst most knew ‘Mr Stan’ as a friendly pens...