The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in late 1978 ended Pol Pot’s tyrannical rule but civil war continued for another two decades, despite the Paris Peace Accords and the 1992-93 United Nations ...

Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

Former information minister Khieu Kanharith credited Ponchaud as “the first to draw world attention” to the plight of ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Unifrance, is celebrating the work of acclaimed ...

In 1978, three French journalists arrived in Cambodia to survey the country and interview its leader, Pol Pot—but after a picture ... revealing a singular new view of Paris from the perspective ...

In addition to the fact that most of them were former communists, they were also mostly collaborators of the Paris-based Institute ... in Hungary and that of Pol Pot in Cambodia, let alone between ...

The tax rate would be 10%, with the money going to fund regulation of the legal pot industry. Senate Bill 113, authored by Sen. Rodney Pol (D-District 4), would allow someone over the age of 21 with a ...

Father François Ponchaud, MEP, who exposed the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia during the 1970s, passed away January 17 at ...

By Richard Fausset and Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris The Gaîté Lyrique theater has been a jewel in Paris’s glittering cultural scene since the 19th century. It once hosted the ...

Paul Martinka The Republican members of the Big Apple’s city council voted in a new minority leader Tuesday — as the other pol up for the gig threatened legal action. David Carr was voted in ...