'This is the day we have waited for for 30 years'

Survivors of Khmer Rouge atrocities witness the first formal trial of chief torturer
Duch ( facing his lawyer).

Mr Moeung Sonn, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge atrocities, waiting for the trial to start yesterday. About 800 people turned up to watch the UN-backed tribunal. -- PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

PHNOM PENH: - Survivors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge atrocities reacted with pain, anger and relief as they watched Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's chief torturer in the dock, 30 years after the fall of a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths.

Hard times are here but he's happier now

Award-winning photographer and TV commercial director Edward Loh knows about the high life.

He was commanding a daily rate of US$15,000 (S$22,535) or more for his shoots for international brand campaigns, and travelling to Hong Kong, China and India for work.

While here, he zipped around in a Mercedes S class and a Mercedes GL450.

There are supposedly only eight GL450 models in Singapore.

Mr Loh also used to think nothing of spending $600 on a meal in a Japanese restaurant.

These days, however, he thinks twice if he has to fork out $6 at a foodcourt.

Bad times spell boom for religion

Surge in numbers at many places of worship here; many religious leaders devote sermons to coping with the financial crisis
By Tan Dawn Wei

A worshipper at Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple yesterday. Observers say it is hard to tell if the spike in attendance numbers in churches, mosques and temples will be only temporary or amount to something more long-term. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
Since news of layoffs began making it into the papers daily in the past month or so, housewife Elizabeth Tan has been making weekly trips to the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple in Waterloo Street to pray.

I paid a heavy price. I was stupid

February 04, 2009

THREE years ago, he was first accused of using drugs and paying a male prostitute for sex for over three years.
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Now disgraced pastor Ted Haggard has been accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a 20-year-old volunteer in 2006.