First Khmer Rouge trial to open
A senior Khmer Rouge figure, who ran the S-21 prison during the brutal years under the regime in the 1970s, goes on trial in a UN-backed court on Monday.
But do young Cambodians bother about past atrocities that resulted in the deaths of one and a half million people?
Al Jazeera’s Laura Kyle reports from Phnom Penh.
Global Recession – Shaved prices for Egypt’s carpenters
The Egyptian port city of Damietta has long been known for manufacturing furniture.
Recently, however, due to the increasing prices of wood, many workshops have gone bust as they are unable to afford the basic component of their industry.
They cannot raise the price of what they make as the economic slowdown is affecting people’s purchasing power.
Mexico’s youth being lured into drug trade
No one knows how many young people are joining the drug traffickers, but it is luring many.
The illegal business is worth an estimated $80 billion dollars a year.
According to a US State Department official, thats drawn an estimated 150 thousand Mexicans to the illegal drug trade and fueled the violence.
For them, the answer is simple: the government must remove the economic incentive for trafficking drugs by legalising them.
Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports from Mexico.
Latin America’s struggle to cut drug route to US
Mexico’s battle to stop drug gangs using the country as a trafficking route is nothing new in the Americas – in the 1970s, cocaine was exported to the US from Colombia.
With Washington’s help, Bogota was eventually able to weaken the cartels but not stop the trade, now focused on Mexico, home to the most powerful drug cartels, where the fight continues.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Bogota, Colombia’s capital, on the battle against drug trafficking.
