From an insignificant tonnage of milled rice officially exported for the first time in 2008 to 60,000 tonnes in 2010 and growing exponentially to 170,000 tonnes in 2011, Cambodia at a first glance seemed to be back on the world stage of the global rice trade.

In March, 2007, I wrote a column published in The Phnom Post stating that the United Nations either had no “tipping point” for withdrawal from the Khmer Rouge tribunal or that it had “such an extremely high threshold that it is practically non-existent”.

I read in yesterday’s Phnom Penh Post that Prime Minister Hun Sen is still working hard on winning a seat on the United Nations Security Council for 2013-2014.

Bridget Di Certo and Vong Sokheng’s front-page story (“Judge rejection a breach”, January 23) is mistaken, or misleading, on several important points.

I write to you as a victim of the Khmer Rouge and the head of a Cambodian human-rights organ-isation during this time of crisis at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).

January 7 is indeed a significant day for survivors of the Khmer Rouge. It arrestied the macabre convulsions that would have swallowed all of us into a hellish hole if the Vietnamese military had not intervened.

As the Republican nomination process unfolds in the US, the mixed results showcase the significant chasms within the Republican party.

Having read your interesting article “For many, it’s a matter of degrees” (Post, January 3), I would like to express my deep concerns about the quality of education...

I was struck by Documentation Centre of Cambodia director Youk Chhang’s comment in the Post on December 7...

Tony Krahn (letters, December 9) is understandably content with the considerable media attention the Khmer Rouge tribunal attracts...

We would like to provide more detail on how the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)...

After only one day of testimony in the historic Case 002 against senior Khmer Rouge leaders Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan...

I was struck by an article titled “Ieng Thirith unfit” published in The Phnom Penh Post on November 18...

In response to your article ‘Brand aid’ failing workers, published on Wednesday, November 9...

This  is an open letter to Patricia O’Brien, the United Nations under-secretary general for legal affairs...

I wish to make some clarifications in response to the art-icle published in The Phnom Penh Post on October 18...