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TUSTIN The gunning down of a 16-year-old boy connected to a tagging crew is the latest attack by a Cambodian gang known for its reputation for violence, an investigator said.

Six people, including four of the gang's members, were rounded up in a multi-county raid Tuesday night in connection with the late-night killing of 16-year-old Juan Carlos Rodriguez.

The shooting of a 12-year-old boy hours later while he was sleeping in his bed in Santa Ana may have been retaliation, authorities said. The boy, shot in the leg, is expected to make a full recovery.

Rodriguez, shot in the back, died early Sunday morning after being shot during a shower of bullets that rained down outside a house party. His killer, according to Tustin police, is a member of the Tiny Rascal Gang.

"It was a straight murder mission," said Tustin Sgt. Jeff Blair, a former gang investigator who spent years dealing with the Tiny Rascal Gang.

It was a tale of two parties on Myrtle Avenue. Members of the Tiny Rascal Gang were at one house. Down the street, a group of taggers was partying, police say.

Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by caesarean section, the world's highest rate, according to a survey by the World Health Organization - a shift toward modernization that isn't necessarily a good thing.

The boom in unnecessary surgeries is jeopardizing women's health, the U.N. health agency warned in the report published online Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet. Unnecessary C-sections are costlier than natural births and raise the risk of complications for the mother, said the report surveying nine Asian nations. It noted C-sections have reached "epidemic proportions" in many countries worldwide. The most dramatic findings were in China, where 46 per cent of births reviewed were C-sections - a quarter of them not medically necessary, the report said.

PHNOM PENH, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said indicated on Tuesday that relations with neighbouring Thailand remained tense and said "it won't be long" before a change of government in Bangkok.

The outspoken premier, who has made it clear he is unwilling to cooperate with the current Thai leadership, said ties might be restored soon -- but only because Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's embattled government will not last much longer.

"There is no need to set conditions to send back the (Thai) ambassador," he said at a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh. "Wait for the next government -- it won't be long."

The Khmer Rouge liked to say, "When pulling out weeds, remove the roots and all." Fulfilling this dogma, the ultra-Maoist regime killed the babies of supposed traitors of the revolution and "smashed" -- its euphemism for executed -- pregnant women carrying the children of men whose loyalty was in question. The term genocide is often used reflexively to describe the Khmer Rouge's rule of terror that led to the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, starvation, and murder from 1975 to 1979. It was not, however, one of the charges former Khmer Rouge leaders had faced in the three-year-old U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal. This is changing, though, and the new move is controversial.