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Thursday 17th May, 2012

    • Ailing Khmer Rouge defendant falls ill during trial

    West Australian

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    This handout photo taken and released by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) shows the Khmer Rouge's former foreign minister Ieng Sary talking in the ...

    • Girl in Cambodia killed during violent eviction

    The Seattle Times

    Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing ...

    • Cambodia to host ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting this month

    General Sources

    Sixth ASEAN Defence Ministers ' Meeting will be held on 29 May at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. The theme of the meeting is "enhancing ASEAN unity for a harmonized and secure ...

  • Cambodia pressures Laosto halt work on Xayaburi dam

    Asia Times

    By Radio Free Asia Cambodia has called for an immediate halt to the construction of the Xayaburi dam in an official protest note to Laos, officials said in a statement last week, as opposition ...

  • Figure in China’s Political Drama Found in Cambodia

    General Sources

    Bo Xilai and the investigation of his wife as a murder suspect, the most mysterious figure has been a French architect named Patrick Henri ...

  • Crown Announces Plans to Construct Aluminum Beverage Can Plant in Cambodia - Azom.com

    General Sources

    Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crown has planned to construct a new aluminum beverage can manufacturing facility in Sihanoukville, ...

  • Cambodian troops seal off village after land clashes

    The Guardian

    Rice farmers near Phnom Penh: Cambodia's system of commercial land concessions has been criticised as corrupt and prompted a UN inquiry. Photograph: Heng ...

  • Activists: Cambodian Girl Killed in Mass Eviction

    General Sources

    Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot to death Wednesday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development. ...

  • Cambodia unlikely to join NFA rice tender

    General Sources

    InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines may have to settle for Vietnamese or Thai rice when the government embarks on a bulk purchase next week. ...

  • Cambodia: Police Officers Kill Girl, 15, in Clash With Villagers Over Land

    General Sources

    Cambodia , in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. The clash took place when about 400 police officers and soldiers raided a village in Kratie Province ...

  • Tracking Hidden Frenchman in China's Political Drama - New York Times

    General Sources

    When Mr. Bo rebuilt the Chinese city of Dalian as its mayor in the 1990s, Mr. Devillers, who had married into a prominent local family, helped him lay out the new street grid and design city ...

  • Restricted Rights: Migrant women workers in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia

    bikyamasr

    Women shopping in Malaysia. The story of thousands of migrant women workers is revealed in the new report launched by War on Want and the Asian Migrant Center. The report presents the appalling ...

  • LGBT group talks pride, prejudice

    Phnom Penh Post

    Cambodian representatives share their experiences as LGBT, along with delegates from other ASEAN countries, at a forum in Phnom Penh on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. ...

  • Teenage girl gunned down by security forces in eviction

    Phnom Penh Post

    The body of Heng Chantha, 14, lies on a mat at her family's home in Kratie province yesterday. She was shot dead by heavily armed officials who opened fire on a group of about 1,000 families ...

  • Death points up urgency of ELC review

    Phnom Penh Post

    The government needs to act - and act now - to review all economic land concessions, which underscore the Kingdom's dark disease of violent land disputes, rights groups said yesterday.Ten days ...

  • Agreement reached at Thai seafood factory

    Phnom Penh Post

    A conclusive settlement has been reached in the long-running dispute between a Thai seafood factory and its Cambodian employees, Cambodian ambassador to Thailand You Ay said yesterday.Rights groups ...

  • Two dead in store shooting

    Phnom Penh Post

    Police investigate the scene of a suspected murder-suicide yesterday at the P.P. General Electrical Accessories store in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post A gunman shot and killed the ...

  • Storms not done just yet

    Phnom Penh Post

    A man watches as a car attempts to drive through floodwaters at Phsar Kandal market in Phnom Penh last week, soon after heavy rain inundated a number of areas of the capital. Photograph: Hong ...

  • Slow outlook for 2012 rice exports

    Phnom Penh Post

    Rice being milled in Cambodia in 2009. The high cost of milling is one factor experts say that is holding back the industry. Photograph: Sovan Philong/Phnom Penh Post Rapidly increasing logistics ...

  • Rising oil prices fuelling inflation

    Phnom Penh Post

    Cuts of pork and beef for sale at Phsar Kandal in Phnom Penh in March. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post Rising oil prices fuelled a month-to-month inflationary increase of 5.4 per cent through ...

  • Monitor pledges 5,000 observers for election

    Phnom Penh Post

    The election monitoring organisation Comfrel yesterday announced it would deploy more than 5,000 observers to monitor every aspect of the campaign leading up to the June 3 commune elections and the ...

  • PKR win it ugly to go third

    Phnom Penh Post

    Preah Khan Reach's Lay Raksmey (l) hits the ball past Kirivong's Soch Makara (centre) during their Metfone C-League match yesterday at Olympic Stadium. PKR won the rain-soaked encounter ...

  • Investors eye Meoun Chey border

    Phnom Penh Post

    Chinese, Korean and local investors have shown interest in Meoun Chey border crossing in Prey Veng province's Komchay Mear district between Cambodia and Vietnam, provincial officials said ...

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