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Special guest from Cambodia - West Sussex County Times
Chomno In meets Doug Fletcher (manager of The Centre, Horsham) at Brighton Road Baptist Church, pictured alongside a wooden cross made by a student from the Safe Haven School in Poipet, part of a programme to rehabilitate trafficked children - submitted ...
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Ezecom opens two offices in Cambodia - Telecompaper
Cambodian ISP Ezecom is expanding its network with the opening of two offices in Bavet and Poipet. The opening of the two branches brings the total number of Ezecom offices to eight nationwide. According to the company the latest additions to the company's branch network also signals an increasing demand for internet and communications services throughout the ...
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Cambodias opposition party stages 2nd protest to demand election reforms ... - Global Times
Cambodia National Rescue Party ( CNRP), the kingdom's main opposition party, held the second peaceful protest on Monday to demand election reforms and return of its self-exiled leader Sam Rainsy ahead of a general election in July.Some 2,500 protesters gathered at the capital's Freedom Park, holding posters read "Support U.N. recommendations," "Change the National ...
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Cambodian sugar lacking spice riches
ensures a higher market value for specialty produce. According to a report from Cambodia's Commerce Ministry, "A GI product must have a specific quality linked to the characteristics of its geographic production zone and must have a well-established reputation among consumers in connection with this origin." GI registration also requires farmers to use natural manure in ...
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Death of a killer in Cambodia
By Sebastian Strangio PHNOM PENH - Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia's communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime's 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87. He was being tried at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a United Nations-backed tribunal, along ...
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Bike firms saddle up onlow Cambodian wages
By Michelle Tolson PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's export business is in the process of changing due to shifts in manufacturing in Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the "machinery and transport equipment" sector and speculated it was as "probably bicycles". But when Cambodia jumped into the top 10 exporters of bicycles to the ...
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Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia
Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia By Geoff Gunn The survival of the monarchy in Cambodia is little short of remarkable in the light of that country's modern history. French manipulation of the monarchy and attempts to buttress religion and culture alongside the rise of nationalist youth and Buddhist radicalism was an important precursor to postwar events. No less momentous for ...
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More to US-Cambodia relations than rights
By Vannarith Chheang A meeting between US President Barack Obama and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on November 19 took on added significance given the backdrop of the 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which was held in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh in the same week. Focusing on human rights, fundamental political freedoms, and electoral democracy in ...
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US warns Laos over Xayaburi dam
By Carey L Biron WASHINGTON - The US government is directly cautioning the Laotian government following Monday's announcement that the latter will move forward with contentious construction plans for a massive hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River. "The extent and severity of impacts from the Xayaburi dam on an ecosystem that provides food security and livelihoods for millions ...
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Lao Cambodian familiespay for summit luxuries
By Beaumont Smith and Julie Masis VIENTIANE and PHNOM PENH - As Asian and European leaders gather for high-level meetings this month in Cambodia and Laos, the luxury living quarters and extensive security arrangements made for their arrivals have come at considerable human and environmental expense. Government authorities went on a building spree ahead of this week's 9th Asia-Europe ...
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Cambodia gets last chance to show spine
By Gregory Poling and Alexandra Sander Cambodia will fulfill its last major obligation as this year's Association of Southeast Asian Nations chair from November 18-20 when it hosts the annual ASEAN Summit and seventh East Asia Summit (EAS). The EAS in particular will provide Cambodia with the opportunity to restore some of its credibility after the public embarrassment of the ASEAN ...
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A royal check removed in Cambodia
already strong authoritarian power in the country. Hun Sen has ruled for 27 consecutive years, Asia's longest-serving national leader, and could benefit politically by regaling the late Sihanouk with respect during the upcoming funeral and afterwards while muting details of Sihanouk's treacherous past. "China enjoyed a degree of appreciation from many Cambodians through ...
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New war footing on Thai-Cambodian border
By John Cole and Steve Sciacchitano Since early January, Royal Thai Army (RTA) planners have prepared new plans to defend Thailand against potential attacks from Cambodia, a move that threatens to rekindle tensions along the two countries' contested border. The plan, drawn up by the RTA's 2nd Army Region and formally approved in April, represents a significant departure from ...
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Cambodia helps squeeze WikiLeaks
By Justine Drennan PHNOM PENH - Earlier this week, Swedish national Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was deported from Cambodia to Thailand under the escort of Swedish officials who then forced him to board a plane to Sweden. From his arrest in Phnom Penh two weeks ago up until Tuesday, Cambodian and Swedish authorities remained tight-lipped, saying only that Svartholm Warg was arrested for ...
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Cambodia reliant on China for a range of infastructure projects
Cambodia is in need of foreign investment for a number of major infrastructure projects and China is becoming the country’s biggest investor on several key ventures. This is part of a broader expansion in China’s influence in Asia as the country continues to develop into the world’s second superpower.
Cambodia suffered through the economic downturn that came about following the financial crash toward the end of 2008. In 2009, the economy contracted 1%, which wrought significant hardship for many hundreds of thousands of people, most notably those employed in the garment sector as the export of clothing fell by around 20% in value. Read more
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