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A community portal about Cambodia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia with a population of more than 13 million. Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the 11th and 14th centuries.
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Reporting from Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The scene at the untidy conclusion of Cambodia's first war crimes trial was telling: a French defense lawyer with his face buried in his hands. The tribunal promised a more inclusive approach than its ...
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Two of the 22 Uighurs who sought asylum through the UNHCR offices in Phnom Penh say they witnessed security forces killing and beating Uighur demonstrators in the far western city of Urumqi on July 5, the Uighur American Association said. On that day ...
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Two of the 22 Uighurs who sought asylum through the UNHCR offices in Phnom Penh say they witnessed security forces killing and beating Uighur demonstrators in the far western city of Urumqi on July 5, the Uighur American Association said. On that day ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen opened Saturday a road building link to the Thai border in northwestern Cambodia. The 117-kilometer long National Road No. 68, which runs from Kralanh district in Siem Reap province to ...
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PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s long-awaited stock exchange could start operating next month, a government official said on Wednesday, after signing a deal with South Korean developer World City Co Ltd to build the $6 million bourse. Although construction ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 5 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Twenty-two ethnic Uyghurs who fled China following violent protests there have arrived in Cambodia and are now under the supervision of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Phnom Penh, a senior police ...
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (AFP) - At least 16 Uighurs have fled ethnic unrest in China and are seeking asylum with the help of the United Nations refugee agency in Cambodia, a government spokesman in Phnom Penh said Friday. Fierce clashes in China's far ...
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (AFP) - The Cambodian government on Friday approved a draft law allowing foreign ownership of buildings such as apartments and office buildings to boost economic growth, the country's cabinet said. The draft law approved in a ...
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Ethnic Uyghurs flee China through Vietnam to seek asylum in Cambodia. PHNOM PENH—China has tightened its southeastern border after several groups of ethnic Uyghurs managed to bribe their way into Vietnam and then Cambodia to avoid possible ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday. Acting on a tip, police ...
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Cambodia set to start construction on first stock exchange PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia will soon start construction on a building to house its first stock exchange which it hopes will help draw foreign investment to ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec 04, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cambodia has officially requested donor community to extend another 10 years to clear land mines covering the country, said a government official. Leng Sochea, deputy secretary general of the Cambodia ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The European Union will provide $3 million in additional funding for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide trial, an EU official said Wednesday. The brutal 1970s rule of the Khmer Rouge left an estimated 1.7 million people dead ...
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PHNOM PENH: A Thai national held in Cambodia on spying charges, relating to a visit by fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, withdrew his request for bail on Friday. Siwarak Chothipong, 31, an employee at the Cambodia Air Traffic Service ...
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ReutersUighurs who fled China in Cambodia seeking asylumThe Associated PressThe Phnom Penh office is the closest UNHCR office to China in Southeast Asia. Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the government will ...Five sentenced to death over deadly China riotsBBC NewsUighur protesters land in CambodiaWashington PostXinhua China News Digest at 16:00 GMT, Dec. 3Trading Markets (press release)Xinhua -BigPond News -China Dailyall...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Dec. 3. Acting on a tip, police ...
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (AFP) - Cambodian authorities have seized nearly two tonnes of live rare snakes and turtles being smuggled in a boat to Vietnam and arrested two men, police said Thursday Authorities stopped the boat early Wednesday and found 1 ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's domestic rubber prices rose 44 percent in the past year, according to a report published Thursday by Phnom Penh Post. The Post quoted Ly Phalla, director general of Rubber Department as saying that the ...
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When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of Pol Pot's soldiers murdered 4-year-old Theary Seng's father. Later, Theary Seng, her mother and siblings ended up in a prison in southeast Cambodia ...
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PHNOM PENH, Aug 14 (IPS) - ‘Women are cloth, men are gold’. This traditional Khmer saying is quoted by many studies on gender in Cambodia as emblematic of the different value accorded to men and women in this country of 14 million. But it takes ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2 — Cambodia hosts a regional meeting of officials and stakeholders from the four new members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Wednesday to discuss on how to improve the economic status in the region. The ...
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PHNOM PENH : Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court has rejected a request by lawyers for a former Khmer Rouge leader to examine two judges at the tribunal for bias, said documents released Tuesday. Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2 (AP) - (Kyodo)—After going nearly six months with a vacant seat for an international side of prosecuting counsel for Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, a former prosecutor at International Criminal Trial for the former Yugoslavia ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- In an effort to build confidence and ease down the situation along the Cambodia-Thai border, 20 Cambodian and Thai troops played volleyball on Tuesday afternoon at the border area, local newspaper the Cambodia Daily ...
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A woman sells corn last month on a Phnom Penh street. Three of Dupont's hybrid corn varieties have been approved in the Kingdom. U S multinational DuPont launched eight of its chemical crop-protection products and three varieties of its Pioneer Hi ...
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PHNOM PENH : The global financial crisis has caused Cambodia to push back its plans to open a national stock exchange this year, officials said Wednesday. Cambodia signed an agreement last year with representatives from South Korea's stock exchange ...
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Relations between Bangkok and Phnom Penh sunk to their lowest ebb in recent years after Cambodian PM Hun Sen recently offered, former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra a home and a job as an economics adviser
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday. Acting on a tip, police intercepted ...
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SNC-Lavalin is to design and build a national control centre and energy management system in Phnom Penh after being awarded a $5m contract by Electricite du Cambodge. the Canadian firm will provide engineering, procurement and construction services ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2(Xinhua)-- The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia announced Wednesday that Andrew T. Cayley was named as a new international co-prosecutor for the UN-backed court in Cambodia . In the statement, the ECCC said Andrew T ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Cambodia's long-awaited stock exchange could start operating next month, a government official said on Wednesday, after signing a deal with South Korean developer World City Co Ltd to build the $6 million bourse
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The province of Kratie in north eastern Cambodia is home to a stretch of the Mekong which is an important habitat for the rare Irawaddy dolphin, and is a strategic location to break overland journeys between Phnom Penh and the jungles of Ratanakiri ...
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OSK Indochina Bank Ltd (OSKIBL) has opened four new branches in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, located at City Mall Olympic, Stoeung Meanchey, Kbal Thnal and Pet Lok Song. Yesterday‘s opening was officiated by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) governor ...
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Pheu Thai Party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh on Wednesday dismissed speculation about trying to outshine the government related to efforts to secure the release of a Thai engineer detained in Phnom Penh. "Pheu Thai will remain ready to assist and ...
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Kampong Trach, Cambodia - On a small plot of earth 10 kilometres outside a dusty provincial town in southern Cambodia, farmer Nuon Yan tends his crop. Like most farmers in Cambodia, Nuon Yan grows rice. But today he is tending his other crop: Kampot ...
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Kampong Trach, Cambodia - On a small plot of earth 10 kilometres outside a dusty provincial town in southern Cambodia, farmer Nuon Yan tends his crop. Like most farmers in Cambodia, Nuon Yan grows rice. But today he is tending his other crop: Kampot ...
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Rajan Datar finds out about the media climate in Cambodia, in the week when the first trial of a senior Khmer Rouge leader reached its final stages. He talks to the BBC’s correspondent in Phnom Penh to find out how the trial has been covered by the ...
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It's been more than a decade since armed militia and security forces loyal to Cambodian strongman Hun Sen violently suppressed the democratic opposition to consolidate the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) in power, and the country is once again on the ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Vietnam are set to hold a joint commission meeting later this week in Cambodia's southwestern province of Sihanouk. In a statement released on Monday, the Cambodian Foreign Ministry said the 11th Meeting ...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 1 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Cambodia's National Assembly on Tuesday adopted the government's budget for 2010 despite resistance from opposition parliamentarians. Through the 2010 budget law, taxes on properties will be levied for the first ...
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Mechanic Nhean Phaloek sits in his self-designed homemade Angkor 333-2010 car at his house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Aug. 21. The gold-colored convertible turns heads on impoverished Cambodia’s roads — not least because of creator Nhean Phaloek ...
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PHNOM PENH, Mar 28 (IPS) - The Lao government’s decision earlier this year to press ahead with plans to build the Don Sahong dam on the mainstream of the Mekong River in southern Laos is causing major concern in Cambodia and internationally. The ...
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[JURIST] The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website] on Tuesday rejected [judgment, PDF] a request by lawyers for a former Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder] leader to examine two international judges for bias. Lawyers representing former minister of foreign affairs Ieng Sary [Trial Watch profile] sought a public hearing on the independence of Dutch judge Katinka
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MONTREAL, Dec. 1, 2009 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to design and build Electricité du Cambodge's National Control Centre and Energy Management System in Phnom Penh. The value ...
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PHNOM PENH, Sep 8 (IPS) - In a move that could break the silence around sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge, a 68 year-old transgender woman has became the first person to submit a complaint about gender-related abuse to the international tribunal ...
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SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to design and build Electricité du Cambodge's National Control Centre and Energy Management System in Phnom Penh. The value of the contract is estimated at $5 million. SNC ...
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PHNOM PENH, Aug 27 (IPS) - The ongoing Khmer Rouge tribunal here of Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, has heard some highly charged testimony in recent weeks, as civil parties have told the court of how the murders of their loved ones ruined ...
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Duk-kon Kim, vice president of World City Co Ltd, the firm that will build Cambodia’s stock exchange building, points to a model last month showing its proposed location on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. T HE construction of Cambodia’s stock ...
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PHNOM PENH, Sep 23 (IPS) - After 72 days of hearings, the first international trial of a Khmer Rouge regime member has wrapped up its often horrific testimony in the Cambodian capital. Comrade Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, has sat placidly ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – After claiming to feel great remorse for his part in Khmer Rouge atrocities, the defendant in Cambodia's first genocide trial on Friday surprised the court with a last-minute plea for his freedom, saying he should not have ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Motorcycle dealers in the capital Phnom Penh say sales have finally started to pick up following this year's downturn prompted by the global economic crisis, as buyers spend money generated in the provinces on ...
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BOISE -- A foreign military from the Kingdom of Cambodia is in Boise Saturday.
Their military mission is to learn about the Army and Air National Guards.
Four months ago, the Idaho National Guard formally entered a partnership with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces.
There are similar programs around the country that are forming military partnerships and civil cooperation.
Dressed in their military fatigues, the Major General for the Royal...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United States said on Monday that it will continue to help Cambodia in fighting against HIV/AIDS. "The United States looks forward to continuing our support of successes like these and we are committed to ...
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PHNOM PENH, 30 Nov – Tomorrow, 1 December 2009, the Kingdom of Cambodia will be subject to the first Universal Periodic Review of its human rights record. The Universal Periodic Review, a process created in 2006 to review the human ...
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Angkor Wat, Cambodia Most people who go to Cambodia do so to visit to Angkor Wat, the famed ruins in the jungle, but cast a net beyond the limits of Angkor Wat and see a bit more of the country. Among the highlights are boat trips up the Mekong River ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — After claiming to feel great remorse for his part in Khmer Rouge atrocities, the defendant in Cambodia's first genocide trial on Friday surprised the court with a last-minute plea for his freedom, saying he should not have ...
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Cambodia is known for a few things - such as the amazing ancient ruins in Angkor Wat and an over-abundance of scooters and three-wheeled Tuk Tuks - but a real-life automobile industry is most definitely not one of them. Not yet, at least. While current transportation choices are mostly imported from Vietnam and Thailand, there's apparently a growing desire in Cambodia for a homegrown automobile.
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PHNOM PENH - THE gold-coloured convertible turns heads on impoverished Cambodia's roads - not least because of creator Nhean Phaloek's outlandish claim that it can be operated telepathically. 'I just snap my fingers and the car's door will open. Or I ...
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Cambodia To Develop Solar Power To Meet Domestic Need. PHNOM PENH, Nov 26 (Bernama) -- Ten companies from eight countries have sought permission to invest in solar energy projects in Cambodia, after the removal of a 15 percent duty on ...
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court has named Andrew Cayley as its new international prosecutor.The genocide tribunal appointed British-born Mr Cayley several months after the resignation of his C...
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Many Cambodians believe the area around Tuol Sleng prison is still haunted by the ghosts of 15,000 people tortured before being executed at "killing fields" outside Phnom Penh. Duration: 01:59.
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[JURIST] The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website] named [press release] a new head co-prosecutor Wednesday after the September resignation [JURIST report] of Canadian Robert Petit. UK lawyer Andrew Cayley, who will serve alongside a Cambodian prosecutor, has previously been in private practice defending alleged war criminal Charles Taylor [JURIST news archive
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PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA informed Thailand on Friday it was canceling a US$41.2 million (S$57 million) loan from Bangkok meant to finance the upgrade of a highway from the Thai border. Cambodian Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said his country didn't need the loan and could afford to build the road on its own.
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Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - It is an unhealed wound in the country: the nation has not fully recovered after the terrible genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979. Memory is important for justice and reconciliation. But also in looking to the future with renewed hope, Fides was told by a source in the local Church of Cambodia, in commenting on the resumption of the trial of the Khmer Rouge.
In fact in recent days, the...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of death at an infamous torture center has asked Cambodia's genocide tribunal to release him, citing the decade he already has served in jail and his cooperation. Kaing ...
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Phnom Penh: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court on Monday begins final arguments in its first trial, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities 30 years ago. Kaing Guek Eav -- better known as Duch ...
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BANGKOK, Feb 13 (IPS) - An experiment in international justice finally gets under way on Feb. 17 when a war crimes tribunal begins in Cambodia to prosecute the notorious jailer of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The presence of Kaing Khek Eav, or ...
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Puea Thai Party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh slammed Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for saying that there could be someone trying to instigate situation after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his unhappiness with Mr Abhisit and Foreign ...
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Many in the international community are calling the first Khmer Rouge Tribunal trial of Kaing Kek Iev, or Duch, a relative success as the trial closed. The Open Society Justice Initiative recently issued a report that the trial “generally satisfied ...
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Many in the international community are calling the first Khmer Rouge Tribunal trial of Kaing Kek Iev, or Duch, a relative success as the trial closed. However, there are indications that Cambodian officials may not participate in future cases making it difficult to conduct a fair trial for the four Khmer Rouge members awaiting trial
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But, these two people look down on Cambodia," Hun Sen said. "Cambodia will have no happiness as long as this group is in power." Hun Sen claimed that Abhisit called him over the weekend after Phnom Penh sent a note last week telling Bangkok that it ...
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In a stunning turn of events, former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch has asked for his acquittal on the last day of his trial after having acknowledged responsibility for the murder of 15,000 men, women and children at Cambodia's notorious S-21 prison.
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Cambodia and Vietnam are set to hold a joint commission meeting later this week in Cambodia's southwestern province of Sihanouk. In a statement released on Monday, the Cambodian Foreign Ministry said the 11th Meeting of the Cambodia-Vietnam Joint ...
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Cambodia's war crimes court this week hears final arguments in the trial of the Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch. An estimated 15,000 people were tortured at Tuol Sleng prison between 1975 and 1979. Many Cambodians believe the area is still haunted by their ghosts
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Some 200 delegates from the arts and media circle in the Mekong sub-region gathered on Monday here in the Cambodian capital to celebrate the vibrant culture and traditi...
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PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court on Monday began final arguments in its first trial, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the " Killing Fields " atrocities 30 years ago. Kaing Guek Eav -- better known ...
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BANGKOK, Nov 26 -– The Cambodian government will allow visits on Friday to a Thai engineer detained in Phnom Penh on espionage charges, according to a Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesperson, who said that both family and Thai officials will ...
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Duch’s request provided an extraordinary conclusion to the trial of the Khmer Rouge’s former chief executioner ... a rambling and legally flawed argument by his Cambodian defence lawyer, Kar Savuth, that the court had no jurisdiction over his ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Some 200 delegates from the arts and media circle in the Mekong sub-region gathered on Monday here in the Cambodian capital to celebrate the vibrant culture and tradition along the Mekong River. In the course of five ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ten companies from eight countries have sought permission to invest in solar energy projects in Cambodia after the August removal of a 15 percent duty on imports of the materials needed to build solar ...
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Part of Cambodia's sprawling Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap, built in the first half of the Twelfth Century, at the height of the Angkor Empire. The wall of a temple a near Angkor Wat. Age means many of the temples are in various states of ...
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia - At a luxury guesthouse, Cambodia's newest government adviser picks up a copy of his latest book, "Tackling Poverty." It explores how lessons from Thailand can be applied to other developing countries. "I help tackle poverty ...
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Judges set Dec. 4 as new Berlusconi trial date SKorea's president set to meet North's Kim Jong Il UK diplomat: US was 'hell bent' on Iraq invasion NATO allies may commit 6,000 troops for Afghan war Key anti-Taliban figure assassinated in Pakistan ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh on Wednesday held talks on the border demarcation for the two neighboring countries and bilateral ties. "We have signed the agreement ...
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Khmer Rouge prison chief asks Cambodia genocide tribunal to release him, citing time served
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia has increased to five and the virus infected rate topped 28 cases for one week, official of the Health Ministry said on Thursday. "The fifth person who died of ...
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Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stands in front of Angkor Wat, the country's most popular tourist destination, during his private tour to the north province of Siem Reap, about 320 kilometers (199 miles) from Phnom Penh, Cambodia ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -Thailand said Friday it would not be provoked into violence in its diplomatic tussle with Cambodia over fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, even as the ousted leader taunted the Bangkok government by meeting with ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose political battle against his successors has left his country bitterly divided, received a warm welcome Tuesday in neighboring Cambodia, which shares his disdain for the ...
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News @ AsiaOne Frenchman arrested for Cambodian child sex Cambodia has struggled to shed its reputation as a haven for paedophiles. -AFP Mon, Nov 23, 2009 AFP PHNOM PENH - A Frenchman has been arrested ...
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Cambodia intensified the diplomatic spat with Thailand yesterday when authorities in Phnom Penh expelled all Thai officials from their offices at Cambodia Air Traffic Services. The order by the Cambodian government came after Phnom Penh filed charges ...
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Khmer Rouge chief torturer Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, stands next to a security guard during closing arguments in his trial. Photograph: Lars Olsen/Reuters The Khmer Rouge prison boss who...
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Interactive graphic on Cambodia where prosecutors have demanded a 40-year jail term for Khmer Rouge prison chief "Duch", as he expresses "excrutiating remorse" for the deaths of 15,000 Cambodians at his brutal torture centre. AFP - Interactive ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of Japanese investors has arrived in Cambodia to learn about the country's economic potentialities and investment opportunities, official news agency AKP reported on Tuesday. The 21-member delegation was ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence Wednesday for a man who they described as snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia. Kaing ...
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Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence today for a man they said took innocent lives and spread terror across Cambodia.
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Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Comrade Duch, reads a document in the courtroom at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh where he's on trial for mass murder.
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Nuns welcome Cambodian troops on trucks driving in Siem Reap, about 320 kilometers (199 miles) north Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, before Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinaw...
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Khmer Rouge chief torturer and jailer Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, stands next to a security guard during closing arguments in his trial. Photograph: Lars Olsen/REUTERS The Khmer Rouge prison boss who admitted responsibility for the torture ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 23, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Seoul Women's University of South Korea has provided 20 scholarships for Cambodian woman students to study four-year program for human resource development in the country, an official to Prime Minister ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- The mother and brother of a Thai engineer held in Cambodia on espionage charges were granted a 30-minute visit Friday, an official of Prey Sar prison said.
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Over the past five weeks of my trip through Southeast Asia, I've visited a huge number ancient temples. Ancient structures dot the hilltops and city streets pretty much anywhere you go. Perhaps that's why today's photo from Flickr user calendartravel caught my eye. Taken at Cambodia's world famous Angkor Wat, I found myself drawn in by the great use of perspective. As you peer down the photo's...
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PHNOM PENH , Cambodia (AP) — The Cambodian government on Friday confirmed its temporary takeover of management of the country's air traffic control company after one of its Thai employees was arrested last week on a spying charge. The move ...
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Phnom Penh - Cambodia rejected Monday a Thai media claim that the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen is to take a stake in a Thai firm at the centre of a spying row. A cabinet statement said the government's management of Cambodia Air Traffic ...
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Cambodia's Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, So Khun has called on the country's nine mobile phone networks to share share their network infrastructure to reduce the number of towers being deployed in the country. Speaking in Phnom Penh at ...
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Nov 23 (Reuters) - Closing arguments began on Monday in the trial of chief Khmer Rouge interrogator Duch, the first senior Pol Pot cadre to face a U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal in Cambodia. Here are some facts about the Khmer Rouge and how ...
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Quick post to point out a recent AFP story that says Thailand’s exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived in neighboring Cambodia.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra landed in the Cambodian capital Tuesday to carry out his new role as economics adviser to the government, an AFP photographer said.
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The trial of a former prison chief under Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge regime has begun its final arguments. Charged with crimes against humanity, the so-called Comrade Duch is the first high-...
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Minister of Defense Tea Banh denies allegations that Cambodia secretly recorded the conversation of the Thai politician.
The Cambodian government has no secret audio recording of Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya ordering an official of Thai embassy in Phnom Penh to obtain the flight schedule of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as claimed by a Puea Thai [...]
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A seminar of China-Cambodia Business and Investment was held Monday in Phnom Penh with the participation of more than 100 Cambodian and Chinese business people. The seminer was co-sponsored by Cambodia Chamber of ...
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Phnom Penh - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra flew out of tourist town of Siem Reap on Saturday, the Cambodian government confirmed, bringing to an end a controversial visit. "He left at 10 o'clock," said government spokesman ...
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Nov 23 (Reuters) - Closing arguments began on Monday in the trial of Pol Pot's chief torturer, the first for a top Khmer Rouge cadre 30 years after the end of a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, faces ...
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The trial of a former prison chief under Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge regime has begun its final arguments. Charged with crimes against humanity, the so-called Comrade Duch is the first high-ranking official of Pol Pot’s Maoist regime to be ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Cambodian officials suspect that the death of a Swedish businessman in Phnom Penh is a homicide, Swedish Embassy officials say. Karl-Anders Larsson of the Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh told the ...
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Just three decades after the downfall of the Khmer Rouge, a deadly regime that left behind little notion of private property, a law that would allow foreigners to buy some kinds of real estate here appears to be nearing approval. Canadia Tower in ...
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Photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia shows a general view of the U.N.-backed tribunal court hall while Kaing Guek Eav iis being tried for war crimes and crimes agains...
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A Cambodian civil servant has been put in temporary charge, in the latest twist in the diplomatic row between Thailand and Cambodia. The news comes a day after a Thai engineer working for the firm in Phnom Penh was formally charged with spying ...
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Phnom Penh - Cambodia rejected Monday a Thai media claim that the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen is to take a stake in a Thai firm at the centre of a spying row. A cabinet statement said the gover...
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court on Monday began final arguments in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities 30 years ago.
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 19 — More than 100 people are gathering in Phnom Penh on Thursday to discuss the EU-funded projects on impact of climate change repercussions in rural Cambodia. The statement released by the Delegation of the European Commission to ...
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday Cambodia's decision to scrap a 1.4 billion baht loan from Thailand to subsidise a road improvement project was the result of a misunderstanding. He was responding to a news report which quoted Cambodian ...
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Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, left, talks with supporters upon his arrival in Siem Reap province, about 320 kilometers (199 miles) from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Nov. 12, ...
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Prosecutors in a UN-backed genocide trial in Cambodia have called for a lengthy jail term for a former Khmer Rouge official. The defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, was a senior prison chief during the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule over ...
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One of the great wonders of the world is the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat, spread through the jungles of northern Cambodia. Aside from the gigantic size of the complex --it was the largest city in the world in the Middle Ages before the jungle ...
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Siem Reap: India's Shiv Kapur slipped to tied 6th from overnights joint second after the penultimate round of the Johnie Walker Cambodian Open golf tournament in Siem Reap on Saturday. Kapur could manage only a two-over 74 as he struggle throughout ...
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BANGKOK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A diplomatic row between Cambodia and Thailand has moved into the skies after Phnom Penh took control of a Thai-operated air traffic control company at the centre of spying allegations. The Cambodian government has ...
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PHNOM PENH - Cambodia and Thailand reignited their diplomatic row on Monday over fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, giving disputing accounts over consular visits to a Thai man accused of spying. The Cambodian foreign ministry said a ...
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In Cambodia, final arguments are being heard in the trial of a senior Khmer Rouge leader blamed for the deaths of at least 12,000 people. Kang Guek Eav, also known as Duch, apologized in court Wednesday. He said he will always be liable for the ...
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Prosecutors asked Cambodia's war crimes court to hand a 40-year jail sentence to Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief. The man accused of overseeing 15,000 deaths is set to give his final remarks at court and beg forgiveness.
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Phnom Penh - A Swedish businessman visiting Cambodia has been murdered and his body dumped outside Phnom Penh, reportedly after he met a woman with whom he had corresponded online, national media reported Monday. The Swedish embassy in Phnom Penh ...
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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The trial of the Khmer Rouge’s top prison warden ends this week after six months of testimony about the regime’s mass killings and brutality that brought Cambodians face to face with the man who tortured them three decades ...
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Cambodia conducts a search on Wednesday at Cambodia Air Traffic Services (Cats) in Phnom Penh, the company where a Thai engineer arrested for allegedly spying worked, an informed source said. The search is part of gathering of evidence ...
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PHNOM PENH - Cambodia and Thailand reignited their diplomatic row Monday over fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, giving disputing accounts over consular visits to a Thai man accused of spying. The Cambodian foreign ministry said a Thai ...
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Chavanond Intarakomalyasut accepts all reporters' phone calls, whether the questions are about the perils of Phnom Penh or any other issue involving the government or opposition. He's secretary to Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, and speaks on his ...
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A Swedish businessman who disappeared from his hotel room in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh has been found dead by local police, who suspect that he was murdered.
The 45-year-old went missing on Thursday the 12th of November. His body was found the following day in the southern suburb of Kandal, reports The Local.
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Cambodia will host World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD) World Cup 2009 in Phnom Penh on Dec. 15-20, official news agency AKP reported on Monday. This event is organized by the Cambodian National Volleyball League Disabled (CNVLD) and ...
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Siem Reap (Cambodia), Nov 21: Shiv Kapur endured a frustrating day on the greens as he managed just one birdie while giving away three bogeys to end up with a 74 that dropped him from overnight tied second to tied sixth at the end of the third round ...
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, a Siamese crocodile peers out from the water at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in Phnom Tamao village, Takoe province, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Conservationists ...
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The decision by prosecutors in the trial of former Khmer Rouge leader "Duch" has shocked survivors and victims of the atrocities, who feel the sentence should have been life and does not do the past justice.
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 13 (Xinhua ... Thaksin in Cambodia and Prime Minister Hun Sen from CATS -- Cambodia Air Traffic Services Co Ltd which has duties to control all flights in country...and sent those reports to Thailand. The tit-for-tat moves between ...
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ASEAN members. For example, there are still unsettled border disputes between Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia. Indonesia is accusing Malaysia of stealing its cultural heritage. Thailand and Cambodia are feuding over the ownership
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The Thai engineer who has been arrested in Cambodia on spy charges is safe, Thai charge d'affaires to Phnom Penh, Chalothon Phaowibun, said on Sunday. The Cambodian government has accused Mr Siwarak Chothipong, a 31-year-old engineer working for the ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Cambodia's Parliament on Monday stripped the country's outspoken opposition leader of his immunity from prosecution for uprooting border markers on the frontier with Vietna...
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Phnom Penh - A Swedish businessman visiting Cambodia has been murdered and his body dumped outside Phnom Penh, reportedly after he met a woman with whom he had corresponded online, national media repo...
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Phnom Penh - At least eight Cambodian villagers were beaten and a number of them were hospitalized after a violent stand-off with soldiers and armed police over a disputed land concession, a local human rights group said Tuesday. The villagers have ...
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Phnom Penh/Bangkok, Nov 10 (DPA) Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra landed in Cambodia Tuesday, the Cambodian government said, amid an escalating diplomatic spat over the fugitive politician.
Government spokesman Phay Siphan told reporters in Phnom Penh that Thaksin, who last week was appointed as an adviser to the Cambodian government and Prime Minister Hun Sen, was [...]
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP): Cambodia has expelled a Thai diplomat and Thailand has responded in kind as the two nations carry on a dispute over Thailand's fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Cambodian Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy ...
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Xinhua reads Rasmei Kampuchea:
Cambodian Police Authority has arrested a Thai engineer for allegedly spying for Thailand and sent him to court, police official said on Friday.
… The Thai man named Siwarak Chothipong in Khmer, 31, worked as aengineer in CATS, was arrested on Wednesday according to the arrest warrant of prosecutor of Phnom Penh Municipality [...]
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Diplomatic row between Thailand and Cambodia worsened yesterday (November 12) after Phnom Penh expelled a first secretary at the Thai embassy - and Thailand responding in kind.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court has begun the final arguments in its first trial, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities 30 years ago. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, has apologised for his ...
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Closing arguments begin next Monday in the trial of chief Khmer Rouge interrogator Duch, the first senior Pol Pot cadre to face a U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal investigating Cambodia's genocide. Here are some facts about the Khmer Rouge and ...
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Phnom Penh - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia on Saturday, four days after his arrival brewed up a diplomatic storm between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, plunging relation...
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SIEM REAP (Cambodia) (AFP) – India’s Shiv Kapur is hoping to maintain a personal milestone by retaining his Asian Tour card with a strong showing at the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open starting Thursday. Since capping his debut with a victory in ...
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Cambodia expelled a Thai diplomat and Thailand reciprocated yesterday in a row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser, a Thai government spokesman said. "We decided to expel the Cambodian first secretary ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 17 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen urged more regional and global cooperation Tuesday to prevent and combat transnational crimes. "Close cooperation between law enforcement agencies of member states in the region ...
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"The arrest of a Thai national will not lead to closure of the embassy [in Phnom Penh]. The Thai government will ensure security for the Cambodian Embassy in Thailand and we believe Cambodia will also take care of our embassy in that country," Suthep ...
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Reuters has a summary of the latest developments in the Thaksin-Cambodia-Thailand saga:
Thai Crisis Deepens as Thaksin Finds Cambodian Base
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Emboldened by a rousing welcome in Cambodia, fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra is rallying supporters from just over the border, upping the ante in Thailand’s political crisis.
After accusing Thailand’s rulers of “false [...]
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PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) - Cambodia and Philippines have already signed deal to have direct air links between the two countries and hoped the direct flights will be commenced early next year, a government official said Wednesday. Soy Sokhan ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 20 (IPS) - Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were ...
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived Tuesday in Cambodia following his appointment as economic adviser to the government, fueling tensions between the neighboring countries. Thai Prime Minister ...
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"The arrest of a Thai national will not lead to closure of the embassy [in Phnom Penh]. The Thai government will ensure security for the Cambodian Embassy in Thailand and we believe Cambodia will also take care of our embassy in that country," Suthep ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia on Saturday after a controversial five-day visit that stoked tensions between the two Southeast Asia neighbors. Prak Sokhon, a deputy minister who escorted Mr ...
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A Thai policeman stands guard outside the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok. Cambodia and Thailand have expelled each other's top diplomats amid a deepening row over Phnom Penh's naming of the former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser. A ...
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday hosts a four-day meeting of the Seventh ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (7th AMMTC), the Fourth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime with their dialogue partners ...
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DETENTE: A Thai and Cambodian soldier stand together in the Thai military camp just across the border from Cambodia near the Preah Vihear temple. Leaders of the two armies were in talks following a two-day firefight. Cambodia is a land of both ...
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Phnom Penh - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia on Saturday, four days after his arrival brewed up a diplomatic storm between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, plunging relations to a new low. During his stay, Thaksin took a ...
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SIEM REAP (Cambodia) - THAILAND'S fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was due to meet supporters on Friday after a round of golf with Cambodia's prime minister amid a deepening row between the two nations.In a tit-for-tat exchange on Thursday, Cambodia expelled a top Thai diplomat and Thailand reciprocated, further worsening relations which plunged after Phnom Penh named Thaksin as an economics adviser.
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PHNOM PENH - It’s much harder to get a magic tattoo in Cambodia than it used to be, laments Chey Cham. ‘I do have one tattoo of a python on my right upper-arm but it’s for beauty, not magic,’ says the 30-year-old from the outskirts of ...
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, hugs fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra upon Thaksin’s arrival for an interview at Hun Sen’s residence in Kamdal province, near the outskirts of Phnom Penh, yesterday. Cambodia ...
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The government should open talks with Cambodia to resolve the dispute between both countries, former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai said on Thursday. Speaking at a seminar on Cambodian issues at the Faculty of Political Science of ...
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The Cabinet will today discuss ways to put the squeeze on Cambodia should the country not comply with international norms in its treatment of a Thai national arrested for allegedly spying for the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh. Prime Minister Abhisit ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)Thailand's fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra gave a lecture to Cambodian economists Thursday in Phnom Penh, while Thailand's current leader called an urgen...
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Bangkok/Phnom Penh - Cambodia said Friday that deteriorating relations between it and Thailand should not be discussed at this weekend's summit between the US and the Association of South-East Asian N...
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PHNOM PENH - Cambodia will not address the diplomatic row involving fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra at this weekend's historic US-regional summit, said its foreign ministry Friday.
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Senior PAD leader Somsak Kosaisuk said the latest protest was against neighbouring Cambodia’s appointment of Thaksin as an economic adviser, and Phnom Penh’s refusal to extradite him when he visited the country this week. Thaksin left Cambodia on ...
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Cambodian garment factory workers toil at the W factory, just southeast of Phnom Penh, AP Photo. Over the last decade economic growth has helped lift Cambodia out of its poverty. The signs were everywhere; bustling construction sites around Phnom ...
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Thailand is the 'Land of Smiles' and Vietnam has some of Southeast Asia's most beautiful women, but for the friendliest city in all of Asia, you don't go to Thailand or to Vietnam. For that, you go to the sleepy little capitol located at the ...
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PHNOM PENH (Cambodia) - THAILAND'S fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived on Tuesday in Cambodia following his appointment as economic adviser to the government, fueling tensions between the neighboring countries.Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he would seek Thaksin's extradition and announced that his Cabinet had approved ending talks with Phnom Penh on disputed maritime borders.
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Next summer, 12 students will travel to Southeast Asia to complete their Senior Capstone requirement. Christopher Carey, assistant professor, will accompany the students as they observe the Khmer Rouge War Crimes Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The ...
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Bangkok/Phnom Penh - Cambodia said Friday that deteriorating relations between it and Thailand should not be discussed at this weekend's summit between the US and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Both countries are members of the ...
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Thai workers for Cambodia Air Traffic Services have been banned from CATS buildings.
The order by the Cambodian government came after Phnom Penh filed charges yesterday against Sivarak Chutipong, a Thai engineer working for CATS.
“Cambodia has charged him with stealing classified information affecting national security,” said Chavanond Intarakomalyasut, the secretary to the foreign minister.
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(AP) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia announced that Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived Tuesday in Phnom Penh following his appointment as economic adviser to the government, fueling tensions between the neighboring ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia | Thailand said Friday it would not be provoked into violence in its diplomatic tussle with Cambodia over fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, even as the ousted leader taunted the Bangkok government by meeting with ...
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Phnom Penh, Nov 12 (AFP) Cambodia expelled a top Thai diplomat and Thailand reciprocated today, deepening a huge row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an economics adviser. The tit-for-tat moves came as ...
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The dispute between Thailand and Cambodia over a visit to Phnom Penh by Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is drawing Thais to the streets. The visit has prompted an anti-Thaksin rally in Bangkok, and there are expectations of more ...
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"He left at 10 o'clock," said government spokesman Phay Siphan, adding that he did not know Thaksin's destination. Thaksin's appointment as adviser to the Cambodian government and sub sequentvisit led relations between Phnom Penh and Bangkok to a new ...
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Published Date: November 09, 2009 PHNOM PENH: Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Phnom Penh this week in his new role as economics adviser, the Cambodian PM said yesterday, fu...
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The Cabinet will today discuss ways to put the squeeze on Cambodia should the country not comply with international norms in its treatment of a Thai national arrested for allegedly spying for the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh. Prime Minister Abhisit ...
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Phnom Penh - Cambodia on Wednesday formally rejected an extradition request from the Thai government for its fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. A spokesman for the Cambodian Foreign Ministry,...
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Thousands of people gathered in Phnom Penh Monday to begin three days of independence celebrations, 56 years after Cambodia left 90 years of French colonial rule. King Norodom Sihamoni, whose father, Norodom Sihanouk, led the country through ...
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Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry refused Wednesday to receive Thailand’s request to extradite fugtive ex-Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, sources said.
Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh in the morning handed over the request to the Cambodia’s foreign ministry to take Thaksin who is in Phnom Penh for the second day.
However the Thai embassy was informed that the [...]
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PHNOM PENH (AFP)--Cambodian officials handed over a formal letter to Thai diplomats Wednesday refusing to extradite fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Three Thai diplomats gave extradition papers to officials at Cambodia's foreign affairs ...
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PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK, Nov. 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: CHANGING DATELINE, UPDATING WITH THAI RETALIATORY MEASURES, CAMBODIA'S EXPULSION OF DIPLOMAT, THAKSIN'S REMARKS) Thailand's fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra gave a lecture to Cambodian ...
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Minister of Posts and Telecommunications So Khun has called for Cambodia’s nine mobile operators to share infrastructure in order to reduce costs and the impact on the environment, local daily the Phnom Penh Post reports. To this end, the government has awarded Tower Master Cambodia a 35-year licence to build shared mobile infrastructure across the country. The company is 80% owned by an unnamed Malaysian firm, with the remaining 20% taken by...
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PHNOM PENH: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia Saturday after making a five-day working visit to this country, China's Xinhua news agency reported. Thaksin made his first and public visit to Cambodia after he was appointed ...
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PHNOM PENH, Nov 16 — Cambodia’s parliament voted today to remove the immunity of opposition leader Sam Rainsy, a step likely to fuel concern the government is using its power to intimidate opponents. It was the third time this year parliament ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has detained a Thai man for allegedly spying on fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the latest sign of worsening relations between the two neighbors. Thaksin, a fugitive from justice in ...
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The Thai charge d'affaires in Phnom Penh and other embassy officials were allowed to visit Thai engineer Siwarak Chutiphong at Prey Sar prison this morning, the foreign minister's secretary Chavanond Intarakomalyasut confirmed on Tuesday. It was the ...
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PHNOM PENH: Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Cambodia this week in his new role as the government’s economic adviser, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told reporters on Sunday. “He will be here on November 12, for a briefing with ...
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov 8, 2009 (AFP) - Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Cambodia this week in his new role as the government's economics adviser, the Cambodian Prime Minister told reporters Sunday. "Thaksin will be at the Ministry ...
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