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PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) - As the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year, Cambodia is committed to build closer relations and cooperation between ASEAN and its dialogue partners, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday. "As the ASEAN ...  

A88 Capital, a promotional and events company is launching the first ever security show in Cambodia, SECURITEC Cambodia 2012 Expo. The event will take place at the largest Exhibition Hall Diamond Island (Koh Pich) Phnom Penh from the 10th - 12th May 2012.  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Red Cross Society of China on Thursday donated 146 water pumps worth 200,000 U.S. dollars to Cambodian Red Cross to help those provinces hit hard by floods last year. The hand-over ceremony was presided over by Annie Sok ...  

An excellent opportunity exists for a Lead Teacher and a teacher for the Kids & Young Learners’ Programme (YLP) at the Australian Centre for Education (ACE) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Australian Centre for Education (ACE)  

Ouk Makara, director of the Cambodian Agricultural Research & Development Institute (CARDI), said that businesses have been increasingly eager to purchase purified seeds from the institute. He said that although CARDI produced 21 tonnes of purified ...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday broke ground to broaden a 40.5 kilometer section of the national road No. 6, which is a major road for tourism and trade activities. The work began from eastern Phnom Penh's Russei Keo district to Bateay ...  

Teacher’s assistant Brian Creech said Cambodia provides rich cultural and historical context ... The program works with the Journey Within tour company in Siem Reap. Tour director Norla Phay said US students teach community members English and about ...  

Previor Kampuchea Micro-life Insurance Plc (PKMI), a subsidiary of Groupe PREVOIR (GP), officially became the first micro-life insurance company in Cambodia when it opened last Friday.  

An international judge at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh has resumed probing a new case without support from his Cambodian counterpart, fuelling a row at the UN-backed court. ...  

Pressbox (Press Release) - Cheap Hotels in Cambodia can be easily booked over the Internet so that you can enjoy your vacation at its fullest. By booking in advance Cheap Hotels in Cambodia, you can just say goodbye to any worries regarding the ...  

Foreign tourists look at photographs of Khmer Rouge victims on display at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Jan. 11, 2012. A judge at Cambodia's genocide ...  

2012-02-15 07:06:51 - Located at the border of Kirirom National Park in Kampong Speu Province, Chambok is commonly known as Community Based Ecotourism Site in Cambodia. Tourism Indochina: The Based Ecotourism Site in Cambodia (Tourism Indochina:Date : 2008 ...  

I am writing to voice my deep concern regarding illegal judicial harassment against Mr. Soum Chankea. I have been informed by the reliable sources of the judicial harassment faced by Mr. Soum Chankea, its Provincial Coordinator in Banteay ...  

According to data cited by Cambodian Newspaper, the Phnom Penh Post, for 28 of the 30 members of the Cambodian Microfinance Association (CMA), outstanding microloans rose 41.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, from USD 648 million to USD 916 million. The number of borrowers rose from 1.22 million to 1.3 million borrowers. The number of [...]  

MANILA, Philippines — When Cambodia crops up in chit-chats among jet-setting and adventure-seeking peers ... of this Southeast Asian country bordered by equally temple-rich Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. But aside from the historied Phnom Penh, Cambodia ...  

If you travel to Phnom, DO NOT miss cyclo tour, which is a rare and special activities feature in Phnom Penh. This tour will make you experience the real Cambodia in the city and it won’t disappoint you!  

An exciting opportunity exists for a pro-active Campus Manager at the Australian Centre for Education (ACE), Siem Reap, Cambodia (fully owned by IDP Education). ACE is the most respected English language school in Siem Reap with approximately 850 part-time students and an expatriate teaching staff of approximately 15. The school has a large young learners program with general English and IELTS preparation courses for adults. The school is...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2008-08-14): Over 25 activities in each country have been profiled in "The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam." Each activity creates income for local people, minimises potential negative tourism impacts ...  

2012-02-10 13:20:49 - PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Tourist arrivals in Cambodia soared 13 percent in the first half of 2008, but the tourism minister warned Tuesday that Thais may avoid the kingdom as a border dispute drags on. Tourism Indochina: Cambodia tourism ...  

Visit Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Hanoi, Halong, Hue, Danang, Hoi An, Ben Tre, Can Tho (Mekong Delta) and Ho Chi Minh City, Special price: A$4550 per person departing on 8 Apr 2012  

Event Name: Invest in Mekong Region Marketplace Event Date: February 23, 2012 Event Location: Khemara Angkor Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia See Our Comprehensive Event Calendar at: http://microfinanceassociation.ning.com/events Summary of Event: Planned to coincide with the Capacity Building for Partnerships at the same venue on February 20-22, 2012, the Invest in Mekong Region Marketplace provides a platform [...]  

PHNOM PENH, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) - On 3 February, judges in the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts in Cambodia (ECCC) – more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge trials – sentenced Kaing Guek Eav (“Duch”), the former chairman of the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng security prison, to life in prison.  

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court gives its final verdict on Friday on the Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 people, ending the first-ever prosecution for the "Killing Fields" era. Hundreds are set to travel to ...  

"I don’t fear ghosts. I fear bad people.” No, this was not the film set of The Sixth Sense and I am not Bruce Willis, although we do share similar follicular features. This was Siem Reap, Cambodia, in the days before Christmas, when expectation had yet ...  

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (UPI) Feb 6, 2012 Defense lawyers continued to attack the Document Center of Cambodia, claiming its archival material presented to the U.N.-sanctioned genocide tribunal is biased. Four former senior Khmer Rouge leaders remain on trial for their part in the brief but brutal Khmer Rouge government of 1970s. The Document Center was started in 1995 as a field office for Yale University's Cambodian Gen  

PHNOM PENH, Feb 01, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cambodia and India on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aiming at helping Cambodia to establish information technology development centers in Phnom Penh municipality, Siem Reap ...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Six men were killed in a road accident on Monday night in Tboung Kmum district, Kampong Cham province in eastern Cambodia, police said Tuesday. Among the dead people were 3 Korean nationals -- Kang Chong-hun, 33, Cho Shi-yun ...  

Instead I favour a visit to the neighbouring "jungle temple" of Ta Prohm. We make our stealthy entrance at its outer eastern gate where we hope to have the place to ourselves for a while, moving in against the stream of sightseers that will come in from ...  

But what is special about this course is that we, with the help of Nick’s expertise, have created something that will take golf to a whole new level in this country and the region, added Adam Robertson, Operations Manager of Angkor Golf Resort.  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Some 30 parliamentarians from 13 French-speaking countries met here on Wednesday for boosting friendship relations and cooperation. The 3-day meeting would discuss ways to enhance human rights respect, women and children ...  

PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) - A panel of international and local judges on Wednesday called on garment factories in Cambodia to urgently increase employees' salaries and pressed big international clothing brands to do more to improve working conditions. Related StoriesPhilippines rolls out advertising campaignIndonesian police arrest Czech tourist in PapuaMalaysian bank robbers escape with only RM203 militants sentenced for Indonesia mosque...  

MANILA, Philippines - Cebu Pacific is starting direct flights to Siem Reap, Cambodia in April, making the world-famous Angkor Wat more accessible to Filipino tourists. Cebu Pacific will have its first Manila-Siem Reap flight on April 19, 2012. It will be a ...  

The competition is organized by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) ‘Better Factories Cambodia’ project which, with support ... Laflamme, Training Specialist for Better Factories Cambodia. “With this garment workers’ competition ...  

Feb 07, 2012 (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily/ANN) -- Cambodia should look to the country's rapidly developing IT sector to achieve jobs growth, according to one ...  

The appropriate time is now and the place ... power of the French leading to the Vietnamese tightening their control over the Mekong Delta and hence restricting river access to Cambodia. Sihanoukville's beaches have made it a popular tourist destination.  

The sky is still dark when the flood starts. It begins with a trickle, a handful of young people walking to work in the concrete landscape of Vattanac Industrial Park in a dusty corner of Phnom Penh. But suddenly, just as the sun rises, the wide access ...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased 21 percent in the past year after the two country's border dispute eased. The two-way trades had amounted to 3.08 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, a 21 percent rise ...  

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered the former Cambodian Ambassador to Brunei to pay almost US$470,000 in compensation and damages to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a civil case, following his - conviction in absentia last ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--As military operations wind down in Iraq and Afghanistan, instructors from the Asia Pacific Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Fusion Center are still busy. The Fort Shafter, Hawaii, based instructors and interagency ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia : A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people had his sentence increased to life on Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court.  

People for Care and Learning (PCL), an independent benevolent organization with roots in the Church of God, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a project in Cambodia to build an entire city near the capital city of Phnom Penh. According to executive director Dr. Fred Garmon, PCL has been working in Cambodia for ten years [...]  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people had his sentence increased to life Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court. Survivors of the regime's ...  

I arrived in Phnom Penh late last Saturday. This is the second time I’ve come to Cambodia and the country, more specifically its capital city, is just as seedy as I recall from last time I was here in 2008. There is no delicate way of tip toeing around the issue ...  

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) - Cebu Pacific Air, the Philippines' national flag carrier, will launch regular direct flights between the Philippines' Manila to Cambodia's Siem Reap province from April, Noe Albano Vong, the ambassador of the Philippines to Cambodia ...  

In extending the sentence of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav from 35 years to life in prison in its appeal ruling Friday, the Supreme Court Chamber of the UN-backed Extraordinary ...  

HA NOI — Viet Nam led other ASEAN nations in investments in Cambodia last year, contributing US$631 million out of the total $880 million invested by nations in the bloc, the Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) reported on Thursday. Malaysia came ...  

“Was that a big cat?” my wife, Lesa, asked as we walked down the dark path. “I hope not,” I replied. We were using our cellphones as flashlights as we walked toward Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia last November. It was a half-hour before sunrise, and ...  

Luxury Travel to Offer New Exciting Tours from Phnom Penh to Angkor Temples by RoadBa Dinh Dist, Hanoi -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/26/2012 -- Luxury Travel Ltd (a long established specialist in luxury privately guided and fully bespoke holidays in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand) is offering off the treasures of Cambodia tour in 8 days from Phnom Penh to Angkor Temples by road. Cambodia is one of the safest and most fascinating...  

Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, asked for a full acquittal because he was “following orders” – but the man responsible for some 15,000 deaths during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime will spend the rest of his life behind bars.  

The small village of Siem Reap, Cambodia has mushroomed since the 19th century French discovery of Angkor Wat. It is now Southeast Asia's most visited tourist destination, notably among South Koreans. In 2010, they accounted for 12% of foreign visitors to the region, ranking just below neighboring Vietnam. But the sprawling temples of Angkor may not be the first stop on every South Korean's itinerary. On the frosty Korean Peninsula, relations...  

Meas Muth, who is now believed to be an adviser to the Cambodian government, sent Australian yachtsmen Ronald Keith Dean and David Lloyd Scott to Tuol Sleng jail in Phnom Penh in 1978, where they were among at least 15,000 people tortured and killed.  

MANILA, Philippines—Budget carrier Cebu Pacific (CEB) is set to roll out thrice-a-week flights to Siem Reap, Cambodia, beginning April 19, thereby becoming the only airline to fly directly from Manila to Cambodia’s tourism crown jewel. “Adventurous ...  

Feb 15, 2012 (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- ' Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily/ANN) -- Some of the 300 Cambodian staff at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have started taking other jobs to make ends ...  

Lauren Crothers posts pictures of the recent senate elections in Cambodia. The pictures were taken at Boeng Trabek high school in Phnom Penh. Written by Mong Palatino · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper  

The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has extended the sentence of a former Khmer Rouge torture chief to life in prison. Kaing Kek Iev, better known as Duch, had appealed to reduce his 35-year-term, but the court ruled his harsh crimes instead ...  

A UN-backed tribunal has given former Khmer Rouge jailer "Duch" a life sentence for the killings of more than 12,272 people. February 3, 2012 International The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal’s final judgment against a former prison chief in Cambodia today is an important step towards accountability but raises human rights concerns, Amnesty International said.  The tribunal’s Supreme Court Chamber...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The scar on Porn Sothea's bottom lip has turned into a permanent lump, while her arms and lower legs bear recently healed wounds and bruises. She has only just returned to Cambodia after working for two years as a live ...  

PHNOM PENH: Eight Cambodian farmers were killed and one was critically injured on Friday after their truck hit two old anti-tank mines in northwestern Cambodia, police said. "Seven people died on the spot. One man passed away later in hospital.  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sens party was expected to sweep Senate elections Sunday in a vote that is closed to the general population and criticized for lacking credibility. The countrys 61-member upper house of Parliament is chosen by local officials and members of the National Assembly, or lower house.  

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - At a roadside restaurant here near the sprawling ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, busloads of South Korean tourists file in to witness an unexpectedly exotic spectacle: doll-faced ...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The foreign policy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with Cambodia will not be changed although the country has a new leader after the decease of the DPRK's top leader Kim Jong Il, said a diplomat here on ...  

The Asia Floor Wage network is organizing Cambodia’s first ever People’s Tribunal [1] on Minimum Living Wage and Decent Working Conditions for garment workers. The tribunal is scheduled on February 8, 2012, in Phnom Penh: The garment ...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday the country's strong economic growth in past years owes a great deal to China's steady technical and financial assistance. The premier made the remarks during a meeting with Li ...  

Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has rejected an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increased his sentence to life imprisonment. Duch, born Kaing Guek Eav, was jailed in 2010 for his role in running a notorious prison where thousands of inmates were ...  

Phnom Penh  – As ASEAN chair in 2012, Cambodia will play its role as a neutral mediator in all regional and international issues, said Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday. "As the 2012 ASEAN chair, Cambodia will play a role as a neutral mediator, not side ...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2008-06-25): Marcus Sandford ... By CHHEM Samnang The Mekong is a river that runs through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is the world's 10th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia.  

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia refused on Monday a U.N. call to reconsider its veto of a new judge on the Khmer Rouge war crime tribunal, saying it reserved the right to reject unsuitable candidates under a 2003 agreement with the world body. A government ...  

So this was an opportunity for me to say thanks. The project was for a homegrown organization: Tabitha Foundation Canada, an NGO based in Ottawa, with its Canadian founder at the helm of headquarters in Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh. Tabitha has ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In fast-developing Phnom Penh, land is at a premium, and it's the poor who pay the price for high-end development. It is not a new story. Around 250,000 Cambodians were evicted from their homes between 2005 and 2009, according to ...  

International and Cambodian judges in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Pre-Trial Chamber are again in deadlock over a government-opposed investigation into Khmer Rouge regime criminals. Co-Investigating Judges last year rejected New Zealander Rob Hamill’s ...  

Cambodian authorities have arrested at least six protesters in an on-going dispute over forced evictions in Phnom Penh, that saw two of the female demonstrators tear off their shirts in a rare act of defiance in this modest society. The protesters were ...  

The Khmer Rouge tribunal's Supreme Court orders the regime's chief jailer to serve out the rest of his life in prison for his "shocking and heinous" crimes against the Cambodian people.  

John O’Duinn’s Mozilla meetup in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Jan. 23rd has been confirmed: We’ll be meeting at East-West Management Institute, House #43, Street 208, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Events formally go from 2pm-5pm Monday 23rd January, 2012; at 7pm, we’ll head over to Romdeng, House# 74, Street 174, Phnom Penh for dinner+drinks+chat. If you are interested in helping to make the Khmer Firefox a reality, helping to promote Mozilla in Cambodia...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's inflation rate stood at 5.5 percent last year, an increase of 1.5 percent from 4 percent in a year earlier, according to the report of the Finance Ministry on Thursday. The rate was the same one forecast by the ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The election for the third legislature of Cambodian Senate has begun on Sunday morning with two main political parties participating in the contest. The two parties are the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and Sam ...  

Luxury Travel to Offer New Exciting Tours from Phnom Penh to Angkor Temples by Road Hanoi, Vietnam, January 26, 2012 - Luxury Travel Ltd (a long established specialist in luxury privately guided and fully bespoke holidays in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia ...  

Faine Opines uploads photos of the forced eviction of residents and the demolition of their homes in Borei Keila in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Google +1 icon. Email this to a friend Email. StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper ...  

Kampong Thom, Cambodia - The few established attractions in Cambodia such as the temple in Angkor Wat are generally overrun by tourists. However, Khmer families in the province of Kampong Thom are now offering village accommodation in their simple wooden ...  

A U.N.-backed tribunal's Supreme Court lengthened the sentence for the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer to life imprisonment on Friday because of his "shocking and heinous" crimes against the Cambodian people. The surprise ruling increased a lower court's 19-year sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch. Prosecutors had appealed the sentence as too lenient, and outraged survivors had feared the man who oversaw the torture and killing of thousands...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party was expected to sweep Senate elections Sunday in a vote that is closed to the general population and criticized for lacking credibility. The country’s 61-member upper house of Parliament ...  

BUDGET CARRIER Cebu Pacific will be mounting flights to Siem Reap, Cambodia by April 19, making it the first to do so after local airlines were granted rights to shuttle passengers into the Southeast Asian neighbor. “[The flights] will be a thrice weekly ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Conservations say a Southern River terrapin, one of the most endangered turtles on Earth, has been released back into the wild at a river in Cambodia. The Wildlife Conservation Society, with the Cambodian Fisheries...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan 31, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cambodia's Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have attracted a total investment capital of 1.15 billion U.S. dollars since their operational inception in 2006, according to a government report on Wednesday.  

Jan 30, 2012 (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- ' Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily/ANN) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won 78.1 per cent of the vote in Cambodia's Senate elections on ...  

Avalon Waterways' 2013 preview includes popular European river cruises, ranging from five to 24 days, as well as a new Southeast Asia itinerary, 14-day Fascinating Vietnam, Cambodia and the Mekong River. Full details for cruise vacations to South America ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The Khmer Rouge's second-in-command says the regime focused its revolution in the countryside because people there were poor and easily indoctrinated. Nuon Chea testified as the U.N.-backed trial of three aging top leaders in ...  

It added that Vietnam's investment projects are in the fields of rubber plantation and processing and metal ore exploitation, Malaysia in the sectors of real estate, clothes manufacturing and rice milling, and Singapore in a five-star hotel development.  

MANILA, Philippines - Cebu Pacific (CEB) will become the only airline flying direct from Manila to Siem Reap in Cambodia when it launches its flights on April 19, 2012. It will be a thrice weekly service, utilizing one of Asia’s youngest aircraft fleets.  

A UN expert is to hold talks with Cambodian officials this week after Phnom Penh rejected the choice of a new judge to the international Khmer Rouge tribunal in an apparent breach of an agreement on prosecuting ex-officials of the notorious regime.  

The head of a Khmer Rouge torture prison’s sentence was increased to life imprisonment “for crimes against humanity” during the communist regime’s reign of terror over Cambodia in the late 1970s, according to a special United Nations tribunal.  

Despite questions and controversy surrounding the United Nations-backed tribunal, the recent trials of Khmer Rouge leaders have launched a robust public debate about the atrocities of the 1970s that analysts deem crucial to Cambodia’s ...  

Southwest monsoons blow inland bringing moisture-laden winds from the Gulf of Thailand and Indian Ocean from May to ... ten countries with the highest annual average GDP growth. Tourism was Cambodia's fastest growing industry, with arrivals ...  

Both come as part of your cruise. The Hanoi, Ha Long Bay to Ho Chi Minh City guided tour and cruise is among the most exciting and comprehensive introductions to Vietnam, Cambodia and the Mekong. The adventure begins with a flight from the UK to Hanoi ...  

as potential distractions such as the Preah Vihear temple dispute can be avoided, Cambodia could follow up on Indonesia's successful term as Asean Chair, he said. Mr Sim said Cambodia's challenges in 2012 include moving closer to a definitive resolution  

AFTER years of lagging behind, Cambodia, especially since joining Asean in 1999, had started to re-imagine itself -- determined to keep pace with the region's vibrancy. Phnom Penh, a lovely city by the Mekong, has since changed rapidly. Unlike two decades ...  

Pocket Guide Cambodia, Cambodia’s leading pub-lisher of travel and entertainment guides, is looking for an IT Consultant. The successful candidate must be fully equipped to provide advice on, and assist with the implementation of, web and phone based ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia's royal family has traveled together to China for medical checkups. King Norodom Sihamoni accompanied his mother and his father, the former king Norodom ...  

Judge Kong Srim Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief prison official to life in prison for his "shocking ... established following an agreement between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations to try ...  

If a whole group is angry, the agency has to deal with 20 or even 30 complaints. Angkor Wat is the most important cash cow in Cambodia. The temples make us rich. When tourism returned to Cambodia more than a decade ago, we had our little tricks to make a ...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2008-03-21): Tourism Minister Dr. Thong Khon said that tourism plays a significant role in generating employment opportunities and expanding national economic base through its linkages with the agricultural, industrial and ...  

The GuardianSelf-development amid the temples in CambodiaThe GuardianThe next Temples and Jungles Cambodia Adventure is 4-13 February and costs £1195 half-board, excluding flights. Netflights (netflights.com) has flights from Heathrow to Phnom Penh with Cathay Pacific from £557. British nationals need a 30-day visa to ...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2007-12-08): The Air Finland Boeing 757 landed with 215 passengers on board at the main airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, said Khek Norinda, a spokesman for the airport's operator, the French company Scoot Concessionaire ...  

Siem Reap, Cambodia, — Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met here on Tuesday in a preparatory meeting ahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ retreat, which will be held on Jan. 11. Speaking at the opening of the meeting, Soeung Rathchavy, secretary of state at Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and [...]  

With a comprehensive range of organised packages from eight to 22 days across Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma, it offers guided sightseeing with oodles of free time. If being part of a group is not your thing, then On The Go can also arrange private ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's political parties had ended electoral campaigns for the third legislature of the Senate on Friday, two days prior to the vote. Mao Sophearith, member of the National Election Committee (NEC), said Friday that ...  

The province houses Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Officials of the Cambodian-Thai Joint Commission on Demarcation of Land Boundary will meet in Thailand on Feb. 13-14 to discuss border demarcation, Cambodian Foreign Ministry said in a press release Wednesday. Var Kimhong ...  

Two days after Cambodia deported the Muslim Uighurs in December 2009, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited Phnom Penh and signed 14 trade deals worth $850 million. The U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia broadcast and online news service cited ...  

Siem Reap, Cambodia, — Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met here on Tuesday in a preparatory meeting ahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ retreat, ...  

National carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) will introduce direct flights to South Korea sometime in the first quarter, a civil aviation official has claimed. “We began planning our flights between Siem Reap and Incheon International Airport [near Seoul ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) gained a majority in the Senate elections on Sunday, receiving up to 77.81 percent (or 44.3 seats) out of the total 57 seats, according to the preliminary results of the National ...  

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A two-year-old Cambodian boy has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, in the country's first fatality from the virus this year. The child, from north-western Banteay Meanchey province, fell ...  

Delayed orders in Thailand have caused difficulty for many Cambodian farmers who abandoned other crops, such as corn, to harvest cassava, he said. Sam Yin, president of Malai Trading Company in Banteay Meanchey province, said Thai border authorities banned ...  

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – The flood which hit 18 provinces of Cambodia in late 2011 was the country’s worst flooding in over a decade. It left more than 240 people dead and about 10 percent of the country’s rice damaged. During that critical time, FIDR ...  

Trenton. Former Tulsa restaurateur John Phillips, who has lived in Cambodia for more than three years, opened the door to Buckhunger in December 2011 and provides free, hot and nutritious meals each day to more than 200 street children in Phnom ...  

SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia, 2012's ASEAN chair, vowed to finalize the drafting of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration by this year in order to help build an ASEAN community: One Community, One Destiny, Cambodian Human Rights Committee ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's ailing former king Norodom Sihanouk has changed his mind and asked that he be cremated after he dies. The 89-year-old Sihanouk revised an earlier request for a burial, saying he would now prefer to be cremated. The message ...  

SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met here on Tuesday in a preparatory meeting ahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' retreat, which will be held on Jan. 11. Speaking at the ...  

Phnom Penh - The Cambodian government said Monday that the country's judiciary has the right to decline to appoint a United Nations-nominated judge to the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal. The controversial claim was made by a government ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- A Cambodian court has sentenced an American man to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing two underage boys. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted Philip Bruce Shepard, 69, on Wednesday of paying for child prostitution with ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has achieved significant national development in all fields in the past 33 years since the fall of the Democratic Kampuchea, or known as Khmer Rouge regime, said the president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party ...  

Deployment of this rig means that the company now has 2 diamond drilling rigs working in Cambodia. An earlier press release (November 21, 2011) announced that a Cambodian company, Veriak, had started drilling on the Border prospect, Oyadao tenement.  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 23 -- Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong, minister of foreign affairs, said Monday the country's foreign policies face three main challenges this year. The issues are the International Court of Justice's interpretation for its ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's ailing former king Norodom Sihanouk has changed his mind and asked that he be cremated after he dies. The 89-year-old Sihanouk revised an earlier request for a burial, saying he would now prefer to be cremated. The message was posted on his website Saturday. He...  

The GuardianKhmer Rouge survivor's tale helps Cambodia confront its brutal pastThe GuardianBut for Khmer Rouge survivor Khauv Sotheary, producing a film about her mother's experience of the brutal period instead of her own has allowed the 47-year-old professor to understand her family's past even more profoundly. Lost Loves is Cambodia's ...and more »  

Activists (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - Phnom Penh, 24.01.12 - ARTICLE 19 has uncovered a trend of scare tactics employed by the authorities to silence activists from forcibly evicted communities into ...  

C.K. Hwang and his wife, Juli, traveled to Cambodia in August to see Angkor Wat. The ancient ruins were memorable, of course, but a sunset excursion to nearby Tonle Sap Lake was an unexpected treat. "We were extremely impressed by the ruin ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia recorded a trade deficit equivalent to 1.73 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, according to the statistics of the Commerce Ministry on Wednesday. It showed that the country's total import and export value was 11.47 ...  

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told VOA's Khmer service this week that Cambodia was "under an obligation" to appoint the reserve judge when there is a vacancy. The United Nations says Cambodia is refusing to permit a Swiss investigating judge to take his ...  

PHNOM PENH — Five leading human rights groups on Tuesday urged ASEAN chair Cambodia to end all forced evictions in the country and free seven people who were detained after a recent land protest turned violent. "As the chair of the Association of ...  

The Cambodia Institute of Development Study, a non-governmental research institute based in Phnom Penh, recently released a study indicating that borrowers from microfinance institutions (MFIs) are better off in terms of income, assets and women’s empowerment than are debtors who receive loans from other sources. According to the survey, approximately 54 percent of MFI borrowers [...]  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's ailing former king Norodom Sihanouk has changed his mind and asked that he be cremated after he dies. The 89-year-old Sihanouk revised an earlier request for a burial, saying he would now prefer to be cremated ...  

Doing business frequently requires youths to problem-solve. Chang Bunleang, 26, is the owner of Phnom Penh-based Brown Coffee, and advises young entrepreneurs to be clear on the kind of business they want to do and to spend efficiently. “Do not spend too ...  

[JURIST] The United Nations (UN) [official website] on Wednesday refused to replace a judge presiding over investigations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website] after Cambodia attempted to block him. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet is the judge tasked with investigating two possible suspects believed to be involved in the deaths of around 1.7 million people during the reign of the Khmer Rouge [BBC...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2008-03-20): It is colorful competition that engages the large portion of population connected to the country’s water ways. A swirl of color blankets the Tonle Sap River, as hundreds of boats cluster near its shores. From these ...  

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) will become the only airline flying direct from Manila to Siem Reap in Cambodia when it launches its flights on April 19, 2012. It will be a twice weekly ...  

The self-guided tour is not for the faint of heart and we had a long drive ahead to think about what we saw. Sihanoukville, Cambodia was about a four-hour drive south of Phnom Penh. When most people think of Cambodia it is usually assumed that ...  

The United Nations on Friday protested at Cambodia's rejection of a Swiss judge to the international Khmer Rouge tribunal who has paralyzed probes into two cases opposed by the government. Cambodia is in "breach" of an accord with the UN setting up the ...  

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region after China ...  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Cambodian court has sentenced an American man to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing two underage boys. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted Philip Bruce Shepard, 69, on Wednesday of paying for child prostitution with two ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese traditional lion and dragon dances have begun performances in Cambodia on Sunday to celebrate coming Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 23. The dances started from the Royal Palace, then to the Chinese Embassy in ...  

Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Jan 9 (IANS) Fabio Cannavaro, the Italy’s World Cup winning captain in 2006, is on a four-day visit in Cambodia to help boost football in the country. In a press briefing Monday, Cannarvaro, who arrived here Sunday, said he would help promote and support football sector in the Southeast Asian nation. He [...]  

Lora Bennett, of Canal Way, flew out to Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, in August. She stayed with a local family while she worked in an orphanage – the placement was organised by the Cambodian Children Against Starvation and Violence Association charity.  

An effort by North Korea to bring in currency with a small chain of restaurants outside the country has led to the odd scene of Koreans mingling in a way that would be impossible back home.  

A funny thing happened when Muslim comic Shazia Mirza was booked for Phnom Penh’s first-ever international comedy show I have done stand-up comedy all over the world. Occasionally in strange places: a tent, a kebab shop, a public toilet. At other times ...  

(Ministry of Tourism’s Annual Report, 2007). Specifically, male accounted for 55.10% while female Based on arrival volumes, the Republic of Korea was the major source market for Cambodia and the next most important source was Japan, USA, Vietnam ...  

PHNOM PENH - Cuba wants to cooperate with Cambodia in the fields of agriculture and health in order to strengthen and expand bilateral ties, said the new designated Cuban ambassador to Cambodia Jose Ramon R. Yarona on Monday. Jose Ramon R. Yarona made the ...  

I, the undersigned, write to you to express our very serious concerns regarding the forced eviction of the Borei Keila community in Phnom Penh and the arbitrary detention on January 11, 2012, of 22 women and six children while peacefully protesting their ...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2008-07-11): Tourism is arguably now the world's largest industry, and ecotourism among its fastest growing segments. But mass ecotourism is a relatively new phenomenon, the name itself being coined only recently, during the 1980s.  

Last month, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced that drilling of the first well started in the Block F offshore in Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk province. The impoverished Southeast Asian nation hopes that the first drop of its own ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- A 2-year-old boy from northwestern Cambodian province of Banteay Meanchey was infected with avian influenza H5N1 virus, Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization announced Friday. The patient is ...  

The United Nations has named a new special expert to advise on assistance to the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia. David Scheffer, the former US ambassador-at-large for war crime issues, is ''very well qualified to provide expert advice'', the UN said in a ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Thursday launched here a four-year counter human trafficking program to support and coordinate Cambodia's efforts to combat all forms of human trafficking, according to a U.S. Embassy's press release ...  

Two judges at a war crimes court in Cambodia have argued publicly about opening investigations into people suspected of crimes against humanity under the Khmer Rouge regime. A Swiss judge angrily accused his Cambodian counterpart of stopping him from ...  

New York, Jan 18 2012 4:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated David Scheffer of the United States as the Special Expert to advise on the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT), it was announced today.  

Post-flood recovery will dominate Cambodia's economic and political outlook in 2012. The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has pushed through a relatively expansionary 2012 budget, which will look to ramp up overseas borrowing. While the country's ...  

Millions of tourists come here every year to visit the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, an influx that has helped transform what once resembled a small, laid-back village into a thriving and cosmopolitan town with thumping nightlife and more than 10,000 hotel ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia, as ASEAN chair, on Friday sent letters to the five nuclear powerful countries, asking them to sign the protocol on the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (SEANWFZ) by this year. The five countries ...  

Kansas City StarCambodia's ruling party wins Senate majoritySin Chew Jit PohPHNOM PENH, Jan 30 (Bernama) –- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) gained a majority of the votes in the country's Senate elections, receiving up to 77.81 percent, according to preliminary results provided by the National Election Committee ...Ruling Party Gets Expected Win In Cambodian SenateNPRCambodia holds Senate elections; most can't voteBoston.comall 164...  

PHNOM PENH - As the chairman of ASEAN this year, Cambodia vowed to safeguard the Declaration of the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) and the guidelines of implementing the DOC, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Tea Banh said on ...  

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's border chief said Tuesday that the two-day border talks with Thailand had made remarkable progress, and both sides have agreed to resume the search for remaining border markers from March 5. "It is a positive step ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The United States'Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Barack Obama will visit Cambodia in July and November respectively to attend summits as Cambodia chairs ASEAN this year, senior officials said on Monday.  

Gen. Sem Sovanny, director-general of the National Center for Peacekeeping Force, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance at Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, told reporters Monday after he presided over a ceremony to send medical equipment and supplies ...  

Phnom Penh (Rasmei Kampuchea Daily/ANN) - Looking back into its history, Cambodia used to be an attractive destination for world celebrities and politicians, thanks to its beautiful landscapes and politically and economically stable situation.  

The United Nations will send its investigating judge to resume work at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal in Cambodia, despite moves by the government to have him replaced, a top envoy said Wednesday. Cambodia had no authority to block Swiss Laurent ...  

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated David Scheffer of the United States as the Special Expert to advise on the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT), it was announced today. “Mr. Scheffer is very well qualified to provide ...  

Thai authorities yesterday extradited four Cambodian drug offenders through Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet border checkpoint to serve the rest of their jail terms in Cambodia - following a request from both Cambodia and the inmates. Attending the handover at the ...  

Shops selling decoration materials and praying stuff are bustling. "A lot of customers come and purchase Chinese New Year decorations from my shop," said Hak Senghong, the owner of a shop near Phnom Penh's Orussei Market. "For usual days, sales are not ...  

The United Nations on Friday protested at Cambodia's rejection of a Swiss judge to the international Khmer Rouge tribunal who has paralysed probes into two cases opposed by the government. An UN spokesman told reporters that Cambodia is in "breach" of an ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan 11, 2012 (AFP) - A Cambodian court on Wednesday sentenced an American doctor to 10 years in prison for paying for sex with two underaged boys, officials said. Phillip Bruce Shepard from Michigan, was arrested in the capital Phnom Penh last ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Criminal justice practitioners from the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries gathered here on Wednesday to strengthen international cooperation on human trafficking investigations and prosecutions. Speaking at the ...  

HA NOI – The General Association of Vietnamese Cambodians (GAVC) yesterday began a project to build a school for overseas Vietnamese children in Cambodia’s Pray Veng Province. Funded by US$115,000 from Dong Thap People’s Committee the building will ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen and other cabinet members are making their first trip together on a bus to far eastern province of Mondulkiri near Vietnam border. Sry Thammarong, minister attached to ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan 17, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China's Tianjin Symphony Orchestra gave a free concert here Tuesday evening to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year and enhance Sino-Cambodian cultural exchanges. The concert, held at the capital's Chak ...  

The United Nations today voiced concern at Cambodia?s decision not to appoint the current reserve judge as the new international co-investigating judge at the tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, saying it breaches the agreement that set up the court.  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- A large group of 96 U.S. billionaires, mostly spouses, have been visiting Cambodia in order to explore investment opportunities, said a senior Cambodian official. The delegation was from the United States' Chief Executive ...  

once swam in the Mekong -- which flows from Tibet to the South China Sea and has tributaries in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The project, which begins this month, will teach fishermen about tourism activities, the UN agency said, adding it hopes to draw ...  

by Michelle Tolson -Cambodia- • Borei Keila demolition site, Cambodia. Photograph courtesy of the author. •On January 12th, 2012 I traveled 45 km outside of Phnom Penh with a group of human rights workers and journalists to a relocation site for the evictees of the Borei Keila slum, which had been demolished the prior week. Deeply tanned faces lined with anguish peered out of makeshift shelters. Grief was the dominant theme as they shared...  

When I first arrived in Phnom Penh, in 1994, I looked out the window of my descending plane and saw a landscape of rice paddies dotted with palm trees. It might have been, in a parallel universe, or perhaps just in a neighboring country like Thailand, a ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia had received 2.85 million foreign visitors in 2011, up 14 percent from 2.5 million in 2010, a tourism official said Thursday. Kong Sopheareak, director of the statistics and tourism information department under the ...  

The United Nations today voiced concern at Cambodia’s decision not to appoint the current reserve judge as the new international co-investigating judge at the tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, saying it breaches the agreement that set ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce had provided licenses to 3,090 new companies in 2011, an increase of 20 percent from 2,572 firms opened in the country in 2011, showed the Commerce Ministry's data on Thursday. The report said ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- More foreigners are buying Cambodia's real estates, especially, condominium which is mushrooming in the country. Sung Bonna, President of the National Valuers Association said Monday that foreigners have occupied some 2,600 ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Fabio Cannavaro, the Italy's World Cup winning captain in 2006, is on a four-day visit in Cambodia to help boost the country's football sector. In a press briefing on Monday, Cannarvaro, who arrived here on Sunday, said that ...  

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's Jiangxi province is keen to bolster cooperation with Cambodia in the fields of mineral resources, agriculture and tourism, Su Rong, secretary of China's Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China ...  

24 women and six children have been detained while protesting last week's violent forced eviction of 300 families from Borei Keila in Phnom Penh. January 12, 2012 International The Cambodian authorities must immediately release 24 women and six children detained yesterday while peacefully protesting their forced eviction.The group of 30 were arrested while protesting last week’s violent forced...  

Phnom Penh - A 19th century ship's anchor has become a draw for Cambodian pilgrims who believe it has healing powers, local media reported Tuesday. The 2.5-metre-long anchor, inscribed with the date 1883, was bought from a local fisherman by 43 ...  

This article originally appeared at Dissent Magazine. Approximately 70 people sat outside the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh last week in the sweltering heat because, quite frankly, they had nowhere else to go. They were members of some 300 families who were forcibly evicted from their homes in Phnom ...  

Laurent Vallier, 42, and his children aged 2 to 9 disappeared from their home in Kompong Speu province near the capital, Phnom Penh, in September and the French Embassy said ... Neighbors were shocked to learn of the grim discovery.  

Cambodians are starting to have second thoughts about consuming ice around Phnom Penh following disclosures that some producers are using urea, an organic compound commonly used as a fertiliser for pl .....  

Phnom Penh - Cambodian authorities must release 24 women and six children detained after they participated in eviction protests, a coalition of rights groups said Thursday. The women and children were among hundreds whose homes were demolished ...  

In 1970 U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had ordered “a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves” – a call for genocide of a kind rarely found in the archival record. Laos and Cambodia were ...  

(Tourism Indochina: Date : 2007-10-28): There will be two trips a week along this line by a high-speed ship, capable of carrying 300 people. Visitors will depart from Vietnam ’s Ha Tien township, travel to Cambodia ’s Shihanouk Ville port city and ...  

Cambodia govt must maintain moratoriumMalay MailLast October, Cambodia imposed a temporary ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia following numerous complaints of abuse. The order was signed by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen following "some negative information" about the working environment ...  

PHNOM PENH — The really challenging thing is trying to teach his countrymen how to eat a hamburger — a culture clash that is more than culinary as he tries to fit himself, like a lost piece in a puzzle, back into the land of his birth. His ...  

The inaugurated national road No. 76 stretches from Kratie province's Snuol district to Mondolkiri province's Sen Monorom city. The inauguration was presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Pan Guangxue, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia, and was also ...  

With a new itinerary unlike any other Cambodia tour in the market, the 11-day Cambodia Revealed journey incorporates exotic parts of Cambodia not often visited by tourists. New destinations include visiting the colonial port town of Kampot in the south ...  

When you think of the Asian nation of Cambodia, you might think of ancient temples, rice paddies, the Khmer Rouge and the years of civil war in the '80s and '90s. There are still plenty of tales of hardship and poverty in Cambodia but there's ...  

MONDOLKIRI, Cambodia, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday hailed China for its strong economic growth in 2011, saying China's progress has been considerably benefiting the developing countries. "I'd like to congratulate China on ...  

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen showes his vote during the Senate election at a polling station near his residence in Takhmau district, Kandal province, about 10 km south of the capital, January 29, 2012. The election for the third legislature of ...