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Man goes undercover to combat child sex slavery - CNN

CNN	Man goes undercover to combat child sex slavery CNN "I would rank Cambodia right up there with India as one of the worst places in the world for sex-trafficking." According to the NGO, End Child Prostitution, ... and more »

Source: cambodia - Google News | 9 Feb 2010 | 4:06 am

Vietnam and Cambodia border provinces boost cooperation - VOVNews.vn

Vietnam and Cambodia border provinces boost cooperation
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The Tay Ninh provincial People's Committee on February 9 held an exchange meeting with Cambodia's border provinces of Kongpong Cham, Prayveng and Svayrieng. ...

Source: cambodia - Google News | 9 Feb 2010 | 3:22 am

Man goes undercover to combat child sex slavery (CNN)

Aaron Cohen first met Jonty Thern and her older sister, Channy, in 2005 while singing in a karaoke bar in Battambang, Cambodia. He has come back to see them every year since.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 9 Feb 2010 | 3:19 am

Cambodian firm plans $100 million sugar plant JV - Reuters India

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Cambodian firm plans $100 million sugar plant JV
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PHNOM PENH, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Cambodia is in talks to build the country's biggest sugar plant, worth $100 million, as part of a joint ...
Cambodian garment workers fail to win pay riseRadio Australia News
Cambodia's garment manufacturers and labour unions talk pay riseEarthtimes (press release)
Cambodia-Israel Chamber of Commerce was inaugurated in Phnom PenhPort2Port
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 9 Feb 2010 | 2:02 am

Cambodia asks US to cancel $339 million in debt from 1970s - CanadianBusiness.com

Cambodia asks US to cancel $339 million in debt from 1970s
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Cambodia asked the United States on Tuesday to cancel $339 million in debt that dates back to loans from the 1970s — or consider ...

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 9 Feb 2010 | 12:35 am

Cambodia asks US to cancel $339 million debt (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Cambodia asked the United States on Tuesday to cancel $339 million in debt that dates back to loans from the 1970s -- or consider converting most of it into development aid for the impoverished country.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 9 Feb 2010 | 12:33 am

Cambodia's garment manufacturers and labour unions talk pay rise (EARTHtimes.org)

Phnom Penh - Cambodia's garment manufacturers have held talks with unions and government officials about sharply increasing the 50-US-dollar monthly minimum wage paid to factory workers, local media reported Tuesday. Unions and the government's Natio...

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 8 Feb 2010 | 9:24 pm

Cambodia's garment manufacturers and labour unions talk pay rise - Monsters and Critics

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 8 Feb 2010 | 9:04 pm

Brunei-Cambodia air links to be set up to spur tourism - Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm

Brunei-Cambodia air links to be set up to spur tourism
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AIR links between Brunei and Siem Reap are set to start, a report from Cambodia's Phnom Penh Post newspaper reported yesterday. ...
Siem Reap to connect to Brunei, IndonesiaPhnom Penh Post
Celebrate International Women's Day in Siem ReapThe Open Press (press release)

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:57 pm

Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future? - CBS News

Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration of war. No advance warning, nothing, in ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 8 Feb 2010 | 3:06 pm

Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future? - CBS News

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Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future?
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The target was an area of Cambodia known as the Fish Hook that jutted into South Vietnam, and Operation Breakfast would be but the first of dozens of top ...
Could US Air Strikes Push Pakistan into Khmer Rouge Type Genocide?AlterNet

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 8 Feb 2010 | 2:44 pm

Hot deals: Venture to Cambodia - New Zealand Herald

Gap Adventures has 15-day Cambodia/Laos tours including Angkor temples, Tuol Sleng Prison and Choeung Ek (Killing Fields), Wat Phu Champassak, Pak Ou caves, Pnomh Penh Royal Palace Museum (Luang Prabang), Kuang Si Falls, for $1912. Fee includes most ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:18 am

Cambodia Calls Google Maps “Misleading” Over Thailand Border Dispute (Search Engine Land)

Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border from Reuters reports Cambodia is the latest country upset with Google over how they draw the border on Google Maps. Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, wrote a letter saying Google was “radically misleading,” “professionally irresponsible” and “devoid of truth and reality.”

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:12 am

Cambodia Calls Google Maps “Misleading” Over Thailand Border Dispute - Search Engine Land (blog)

Cambodia Calls Google Maps “Misleading” Over Thailand Border Dispute
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Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border from Reuters reports Cambodia is the latest country upset with Google over how they draw the border on ...

Source: cambodia - Google News | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:06 am

Hot deals: Venture to Cambodia - New Zealand Herald

Hot deals: Venture to Cambodia
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Gap Adventures has 15-day Cambodia/Laos tours including Angkor temples, Tuol Sleng Prison and Choeung Ek (Killing Fields), Wat Phu Champassak, Pak Ou caves, ...

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:05 am

Hun Sen Calls Thai Premier ‘Stupid,’ ‘Crazy’

Prime Minister Hun Sen directly insulted the prime minister of Thailand as “stupid” and “crazy” on Monday, as he continued a four-day tour of disputed border regions in the north. (08 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 8 Feb 2010 | 7:01 am

New Documentary Raises Arsenic Alarm

In “Born Sweet,” a new documentary underscoring the dangers of arsenic, a rural Cambodian boy struggles with questions of fate after he is poisoned by a contaminated well. (08 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 8 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am

More See Country Going ‘Wrong’: Survey

An increasing number of people, especially those with higher incomes, feel the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to a recent survey. (08 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 8 Feb 2010 | 6:51 am

Bomb hits truck carrying Thai soldiers; 7 wounded - Washington Post

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Bomb hits truck carrying Thai soldiers; 7 wounded
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Cambodian soldiers are seen by a machine gun as they guard along the Cambodia-Thailand border near Preah Vihear temple, Preah Vihear province, ...
PM skips Tamone temple on border tripPhnom Penh Post
Hun Sen lets fly at AbhisitBangkok Post
Thai-Cambodian Border Tension Eases As Hun Sen ReturnsBernama
The Nation -Thai News Agency MCOT -AFP
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:14 am

Diarrhea deaths lead to hygiene campaign in Cambodia - People's Daily Online

The Ministry of Health has launched a nationwide sanitation and hygiene awareness campaign following a series of deaths across the country caused by diarrhea, local media reported on Monday. Ly Sovann, deputy director of the ministry's Communicable ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am

Cambodia's banking sector recovers with enlargement growth: report - Investors Business Daily

PHNOM PENH, Feb 08, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cambodia's banking sector which was dead and paralyzed for several decades is now recovering well with enlargement growth, according to a government's report released on Monday. Currently, there are 27 ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 8 Feb 2010 | 4:43 am

Cambodia blasts Google map of Thai border (CIOL)

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Cambodia has hit out at Google over what it called a "radically misleading" map of the disputed Thai-Cambodia border, accusing the world's biggest search engine of being "professionally irresponsible".

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 7 Feb 2010 | 10:05 pm

Pratap Chatterjee: Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? (The Huffington Post)

Many pundits have compared the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to Vietnam. A more provocative analogy might be between the CIA's escalating drone war in Pakistan and Nixon's secret bombing campaign against Cambodia.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

New outbreak of bird flu confirmed in Cambodia (GMA News)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodian authorities began a mass killing of ducks Wednesday after confirming a fresh outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 7 Feb 2010 | 8:13 pm

DJ Cambodia Aims To Export Sugar, Attract Foreign Firms -Report - Investors Business Daily

SINGAPORE, Feb 07, 2010 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) -- Cambodia is launching a bid to cut its reliance on sugar imports and to turn the country into a net exporter by attracting investment from Thai sugar mills, the Bangkok Post reported ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 7 Feb 2010 | 8:01 pm

Cambodia Lambastes Google Over Border Portrayal (WebProNews)

The governments of France, Germany, and Italy are all arguably annoyed with Google. China's not thrilled with the search giant, either. And now, because of the way in which Google's portrayed a disputed border, Cambodia's quite mad at it. According to Reuters , Svay Sitha, the secretary of state of Cambodia's Council of Ministers, wrote a letter to Google complaining about its interpretation ...

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 6 Feb 2010 | 1:41 pm

Cambodia Lambastes Google Over Border Portrayal - WebProNews

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 6 Feb 2010 | 1:28 pm

Cambodia rebukes Google over disputed Thai border map (The New Straits Times)

PHNOM PENH, Sat: Cambodia has accused Internet giant Google of being “professionally irresponsible” over its map of a ancient temple at the centre of a border dispute with Thailand, a letter seen by AFP Saturday showed.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 6 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

Cambodia rebukes Google over disputed Thai border map (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Cambodia has accused Internet giant Google of being "professionally irresponsible" over its map of a ancient temple at the centre of a border dispute with Thailand, a letter seen by AFP Saturday showed.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 5 Feb 2010 | 10:57 pm

Cambodia rebukes Google over disputed Thai border map - YAHOO!

He described the map as "radically misleading". "We, therefore, request that you withdraw the already disseminated, very wrong and not internationally recognised map and replace it," Svay Sitha wrote. The complaint was made as Cambodia's Prime ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 5 Feb 2010 | 10:55 pm

Cambodia Denies Thai Ex-PM Thaksin Made Citizen - ABC News

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Cambodia Denies Thai Ex-PM Thaksin Made Citizen
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AP Cambodia on Friday denied a report that Thailand's disgraced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been granted ...
Probe into Thaksin's 'khmer nationality'Bangkok Post
Cambodia denies Thai ex-PM Thaksin made citizenSydney Morning Herald
Credibility gap now too wide for Chavalit to bridgeThe Nation

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 5 Feb 2010 | 12:04 pm

Building Cambodia's Roads - New York Times

Regarding the article “Cambodia’s routes to riches” (Jan. 19): While rural roads connecting major population centers are important for development, Cambodians rely mostly on bicycles, small motorbikes and their feet for transportation. This ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 5 Feb 2010 | 11:28 am

Experts Urge Vigilance Against Child Sex Abuse

Sex abuse in Cambodia is on the rise, according to experts, who warn parents to be wary of foreigners who may trick their children. (05 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 5 Feb 2010 | 6:16 am

Hun Sen Wants Trade Balance With Neighbors

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday urged a balance of imports and exports to countries like China, Thailand and Vietnam. (05 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 5 Feb 2010 | 6:07 am

Farmers Lose Thousands of Dollars in Culling

More than 60 families in Takeo province say they lost tens of thousands of dollars after their poultry was culled this week to prevent the spread of avian influenza. (05 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 5 Feb 2010 | 5:58 am

Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border - Reuters

Cambodia, which is embroiled in a bitter diplomatic row with Thailand over the demarcation of the frontier, said the Google Earth map was "devoid of truth and reality" and called for its immediate removal because it was not internationally recognised ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 5 Feb 2010 | 1:34 am

Status of Deported Uighurs Still Unknown

The fates of 20 Muslim Uighurs forcibly returned to China from Cambodia in December remains unknown, but a government official said the case is now up to the Chinese. (04 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 4 Feb 2010 | 5:59 am

Original Opposition Party Name Available

The opposition Sam Rainsy Party has no plans to change its name back to the original Khmer Nation Party, an official said Wednesday, following the legal release of the original in January. (04 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 4 Feb 2010 | 5:48 am

Shadowy Workrooms Hurting Garment Industry

Tol Sokhim had recently quit work at the Good Fame garment factory, a bit farther away, for the workroom, to save on transportation costs and to feel a bit more secure in her commute. (04 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 4 Feb 2010 | 5:32 am

Bird Flu Confirmed in Takeo, Culling Begins

Health authorities rushed to kill all the ducks in a Takeo province village on Wednesday, after samples of dead birds showed positive for avian influenza. (03 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 3 Feb 2010 | 8:56 am

Banks Forced to Reduce Interest Rates

A high number of deposits followed by a low number of loans have created a cash flood for banks, forcing them to lower their interest rates. (03 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 3 Feb 2010 | 8:37 am

Befriending the Khmer Rouge, To Report

The producer of an award-winning documentary that outlines the inner workings of the Khmer Rouge says it took many patient years of work to gain the trust of a senior leader of the regime and his underlings. (03 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 3 Feb 2010 | 6:16 am

Tribunal Judges Consider Duch Verdict

Trial judges for the Khmer Rouge tribunal are now considering their verdict for prison chief Kaing Kek Iev, whose trial wrapped up late last year, court officials said Tuesday. (02 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 2 Feb 2010 | 8:12 am

10,000 Ducks Dead Near Vietnam Border

Cambodian agricultural authorities on Tuesday were testing samples of dead ducks, after 10,000 fowl were found dead in Takeo province near the Vietnam border. (02 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 2 Feb 2010 | 6:51 am

No Policy of Violence on Border: General

The gunfire that erupted between Thai and Cambodian forces along the border Friday was an accident, and not by order of the government, a senior military official said Monday. (02 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 2 Feb 2010 | 6:37 am

Tribunal Budget Sees End in 2015

Khmer Rouge tribunal officials expect to finish trials at the UN-backed court by 2015, trying only 10 defendants at a cost to donors of around $100 million, according to budget documents obtained by VOA Khmer. (02 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 2 Feb 2010 | 6:25 am

Behind Sundance Award, a Decade of Reporting

It was curiosity over the killing of his family members under the Khmer Rouge that led journalist Thet Sambath on a personal quest to find the truth. He wanted to know who gave the orders. (02 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 2 Feb 2010 | 2:12 am

Jail Sentence a ‘Cover Up’: Sam Rainsy

A day after receiving a two-year prison sentence in absentia, opposition leader Sam Rainsy accused Cambodian leaders of conspiring with Vietnam to put political pressure on him. (01 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 1 Feb 2010 | 6:32 am

Tribunal Undecided on Use of New Film

Khmer Rouge tribunal officials have not decided whether they will use testimony given by a senior regime leader to a journalist and producer of an award-winning documentary film. (01 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 1 Feb 2010 | 6:20 am

Rights Group Urges Review of Drug Detentions

A leading rights group has urged the United Nations to reconsider its support of government drug rehabilitation centers, following allegations of abuse. (01 February 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 1 Feb 2010 | 6:01 am

'Enemies of the People' Wins Sundance's World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary

‘Enemies of the People’ is a new documentary film being shown for the first time in North America at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 in Park City, Utah. (January 21 to 31)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:28 pm

Stop Killings and Bring Perpetrators to Court: Family of 1997 Grenade Attack

Every year, the victims and their families gather at a golden stupa—built just meters from the actual site of the grenade explosion and scene of scattered bodies—to commemorate the 1997 grenade attack. (26 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 26 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pm

Doctor Discusses Coronary Artery Disease

Coronary artery disease is becoming one of the leading problems in the West, but it can also affect Cambodians, a doctor said Thursday. (22 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 22 Jan 2010 | 9:28 am

Rights Violations Worsened in 2009: Group

The human rights situation in Cambodia has deteriorated in the past year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, citing numerous examples of apparent government failure to protect basic freedoms. ( 22 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 22 Jan 2010 | 9:09 am

China Played No Role in Khmer Rouge Politics: Ambassador

China’s ambassador to Cambodia told a group Friday that the Chinese had not aided the Khmer Rouge but had sought to keep Cambodians from suffering under the regime. (22 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 22 Jan 2010 | 8:40 am

Cambodia Seeks End to Child Labor

Poor families in poor health, the loss of land and the legacy of war are all contributing to a child labor problem in Cambodia, the country’s national International Labor Organization coordinator said Monday. (20 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 20 Jan 2010 | 5:44 am

Tribunal To Limit Civil Parties in Court

Representatives for civil parties at the Khmer Rouge tribunal are discussing how to approach an upcoming decision that could limit their role in the courtroom. (20 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 20 Jan 2010 | 5:30 am

UN Envoy Wants Cooperation on Rights

UN human rights envoy Surya Prasad Subedi on Wednesday encouraged Cambodia’s leading rights organizations to establish better cooperation with the government in an effort to improve the country’s rights situation. (20 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 20 Jan 2010 | 5:15 am

Nobel Laureate: Human Resource is the Major Problem Facing Cambodia

As other developing countries in the world, the major problem facing Cambodia is the serious lack of human resources for the country’s development, according to Professor David Jonathan Gross, a Nobel Laureate for Physics. (19 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 19 Jan 2010 | 11:01 am

Cambodia’s Roads Claim Over 1,600 Lives Annually

Cambodia’s road accidents have killed more people than countries in the region, claiming more than 1,600 lives annually and is on the rise, a traffic police official said. (19 January 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 19 Jan 2010 | 6:04 am

Hun Sen Warns Against ‘Extremists’.

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday called on naval forces and local authorities nationwide to help in the prevention of illegal armed forces. (18 January, 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 18 Jan 2010 | 6:46 am

Congressmen Mull Cambodian Debt Forgiveness

On a return from a trip to Asia that included Cambodia, US congressman Joseph Cao said in Washington last week he and his delegation are considering writing legislation to forgive Cambodia debt from the 1970s. (18 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 18 Jan 2010 | 6:37 am

UN Rights Envoy Arrives for Assessment

The UN envoy Surya Prasad Subedi arrived in Cambodia Monday to look into the country’s human rights record ahead of a Human Rights Council meeting in September. (18 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 18 Jan 2010 | 5:13 am

Hundreds Get Flu Vaccine at US Temple

Hundreds of families received free H1N1 vaccines at a Buddhist temple in Maryland on Sunday, hoping to strengthen their immune response to the disease. (14 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 14 Jan 2010 | 11:07 am

Security Concerns Hampered FBI in 1997 Investigation

A security threat to an FBI agent in 1997 and concerns over US cooperation with Cambodia put a grenade attack investigation on hold, according to recent media reports. (14 January 2010)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 14 Jan 2010 | 9:09 am