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Khmer Rouge war-crimes trial of prison chief Duch closes in surprise ... - The Christian Science Monitor

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - In a surprising plea on the final day of statements at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal Friday, a prison chief asked judges to release him, claiming he was not a high-ranking member of the regime. Kaing Guek Eav, better ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 27 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pm

Thailand, Cambodia say row won't lead to conflict - YAHOO!

Relations between the countries, which have fought a string of deadly gunbattles on their border since last year, plunged earlier this month when Thaksin visited Phnom Penh as an advisor to the Cambodian government. After a two-day meeting in the ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 27 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pm

Thailand, Cambodia say row won't lead to conflict - AFP

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Thailand, Cambodia say row won't lead to conflict
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BANGKOK — Thailand and Cambodia's diplomatic row over fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will not cause further clashes between their armed ...
Thai and Cambodian defense ministers vow to keep peaceWashington Post
Q+A: How bad is the Thai-Cambodian spat?Reuters
Cambodia cancels $57m loanStraits Times
Bangkok Post -Xinhua -Thai News Agency MCOT
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 27 Nov 2009 | 10:31 am

Thailand, Cambodia say row won't lead to conflict (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Thailand and Cambodia's diplomatic row over fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will not cause further clashes between their armed forces, their defense ministers said after meeting Friday.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 27 Nov 2009 | 10:03 am

Khmer Rouge prison chief asks Cambodia genocide tribunal to release ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

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 been ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 27 Nov 2009 | 9:52 am

Cambodian ex-prison chief pleads for release - The Associated Press

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Cambodian ex-prison chief pleads for release
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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 ...
Cambodia torturer Duch – killer of 12380 – asks court to set him freeguardian.co.uk
Khmer Rouge Warden Asks to Be FreedNew York Times
Khmer Rouge Trial Adjourns; Accused Death Camp Commander Awaits SentenceVoice of America
Christian Science Monitor -The Age -CNN International
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 27 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am

Health Workers Warn of Higher HIV Infections

Health agencies say they are worried about a high number of HIV infections among indirect sex workers, drug needle sharers and men who have sex with men. (27 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 27 Nov 2009 | 9:36 am

NGO Law To Go Forward: Hun Sen

Prime Minister Hun Sen has said Cambodia must go ahead with its law governing non-governmental agencies, lest the country become a haven for terrorism and human trafficking. (27 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 27 Nov 2009 | 9:28 am

Film With Rare Khmer Rouge Interviews Opens

A documentary film that uses rare interviews with Khmer Rouge leaders and foot soldiers to demonstrate the regime’s chain of command is screening in Amsterdam this week. (27 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 27 Nov 2009 | 9:22 am

Cambodia promotes special Olympic sports event (People's Daily)

Cambodia's Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation with the support from Australian Embassy held the special Olympic sport tournament on Friday at National Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh to promote the sport events in the country. "This sport is contributing to encourage the disabled people and low intelligent people in the country ...

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 27 Nov 2009 | 6:39 am

Cambodia cancels $57m loan (Straits Times)

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.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 27 Nov 2009 | 6:04 am

Cambodia cancels $41.2 million loan from Thailand (AP via Yahoo! Asia News)

Cambodia informed Thailand on Friday it was canceling a US$41.2 million loan from Bangkok meant to finance the upgrade of a highway from the Thai border.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 27 Nov 2009 | 5:10 am

Khmer Rouge prison chief in shock acquital plea - Times of the Internet

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch stunned Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Friday by asking judges to acquit and release him on the final day of arguments in his trial. Prosecutors and victims said the demand raised questions about Duch's ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 27 Nov 2009 | 4:30 am

Cambodia cancels pact for loan from Thailand (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

Cambodia has informed Thailand it is canceling an agreement under which Bangkok would make a 1.4 billion baht (US$ 41.2 million) loan to upgrade a highway from the Thai border.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 27 Nov 2009 | 3:06 am

Family visits accused spy in Cambodia (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)

The mother and brother of the Thai engineer arrested in Cambodia on spying charges, Sivarak Chutipong, flew to Cambodia on Friday morning to visit him in jail.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 27 Nov 2009 | 3:03 am

BASIS POINT-Standard Bank, ANZ arrange $421mln Cambodia M&A loan - Forbes

BASIS POINT-Standard Bank, ANZ arrange $421mln Cambodia M&A loan
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The loan backs the Royal Group of Cambodia Ltd's acquisition of the Cambodian network operations of its partner, Luxembourg's Millicom International ...
Royal Group acquires Cambodian operations of Millicom International CellularTrading Markets (press release)
MIC completes sale of Mobitel to Royal GroupTeleGeography
Royal Group completes full buyout of MobitelPhnom Penh Post
Earthtimes (press release)
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 27 Nov 2009 | 12:02 am

ADB Approves US$10 Mln Loan To Cambodia (INO News)

(RTTNews) - The Asian Development Bank on Thursday approved a loan of US$10 million to Cambodia, to help the government ease the effects of the global slowdown and improve its financial system.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 26 Nov 2009 | 11:10 pm

ADB Approves US$10 Mln Loan To Cambodia - RTT News

ADB Approves US$10 Mln Loan To Cambodia
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(RTTNews) - The Asian Development Bank on Thursday approved a loan of US$10 million to Cambodia, to help the government ease the effects of the global ...
ADB provides $10M loan to Cambodia to cut povertyMicrofinance Focus

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 26 Nov 2009 | 11:05 pm

Cambodia Warming to Idea of Foreign Ownership (New York Times)

A proposed change in the law that would allow non-Cambodian individuals and corporations to buy some real estate appears to be nearing government approval.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 26 Nov 2009 | 9:33 pm

Peaceful solution to row with Cambodia sought (Gulf Times)

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has said that he will seek peaceful means of resolving the lingering row between his country and Cambodia. The row was worsened by the appointment of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as the Cambodia’s economic adviser.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 26 Nov 2009 | 3:19 pm

Cambodia Warming to Idea of Foreign Ownership - New York Times

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Cambodia Warming to Idea of Foreign Ownership
New York Times
Canadia Tower in Phnom Phen is Cambodia's tallest building. And while the proposed law is focused on the property market, experts agree it also would be a ...
Cambodia promotes special Olympic sports eventXinhua
Cambodia To Develop Solar Power To Meet Domestic NeedBernama

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Source: cambodia - Google News | 26 Nov 2009 | 12:34 pm

Congressman Warns Against Opposition Attacks

Two US Republican congressmen, Chris Smith and Ed Royce, have admonished Cambodia’s recent lifting of opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity. (26 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 26 Nov 2009 | 8:41 am

Duch Team at Odds in Final Remarks

The French defense attorney for Kaing Kek Iev told Khmer Rouge tribunal judges Thursday he was in disagreement with his Cambodian colleague .... (26 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 26 Nov 2009 | 8:29 am

H1N1 Virus Claims Fifth Cambodian

A fifth person in Cambodia has died from the H1N1 virus, sometimes called swine flu, health authorities said Thursday. (26 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 26 Nov 2009 | 6:43 am

Workforce Abuse Jeopardizes US Trade Status: Union

If the government continues to ignore labor violations and fails to address working conditions, it risks its special trade access to lucrative US markets, a leading labor leader said in Washington last week. (26 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 26 Nov 2009 | 6:08 am

Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years - The Associated Press

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Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years
The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Lawyers for the Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of killings in Cambodia accused prosecutors Thursday of making him a ...
Call for 40-year term for ex-Khmer Rouge prison chiefBBC News
Cambodian torture chief faces 40-yearseuronews
Khmer Rouge's Chief Torturer Expresses 'Excruciating Remorse'FOXNews
Reuters -Aljazeera.net -Bloomberg
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 25 Nov 2009 | 11:31 pm

Cambodia To Develop Solar Power To Meet Domestic Need (Bernama)

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 imports of the materials needed to build solar plants in August, China's Xinhua news agency cited a local media as saying.

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for cambodia | 25 Nov 2009 | 8:45 pm

Cambodia allows family and Thai officials to visit detained Thai engineer - Thai News Agency MCOT

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Cambodia allows family and Thai officials to visit detained Thai engineer
Thai News Agency MCOT
BANGKOK, Nov 26 (TNA) – The Cambodian government will allow visits on Friday to a Thai engineer detained in Phnom Penh on espionage charges, according to a ...
Exiled Thaksin in Cambodia kicks up trouble for ThailandChristian Science Monitor
Cambodian PM`s daughter to take over air traffic control coANTARA
Alleged Thai spy files bail request in Cambodia: lawyerAFP
Bangkok Post -Xinhua -Phnom Penh Post
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 25 Nov 2009 | 7:20 pm

Coal Plant Stirs Passions in Cambodia - New York Times

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Coal Plant Stirs Passions in Cambodia
New York Times
Last week, executives from Leader Universal Holdings, a Malaysian company angling to build Cambodia's largest coal-fired power plant, ...

Source: cambodia - Google News | 25 Nov 2009 | 1:31 pm

Life In Prison Urged For 'Comrade Duch' - OfficialWire

A war crimes court in Cambodia should impose a 40-year jail sentence on "Comrade Duch," the former Khmer Rouge prison chief ... Duch, whose real name is Kang Kek leu, is the first of five leading Khmer Rouge figures to be tried and the only former ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 25 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am

Housing Aid Recipients To Seek Work in City

Most of the families who received donations on the visit of former US president Jimmy Carter last week to be relocated outside Phnom Penh say they now have to return to the capital to find work. (25 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 25 Nov 2009 | 7:27 am

Trial Opens for Suspects in Bomb Plot

Phnom Penh Municipal Court opened a trial of a group of men arrested in January and accused of bombing a Phnom Penh monument, plotting to overthrow the government and placing explosives near government buildings. ( 25 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 25 Nov 2009 | 7:14 am

In Final Duch Hearings, Questions of Justice

With the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Kek Iev drawing to a close this week, former prisoners, relatives of the dead and others have begun to contemplate the meaning of justice that has eluded them for three decades. (25 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 25 Nov 2009 | 6:25 am

Report Warns of Political Interference at Tribunal

Political interference at the Khmer Rouge tribunal is undermining its credibility, a monitoring group for the UN-backed court says in a November report. (25 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 25 Nov 2009 | 6:13 am

Cambodia, Lao PMs hold talks on border demarcation, bilateral ties - Xinhua

Cambodia, Lao PMs hold talks on border demarcation, bilateral ties
Xinhua
25 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh on Wednesday held talks on the border demarcation for ...
SM Goh meets Cambodian King Norodom SihamoniChannel News Asia
Taking education back to the drawing boardPhnom Penh Post
Cambodian PM highlights NGOs' contribution to country's developmentXinhua
Xinhua
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Source: cambodia - Google News | 24 Nov 2009 | 11:53 pm

World Heritage Status a Great Benefit: Expert

The addition of historic sites to Unesco’s World Heritage list has great benefits for the country as a whole and the sites in particular, preserving them while improving Cambodia’s notoriety. (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 9:35 am

Anti-Corruption Law Moves Ahead

A widely anticipated anti-corruption law will be passed next month, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Tuesday. (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 9:25 am

Halloween Fundraiser To Benefit Students

A group of Cambodian Americans came together recently to raise money for students in Cambodia. (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 6:51 am

A Cambodian Boy’s Rise to Ballet, on Film

“To dance the dance is like fishing in the rice field with other people, because that’s what we do. We fish and we talk with friends and sing. So when I came to the fishing dance, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, we know this.’” (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 6:33 am

‘Agangamsor’ a Hit in Maryland Performance

A Buddhist dance troop visited the Asian Arts and Culture Center in Maryland earlier this month to perform “Agangamsor and His Magic Power,” a uniquely Khmer adaptation to the Indian Ramayana. (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 6:09 am

Assembly Must Play Stronger Role in Resources: Experts

The chaotic management of the country’s natural resources is due in part to a legislature that is ill-equipped to hold government and law enforcement officials accountable, experts say. (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 6:02 am

Public Has Little Say in Resource Management

Cambodian citizens are rarely given a chance to be meaningfully involved in managing the country’s natural resources, even though they own them in principal..., experts say. (24 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 24 Nov 2009 | 5:54 am

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donate over $6 million - AZCentral.com

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie didn't let the recession hamper their giving. They quietly donated more than $6 million to charities last year, reports Showbiz 411's Roger Friedman. According to the 2008 tax return for the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 23 Nov 2009 | 4:09 pm

Khmer Rouge torturer had broad autonomy, lawyer says - Focus Infomation

Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer ran a camp "dedicated to death" with broad autonomy, a lawyer said on Monday in closing arguments at the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal in Cambodia, Reuters informs. Prosecution lawyers said 67-year ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 23 Nov 2009 | 3:04 pm

Genocide Trial of Khmer Rouge Prison Chief in Final Stage - FOX News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The genocide trial of a prison chief for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge entered its final stage Monday, as closing arguments began in the historic effort to assign responsibility for the deaths of 1.7 million people three decades ago ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 23 Nov 2009 | 9:57 am

Nobel Laureate Inspires Cambodian Students

While animals may kill each other for food, humans are the only creatures to do so out of cruelty, Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover told an assembly of Cambodians earlier this month. (23 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 23 Nov 2009 | 7:40 am

No Farmland Lost to Vietnamese: Ruling Party

Senior ruling party leaders have officially denied accusations by the opposition that Cambodian farmers have lost land to Vietnamese encroachment. (23 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 23 Nov 2009 | 7:35 am

Victims Want Justice as Final Arguments Begin for Case 001

Civil parties in the trial of Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch insisted on reparation for victims, as final arguments in the case got underway Monday. (23 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 23 Nov 2009 | 7:28 am

Film Star Jackie Chan on Arts, Culture, Peace

When film star and martial artist Jackie Chan visited Cambodia earlier this month, he brought a simple message: arts and culture are pathways to peace. (23 November 2009)

Source: VOA News: Top Stories | 23 Nov 2009 | 7:21 am

Cambodia has struggled to shed its reputation as a haven for ... - AsiaOne

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 ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 23 Nov 2009 | 6:22 am

Kapur ties for third in best finish of the year - New Kerala

Siem Reap (Cambodia), Nov 22 : A costly double bogey on the seventh hole of the final round left Shiv Kapur just short of what would have been his first Asian Tour title since 2005 as he finished third at the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open here Sunday ...

Source: Cambodia - Bing News | 22 Nov 2009 | 10:55 am