Cambodian journalist wins international award

PHNOM PENH, A Cambodian journalist has won an international media award for article touching on poverty impact that caused by global economic crisis, according to a press release issued Tuesday by Economics Today magazine. Read More

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Chavalit draws govt ire

Chavalit draws govt ire

Puea Thai Party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has sparked a furious backlash from the government by insisting he will embark on trips to Burma and Malaysia in the wake of his remarks about ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra being welcome “any time” in Cambodia. The government, which insists Gen Chavalit discredited the Thai admin...

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Hun Sen promises not to heighten border tension: Suthep

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said Tuesday that he had held a talk with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen over sour relations of the two countries caused by Hun Sen’s support for fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra. ...

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Cambodia passes new law for foreign adoptions

PHNOM PENH, - Cambodia’s National Assembly on Friday approved a new law for foreign adoptions, setting up criteria for children to be adopted, the eligibility of potential adoptive parents and the procedures for legal adoptions by families living overseas, local newspaper the Phnom Penh Post reported on Saturday. ...

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Cambodia not to extradite Thaksin if Thaksin seeks shelter: gov’t spokesman

PHNOM PENH, - Cambodia will reject the demand of extradition of former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, if Thai government put forward such demand when Thaksin seeks shelter in Cambodia, Cambodian government spokesman said in a statement released on Friday. ...

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Cambodia, S Korea develop comprehensive strategic partnership: FM

PHNOM PENH, — Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong announced on Thursday that Cambodia and South Korea has developed comprehensive and strategic partnership. ...

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FM: Cambodia, India to strengthen defense, anti-terrorism co-op

PHNOM PENH,– Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said on Sunday that India and Cambodia will strengthen the cooperation on the fields of national defense and anti-terrorism between the two countries. ...

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Ball is in Cambodia’s court, PM says

Good relations with Cambodia are up on Phnom Penh, according to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who said yesterday that the “ball is now in Cambodia’s court”. His remark suggests it’s up to Prime Minister Hun Sen to strengthen bilateral ties or allow them to suffer after the verbal spat between him and Abhiisit over the we...

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Cambodian PM ‘was misinformed’

The Foreign Ministry will send Cambodian Premier Hun Sen a note detailing former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s political status here to defuse tensions generated by Hun Sen’s comments last week. understand that Prime Minister Hun Sen made such remarks because he was misinformed about Thaksin and the whole situation in Thailand, so...

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Camb.embassy braces for protest

Security in front of the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok was tightened on Tuesday after members of the People’s Assembly of Thailand led by Chaiwat Sinsuwong announced they would protest there against Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s offer of a home for fugitive politician Thaksin Shinawatra to Cambodia. ...

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ASEAN summit ends successfully; VN to host 2010 summit

ASEAN summit ends successfully; VN to host 2010 summit

HUA HIN, The 15th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with its six dialogue partners, hosted by Thailand, ended successfully in Hua Hin resort Sunday. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said ASEAN must ...

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ASEAN ends summit of 16 Asia-Pacific countries

ASEAN ends summit of 16 Asia-Pacific countries

CHA-AM, - A multi-tasked summit of the leaders of the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries and their six dialogue partners ended in Cha-am on Sunday with the 10 heads of state endorsing the declaration launching the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, ...

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Cambodia offers home to Thaksin

Cambodia offers home to Thaksin

Ousted PM is welcome anytime, says Hun Sen Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been offered a home in Cambodia by Prime Minister Hun Sen, Puea Thai Party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh says. ...

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Former Thai PM Chavalit visits Cambodia, meeting PM Hun Sen

Former Thai PM Chavalit visits Cambodia, meeting PM Hun Sen

BANGKOK, Gen. Chavalit Yongchaiyuth, leader-in-waiting of Thailand’s opposition Puea Thai Party, is visiting Phnom Penh at the invitation of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Speaking before leaving for neighbouring Cambodia, Gen. Chavalit said it was a trip to visit an old friend. ...

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Gen Chavalit visits Cambodia

Former prime minister and a key member of the main opposition Puea Thai Party Chavalit Yongchaiyuth on Wednesday morning left for Phanom Penh to meet Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen. ...

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Cambodia to try men who robbed Vietnam jewellery store

Hanoi - Cambodian police have arrested one of four men who allegedly stole a kilogram of gold and 20,000 dollars from a jewellery store in Vietnam, a Vietnamese police official said Monday. ...

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Thailand accounts 90 per cent of human trafficking from Laos

Vientiane - Thailand accounts for about 90 per cent of the human trafficking from neighbouring Laos, with girls aged 12 to 18 making up a majority of the victims, state media reported Tuesday. ...

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Typhoon kills 35, destroys $41 mln in properties in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH,- Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) gave an initial estimation at last weekend’s meeting that Typhoon Ketsana, which hit Cambodia recently, claimed 35 lives and cost 41 million U.S. dollars in damages, official news agency AKP reported on Tuesday. ...

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Rice sprouts from garbage field

Rice sprouts from garbage field

Lorri Sawatsky had never seen anything so devastating. She and her husband stood on the hill in Cambodia and gazed dumbstruck at the massive field of garbage that stretched out before them. The stench was unbearable, but what was even harder to take was the sight of hundreds of people – many of them young children ... ...

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China Engineering, Technology Expo opens in Vancouver

China Engineering, Technology Expo opens in Vancouver

VANCOUVER, - China Engineering and Technology Expo opened here on Monday, the first of its kind sponsored in North America by the Chinese government. The expo aims to showcase the strength and competitive ...

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Sixth China-ASEAN Expo opens to embrace free trade area

Sixth China-ASEAN Expo opens to embrace free trade area

NANNING, - China and ten southeast Asian countries are enhancing mutual trading ties and making final preparations for Asia’s largest free trade area(FTA) as a high profile exposition and an investment summit opened here Tuesday. ...

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