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  • Laos considers requirements to adopt timber trade regulations

    Laos is examining the conditions necessary to enforce international rules on the timber trade and the sourcing of wood products, which will ensure effective and sustainable forest management.Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr Phuangparisak Pravongviengkham, revealed the progress made at a workshop held yesterday in Vientiane to enhance and understand the Forest Law Enforcement, ...

  • For ambitious young Cambodians Chinese is becoming the obvious second ... - the Diplomat

    When 20-year-old Suon Chiva was choosing a language to complement his native Khmer, it didn’t take him long to decide. He saw where the products in his local markets were made and where the new investments in his country were coming from. Learning to speak Chinese, he decided, made the most sense. "Cambodia now has a lot of business people coming here from China," Chiva says. ...

  • Britain jails Cambodia sex offender

    David Graham admitted abusing a 14-year-old Cambodian boy in Phnom Penh in 2006. He has been jailed for the crime in Britain, after more than six years on the run. (Daily Mail photo) David Graham, 47, had been on the run for six years after committing the crime in 2006, but was arrested in France, before being extradited to Britain. It is only the second time that a sex offender has been ...

  • - IFEX General Meeting and Strategy Conference - Phnom Penh Cambodia 17 to 20 June 2013

    IFEX Strategy Conferences take place every two years and are the largest global gatherings of free expression advocates. Local stakeholders, donors and other special guests are invited to join IFEX members in a broad dialogue -- to network, exchange skills, forge new alliances and take part in a dynamic and experiential programme of structured sessions, small group work, and a marketplace of ...

  • Factorys walkway collapses 23 injured - UPI.com

    A connecting walkway at a garment factory in Cambodia collapsed into a pond sending 23 employees to hospitals, officials said. The 30-feet-long walkway collapsed Monday while workers were eating lunch on the structure, The Phnom Penh Post reported. A pregnant woman, Khem Rany, was among the injured. "We don't know what happened," she said. "The construction collapsed into ...


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Shallow Hal

Pablo Picasso once stated that beauty was "a word without sense." That may be true, but much like what Justice Potter Stewart famously said about pornography, beauty is something that you may not be able to define, but you know it when you see it. As much as we are told that ideals about aesthetic beauty in other human beings are socially constructed--that is, they change from era to era and with ... ...

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  • Seven Feared Trapped in Cambodian Gold Mine Collapse

    PHNOM PENH -- A gold mine shaft has collapsed in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia, trapping at least seven miners, officials said Monday. Police said late Monday they are trying to rescue the trapped miners, near Romtum village, Rovieng district, but the shaft is very deep and old, making rescue efforts difficult. "We don’t have the identities or the exact number of people, ...

  • Cambodia launches cassava development project under China UNDP support - Peoples Daily Online

    PHNOM PENH, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia launched Tuesday the second phase of cassava development project under the support of China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).Speaking at the launching ceremony, Teng Lao, secretary of state of Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, said the second phase of the project, which will last until September 2014, was made possible with the funding of ...

  • Cambodia factory accident injures 23 police - Channel News Asia

    A shelter collapsed injuring 23 workers on Monday at aCambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial ...

  • Sciaroni Associates Ruling Endorses Investment in Cambodia

    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Sciaroni & Associates: A recent decision by an independent international arbitration authority is an indication that Cambodia is an increasingly attractive candidate for expanded foreign investment, regional advisory and business leaders said today. The decision, announced in April by the International Centre for the Settlement of ...

  • Sam Rainsy confident of returning to Cambodia to contest elections - Radio Australia

    The demonstrators submitted a petition at the EU delegation asking for an intervention and marched to the United Nations rights office where leaders briefly met with visiting UN envoy Surya Subedi.The march was organised by the Cambodian National Rescue Party, which is a merger of the former Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party. It's the main opposition force against the powerful and ...

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