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  • Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize

    A French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film ...

  • UN Cambodia envoy rejects bias claims - Radio Australia

    The UN special envoy on human rights to Cambodia has rejected accusations he is biased towards the country's political opposition.Professor Surya Subedi finished his ninth mission to Cambodia today. The president of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, Om Yentieng, has said Professor Subedi's is biased and his views are inaccurate.Professor Subadi says he does not agree with Mr ...

  • Cambodia a rising star with a falling reputation - just-style.com

    Cambodia's reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel x - and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing ...

  • Cambodian sugar lacking spice riches

    ensures a higher market value for specialty produce. According to a report from Cambodia's Commerce Ministry, "A GI product must have a specific quality linked to the characteristics of its geographic production zone and must have a well-established reputation among consumers in connection with this origin." GI registration also requires farmers to use natural manure in ...

  • Death of a killer in Cambodia

    By Sebastian Strangio PHNOM PENH - Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia's communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime's 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87. He was being tried at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a United Nations-backed tribunal, along ...


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The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key is set deep in the stagnant bayous of Louisiana, which along with the dusty backroads of Texas, is one of the few American locations that can immediately and without question conjure up menace and dread all by itself. Like Transylvania in the 19th century, t ... ...

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  • Bike firms saddle up onlow Cambodian wages

    By Michelle Tolson PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's export business is in the process of changing due to shifts in manufacturing in Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the "machinery and transport equipment" sector and speculated it was as "probably bicycles". But when Cambodia jumped into the top 10 exporters of bicycles to the ...

  • Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia

    Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia By Geoff Gunn The survival of the monarchy in Cambodia is little short of remarkable in the light of that country's modern history. French manipulation of the monarchy and attempts to buttress religion and culture alongside the rise of nationalist youth and Buddhist radicalism was an important precursor to postwar events. No less momentous for ...

  • More to US-Cambodia relations than rights

    By Vannarith Chheang A meeting between US President Barack Obama and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on November 19 took on added significance given the backdrop of the 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which was held in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh in the same week. Focusing on human rights, fundamental political freedoms, and electoral democracy in ...

  • Lao Cambodian familiespay for summit luxuries

    By Beaumont Smith and Julie Masis VIENTIANE and PHNOM PENH - As Asian and European leaders gather for high-level meetings this month in Cambodia and Laos, the luxury living quarters and extensive security arrangements made for their arrivals have come at considerable human and environmental expense. Government authorities went on a building spree ahead of this week's 9th Asia-Europe ...

  • US warns Laos over Xayaburi dam

    By Carey L Biron WASHINGTON - The US government is directly cautioning the Laotian government following Monday's announcement that the latter will move forward with contentious construction plans for a massive hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River. "The extent and severity of impacts from the Xayaburi dam on an ecosystem that provides food security and livelihoods for millions ...

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