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  • At least 23 workers injured in relaxing shelter collapse at Cambodian factory

    A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about industrial safety in ...

  • Cambodian Pol Pot film wins at Cannes - 3News NZ

    An autobiographical 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 Festival. To rousing applause, director Rithy Panh collected the award at a ceremony Saturday night, expressing his gratitude to be able "to have the freedom to ...

  • Cambodian Documentary Wins Cannes Prize for Innovative Cinema

    CANNES -- A documentary using small clay figurines to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at ...

  • Cambodian film tops Un Certain Regard

    Filmmaker Rithy Panh (third from left beside Zhang Ziyi) of Cambodia wins the Un Certain Regard prize for his work, ';The Missing Picture'; at the Cannes Film Festival. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/MOTOHARU ...

  • Cambodian documentary wins Cannes prize

    Psy impersonator fools Cannes festival stars A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival. L'Image Manquante (The Missing Picture) was among the 18 films that premiered in the Un Certain Regard category ...


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The fact that commentators, pundits, and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum are condemning Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelows gripping hunt-for-Osama bin Laden procedural, is a sure sign that she and journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal, reuniting afte ... ...

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  • Documentary on Khmer Rouge hell wins award at Cannes

    A documentary on relatives wiped out in the Khmer Rouge's tyrannical grip on Cambodia in the 1970s earned Cambodian-French director Rithy Panh a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Entitled "L'Image Manquante" -- "The Missing Picture" in English -- the 95-minute work earned the top award in the festival's "Un Certain Regard" ...

  • 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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