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  • Cambodias Booming New Industry Orphanage Tourism

    It's the end of your three week vacation in Southeast Asia. You did good. You managed to hit all the locations on the backpacker's circuit; lounging on the tropical Islands off the Thai Peninsula, experiencing the street food of Bangkok, exploring the temples of Siem Reap, and shopping on the floating markets of the Mekong River. Now, with just a few days left before your flight home, ...

  • Fights by Cambodia garment workers grow amid bosses deadly profit drive - The Militant

    BY EMMA JOHNSON Bosses’ profit-driven disregard for workers’ lives killed three and injured 34 in two factory building collapses in Cambodia less than one week apart. ';We are not surprised when they cave in, they are jerry-built buildings that owners put little money in,'; said Say Sokny, general secretary of the Free Trade Union of Workers in a May 21 phone interview ...

  • Trial in the ECCC Case 002 Civil Parties will make their voice heard - FIDH

    FIDH, ADHOC and LICADHO welcome the opening, on 27 May 2013, of the Impact Hearings before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Case ...

  • Reps to joint border group appointed - Bangkok Post

    The cabinet has appointed representatives to the joint working group with Cambodia on border development and transportation links. Deputy government spokesman Sunisa Lertphakhawat said 17 members were appointed. Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichackchaikul would head the Thai delegation. The working group is authorised to propose policies on the development of border areas and transportation ...

  • Cambodia observes Buddhas Day - Xinhua

    KANDAL, Cambodia, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Buddhist monks and Buddhists marched on Friday morning around Preah Reach Trap Mountain, where the relics of Buddha are housed, to celebrate the Visak Bochea's Day, or Buddha's Day. The annually religious ceremony was attended by Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong, leader of the Mohanikaya Buddhist sect, and Supreme Patriarch Bou Kry, ...


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Underworld: Evolution

Loud, dark, and hopelessly enmeshed in loop-de-loop arcing plot mechanics that create more confusion than tension, Underworld: Evolution comes at you in an overenthusiastic bum rush, hoping to simply overwhelm your senses. Building on its predecessor, 2003s Un ... ...

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  • Medics in Laos learn about new test for HIV syphilis

    Europ Continents, an international distributor of medical equipment in South-East Asia, has introduced new test kits for HIV and syphilis, aimed at ensuring a timely diagnosis.The company's Healthcare Division Manager, Pierrick Chambrin, said the test would reduce the amount of time taken to obtain the result of tests for HIV. Only one blood sample is needed to test for both conditions.The ...

  • Asian Queer Film Festival to feature works from South Korea Cambodia - The Japan Times

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  • Wildlife group busts illegal loggers in Cambodia - ABC Online

    Cambodia An illegal logger in Cambodia has dropped an address book during a bust, leaving behind details of corrupt government officials and spying rangers. The man fled after being intercepted by police over an illegal haul of rare rosewood in Koh Kong province earlier this month.Beth Eisenstaedt from Wildlife Alliance helped coordinate the bust and has told Radio ...

  • When You Build a Small Roof for the Dog - New York Times

    Morning shift workers arrive at a factory in Phnom Penh. After an overloaded mezzanine collapsed at the Wing Star Shoes Factory on the southern outskirts of Phnom Penh last week, killing two workers and injuring 11 others, the Cambodian government sprang into action. One of the prime minister's sons was dispatched to ...

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