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  • Cambodian Official Rejects UN Request for Update on Rights - Radio Free Asia

    Cambodia's top human rights official lashed out at a U.N. envoy Wednesday over requests for an update on the country's progress on rights, criticizing the envoy of "ignoring" earlier government responses to international concerns. Om Yentieng, president of the Cambodia Human Rights Committee, accused U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Surya Subedi at a press conference ...

  • SEASON OF CAMBODIA to Culminate with Visual Arts Open Studio Exhibition ... - Broadway World

    Organizers of Season of Cambodia announce the final week of events for its two-month long arts festival, which began in early April 2013, and now culminates with a visual arts 'Open Studio' exhibition of works by five artists-in-residence at Governors Island off the southern tip of Manhattan. This 'open studio' of work reflects two months of work by contemporary Cambodian and ...

  • Cambodia to mark 20th anniversary of first elections - Radio Australia

    They were polls that helped secure peace after decades of war but also set a dubious political precedent.After the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia suffered further through civil war and a 10 year Vietnamese occupation.Eventually the peace plan for Cambodia turned the country around.There was a UN enforced ceasefire, disarmament, refugee repatriation, and eventually, relatively free ...

  • A dam too far in Laos

    By Melinda Boh VIENTIANE - It was once referred to by US magazine Newsweek as a "kinder, gentler" type of dam. Since the Nam Theun 2 hydropower dam commenced commercial operations in 2010, the World Bank and other proponents of the multi-billion dollar power project have trumpeted it as an economic and social development success story for host country Laos. But with the negative ...

  • HM Says Garments Made in Cambodian Factory Without Approval

    Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMB) , Europe's second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the Stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with an unapproved sub-supplier at the Hong Kong-owned Top World garment ...


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Senso [Blu-Ray]

Senso [Blu-Ray]

You wouldnt know it from Senso, a Technicolored visual feast in the grandest tradition of historical-epic melodrama, but director Luchino Visconti was one of the principle architects of Italian neorealism in the 1940s. In fact, his 1942 film Ossessione, an unauthorized adaptation of th ... ...

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  • Cambodias insurance revenues rise by 30 pct in Q1 - Shanghai Daily

    PHNOM PENH, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's insurance industry earned a total premium of 12 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of 2013, up 30 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the industry's report released Wednesday.The main sources of the premium were from fire insurance of 28 percent, motor insurance of 18 percent, personal accident insurance of ...

  • Royal projects in aid of Cambodia extended by three more years - Thailand National News Bureau

    BANGKOK, 22 May 2013 (NNT) - Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on 21 May witnessed the signing of an agreement to extend the Royal Project on educational and public health assistance to Cambodia by three more years. The signing ceremony was held at Chitralada Palace between representatives of the Committee for the Royal Project on educational and public health assistance to ...

  • Garment saving lives of mothers in Cambodia - International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

    Fistula will be held on Thursday (May 23rd) and be commemorated with events and campaign launches around the world, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced. A non-pneumatic anti-shock garment has been successfully deployed in rural health centres in Cambodia, having saved the lives of two mothers since April, the USAID Better Health Services project has ...

  • 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. ...

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