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  • 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 ...

  • Rubber factories in Laos encounter export problem with China

    Rubber processing factories in Lao province of Oudomxay are facing unexpected problems because China is not allowing the import of rubber from Laos at the moment, causing large amounts of the material to remain in stock.Sino-Lao Rubber Company Director Oun told the media recently that, after the company had invested in the building of a rubber processing factory, they encountered an export ...

  • Laos Thailand agree on future cooperation

    Laos and Thailand have agreed to boost their cooperation in various sectors with several agreements signed during their second Joint Cabinet Retreat (JCR) in Chiang Mai on Sunday.The three memorandums of understanding signed during the meeting were on unofficial results of the 2nd JCR, agricultural cooperation, and on ownership, management and maintenance of the 4th Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge ...


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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 ...

  • Duo helping Cambodias street orphans - The Border Mail

    Kate Barrette Cummins and her daughter Millie Cummins, 11, will host an exhibition on Friday of Cambodian art to raise money for street children in that country. Picture: BEN ...

  • I Tested Out Three of Cambodias Spiritual Practices - VICE

    Vitray's first memories are of the tent cities in Thailand where Cambodian refugees found safety during the killing-fields era of the Khmer Rouge regime. Vitray was one of the lucky ones, as his family eventually managed to emigrate to America-to a Nashville ghetto plighted by bullets and crack cocaine. At 24, he traveled to Phnom Penh to get engaged. A handsome American citizen, he was ...

  • Health sites too complex full of cliches study

    By Ivan Oransky NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate. She played the role of a "salty tongue," a Cambodian expression that paints outspokenness in a positive light. But even though the patient's family was in the room when doctors took the ...

  • HAGL boss denies NGOs accusations of Laos-Cambodia land grab - eco-business.com

    Doan Nguyen Duc, chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Corporation, has rejected all accusations made against his company of deforesting and appropriating land in Laos and Cambodia by the NGO Global Witness, calling them ';groundless.'; The organisation recently released a report titled ';Rubber Barons'; – apparently a play on ';robber barons'; which refers to ...

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