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  • 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 ...

  • Second Cambodian factory collapse injures 23 workers who produce clothes for ... - The Daily Telegraph

    GEORGE Burbury, the young Cat who starred in the club's VFL premiership last year, will make his AFL debut against Port Adelaide on ...

  • 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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Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham, a culture-clash sports comedy about the difficulties faced by young women who dont embrace their traditional roles and just want to play soccer (I mean, football), was a sleeper hit in England last year and has become a word-of-mouth hit in the U.S. ever since its release a few months ago. Its success on both shores is not particularly surprising since it offers the k ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • A Tale of Two Factory Disasters What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh - TIME

    stroke of luck that the number wasn't much higher. Then, on Monday, ten more workers in Cambodia, including a pregnant woman, were injured when an outdoor platform where workers took breaks toppled over. The incidents linked two low-income countries whose export-driven garment and footwear industries supplying major international brands were already being discussed together - but as ...

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