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  • India delivers indelible ink for Cambodian polls

    Some 40,000 bottles of indelible ink, donated by the Indian government, were delivered to Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) Wednesday for use in general elections July 28. The poll panel accepted the ink from Indian Ambassador to Cambodia Dinesh K. Patnaik. NEC's chairman Im Suosdey said the ink cost $877,800, and each bottle contains 70 cc, reported Xinhua. "The Indian government ...

  • Vimpelcom attracts ‘concrete’ buyer for unwanted African assets Laos deal imminent

    USD400 million. Although the deal has yet to be finalised, the agreement is said to be 'concrete'. Interestingly, the buyer is said to be a private equity investor, rather than one of the major telecom groups in the region that had previously been linked with a potential deal. Standard Chartered is advising Vimpelcom on the transaction, having been hired in 2012 to find a buyer for its ...

  • Canberra adds to Cambodia tribunal funding

    AUSTRALIA is to give $A3.25 million extra support to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ...

  • 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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  • Airborne laser reveals hidden city in Cambodia - USA TODAY

    A laser technology known as lidar was used SYDNEY (AP) -- Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.The discovery was announced late Monday in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a ...

  • Cambodia unveils strategy to attract Chinese tourists - Xinhua

    PHNOM PENH, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018. Speaking at a seminar on Cambodia tourism marketing strategy targeting China, So Visothy, director of the Tourism Ministry's Marketing and Promotion Department, said that currently China is the third largest tourist ...

  • Cambodian opposition calls foul on election

    By Radio Free Asia Leaders of Cambodia's main opposition group said Tuesday that they will reject the results of upcoming national elections if the ruling party, which is widely expected to win, continues to disrupt campaigning activities of opposition party members. Nhem Ponharith, spokesman for the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) opposition coalition, told RFA's Khmer ...

  • Cambodias lost city discovered near Angkor Wat - Christian Science Monitor

    Cambodia's lost city of Mahendraparvata lay hidden beneath a canopy of dense vegetation. Airborne lasers produced a detailed map of a vast cityscape, including highways and previously undiscovered temples near Cambodia's prized Angkor Wat ...

  • Shaikh Salman NTC represents new era for Cambodias football - Goal.com Singapore

    The AFC President was present at the inauguration of the training centre and is optimistic about the Fifa-funded project, which marks the start of a new era for Cambodian football AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa was present at the inauguration of the National Training Centre of Cambodia (NTC) on Tuesday, having pledged yesterday to fully support the initiatives of the ...

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