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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) [DVD]

I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) [DVD]

Part of being an adult is admitting when youre wrong, which is what I plan to do here. Simply put, my original assessment of Meir Zarchis rape-revenge film I Spit On Your Grave, which I wrote back in 1997 after viewing the film once, was off the mark. It was one of the earliest reviews I ever wrote, and in my zeal to take stand, I now recognize how much I exaggerated my negative assessment ... ...

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  • Cambodian Prince Ordered to Declare Assets - Radio Free Asia

    Cambodia's official Anti-Corruption Unit has demanded that the former spokesman for late King Norodom Sihanouk declare his assets or face legal action in a move he says is retribution for his decision to join the country's opposition party ahead of upcoming national elections.The investigative Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), which critics have accused of being linked to the ruling ...

  • 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. ...

  • Britain jails Cambodia sex offender

    David Graham admitted abusing a 14-year-old Cambodian boy in Phnom Penh in 2006. He has been jailed for the crime in Britain, after more than six years on the run. (Daily Mail photo) David Graham, 47, had been on the run for six years after committing the crime in 2006, but was arrested in France, before being extradited to Britain. It is only the second time that a sex offender has been ...

  • - IFEX General Meeting and Strategy Conference - Phnom Penh Cambodia 17 to 20 June 2013

    IFEX Strategy Conferences take place every two years and are the largest global gatherings of free expression advocates. Local stakeholders, donors and other special guests are invited to join IFEX members in a broad dialogue -- to network, exchange skills, forge new alliances and take part in a dynamic and experiential programme of structured sessions, small group work, and a marketplace of ...

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