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  • 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 ...

  • Ex-UNESCO chief visits Cambodias World Heritage Preah Vihear temple

    Koichiro Matsuura, ex-director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), on Tuesday visited Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple, a world heritage site, a Cambodian spokesman said.Dim Sovannarom, spokesman for the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC), said that Koichiro Matsuura, accompanied by Dr. Jiang Mingjun, President of the ...

  • As Elections Near Cambodias Democracy Stumbles - the Diplomat

    Less than six weeks before national elections are set to be held in Cambodia, there are officially no opposition parliamentarians-they were ...

  • Airborne laser technology finds hidden ancient city under Angkor Wat in ... - NEWS.com.au

    Australian researchers have uncovered roadways and canals around Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat, proof of an ancient bustling city around the 1200-year-old temples. Picture: ...

  • Cambodian Lost City Revealed Using Airborne Lasers

    lost city of Mahendraparvata , previously known only from 1200 year old inscriptions. Mahendraparvata, one of the first capitals of the Khmer Empire, was considered lost to history and described in documents dating to 802 A.D. The Cambodian Archaeology and Development Foundation, searching the region of Phnom Kulen near Angkor, used an airborne laser scanning technology known as LiDAR (Light ...


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Scream 2

The only movies more ripe for ridicule and satire than mindless slasher films are the endless sequels to mindless slasher films. Considering how deftly unoriginal slasher pics are in the first place, it doesn't take much to imagine how even less original the same movie is with Part 2 plastered after its title. ...

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  • Cambodia Court Upholds Unjust Verdict - Human Rights Watch

    Cambodian court’s ruling upholding the conviction of a land rights activist on trumped-up charges shows the political use of the country’s legal system to persecute critics of the government, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 14, 2013, the Court of Appeals in Phnom Penh affirmed a guilty verdict on charges of aggravated assault against Yorm Bopha, while reducing her three-year ...

  • Some 300 Cambodian Nike workers fired after protests

    About 300 laborers at a Nike factory were fired yesterday after massive protests for better wages, part of a worldwide reflection on developing world factory conditions after the tragedy in ...

  • Ancient city’s complex of roads canals found hidden under dense Cambodian forest

    SYDNEY, Australia -- Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals in Cambodia, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking the country's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.The discovery was announced in a paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a previously undocumented, formally planned urban ...

  • Video of Cambodias homebrew bamboo railroad - Boing Boing

    Cambodian bamboo railroad I wrote about in 2006; this being a homebrew railroad running at 40km/h off an electric motor, along decrepit and degenerating rails that only see one scheduled train per week. It's a pretty amazing ...

  • Lost Medieval City Discovered Beneath Cambodian Jungle - LiveScience.com

    '); Here, the lost city of Mahendraparvata revealed in a shaded relief map of terrain beneath the vegetation in the Phnom Kulen acquisition area, with elevation derived from the lidar digital terrain model at 0.5 meter resolution and 4x vertical exaggeration. Green denotes previously documented archaeological features; areas shaded red contain newly documented features indicative of an ...

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