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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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