| China, Laos to Strengthen Natural Resource Management Cooperation | |
Posted on: Thursday, 21 August 2008, 09:00 CDT Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "Laos, China To Strengthen Natural Resource...
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| Medical emergency teams thwarted by dense Bangkok traffic |
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| Rejected by Hong Kong, Glitter arrives in Thailand |
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Thai police said disgraced rocker Gary Glitter agreed Thursday to leave Thailand for London, possibly ending a two-day odyssey that began when he was released from a ...
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| Latest border talks make |
Cambodian, Thai foreign ministers agree to meet again over Preah Vihear standoff as negotiations over territorial dispute once again grind to a...
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| Ericsson deploys rural, solar-powered site with satellite transmission in Cambodia for Star-Cell |
ERIC ) has combined a GSM base station and satellite transmission in a solar-powered site, enabling Cambodian mobile operator Star-Cell to expand its network coverage in remote areas. The solution...
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| Sam Rainsy Party to move offices |
T HE Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) is seeking a new location for its headquarters because the owner of the current Sothearos Boulevard site, who is also a senior SRP official, wants to reclaim his land. ...
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| Govt touts organics to up rice export |
S HIFTING to chemical-free fertilisers could triple farmers' rice yields and produce more profitable crops at a time when Cambodian rice exports are on the rise, say agriculture officials. ...
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| Glitter in Bkk causes alarm in Cambodia |
AFP Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter sits on a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok after his release from a Vietnamese prison on...
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| Thailand Seeks To Seize $2.2 Billion In Assets From Thaksin |
(AFP)--Thai prosecutors Thursday accused ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of being "unusually rich" and said they would ask the courts to ...
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| Heavy rains damage roads, fields in Oddar Meanchey province |
Approximately one metre of water is now covering Oddar Meanchey’s Samraong, Trapang Prasath and Banteay Ampil districts. Officials are on alert for flash floods after unseasonably heavy rains...
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| Political will is key to Khmer Rouge trial |
T HE United Nations draft proposal for a trial, with international involvement, for the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge has achieved a unity rarely seen in Cambodia: everybody hates it. Prime...
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| Rain halts preah vihear road fix |
R epair of the 4km road leading uphill to the Preah Vihear temple has been suspended for five days due to rain, said Uch Vantha, a military engineer. "I got an order to repair the road to help...
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| Govt seeks loan from kuwait |
A Kuwaiti delegation met with officials from the ministries of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and water resources and meteorology this week to discuss a development loan for improvements to...
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| Siem reap tour group honoured |
J ourneys Within, a Siem Reap tour operator, won the Condé Nast Traveller magazine 2008 World Savers award for work in the health sector. The internationally recognised publication praised...
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| Laos, China to strengthen natural resource management co-op |
Technical staff from Laos and China have recently reached in-principle consensus on establishing a center for cooperation on land and natural resource management in Laos to exchange technical...
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| Glitter back in Thailand after HK rejection |
FORMER glam rocker and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter arrived back in Thailand today after being refused entry to Hong Kong, a Thai Airways official said. Glitter was deported from Vietnam on...
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| Thailand threatens to expel Gary Glitter to Britain |
Glitter, 64, was released from a Vietnamese prison on Tuesday after serving nearly three years for committing obscene acts with two girls aged 11 and 12. He had been booked to fly that night...
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| Thailand May Forcibly Send Sex Offender Glitter Home |
(AFP)--Thai immigration authorities threatened Thursday to expel former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to his native Britain ...
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| Protesters Urge Thailand To Strip Thaksin, Wife Of Passports |
(AFP)--About 1,000 anti-government protesters rallied Thursday in front of the foreign ministry to demand that authorities strip ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife of their...
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| Flood-plagued Laos to build wall along Mekong River |
Bangkok - Laos plans to build a 12-kilometre wall along the Mekong River to prevent future flooding in the capital, Vientiane, which has been hard hit this month by the worst inundation in 100 years,...
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| Autonomy is imperative for Bank of Thailand |
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| Travel Mid-Week on THAI to Thailand and save $$$ |
Thai Airways International’s Special Mid-Week Promotional Fares to Bangkok are now on sale until 30 September 2008, travel until 18 Sep 2008 and 10 October 2008 to 20 November 2008. Depart...
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| Pan Pacific to Manage Serviced Suites in Bangkok, Thailand |
SINGAPORE, August 13, 2008. Luxury serviced accommodation brand Pan Pacific Serviced Suites announces today the establishment of its first property in Bangkok and the second in the Asia Pacific...
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| Chinese legislator calls for further cooperation with Southeast Asia |
Visiting Senior Chinese legislator Zha Peixin on Wednesday called for further cooperation between China's top legislature and parliaments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)....
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| Japanese national charged for allegedly making kiddie porn |
A JAPANESE man has been charged for allegedly producing child pornography after he was arrested over the weekend in Sihanoukville taking pictures of naked boys, a police official said Tuesday. ...
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| Journeys within recognised for social conscience |
J ourneys Within, a Siem Reap tour operator, has won the Condé Nast Traveller magazine 2008 World Savers award for its work in the area of health. The internationally recognised publication...
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| SEZ operators form group, gaining bargaining power |
Cambodia Chamber of Commerce outraged as operators of the Kingdom's Special Economic Zones strive for more independence, leverage with...
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| Overfishing risks food security |
Widespread illegal fishing and rapid population growth are putting the Kingdom's fisheries, which provide the bulk of most citizens’ protein intake, under increasing threat, experts...
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| Temple tension eases at talks |
H UA HIN, Thailand - Tensions over Preah Vihear temple have eased, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday, as foreign ministers from the two countries met for a second round of talks aimed at...
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| Opposition journalists fear secret police are watching |
HENG CHIVOAN Dam Sith is seen in a car’s rearview mirror as he leaves Prey Sar prison in June. He has since left the...
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| Christians detained in Laos |
(christiansunite.com) - At least 90 Christians were arrested throughout Laos in recent weeks, according to an August 8 report from Compass...
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| Man extradited from Thailand over 2004 murder |
Scott Storey absconded after stabbing mother-of-four Bridget Cameron, 35, in the neck on April 24 2004 at the house they shared in Edinburgh.The 43-year-old was initially remanded in custody, but he...
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| Eng Chhay Eang to give up position as SRP secretary general |
The opposition stalwart will step aside for the second time in three years but only after the party’s election complaints have been...
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| DHL and tabitha build homes |
A t least 70 employees of DHL, a freight company, and Tabitha, a local NGO, built six houses in Krang Yow Village in Daang commune, Sanng district in Kandal province on August 10. The event was part...
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| Thumbprints of 20,000 voters back fraud claim |
Sam Rainsy Party submits vast body of evidence to Constitutional Council in effort to substantiate allegations of electoral fraud by the ruling...
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| Singapore welcomes moves by Thailand, Cambodia to resolve temple dispute |
Singapore Wednesday welcomed the efforts of Thailand and Cambodia to hold talks on the Preah Vihear Temple issue. A spokesman for the Singapore Foreign Ministry said in a statement that resolving the...
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| Glitter faces detention after refusing to board flight from Thailand |
British rocker Gary Glitter walks towards an airline gate at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport where he refused to board a plane back to the UK. Photographer: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters Disgraced former...
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| Kuwait rents rice farms in Cambodia |
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| KRT opens anti-graft drive |
Cambodian court officials vow to stamp out corruption, but new 'ethics monitors' will not address graft allegations under review by the...
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| Cambodia, Thailand to discuss 2nd phase of troop redeployment at disputed border area |
Cambodian and Thailand have agreed to arrange a second-phase troop redeployment at the disputed border area near the Preah Vihear Temple in the eponymous province of Cambodia, foreign minister Hor...
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| Strongman tightens grip on Cambodia |
By Geoffrey Cain PHNOM PENH - With surging double-digit economic growth and a territorial dispute with Thailand whipping up Khmer nationalism, Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodia's...
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| Thailand, Cambodia agree to step up border marking |
FOREIGN ministers from Cambodia and Thailand said yesterday they have agreed to step up efforts to mark the border around a disputed temple that has been the scene of a military standoff.At the...
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| Buddhist monk attacks Cambodian man |
A Cambodian man caught "loitering suspiciously" at a Buddhist pagoda was attacked by a monk with a machete, local media said.Soy Narith, 22, was recovering from severe chop wounds to his leg and left...
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| Cambodia says temple border with Thailand to be closed indefinitely |
Phnom Penh - Although talks with Thailand over disputed border territory achieved modest progress, the border crossing at the ancient Preah Vihear temple would remain closed indefinitely, Cambodian...
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| Thailand denies entry to jail-house rocker Glitter |
Bangkok - Thailand on Wednesday denied entry to Gary Glitter after the former British glam rock star refused to board a plane to London after finishing a jail term in Vietnam for sexually abusing two...
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| Rice Production Makes a Comeback in War-ravaged Cambodia |
Amid rising food prices and supply shortages, Cambodia has managed to increase its food production by turning the war-ravaged country's former "killing fields" into rice fields. Fred de Sam Lazaro...
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| Second Thai-Cambodian foreign ministers |
No substantial agreement has been reached after a one-day verbal tug-of-war between Thai and Cambodian delegations led by respective foreign ministers over the disputed border around the Preah Vihear...
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| Japanese man detained in Cambodia for taking nude photos of children |
PHNOM PENH — A Japanese man has been arrested and charged in Cambodia’s coastal town of Sihanoukville for having taken nude photos of children there, local officials said Tuesday. ...
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| Government plan to boost domestic rice production |
BANGKOK, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) - Thailand's Finance Ministry has announced it will lease some 160,000 hectares (ha) of unused state-owned land to poor farmers and agri-businesses to boost domestic...
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| Amanta Receives Licences for Laos Copper Project |
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 19, 2008) - Amanta Resources Ltd. (Amanta) (TSX VENTURE:AMH) is pleased to report that it has now received the necessary permits and licences to enable...
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