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Vietnam's Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh (L) and Myanmar's Defence Minister Major General Hla Min (R) attend the 6th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defence Ministers' Meeting in Phnom Penh on May 29, 2012. Cambodia is hosting the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) from May 28-30.
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Seeing teenagers taking a vacation at Chernobyl, as if they were going to Disney World, shocked me deeply ... Anyone visiting Chernobyl should have the same respect as if they were visiting Auschwitz or the Khmer Rouge Museum in Cambodia.
we ran on a little problem on that because the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Cambodia) appears to take that China should be invited early so that it could be part of selecting the major elements that could go to the COC in the part of the drafting committee.
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Cambodian soldier said hurt in Thai border clash
combat there ended a year ago.The deputy military commander of Cambodia's Preah Vihear province, Lt. Col. Men Ly, says Cambodian troops on patrol Sunday were attacked by Thai forces. He says one Cambodian soldier was wounded in a 10-minute exchange of rifle Read more »
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Australia contributes $1.7M for Khmer Rouge trial
since 2006, making it the second biggest donor after Japan.The communist Khmer Rouge are blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians while the regime was in power in the 1970s. The tribunal has convicted the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer and is currently Read more »
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Sotheby's trying to resolve Cambodia relic dispute
New York auction house said Wednesday it withdrew the 1,000-year-old relic a day before a March 2011 sale at the request of Cambodia, which also asked Sotheby's to arrange for its return. Sotheby's says the government did not allege that the statue had been Read more »
Around the web
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New Book Highlights Solutions to Cambodia’s “Cardamom Conundrum”
of Dr. Tim Killeen’s new book, entitled the Cardamom Conundrum, Reconciling Development and Conservation in the Kingdom of Cambodia, which was launched last week in Phnom Penh. A “conundrum” is a puzzle whose solution involves resolving a paradox. Cambodia’s 1:32 PM from Envirolib Read more »
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Malaysia couple charged with hurting Cambodia maid *new!
last October after activists highlighted dozens of cases of sexual abuse, overwork and exploitation among an estimated 50,000 Cambodians in Malaysian households. Indonesia, the main provider of domestic workers for Malaysia, announced a similar ban in 2009 9:36 AM from The Borneo Post Read more »
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Panetta to explain US strategic shift to Asian allies
U.S. President Barack Obama before beginning the Medal of Honor ceremony for Army Specialist Leslie Sabo Jr., for his actions in Cambodia in May 1970, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 16, 2012. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary 9:09 AM from Reuters Mobile Read more »
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India to open super highway to Myanmar, Thailand
four-lane motorway to allow traders and tourists to drive from its eastern tea state of Assam into Myanmar, Thailand and, eventually, Cambodia and Vietnam. The new "trilateral highway" is aimed at creating a new economic zone from Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal 5/29/12 from Today Online Read more »
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Cambodia garment union blames violence on company
PENH, Cambodia, May 29 (UPI) -- A union leader in Cambodia has blamed clothing maker SL Garment for violence that broke out at a factory. The union official said the company was trying to provoke violence as part of a campaign to smear the union. "This is 5/29/12 from United Press International Read more »
