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4 hrs ago | People's Daily Online

Cambodia, Lao PMs hold talks on border demarcation, bilateral ties

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting Lao Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh on Wednesday held talks on the border demarcation for the two neighboring countries and bilateral ties.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Hun Sen, Travel, Cambodia Travel, Bouasone Bouphavanh,

12 hrs ago | The Taipei Times

FEATIRE: Telepathic car hope of Cambodia

Mechanic Nhean Phaloek sits in his self-designed homemade Angkor 333-2010 car at his house in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Aug.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Cambodia, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Sat Nov 28, 2009

MinnPost.com

Exiled Thaksin in Cambodia kicks up trouble for Thailand

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA a ' At a luxury guesthouse, Cambodia's newest government adviser picks up a copy of his latest book, "Tackling Poverty." It explores how lessons from Thailand can be applied to other developing countries.

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TheNational

Cambodia puts painful past into history books at last

Students look through Cambodia's first textbook of Khmer Rouge history, which was issued to them earlier this week.

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The Star Online

Cambodia to develop solar power to meet domestic need

PHNOM PENH: Ten companies from eight countries have sought permission to invest in solar energy projects in Cambodia, after the removal of a 15% duty on imports of the materials needed to build solar plants in August, China's Xinhua news agency cited a local media as saying.

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

NationMultimedia.com - Politics

Thai-Khmer armed forces plan major role in resolving dispute

The Thai and Cambodian militaries yesterday cemented their roles as pacifying forces amid the Bangkok-Phnom Penh diplomatic showdown, declaring readiness to use their good offices to help patch things up.

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Globeinvestor.com

In Phnom Penh, a lesson for tyrants

As a Khmer Rouge leader awaits his sentence, oppressors everywhere would do well to ponder the fate of Comrade Duch MARK MACKINNON 00:00 EST Friday, November 27, 2009 PHNOM PENH -- Driving along the bumpy road that connects Phnom Penh with the courtroom on its outskirts that hosts the trials of the Khmer Rouge leadership, you pass through an ...

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The Globe and Mail

The Killing Fields court

Published on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 9:55PM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 10:18PM EST T he Genocide The communist Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia in April 1975 and immediately began dismantling modern society in their drive to transform the country into an agrarian utopia.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

Voice of America

UNDP: Cambodia Should Diversify Economy to Ease Pressure on Vulnerable Groups

A new United Nations report says Cambodia needs to diversify the economy to help protect vulnerable groups, such as women workers, from downturns.

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International Herald Tribune

Coal Plant Stirs Passions in Cambodia

Last week, executives from Leader Universal Holdings , a Malaysian company angling to build Cambodia's largest coal-fired power plant, met with Cambodian government officials and environmentalists to discuss the company's impact analysis for the proposed 100-megawatt facility.

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Pnompenh Post

Tracks going nowhere

Plans to revitalise Cambodia's railway network have been put at risk by the ongoing political spat between Thailand and Cambodia, sources say.

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Death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia increases to 5

The death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia has increased to five and the virus infected rate topped 28 cases for one week, official of the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Globe and Mail

Khmer Rouge murderer claims remorse

By Mark MacKinnon Phnom Penh - The Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 8:05PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov.

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Bangkok Post

Mother to see Sivarak Friday

Foreign Ministry officials and family of Sivarak Chutipong are allowed to visit the Thai engineer being detained on spy charges at Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh on Friday, Information Department director-general Vimon Kidchob said on Wednesday.

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NationMultimedia.com - Politics

Thai govt check report that Cambodia closed waters

Thai government on Monday assigns authorities concerned to check Pheu Thai Party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's claim that Cambodia closed territorial waters for Thai fishing boats.

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Tue Nov 24, 2009

Pnompenh Post

Community struggling to cope in aftermath of devastating blaze

A family picks through the remains of their home, destroyed by fire along with those of around 2,000 others in Russei Keo district last week.

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CBS News

Lawyer: Khmer Rouge Chief "Enjoyed" Murder

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, now known as Tuol Sleng genocide museum, reads document in the court room of the U.N.-backed tribunal, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov.

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NationMultimedia.com - Politics

Abhisit government lacks political maturity - Cambodia

Cambodia yesterday lashed out at the Thai government over an allegation of taking control of the Thai-owned air-traffic-control company.

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World News from Times Online

Long prison sentence called for Khmer Rouge jailer Duch

Cambodian prosecutors have called for the former prison chief in charge of the Khmer Rouge's main torture centre to receive a long jail term for his role in the torture and murder of thousands of Cambodians during Pol Pot's genocidal regime.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

Cellular News

Cambodia Wants More Sharing of Network Towers

Cambodia's Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, So Khun has called on the country's nine mobile phone networks to share share their network infrastructure to reduce the number of towers being deployed in the country.

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