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19 hrs ago | Business Times

UEM Group mulls jobs in Vietnam, Cambodia

UEM Group Bhd has been offered huge projects in Vietnam and is also mulling whether to accept a contract to build a bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Fides News

ASIA/CAMBODIA - From the Year of St Paul to the Year of the Priesthood: a river of grace for ...

The gift of God's grace comes through the events and the celebrations which the Church proposes to the people of God: in this spirit the Catholic Church in Cambodia concluded the Year of St Paul and opened the Year of the Priesthood.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

Slam Sports

Cambodia celebrates 1-year of world heritage status for temple on disputed border

Cambodia held nationwide celebrations Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of a U.N. decision to list an ancient temple as a World Heritage site - the subject of a heated border dispute with Thailand.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Pnompenh Post

Cambodian holidaymakers stay abreast of trends in makeovers

Its reputation for dodgy doctors may still be intact, but Cambodia is re-creating itself as the perfect destination for those looking for a new face, fuller breasts or a flatter stomach This 26-year-old Khmer women recently had her breasts augmented at the hands of Dr Reid Sheftall.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Pnompenh Post

Photographers focused on Cambodia's changing times

Images from - The Boat Goes, The Pontoon Stays'. Clockwise from top left: Jeff Perigois, Ryan Plummer, diptych by Eric De Vries, triptych by Nicolas Axelrod .

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

People's Daily Online

Chinese senior CPC official visits Cambodia

Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC, arrived here on Saturday afternoon for his four-day visit to Cambodia.

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Bangkok Post

Suthep: No plan to scale down troop at border

Deputy Prime Minister for security affairs Suthep Thaugsuban said before leaving for Cambodia on Saturday morning that Thailand has no policy to cut number of military force deployed along Thai-Cambodia border for the time being.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

People's Daily Online

Cambodian ruling party CPP marks 58th anniversary

Thousands of members of Cambodian People's Party on Sunday gathered to celebrate the58th anniversary of the founding of the party in the central headquarters in Phnom Penh.

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The National

Cambodia rebuts Thai claim over Preah Vihear decision

Cambodian authorities on Friday dismissed claims by Thai Natural Resource and Environment minister Suwit Khunkitti that Cambodia failed to submit its plan for safeguarding and developing the Preah Vihear temple.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Raw Story

KRouge survivor confronts jail boss on wife's fate

A distraught survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison begged his former jailer Wednesday to reveal the truth about his wife's death so he could finally know where to pray for her soul.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Las Cruces Sun-News

Khmer Rouge survivor's paintings saved his life

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison said Wednesday that his ability to paint larger-than-life images of the regime's late leader, Pol Pot, and portraits of other communist icons helped save his life.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

People's Daily Online

Cambodian PM to visit France in July

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Tuesday that he will visit France on July 13 to strengthen the bilateral cooperation.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

People's Daily Online

Cambodia, Bahrain to sign joint agreement of diplomatic establishment

The Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Bahrain will sign a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations to expand the cooperation between a country in South East Asia and a country in the Middle East, a Cambodian official said on Monday.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

The Age

Khmer Rouge prison survivor testifies

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes trial has heard its first testimony from one of the few people who survived the Khmer Rouge regime's notorious main prison.

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Earth Times

Explosion near Cambodian premier's compound injures at least two

An explosion at an ammunition warehouse near Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's home injured at least two people Sunday night, according to police officers who asked not to be identified.

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The Straits Times

Lightning kills 5 in a day

LIGHTNING strikes killed five people in Cambodia in a single day, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.

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MediLexicon

Malaria Cases Reported In Cambodian Public Facilities Drop More Than 50%

There was more than a 50 percent drop in the total number of malaria cases reported by public facilities in Cambodia between 2003 and 2008, according to the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control's annual report, which was released on Tuesday, the Phnom Penh Post reports.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

CBC News

Cambodian newspaper editor sentenced to year after publishing stories alleging govt corruption

A Cambodian editor whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official was found guilty Friday of circulating disinformation in a one-hour trial and sentenced to a year in jail.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

The Straits Times

Will avoid temple issue on visit

THAILAND'S deputy prime minister said Friday he would steer clear of a dispute over an ancient temple on the Cambodian border when he meets the neighbouring country's leader this weekend.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Economist

Banyan: Burying Asia's savage past

FOR several weeks a neat former schoolteacher has sat in a Phnom Penh dock, detailing before the tribunal how meticulously he used to carry out the orders of his bosses.

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