The Thai courts issued an injuction against the Thai government from supporting Cambodia’s bid to list Preah Vihear as a World Heritage site, Cambodia has decided to press on with the proposal alone at the World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec today.
Cambodians hope for UNESCO ruling to end Thai temple claims
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Cambodian villagers lit memorial in frankincense stepped in Choeung Ek, filled with skulls of victims of the Khmer Rouge. "The Killing Fields" Choeung Ek are located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. 20 May Day observed in Cambodia the casualties day. The radical communist group led by Pol Pot was in power in 1975-1979 when he worked. During this time, as a result of ideological and ethnic
BANGKOK, June 23 (TNA) - Cambodian authorities ordered the closure of an historic temple on the Thai-Cambodia border Monday, and deployed an armed military unit for added security at the site to guard the temple under consideration as a World Heritage site in the wake of continuing protests in Thailand over the issue, according to [...]
June 20 (Bloomberg) – Cambodia’s ruling party is using “subtle” measures to intimidate voters before next month’s general elections rather than outright violence as in the past, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said.
“Even though there is less violence, less deaths, the ruling party is using more subtle means to achieve the same goals,” he said by [...]
The Thai government has agreed to back Cambodia’s application for the historic border temple of Preah Vihear to be listed as a World Heritage Site.
Thailand’s foreign minister, Noppadon Pattama, says that the Thai military, his ministry and Cambodian officials have jointly mapped the area around the temple to resolve any territorial disputes.
BANGKOK, June 17 (Xinhua) – Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday endorsed a new map of the disputed Preah Vihear temple drawn by neighboring Cambodia, which would pave the way for Cambodia’s application to list the temple as a World Heritage Site.
Cambodia will present the yet-to-be disclosed new map as a key document to experts of the [...]
Facing an estimated huge sum for parking services in Viet Nam, there is not much hope that Royal Khmer Airlines will pay to bring its Boeing 727 home.
Cambodian jet abandoned in Noi Bai airport for over a year
The Viet Nam Aviation Department (VAD) will send a letter to the Cambodian side, holding it responsible for leaving the aircraft at Noi Bai International Airport for nearly one year. It
The State Bank of Viet Nam has given the go-ahead to the Sai Gon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank) to open two branches in Laos and Cambodia.
The move is a further step in Sacombank’s plan to expand business activities abroad, following the success of a representative office in Guangxi , China , on...
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Admired for their Amok (traditional Cambodian dish), but any of the Palm's fish offerings will do you right.
...Some of my favorites include Cafe Fresco (love the roasted pumpkin sandwich) and Chow (successfully modernized Khmer cuisine).
...Throw a dart at the menu with a blindfold on and you'll taste the definition of satiation.
Korea will help Cambodia replant the forests stripped bare around its ancient temple complex of Angkor Wat.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen requested Korea’s help in restoring denuded woodlands on Tuesday during Korea Forest Service Minister Hah Young-je’s visit to the Southeast Asian country.
After a monumental effort by the Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient, the largest reclining Buddha in Cambodia has been restored in its original position at the Baphuon and is now open to the public.
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Largest Cambodian Buddha resurrected in Siem Reap
Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online, 04 June 2008
The Buddha is a 16th century addition to [...]
The Viet Nam Rubber Group (VRG) held a meeting in Cambodia ’s capital Phnom Penh on June 3 to discuss measures to speed up its rubber cultivation in the neighbouring country.
Addressing the event, VRG Deputy General Director Tran Ngoc Thuan said the project, which targets 100,000ha of rubber in Cambodia , will generate more jobs and help reduce poverty for local people.
He affirmed VRG’s
If private equity interest is the bellwether for the hot investments of the future, consider this: At least four new private equity funds, backed by brand-name investors, are aiming to bring $475 million of foreign investment into Cambodia.
“Eventually, Vietnam worked out well,” Marc Faber, a fund manager and investment adviser known for his “Gloom, Boom, [...]
Every May, when the rains come, water levels in the Mekong start to rise.
When the river flows into Phnom Penh it meets another river that drains from a lake in central Cambodia.
So full is the Mekong that it reverses that river’s flow, forcing water back upstream and expanding the lake more than five-fold.
This is the [...]
Cambodia in the first four months of this year welcomed more than 80,000 Vietnamese visitors, an increase of 97 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon.
Khon said he supported the proposed tourism co-operation and joint venture plans between Lam Dong province and Cambodian localities during a meeting with a Lam Dong province delegation
Head of the State Audit, Vuong Dinh Hue, and Auditor General of the Cambodian National Audit Authority, Uth Chhorn, discussed measures to boost cooperation between the two agencies at a meeting held in Hanoi on May 20.
Following a cooperation agreement between the two audit agencies, to be signed in the near future, Viet Nam and Cambodia will boost information and experience sharing.
They will
After years of a politically charged debate on how Cambodian schools should or should not handle the tragic past when the Khmer Rouge governed the nation, the Education Ministry has decided to move forward with an extensive program of teaching about what happened. The Ministry has authorized the Documentation Center of Cambodia to train 1,000 [...]
The foreign ministries of Thailand and Cambodia make a joint statement on the status of the border Preah Vihear temple and the application for UNESCO world heritage.
Temple Harmony
Bangkok Post, 06 May 2008
Temple Harmony
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The Viet Nam-Laos-Cambodia Association for Economic Cooperation Development made its official debut in Hanoi on May 6.
The voluntary association aims to boost support among members and raise the efficiency of economic and investment cooperation between member countries.
It will also gather members’ opinions on strategies and policies relating to economic and investment cooperation.
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Today is the 38th anniversary of the day President Nixon went on national television – all three channels – to announce attacking Cambodia, Vietnam’s western neighbor. To many this was a widening of the Vietnam War. And this was also the trigger for anti-war protests that led to the death of four Kent State University students on May 4th. I probably ignored that Nixon announcement as I ignored almost all news of the Vietnam War at that time. On April 30, 1970, I’d been married less than eight months to a man about to go on active army duty. I found playing ostrich with my head buried in the sand a very comforting position. Last night I watched the NCSI episode that takes place in Baghdad. While the actual murder is done by an outsider, the episode conveys some of the
The bus from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam to Phnom Penh, Cambodia is usually straightforward. We spent US$15 for it. The six-hour land trip is a very common route. And you can easily buy tickets anywhere in Vietnam. But for this trip, we encountered some problems.We left Mui Ne at 1 a.m. for the five-hour trip to HCMC. We were to catch the 8 a.m. bus to PP hoping to be there by 2 p.m. I had always wanted to shop again at the Russian Market since they have a lot of great cultural souvenirs and export overruns there.What I thought would be an easy border crossing turned out to be an irritating one. At the Vietnamese border, the immigration officer treated us shabbily. We were standing in front of him for almost 30 minutes and he was not minding us. At times, he was smirking. When asked
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A French lawyer known for his provocative style and infamous clients has taken center stage at the tribunal for Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge leaders, challenging the judges and adding to the woes of an already troubled court.
The aggressive stance taken by Jacques Verges at an appeal by former Khmer Rouge [...]
Thailand and Cambodia will enter into talks with UNESCO to discuss the matter of co-registering the border temple of Preah Vihear.
Talks called on Preah Vihear site
Bangkok Post, 25 April 2008
Talks called on Preah Vihear site
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Thailand will meet Cambodia in Paris at the invitation of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) to [...]Show on map
AirAsia is having a March Airfare promotion departing from Kuala Lumpur to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Air Asia’s has opened the Booking period from 10 till 23 March 2008 for the travelling period from 11 June till 31 July 2008.
Although this is considered the low season to travel to Cambodia, take advantage of [...]
Thailand's Seamico Securities ZMIC.BK aimed to finalise plans later this year to expand into Vietnam and Cambodia, two of Asia's fastest-growing economies, the brokerage firm said on Monday.
The company also planned to sell up to 1 billion baht ($32 million) worth of debentures during June and July, Seamico Vice...
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The Thai government has lodged an official protest to the Cambodian government for dispatching troops to a disputed border territory in the vicinity of the Preah Vihear temple.
Official protest to Cambodia
The Nation, 11 April 2008
Editor’s note: Christiane Amanpour is currently in production on a major CNN documentary that focuses on those people who stood up and said, “Listen! We must stop the killing. Stop the genocide.”
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) — A recently disclosed memo gave U.S. interrogators the ability to use harsh methods — what many call “torture” — [...]
Several days ago we reported on the dramatic rise in marriage between poor women in Cambodia and South Korean males. Most of the South Koreans tend to come from working class backgrounds and they were seeking women who were both attractive and subservient. The government of Cambodia has decided to suspend all such marriages for [...]
The Phu Rieng – Karatie Rubber Joint Stock Company will grow additional 1,000 to 1,500 ha of rubber trees in Cambodia in this year.
In 2007, 200ha of rubber trees were planted in the country by the company, providing jobs for 250 Cambodian workers.
Earlier, the company signed an agreement to rent 10,000 ha of land in Karatie province to grow the trees,
At present, it has built 150 houses for
Can Tho Cement Sadico has signed a cooperation agreement with Cambodia’s Omsaura Co. to exploit Latorite ore in Cambodia’s Compongthom province, capitalised at 900,000 USD.
Under the deal, the project will begin in July and expire 40 years later.
The mining operation has an estimated output of 50,000 tonnes of ore per month.
Vietnamese companies, including the Viet Nam Post and Telecommunication (VNPT) and the Army Telecommunication Corporation (Viettel), are attending the fourth information technology and telecommunications expo, in Cambodia.
The expo, jointly held by the National Information Technology Development Authority of Cambodia and the International Data Group World Expo Viet Nam from April 4-6, drew more
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The populations of seven species of rare water birds have recovered significantly in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake due to a program that employs former hunters as park rangers, conservationists said Thursday.
A report by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society found the populations have increased by as much as 20 times [...]
PHNOM PENH -- Six drunken Malaysian men were arrested and set to be deported from Cambodia on Friday, after they shouted at flight attendants and scared passengers on a flight from Kuala Lumpur, officials said. The six men were arrested as soon as the AirAsia Airbus A320 landed in Phnom Penh, airport police chief Chhour Kimny told Agence France-Presse. "They are drunk and demanded services that air hostesses don't provide. They made trouble on board the flight," he said. "They used a loud voice and had a verbal conflict with the air hostesses. They acted improperly and caused chaos among the passengers," he said. A top immigration official told AFP the six would be deported from Cambodia soon.It was not immediately known how many passengers were on board.Source: Inquirer.NetFM: The real re
The March 31st Wall Street Journal’s news roundup “U.S. Watch” carried this brief article from the Associated Press: “Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65 years old. “Mr. Dith died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer, according to Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Mr. Dith had been diagnosed almost three months ago. “Mr. Dith was working as an interpreter and assistant for Mr. Schanberg in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, when the Vietnam War reached its end in April 1975 and both countries were taken over by commu
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) - Ricky Martin met with victims of sexual exploitation Saturday during a visit to Cambodia to promote the fight against human trafficking.
Martin held infants and listened to a 14-year-old rape victim’s song during his visit to a shelter in the northwestern city of Siem Reap, home of the famed Angkor temples.
“She [...]
PHNOM PENH, March 27 (Xinhua) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed Thursday that the government allows importing pigs and pork products from neighboring countries as the food prices increasing sharply.
The pig diseases in neighboring countries were over according to a report of the Cambodian veterinarian department, so the government lifted the ban on importing [...]
A report released by the International Organization for Migration(IOM) indicates there is a new form of human trafficking which has emerged in southeast Asia. The brides-to-be are brought down from poor Cambodian villages and herded into city hotels where they are lined up on display for prospective grooms flowin in from South Korea. Over the [...]
If there is a saying that would speak the loudest for Cambodia diving it would be More Fish & Less Divers. If you look at a map of South East Asia, Cambodia is surrounded by great scuba diving. You have Vietnam known for its Nudibranch and soft corals, and Thailand known for diving in two different bodies of water, the Adman Sea, famous for its leopard sharks and lion fish, and the Gulf of Thailand with its warm water where whale sharks can be seen, as well as a large assortment of reef fish like wrasses, parrots and angel fish. In Cambodia you have 2 PADI Dive Centers and a few smaller dive shops with instructors from SSI, CMAS, and NAUI. Go to Koh Toa in Thailand and you have on just one small island 35 dive shops. Koh Chiang has over 20 dive shops and is less than 100 miles away as
Cambodia announces plans to develop the border temple of Preah Vihear into a tourist site that will “rival Angkor Wat”. The thing is, isn’t the temple already a tourist destination,...
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TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters Life!) - Cambodian entertainment watchdogs have blacklisted three songs, arguing that they could encourage women to pursue other women’s husbands, a Japanese news agency reported on Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) — Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) has opened a second branch in Cambodia as part of its strategy to grow its international network as well as to make inroads into the domestic markets where Maybank is present, a statement from the bank said here today.
PHNOM PENH, March 18 (Xinhua) — The Cambodian government will develop the Preah Vihear temple near the border with Thailand into a tourism spot in an effort to reach the goal of attracting 3 million tourists annually by 2010, local press reported Tuesday.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian court sentenced a prominent Russian investor to 13 years in jail on Friday for the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl, the latest foreigner to be caught in the country’s drive to stop child sex tourism.
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The lawyer for 41-year-old Alexander Trofimov, who signed a $300 million [...]
Discover Cambodia’s new Nick Faldo Golf Course with Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa, Siem Reap
Golfers can discover the new Nick Faldo course in Siem Reap, Cambodia in partnership with the Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa, with a new three-day, two-night inclusive package priced at just US$251 per person.
The new ‘Nick Faldo Golf Package’ offered by [...]
An old hospital was razed to make way for Phnom Penh’s tallest building - a 42-story twin condominium tower. A garbage-strewn slum became prime real estate after police evicted its dwellers to a parched rice field outside the capital.
Cambodia is experiencing a construction boom fueled by foreign investment, particularly by South Koreans, and buying and [...]
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIAN officials on Friday broke ground on the country’s first skyscraper, a 42-storey tower that when completed will dwarf all other buildings in the low-rise capital Phnom Penh. The 192-metre-tall Gold Tower 42 project is being touted by Cambodia’s leaders as a symbol of the country’s galloping economy, which has averaged 11 [...]
Prime minister Samak Sundaravej asked for some time alone this morning, on his second and final day of an official visit to Cambodia. Mr Samak,a keen chef and culinary expert, reportedly nipped off to a local market in Phnom Penh to observe the atmosphere there. According to a local paper, the Thai premier spend over an hour at the market before returning to his hotel. On Monday, he met with Cambodian leader Hun Sen to discuss bilateral issues, including Thai assistance to Cambodia in the constructin of transportation routes in the future. Mr Samak is due back in Thailand on Thai Airways International flight TG 697 expected to land at Suvarnabhumi airport at 11a.m.
Spin The Globe Playlist29 February 2008Fun and unexpected ping-ponging between two unlikely musical allies on today's show; plus new releases and more in the second hour. And did I mention what an amazing show Angelique Kidjo put on last week? A couple days later I caught a good show by the Refugee Allstars, but they were a mere candle to Kidjo's incandescent spotlight of energy. And then when she got people up on stage dancing with her...!Artist - Song - Album hour 1 Etienne Mbappe - Ambass - Misiya Royal Palace Ensemble - Apsaras’ Dance - A Window on the World Gino Sitson - Ngoyak’ - Son Zin’… Vocadelic
Man on motorbike scanned from 35 mm negative.
Nothing like a trailer on the back of a motorbike. When it comes to moving stuff around, people in Asia are creative.
I've seen motorbikes piled with...
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Given the recent history of Cambodia, you might wonder why I refer to it as the happiest place on earth. Well, there is a real reason if you understand what happy means in Cambodian slang.Cambodia - The Happiest Country in AsiaCambodia is located in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Thailand to the west, Laos to the north and Vietnam to the east. As you may know, some very nasty things happened in Cambodia in the 1970s and 1980s. During this period, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge ruled the country or were fighting to do so.Reign of terror is a phrase often over used, but not when it comes to the Khmer Rouge. The group implemented what can only be called bizarre policies and managed to starve and murder roughly twenty percent of the total population of Cambodia. The reign of terror was eventua
The Cambodian government signed a joint venture agreement with two Indonesian companies on Friday to form a new national airline to tap the country's growing tourism industry.The new airline, which has yet to be named, is expected to begin flying in six months, the partners said.Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint venture with officials from two Indonesia-based companies, the Rajawali Group and Ancora International."We will create an airline the country will be proud of," he said.The new airline will be Cambodia's national flag carrier, its first since tough competition and mismanagement forced Royal Air Cambodge to shut down over five years ago. Air travel to and from Cambodia is currently dominated by foreign-owned airlines.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
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15 November 2007 (Yahoo News) - An excavation at Phum Snay reveals 35 skeletons, five of which are women who were buried with swords and possibly helmets. Evidence of woman warriors? This find is certainly unusual indeed, but it’s probably too early to get excited about the prospect of some amazonian society. It’ll be interesting to see if the skeletal remains reveal any telltale signs of battle-related injuries, particularly of cuts to the bone around the arm areas. The story doesn’t give any approximate date for the burials, but it looks like a pre-Angkorian find.
Women warriors may have battled in ancient Cambodia
Archaeologists have found female skeletons buried with metal swords in Cambodian ruins, indicating there may have been a civilisation with female warriors, the mission head said Thursday.
The team dug up 35 human skeletons at five locations in Phum Snay in northwestern Cambodia in research earlier this year, said Japanese researcher Yoshinori Yasuda, who
Every week I search for hidden treasure, scouring the Internet for travel writing that resonates, narratives that slap me across the face with wit and poetry, stories that make me feel their emotional weight in my belly and my brain.
The good news is, most weeks I find 5 great stories. Some are buried in obscure blogs. Some are encased in the websites of elite print magazines like National Geographic or The New Yorker.
Others are published by feisty, low-budget online magazines, and it’s hardly a secret that these are the ones I find particularly encouraging.
What never fails to piss me off is when I read a truly outstanding, revelatory piece of travel writing in a print magazine or newspaper, a story that I want EVERYONE to read, a story with the capacity not only to change opinions, but to change the world…and go online to find that it is “only available to print subscribers.”
The arbitrary restriction of something so easily distributed as a simple story a
I’ve just discovered an archaeology site called Past Horizons that hosts an online store for archaeological equipment and also a worldwide database for fieldwork opportunities. There are currently two archaeology fieldwork projects listed for Southeast Asia: one in Cambodia and one in Thailand.
Cambodia
Khmer Project in Cambodia
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Origins of Angkor
For more information, click on the links, which will take you to the Past Horizons site. You can also click on the picture to take you to the Past Horizons site where you can search for archaeology fieldwork opportunities around the world.
Do you have any fieldwork opportunity in Southeast Asia? If you do, send me an email so that I can also share it here on SEAArch!
17 October 2007 (TravelVideo.TV) - There was a brief mention about new designated tourists routes in Angkor Wat earlier, and this article provides more information about the proposed tourist routes. Cambodian tourism has always had the problem of having too many visitors, which is causing the temples a lot of stress as even Siem Reap town struggles to keep up with the tourist bandwidth. Visitors to Angkor may soon have to follow designated circuit routes, designed to stave attention off Angkor Wat and bring tourists to the other temples in Angkor.
Incidentally, there are already two circuit routes in Angkor, the Grand Circuit and the Minor Circuit, which take either an eastward or westward circular route around the temples. These routes are still rather long and I don’t think they can be done in a day. What I’d really like to see is smaller, thematic routes through Angkor, organised by period or ruler, that would give the Angkor tourists a chance to appreciate the Khmer tem
The capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, is located at the confluence of three rivers - the Mekong, the Bassac and Tonle Sap. The city is divided into three sections - the north, an attractive residential area; the south or the French part of the city with its ministries, banks and colonial houses; and the centre or the heart with its narrow lanes, markets, foods stalls and shops. See More
Creative Holidays has launched its 2008 Vietnam and Cambodia program offering the trade an expanded product range, as well as new, more flexible travel options that can be tailored to suit specific clients' time and budget requests.The new program boasts a full page feature on Halong Bay boat options, including the introduction of the Halong Ginger, a five-star high-end junk for travellers looking for a more luxurious experience.The program also has more hotel options in the popular cities of Saigon, Hanoi and Hoi An, a full page outlining Sapa train and rail options as well as the introduction of product in the beach areas of Phu Quoc Island, Phan Thiet and Quy Nhon, and new group tours in Cambodia and Vietnam.Andrew Yell, general manager, product, sales and marketing, Creative Holidays said "This year we have a really diverse range of products designed to suit all markets, including families, couples, singles, those on a budget, the more adventurous, people looking for a hands-on e
27 September 2007 (BBC news) - International law enforcement agencies are meeting in Siem Reap to discuss ways to combat the illicit trade in stolen Cambodian antiquities.
Cambodia bid to protect treasures
by Guy De Launey
Cambodia has invited international law enforcement agencies to help protect the country’s ancient temples.
US homeland security and FBI agents are among those who may be advising the new national heritage police force.
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Baklang island, Koh Kong Cambodia. Evening view from the jetty after a trip to Baklang island in a little motor-boat. Only ten-minute ride, but very hair-raising and not comfortable at all! A better way to travel to Baklang island is via the new bridge they had built recently. Which means no more flying dangerously across the deep blue sea, but also no more rare, beautiful scenes like these. Which do you prefer?
Cambodia’s long history of war and genocide has left thousands of orphans with little chance of a better life. WCVE Public Radio’s Angel Limb spoke with author Kari Grady Grossman at a Richmond homeschooling event about her efforts to improve the lives of Cambodia’s children.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Foreign investors pushed the Cambodian government Tuesday to allow foreign ownership of buildings, apartments and condominiums, saying such a step is important to advance the country's economic growth. "It will help further develop the real estate market in Cambodia," said Bretton Sciaroni, an American lawyer, in a speech at a government forum Tuesday. Sciaroni cited the examples of Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, which all permit foreign ownership of apartments and condominiums.
Substitute Keo Kosal's 90th minute equaliser denied Bangladesh from a certain win in the Nehru Cup as they drew 1-1 with Cambodia at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi yesterday.The Cambodian striker, who almost scored level in the 82nd minute but saw his drive from 20 yards curl just out of the sidebar, stabbed the ball home from eight yards after the tired Bangladesh backline failed to stop a darting low cross by another substitute Sam Al Nesa from the right flank.Abul Hossain had given Bangladesh a deserved lead on the half hour when his glancing header on a corner by Alfaz Ahmed gave Cambodian goalkeeper Oum Veasna no chance.Bangladesh's Indian coach Syed Nayeemuddin made one change in the line-up from the sides that lost 2-0 to Syria and 1-0 to India by bringing in veteran Alfaz for Robin.The striking duo, Alfaz and Emily, generated enough attacks but Bangladesh failed to capitalise on their superior ball possession.Their first real chance came after 15 minutes when Emily played
A couple of weeks ago, a team of five visited our missionaries in Koh Kong, Cambodia. I was not with them cos I was in Beijing en route to inner Mongolia on that very same day (Friday 20th July). Daph, one of the team members, shares many blessings plus more than 80 wonderful photos of the four-day trip in her blog, and here are the two links to it.Destination CambodiaDestination Cambodia continuedDo visit and be challenged!
There have been reports that Angelina Jolie is adamant on moving the Jolie-Pitt family to France. When on holiday there, the pair reportedly looked at several estates. But Angelina has revealed that she would prefer an even more distant country, far away from the United States. Where does she want to live? "Not in Hollywood, that’s for sure," she tells the French magazine Public. Angelina says she wants to move to Maddox's native country of Cambodia in ten years and cover her body in tattoos. “I’m sure everyone would leave me in peace over there,” she says. But if Jolie wishes to be left alone why does she continue to take on multiple movie roles and attend red carpet events? Some observers don't buy the idea that Jolie wishes to settle down anywhere. She seems to love the lifestyle of constant travel and that has reportedly caused a lot of problems with her boyfriend Brad Pitt. Her globe-trotting lifestyle is causing tension, reports In Touch Weekly. Even though Brad, 43
5 cuties at Angkor(photo: Biensang)Trà and her 4 friends just teamed up together to explore Cambodia after her 4-year course at National Economics University finished.
Their explorations were under free and hospitable guidance of my friend who is also a former scholar here. Her nearly-a-week adventure in Cambodia was full of surprise, joys,..
It's been nearly 2 weeks since my return, I keep talking about Cambodia as if I could not shut my mouth up. I'm untiringly glued hours myself to my PC reviewing the photos. I'm missing the 6-days-long trekking into Angkor, the land of wonders,...source
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30 July 2007 (The Associate Press, by way of the Gainsville Sun and featured on many other American newspapers) - A stolen Apsara (celestial nymph) head is recovered in the US and returned to Cambodia. Because of their weight, the heads of Cambodian sculptures are often taken in lieu of the entire sculpture. As in the case of many of these artefacts, the heads have often gone into the hands of private collectors and this head is unlikely to be matched to its original location. Check out the podcast featuring the interview with Dr. Dougald O’Reilly of Heritage Watch to find out more about the illicit trade in Cambodian artefacts.
U.S. Returns Stolen Artifact to Cambodia
The U.S. government returned to Cambodia the head of an Angkor-era sculpture that had been stolen and smuggled out of the Southeast Asian country.
The artifact, weighing about 4.4 pounds, is a sandstone head of a celestial dancer, or apsara, from the 12th century, the U.S. Embassy said Monday in a statement.
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28 July 2007 (The Courier Mail) - A travel piece about the Angkor temples in Cambodia, skimming over Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Preah Khan and Banteay Srei. Has some practical advice in avoiding the crowds too, although be careful about several spelling errors in the text (eg, Banteay Srei, Suryavarman II).
Cambodia’s temple tranquility
I always thought that visiting Cambodia’s Angkor temples would be like exploring a lost city.
For many years I had heard tales of crumbling ruins hidden from time by steamy triple-canopy jungle that echoed with birdsong and the call of mysterious animals.
I imagined walking along jungle tracks, coming upon a faded ruin only after the last strike of a guide’s machete cleared an overgrown patch of scrub. But the reality of Siem Reap’s Angkor is this: hordes of tourists and well-worn paths leading to crowded temples.
Pick the wrong time of the day to visit Angkor Wat, the most famous of the region’s temple complexes and the sym
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The impoverished nation of Cambodia will host its first international golf tournament at a course near the famed Angkor temples, the Asian Tour announced Monday. The inaugural $300,000 Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open will be played at the newly opened Phokeethra Country Club, which is also a main tournament sponsor. The event, slated to run from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 in the northwestern province of Siem Reap, is likely to draw many of Asia’s top golfers, more…
12 July 2007 (Brunei Times) - The Brunei Times carries an unauthored article about the history of Cambodia. For a more fleshed out history of Cambodia, particularly of the Angkor period, I highly recommend Charles Higham’s The Civilization of Angkor.
History of Cambodia
NO one knows for certain how long people have lived in what is now Cambodia. A study suggests that people using stone tools lived in the cave as early as 4000 bc, and rice has been grown on Cambodian soil since well before the 1st century ad.
The first Cambodians likely arrived long before either of these dates, probably migrated from the north.
By the beginning of the 1st century ad, Chinese traders began to report the existence of inland and coastal kingdoms in Cambodia. These kingdoms already owed much to Indian culture, which provided alphabets, art forms, architectural styles, religions, and a stratified class system.
Local beliefs that stressed the importance of ancestral spirits coexisted and remain powerfu
I have known Kerri for over ten years now. We met at a support group for parents with children with heart defects. We are both Christian homeschooling moms. We both have children with heart defects. We both have buried sons....
A Russian-made AN-24 aircraft operate by PMT Air crashed while flying between Siem Reap and and Sihanoukville on the southern coast of Cambodia on Monday during a storm.
Crash site was spotted early Wednesday and rescuers reported that the 22 people aboard --13 South Korean, 3 Czech tourists, five Cambodian airline employees and a Russian co-pilot died and nobody survived the
11 June 2007 (Bangkok Post) - The Preah Vihear temple which straddles the border between Thailand and Cambodia is the next site that the government of Cambodia hopes to be listed as a World Heritage site. The temple was built by Kings Suryavarman I and II between the 11th and 12th centuries. Ownership of the site was disputed between Thailand and Cambodia, and the International Court of Justice awarded the latter custody of the site. However, the temple is more easily accessible from the Thai side of the border.
Cambodia asks UN status for border temple
he Cambodian government has renewed efforts to have Unesco classify the ancient Preah Vihear temple (Khao Phra Viharn in Thai) as a World Heritage site, government spokesman Khieu Kanharith confirmed Monday.
Kanharith confirmed reports in the Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper that the important 11th to 12th century temple, which lies in the far north of the country perched on the Thai border, should be recognised as a World Heri
As Bryan Tripp discovered, helping others is often the best way to learn more about yourself.
The white Toyota pick-up truck bumps along the pitted dirt road and over several very questionable wooden bridges. That last pothole we cleared could have swallowed a Volkswagen. Later on we pass through a traffic jam of stubborn water buffalo.
My hands are white knuckled as I sit on the side of the pickup, clinging with all my strength. I am on my way to Tol Krol East village in the Pursat province of Cambodia.
I am part of a team of seven volunteers from across Canada and one from the UK who are in Cambodia with the Hope International Development Agency (Hope) Understanding Needs in Other Nations (UNION) program.
The goal of the UNION program is to immerse Westerners in the daily rural life of developing countries like Cambodia in order to learn the challenges people face and understand the causes of the poverty cycle.
Our team will help build a school for the children who have no acc
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I first became aware of Cambodia through a song by the early 80’s punk band The Dead Kennedys. I was about 13, living in an upper middle class suburb in New Jersey. My friend Jeff introduced me to DK, and in turn, the song Holiday in Cambodia. I liked it because it poked fun at rich, preppy kids (yes, the irony was lost on me at the time), by comparing their normal life to Cambodia during the genocide of the late 1970’s. Beyond the song, my knowledge was limited to an awareness that Cambodia was probably a dark, dangerous place. While our war with Vietnam was a topic for history class, I can’t recall a mention of Cambodia in school, which seems odd given around 2 million people died during a 5-year period within my lifetime.
Fast forward to my mid-20’s when I start to consider traveling to southeast Asia. I still didn’t know much about Cambodia, except that it was sandwiched between a few countries I’d heard were popular on the backpacker circu
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Punk Lost Its Way When It Stopped Believing…
… we were all going to die tomorrow. I grew up knowing tomorrow was never coming… so, where’s the Atomic Bomb I was promised? Because nobody ever trained me for what forever was going to [...]
The following is an email I originally sent to friends when I was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. At the time it was my second time there, having previously been in 2004.The first time I was there I didn't even venture out of the capital, much to everyones disbelief. Inexplicably drawn to the bar scene (inexplicably?), I spent a month staggering from one bar to the next, and then back again.My second time proved to be no different. The only notable exception being that this time I was there for the best part of three months and spent considerably more money. A lot more money.Having read the email again, my immediate thoughts are why I'm so hell-bent on returning? You do the math. Anyway, below is the email for your viewing (dis)pleasure:Alright folks? It's time for an update. As most of you are aware, there is usually an underlying theme to my emails (alcohol), and this one will not break with tradition. That said, slightly different style this time. I will try and enlighten you as to what
We were planning to explore 1 Asian country sometime this year and when I had a project in Phnom Penh, we did wanted to cover Cambodia at some point. Thus it came sooner then expected....
"the travelling ducks" packed their gears and off we went to venture this city that holds a gruesome history and is one of the 7 wonders contenders for its Angkor Wat . I had gone to Phnom Penh on an earlier flight on last Tuesday for my meetings. Pato join in on Wednesday night which was the start of the journey of these ducks in Cambodia.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, makes for a great short holiday with plenty to see. Once called 'Paris of the East', much of its architecture dates back to the pre-war French colonial period.
We stayed at Hotel Intercontinental - the first 5 star hotel built in Phnom Penh, simply because my jobsite was within the Hotel compound. I got the know the construction of the hotel itself took 5 years due to limitation of resources and long leadtime i
With higher priority in multi-choice, low-price, up-to-date,.. garment products from Cambodia become mostly loved, espcially from teenagers.sourcephoto: Người lao độngEvery two weeks, Mr. Hoàng Thắng visits cloth shops along Bà Huyện Thanh Quan, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu streets,.. for new comers(clothes). Amongst modern fashion hunters, there's a phrase "No more SI-DA(a trademark), it's now Made-in-CAMBODIA".Of course, clothes from Cambodia present outstanding favorable things to consumers -- cheap, plenty modes/marks for choice, and frequently updated :). read more
Choose Total Spending.Choose spunking all your money on Jack Daniels. Choose binge drinking. Choose stuffing $1,000 down your pants and losing four days of your life. Choose paying $80 bar tabs you can't remember racking up. Choose sleep deprivation. Choose overstaying your visa. Choose being known by name by all the motodup drivers on #51.Choose paying all your tabs and then racking them up again.Choose being 'mustard' on the pool table. Choose running out of money wondering how the fuck you're gonna pay for your accommodation. Choose Nivea Intensive Body Milk. Choose cheap, lung battering tobacco.Choose saying NO to fake dreadlocks and backpackers.Choose spending so much time in the Walkabout that it feels like a normal bar.Choose eating $1 glazed buns for all your nutritional needs.Choose selling all your belongings.Choose going to Bangkok to dry out for a few days.Choose begging your mates for extra cash.Choose immediately returning to Cambodia on receipt of said funds.
Another example of violations against trade unionists around the world:
Cambodia: Another Trade Union Leader MurderedThe ITUC has called today on the Cambodian authorities to open a proper investigation into the murder of Hy Vuthy, 36, a leader of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of Cambodia (FTUWKC) who was shot to death on February 24. This latest murder follows a series of attacks on trade unionists in the country, which has a reputation for severe violations of trade union rights.
The FTUWKC received information that Hy Vuthy was killed shortly after successfully negotiating with a company for a one-day holiday on the occasion of the Khmer New Year.
According to reports, he was shot three times by two unidentified assailants on a motorbike as he drove home on Saturday morning.Read more in the homepage of ITUC-CSI
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