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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 1:46 am ET
Phnom Penh - The International Monetary Fund said Cambodia must undertake critical actions to strengthen its battered banking system, including better supervision by the central bank and faster implementation of measures to boost banks' minimum cap...
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Columbia Missourian - Wed Dec 9, 1:22 am ET
COLUMBIA — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheryl WuDunn has a lot of stories to tell. On Tuesday, she shared stories about women from around the world. She spoke about a Chinese girl who received aid and stayed in school, two Cambodian girls who were kidnapped and forced into sex slavery, and an Ethiopian woman who was married against her will at 13. And she did it without her PowerPoint ...
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IMF - Tue Dec 8, 5:48 pm ET
On November 18, 2009, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Cambodia. 1 Following a decade of high economic growth (8 percent per year on average) and significant poverty reduction, Cambodia’s economy has been hard hit by the global crisis.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 7:16 am ET
Phnom Penh - A Thai national was convicted of espionage by a Cambodian court Tuesday and sentenced to seven years in jail in a case linked to the controversial November visit to Cambodia by Thailand's former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Siwarak Chothi...
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 7:00 am ET
NEW YORK , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TEGR), a natural resource exploration services technology company, announces that the Company completed two projects for gold, rubies and marble exploration in Cambodia utilizing its innovative proprietary technology STeP®. Both service contracts were awarded to Terra by The Millennium ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 6:09 am ET
A Thai man was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for spying on fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra during the tycoon's visit to Cambodia.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 5:38 am ET
A Thai man was ordered to serve seven years in prison for spying on Thailand's former prime minister while he was in Cambodia as a guest of the government, a case that threatens to worsen a diplomatic feud between the two neighbors.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 5:31 am ET
A Thai man was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for spying on fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during his visit to Cambodia.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 4:47 am ET
Vientiane - The prime ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games hosted by Laos this week, state media reported Tuesday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Myanma...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 1:47 am ET
Vientiane - The prime ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games being hosted by Laos this month, state media reported Tuesday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen,...
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Boston Globe - Tue Dec 8, 1:33 am ET
A Thai man went on trial Tuesday for allegedly spying on Thailand's former prime minister while he was in Cambodia as a guest of the government, a case that threatens to worsen a diplomatic feud between the two nations.
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New York Times - Tue Dec 8, 1:06 am ET
The annual Angkor Wat event is part of a campaign to help the disabled gain acceptance in the country, which has a high concentration of people with disabilities, many of them land mine survivors.
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Backstage.com - Mon Dec 7, 10:25 pm ET
Riffing on the late monologuist Spalding Gray's seminal "Swimming to Cambodia" is an ambitious—and some might say foolhardy—undertaking.
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National Jeweler - Mon Dec 7, 4:35 pm ET
San Dimas, Calif.--Chi Huynh, founder and chief executive officer of Galatea: Jewelry by Artist, is donating the first white South Sea and red coral Galatea Mercy Pearl from his company's new pearl-farming venture in Vietnam for an auction to benefit Friends Without A Border, a charitable organization that supports the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia.
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Christian News Wire - Mon Dec 7, 9:11 am ET
LUSAKA, Zambia, Dec. 7 / Christian Newswire / -- Since November 19, World Vision and thousands of people around the world have been traveling the globe in search of the Christmas spirit as part of the Christian humanitarian agency's "Spirit of Christmas" tour . The month-long tour features interviews and stories with children and families in the United States, Ecuador, Cambodia, Zambia and ...