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monstersandcritics.com – Phnom Penh – Road workers uncovered a treasure trove of ancient artefacts 10 years ago at Phum Snay in western Cambodia. Among the finds were jewellery, ceramic pottery and even human bones.
But shortly after news of the find got out, looters moved in. Within a year, Phum Snay had been stripped bare and its archaeological worth destroyed.
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www.devata.org – After serving as Director and Deputy Director of the National Museum of Cambodia (NMC) since 1996, Mr. Hab Touch has now been appointed to a new position in the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.
Mr. Hab will now serve as Director-General in charge of the Department General of Cultural Affairs. This department is responsible for cultivating creativity in Cambodian within a broad range of arts disciplines …
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viceland.com – The Cambodian government is not historically known for caring much about international justice or criminal arbitration. But now, far from The Hague, in a former military base off a long, dusty stretch in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is undertaking a unique experiment in putting the country’s most murderous masochists on the stand.
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voanews.com – An investment group out of Australia has unveiled a $600 million plan to create a massive farm project in Cambodia. However, human rights workers are concerned that this deal, and others like it, will do little to help Cambodia’s rural poor. Robert Carmichael in Phnom Penh has more.
BKK Partners, an Australian financial advisory firm, has a client that wants to buy 100,000 hectares of Cambodian land on which to grow crops such as rice, bananas, sugar cane, palm oil and teak.
BKK managing director Peter Costello was in Cambodia recently to discuss the idea. The client for the deal is a company called Indochina Gateway Capital Limited, which has ties to BKK.
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gamblingplanet.org – In light of the increase in casino revenues in the Chinese territory of Macau and the recent opening of the first casino in Singapore, a new player in Southeast Asia is looking to get dealt into the game. A billionaire from the small Asian nation of Cambodia is planning to open a new casino resort near the Vietnam border to attract new visitors for its growing tourism industry.
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The Phnom Penh Post – New national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) has bought its first aircraft, which is now flying from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, aviation officials said Thursday.
CAA purchased the new ATR-72 aircraft, manufactured by a French-Italian company, and obtained its Air Operating Certificate (AOC) from the government’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SCAA) last week.
We brought a brand-new ATR-72 to get it registered for an AOC on February 12. It is currently being operated on the Phnom Penh-to-Siem Reap route,
said Soy Sokhan, under-secretary at the Secretariat of Civil Aviation, who oversees CAA matters.
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Factory closures far outstripped openings last year, Ministry of Labour reports
At least 106 garment and shoe factories were closed last year, mostly because of a slump in Cambodia’s key export industry, forcing more than 45,000 workers out of employment, Ministry of Labour figures showed late Monday.
Oum Mean, secretary of state at the ministry, said that 66 additional factories had suspended operations over the same period, temporarily affecting an additional 38,124 workers.
“At the same time, we also saw 48 new established factories that employed 16,886 workers,” he said, adding that the government trained 40,000 unemployed garment workers in agriculture up to October.
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Agence France-Presse | 02/17/2010
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen warned on Wednesday that thousands of families are living at risk from millions of landmines still scattered across the kingdom.
Around 670 square kilometres (258 square miles) still needs to be cleared of explosives left over from a long-running civil war, Hun Sen said during a ceremony to hand over demining equipment from the Japanese government.
“This is the legacy of civil war,” Hun Sen said. “Thousands of families are directly and indirectly exposed to the constant threat posed by these hazardous war remnants.”
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Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
There is no part of the world that is being left without casino gambling in the latest effort to create a global industry. The latest country to receive a new casino will be Cambodia, where the Titan King Casino will open at the end of the month.
The casino will be located in Bavet on February 26th. The casino will employee over 6,000 workers, and will be located near the border of Vietnam. It is expected to draw thousands of tourists to Cambodia.
“Most gamblers will be Vietnamese but my goal is also to attract people from other countries,” said Kith Thieng, the owner of the new facility, to Reuters, “I want to promote the fact that Cambodia has enough places for entertainment.”
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DUBLIN (BUSINESS WIRE): Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Cambodia Sourcing Report: Silk Fashion Accessories” report to their offering.
Cambodia’s silk fashion accessories industry is an emerging line that shows great potential for development as one of the country’s major exporting sectors.
The industry is small and mainly composed of NGOs that provide employment opportunities to many disadvantaged people who have been affected by conflicts and disease. These efforts by social-civic enterprises have resulted in not just introducing local products to a worldwide buyer audience, but also in helping uplift the plight of the underprivileged.
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