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Concern Mounts Over Credibility of the Court
The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal is steadily working toward it biggest, more complicated trial to date, but that trial has been overshadowed in recent months by the court’s handling of two additional cases, which has seen the resignation of one UN judge and an emergency meeting with the UN’s top legal counsel and Cambodian officials. A growing number of court observers now say the court’s approach to cases 003 and 004 is derailing its credibility, even as it prepares to try four Khmer Rouge leaders for one of the worst atrocities of the 20 th Century Continue reading
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Tagged asia, cambodian, court, government, khmer, khmer-rouge, michigan, rights, society, university
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Hun Sen talks trade with Sino counterpart
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday led a delegation of businessmen and top government officials to join the eighth China-ASEAN expo and investment summit to be held in Nanning, China, from October 21 to October 26. The Cambodian prime minister planned to meet his Chinese counterpart Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday to discuss the strengthening of bilateral relations and trade, delegate member and senior minister Srey Thamrong told reporters at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday, before departing for Nanning. Continue reading
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Tagged business, cambodia, cambodian, chinese-embassy, council, finance, france, japan, meeting, nepal, phnom-penh, south-korea, strengthening, thamrong
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MFI opens with $50m loan package
Sonata Microfinance Institution, a joint investment between local and foreign investors, officially started operations in Cambodia yesterday. A US$50 million loan package was signed during the ceremony on Thursday, providing Singapore-based EastWing Group and Japanese firm Grand Cooperation with a 30 per cent stake of the MFI. Continue reading
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Tagged business, cambodia, cambodian, ceremony, financial, industry, japanese, microfinance, national, national-bank, securities-firm, singapore-based, sokna, sonatra, told-the-post
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Economist Sees Potential in Tourism and Beyond
Chheang Vannarith is the executive director of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace. Raised by a single mother under the poverty line in Kampong Thom province, he was able to attain a PhD in Asia-Pacific studies. Continue reading
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Tagged cambodia, cambodian, economic-growth, economy, education, executive, from-the-more, kampong-thom, news, political, poverty, rely-on-temple, touristic-areas, world-heritage
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Exports up despite EU crisis
While sovereign debt crises in Europe and a lagging US economy have yet to curtail cheap Cambodian exports, industry watchers said domestic producers should diversify their target markets to avoid a future slow down. Continue reading
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Tagged business, cambodia, cambodian, chheng-kimlong, countries, europe, european, european-union, ministry, toll-on-garment, united, united-states
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Despite Ban, Cambodian Maids Still Being Sent to Malaysia
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen signed an order in recent days that bars recruitment firms from sending domestic workers to Malaysia after numerous reports of abuses. But a prominent rights group says the ban was quickly violated when at least two firms sent more women abroad on Monday Continue reading
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Tagged banned-the-flow, cambodia, cambodian, companies, country, director, government, jobs, malaysia, malaysian, news, pilorge, rights, says-the-ban
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