Category Archive: Indochina – Indochine

Around Phnom Penh Central market on Sunday morning.

  All seven pictures taken within 10 minutes, on Sunday morning May 19, from 10.16 till 10.26 am around the Central Market in Phnom Penh.

Deutsche Bank and World Bank financing land grabs in Cambodia?

Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms’ land grabs in Cambodia and Laos. Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank’s private lending… Read More

Cambodia: Work Begins on Controversial Se San River Dam.

As work begins on Cambodia’s biggest dam, those advocating against its construction have warned that the region’s rush for hydro power will have a disastrous effect on millions of people who rely on the Mekong… Read More

Peaceful Elephants in Cambodia.

The Wildlife Conservation Society presents camera trap footage revealing an intimate glimpse of Asian elephants in Seima Protection Forest, Cambodia. The stunning images were collected during biodiversity monitoring work by WCS and the… Read More

Dangerous roads during Songkran and Khmer New Year 2013.

Cambodia 66 people have been killed in road accidents. Road accidents killed 66 Cambodian people and injured 305 others during the celebration of the traditional Khmer New Year on April 13-17. A total… Read More

IMF: Cambodia’s 2013 GDP growth at 6.7 pct.

Cambodia’s economy is projected to grow by 6.7 percent in 2013 and further rise to 7.2 percent in 2014, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). . The country’s economy is mainly supported… Read More

Cambodia-Thailand: Fight for the borderlines.

On Monday, April 15, 2013,  at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, legal teams from Cambodia and Thailand began presenting arguments over a small part of land along the border between… Read More

Opportunist Ieng Sary’s life of utter Hypocrisy.

Ieng Sary, foreign minister and “Brother No. 3” in Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, died on March 14th, aged 87. It was, he said, the greatest revolution the world had ever seen. It would… Read More

Mekong im Stau – Irrsinn oder Fortschritt?

Der Mekong ist ein großer Strom im Naturzustand – wild und unreguliert. Noch – denn es gibt erste Anzeichen dafür, dass sich etwas ändert: Zum Beispiel ein Brückenbau flussabwärts von Luang Prabang in… Read More

At least 35 dead Myanmar refugees – And no one cares.

2,300 refugees left homeless in a camp in Thailand. At least 35 refugees from Myanmar are believed to have died with over 100 injured – six of them seriously – following a devastating… Read More

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