Asean plans 2034 World Cup bid.
The FIFA World Cup could be coming to Cambodia – although football fans may have to wait two decades to see the planet’s best players compete on Khmer soil. Cambodia could be part of an ASEAN… Read More
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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
![PHOTO: Water buffalo from Srekor village wallow in the Se San River to escape the afternoon heat. In a year or so, all of this will have disappeared underwater. [Robert Carmichael]](http://livinginpp.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/4677416-3x2-700x467.jpg?w=290)
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
Vietnam today – A story of things to come in the West.
I’m not much of a fiction reader, but about two years ago a friend turned me on to a couple of books by Daniel Suarez – Daemon, and its sequel Freedom. I won’t… 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
Cambodia Lacks Research.
Not enough priority is given to research in Cambodia, threatening its long-term development, economists and other experts say. Larry Strange, executive director of the Cambodian Development Research Institute, says the country cannot plan for major… 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
Thailand: Increase of Eastern European Tourists.
Thailand sees influx of visitors from Eastern Europe. But not every one is happy, especially in Phuket. Over 1.6 million Eastern European tourists landed in Thailand in 2012, 82 per cent from Russia, according to a… Read More
Cambodia: Illegal Timber Trade – Kratie cut to shreds.
From the sky, it is clear that the multi-million dollar timber trade has already decimated Kratie’s 75,089 hectare Snuol Wildlife Sanctuary. Imagery from two of NASA’s Landsat satellites compiled by the Post from… 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
