Posts Tagged ‘Phnom Penh Post’
6
May
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Koh Kong. Tagged: Chea Vichea, China Huadian Corporation (CHC, Chutt Wuthy, human rights Cambodia, Illegal logging, Koh Kong, natural resource protection, Phnom Penh Post, Southern Cardomam's Protected Forest. Leave a Comment
An Investigative Report by Bangkok Post. In Cambodia, the murder of a high-profile environmentalist has sent shockwaves around a country which has never shaken-off its reputation for violence, corruption and a culture of impunity among the ruling political and moneyed classes. THE FIGHT WILL GO ON: A woman holds a photograph of slain environmental activist [...]
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26
Apr
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Indochina - Indochine. Tagged: Cardamom Mountains, Central Cardamom Protected Forest, Chut Wutty, Environmental Activist Cambodia, Illegal logging, Koh Kong, natural resource protection, Phnom Penh Post. 2 Comments
Prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot dead in Koh Kong province today near one of the areas he had fought tirelessly to protect from illegal logging – the Central Cardamom Protected Forest. Chut Wutty at the Phnom Penh Post main office earlier this year. Photo by Hong Menea Chut Wutty, the director of the [...]
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27
Jan
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Inside Cambodia - Kambodscha Intim. Tagged: Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Post, Police Blotter. Leave a Comment
Read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012012654152/National-news/police-blotter-26-jan-2012.html
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11
Jan
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Vietnam. Tagged: 7 January 1979, break up of the soviet union, Cambodia, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, khmer rouge tribunal, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Post, political interference, theary seng, United Nations, Vietnam. 1 Comment
Ms. Theary Seng, Dec. 2011 Letter to The Phnom Penh Post Dear Editor, January 7 is indeed a significant day for survivors of the Khmer Rouge. It arrested the macabre convulsions that would have swallowed all of us into a hellish hole if the Vietnamese military had not intervened. It is a bittersweet day of [...]
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28
Dec
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, China. Tagged: Cambodia, Cambodia Daily, China, Chinese, chinese mining in cambodia, gold mining company, Kratie mining death, mine accident Cambodia, Phnom Penh Post. 2 Comments
Chinese Company to be Questioned in Miners’ Deaths. Cambodia has opened an increasing number of mines in recent years, seeking to tap its mineral wealth as a potential source of national revenue. Most of them are run by Chinese operators. And so it is hardly surprising that the safety of the miners is not in [...]
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11
Dec
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Leben in Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh: Capital - Hauptstadt. Tagged: Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Post, street names, street names Phnom Penh. 1 Comment
It would make a good question in any pub quiz night: which capital city has streets named after Charles de Gaulle, Mao Tse Toung, Josep Brotz Tito, Pasteur, Czechoslovakia, France, Yugoslavia and the Polish Republic? Learn more about the history and peculiarities of Phnom Penh city’s street names. Read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120953284/Lifestyle/the-twisted-history-of-phnom-penh-street-names.html
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8
Dec
Posted by nomade51 in Indochina - Indochine, Inside Cambodia - Kambodscha Intim. Tagged: Cambodia, capita, cars in Cambodia, GDP, Gross domestic product, Phnom Penh Post, Subaru. Leave a Comment
Cambodian GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per head is around $ 2’000 per year. Therefore the offered discount is higher than the averge GDP!
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2
Dec
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Inside Cambodia - Kambodscha Intim. Tagged: average annual income, Business and Economy, editorial philosophy, glaciers., luxury vacations, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Post, social criticism. Leave a Comment
Not randomly selected pages from the edition of the Phnom Penh Post, Dec 2, 2011. Cleverly disguised social criticism or simply thoughtless journalism combined with amateurish editorial philosophy? Who of the readers of Phnom Penh Post thinks of or even can afford luxury vacations on Swiss glaciers? With an average annual income of around 900 [...]
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1
Nov
Posted by nomade51 in Cambodia, Indochina - Indochine, Inside Cambodia - Kambodscha Intim, Laos, Myanmar / Burma, Neighbour Countries - Nachbarländer, South East Asia - SEA, Vietnam. Tagged: ASEAN, Cambodia, Gaddafi Lesson for SEA, Laos, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Phnom Penh Post, Southeast Asia, Vietnam. Leave a Comment
In opposition circles in Southeast Asia is a lively controversial debate ongoing over the violent end of the more than 40-year Libyan dictatorship of Muammar al-Gaddafi. Many of the ASEAN-countries have longstanding hardliner governments and de facto dictatorships: e.g. Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Read the full articel in: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102452445/World-news/gaddafis-downfall-a-lesson-for-the-region.html More: http://www.ki-media.co.cc/2011/10/ki-media-parallel-between-hun-xen-and.html
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