Posts Tagged ‘Phnom Penh Post’

Chutt Wutty – The murder that shocked even Cambodia.

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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Cambodia: Environmental Activist Chut Wutty shot dead.

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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Cambodian Police Blotter – Smiling is permitted.

Read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012012654152/National-news/police-blotter-26-jan-2012.html

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Cambodia: January 7th and Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

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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Cambodia: Cheap Cambodian Life?

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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Cambodian Police Blotter: Fight over Girl leaves nine Men in Hospital.

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Phnom Penh: The history of the capitals street names.

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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Cambodia: Proud Prices

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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Cambodia: Excerpts of today’s Phnom Penh Post.

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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Cambodia: Gaddafi’s brutal end a signal to SEA?

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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