Cambodian shoe factory accident kills 2, injures 6
Source: Arizona Republic
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-24 03:55:01 -0700 | business-news
Part of a shoe factory in Cambodia has collapsed while several dozen workers were inside the building...Officer Khem Pannara says at least 6 people were injured at a factory south of Phnom Penh early Thursday. He said it was unclear...
Cambodia Presses U.S. Museums to Return Antiquities
Source: International Herald Tribune
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-15 15:18:21 -0700 | political-news
Museums to Relinquish Antiquities Tang Chhin Sothy/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Prasat Chen temple, which may be the home of some statues being returned to Cambodia and others in legal limbo. Published: May 15, 2013 Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of...
Pesticide sickens Cambodian wedding party
Source: United Press International
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-15 05:30:32 -0700 | political-news
Approximately 50 children and more than a dozen adults were hospitalized in Cambodia after eating food contaminated by pesticides at a wedding, officials said. Samrong town police Gov. Noun Eth said the group became sick when they ate food that...
Angelina Jolie: How She's Emerged as Hollywood's Biggest Role Model
Source: E! Online
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-15 04:55:06 -0700 | entertainment-news
Pitt's significant other has done humanitarian efforts in all parts of the globe in various ways. Goodwill Ambassador , Jolie went on field missions to refugee camps in over 30 countries, including Lebanon, Darfur, Sudan and Congo. After over a...
Why Your City Needs a Strong Startup Scene
Source: Forbes
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-14 06:08:37 -0700 | business-news
Small World , one of Phnom Penh's only incubators, has two startups in it: a robotics firm and a marketing firm. It is an egg of the entrepreneurial community that will soon be born in Cambodia's booming capital. Rithy Thul,...
Partner killer denied parole
Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-24 04:26:18 -0700 | political-news
A man convicted of killing two women he once loved and stabbing a third partner in the throat has been denied parole. Malcolm Francis, 64, is now nearing the end of a 12-year jail term at Rimutaka Prison for the...
Indofarma to produce albumin locally next year
Source: The Jakarta Post
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-13 21:19:15 -0700 | health-news
Until now, albumin in Indonesia has come from abroad although demand for the product continues to increase, according to Indofarma president director Elfiano Rizaldi. Albumin consumption can reach about Rp 100 billion [US$10.27 million] a year, he said in Jakarta...
Rota volunteers learn from Cambodia trip
Source: Qatar English Daily
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-13 18:51:54 -0700 | political-news
It was a life changing experience for the female volunteers who recently returned from a trip to Cambodia organised by Reach Out To Asia (Rota)...I must let people know about the important work Rota is doing to create a better...
Direct Relief Women Raises Funds for 4,000 Safe Births at Annual Mother's Day Event
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-13 17:30:37 -0700 | political-news
Direct Relief Women a group that supports Direct Relief's programs targeting maternal and child health raised more than $100,000 at its third annual Mother's Day event held Thursday evening at the home of Bryan and Lisa Babcock in Montecito. The...
We dodge tuk-tuks and mopeds in Phnom Penh – but not the cop
Source: The Globe & Mail
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-13 14:25:59 -0700 | political-news
The driver turns back toward us, gulps out a Sorrrr-eeeee!, then puts pedal to the metal. We rocket into traffic, but now the officer is on our tail. (Vinh Dao for the globe and mail) Sometimes things don't go as...
Cambodia charges Taiwanese woman with trafficking fishermen
Source: United Press International
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-13 08:12:48 -0700 | political-news
A Taiwanese woman has been arrested on charges she sold Cambodians into slavery to work on fishing boats around the world, officials say. A Cambodian judge questioned the woman, Lin Yu Shin, 53, for nearly four hours before sending her...
Global lenders 'linked to Vietnam land grabs'
Source: Al Jazeera
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-23 23:56:22 -0700 | political-news
26 More than 1.2 million hectares of land in Cambodia alone have been leased for rubber plantations [EPA] Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, has accused Vietnamese rubber firms bankrolled by an arm of the World Bank...
GM boosts manufacturing, sales operations throughout the region
Source: The Nation
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-12 11:46:28 -0700 | business-news
Martin Apfel, president of GM's Southeast Asia operations, said last week that the company has grown in the region by expanding its manufacturing footprint, suppliers' footprint, and retail and dealer network. He made the remark during the grand opening of...
Utah woman's violent death reunites her estranged children
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-10 17:44:31 -0700 | political-news
The funeral was the first time the siblings had seen each other in more than a decade. But as brother and sister bowed heads in unison to the slow prayer of Buddhist monks, the distance that separated them for most...
That Was The Week That Was - May 10, 1975
Posted by: Gordonskene
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | updated 2013-05-24 00:21:43 -0700 | disasters-news
Enter: Khmer Rouge.Click on the link here for Audio Player: [audio http://pastdaily.files.wordpress.com/201
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