Vann Nath, Artist and Cambodia Torture Survivor, Dies at 65
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Mr. Vann Nath was a painter and one of only a handful of survivors of the Khmer Rouge torture center Tuol Sleng.
Archive for September, 2011
Thai FM to visit Cambodia on Sept. 14
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Thai Foreign Minister said on Friday he would visit Cambodia on September 14, Mass Communication of Thailand (MCOT) reported on Friday.
Thai government investigating “secret oil talks” with Cambodia
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
BANGKOK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Thailand's new Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has directed the Foreign Ministry to investigate alleged "secret" oil discussions with Cambodia.
Thailand, Cambodia Jointly Launch Environmental Project
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
SA KAEO, 2 SEPTEMBER, 2011: Thai and Cambodian authorities has launched a joint project on environmental conservation at a border checkpoint in Thailand's eastern Sa Kaeo Province, reports Thai News Agency on Friday.
Cambodia: UN Wraps up Hearing for Accused in Genocide Trial
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
A United Nations-backed tribunal has wrapped up three days of hearings in the Cambodian capital to help determine whether two of the most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime are fit enough to stand trial for alleged genocide and other war ...
In Cambodia, a Contemporary Home in a Pastoral Setting
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- As a young Cambodian architect in the 1960s, Borath Ros never imagined it would take nearly half a century before he would see his tropical dream house come to fruition. Nor could he have predicted that his son and daughter would help him design it.
Land grabbing: The dark side of Cambodia investment boom
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Land grabbing has become the flip side of a foreign investment boom in which the rich and powerful cash in at the expense of what rights groups estimate is about 30,000 Cambodians forcibly evicted from their homes a year.
“Land grabs” mar Cambodia’s boom, rattle investors
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Kong Song's farmland was his family's livelihood for three decades until the bulldozers moved in and tore down his home in rural Cambodia to make way for a multimillion dollar foreign-led business.