Opting For The Big Dam PHNOM PENH, Jan 1 (IPS) - It has been a long held plan of Cambodias government -- a hydropower dam on the mainstream of the Mekong River in the central part of the country. But political and financial considerations ...
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Dec 15 (IPS) - Cambodia could be the latest Asian country to adopt tighter laws governing the activities of local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) -- a move many believe will put further ...
CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Nov 27 (IPS) - With its first trial delayed until early 2009, the Khmer Rouge tribunal is facing another challenge: how to balance its mandate to try only former leaders deemed most senior against pressure to prove ...
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Nov 20 (IPS) - When Gunnar Bergstrom stepped off the plane into the sweltering heat of the Cambodian capital in August 1978, he did not even begin to suspect the fate that had befallen the country whose ...
DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Nov 11 (IPS) - Cambodias fishing industry may still be viewed as a male bastion, but as household fish catches decline, putting pressure on food security, women are rising to the challenge and becoming ...
CAMBODIA: PAILIN, Oct 27 (IPS) - For ex-Maoist guerrillas in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, close to the Thai border, the last decade has been a crash course in market economics. The town of approximately 22,000 went from ...
CAMBODIA/THAILAND: PHNOM PENH, Oct 18 (IPS) - This weeks gun battle between Thai and Cambodian soldiers over the disputed Preah Vihear temple raises the possibility of wider conflict between the two South-east Asian nations. Civil society ...
CULTURE-CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Oct 6 (IPS) - Internationally acclaimed director Rithy Panh remembers how, as young boy in pre-war Phnom Penh, cinema played a central role in his family life. "When I was young we had so many cinemas not like ...
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Sep 8 (IPS) - In a move that could break the silence around sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge, a 68 year-old transgender woman has became the first person to submit a complaint about gender-related abuse to ...
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: PHNOM PENH, Aug 29 (IPS) - A plan to redevelop Phnom Penhs largest remaining natural lake into a residential and shopping precinct has ignited a storm of protests and claims that it could result in the largest eviction in ...
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