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The Valentine and the virgin: What are young women thinking about?Globalisation has mixed tradition with modern development in Cambodia, and it's not slowing down any time soon.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 11:14
Cambodia's tuberculosis prevalence rate declines sharply in last decade: new survey
PHNOM PENH, Feb. 8 -- The tuberculosis prevalence rate in Cambodia has seen a 36 percent decline in the last decade, according to a new survey released on Wednesday.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 10:09
Teacher held over murder
AA computer teacher from the Worldwide School in Phnom Penh has been sent to pre-trial detention in Prey Sar prison for the kidnap and brutal murder of his eight-year-old student over the weekend.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 08:04
11 years on, a mother still hopes
Chea Mon, whose son has been missing for the past 11 years after going abroad to work on fishing boats, speaks to the Post yesterday at Phnom Penh International Airport.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 08:04
Interpol on diplomat's trail
Kirth Chantharith, a spokesman for Cambodia's national police, said Interpol had joined the search for Nan Sy following his conviction in absentia in November for embezzling more than $430,000 of state funds he had been entrusted with to build a Cambodian Embassy in Brunei in 2008.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 08:04
Massaging back your sex life
Many people have a regular massage to stay healthy, or use a massage therapist after an injury suffered while playing sport, for example.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 07:04
Free Tep Kolap: students
More than 3,000 students and professors from Phnom Penh International University will prepare a submission calling for the release from prison of former university rector Tep Kolap and her husband Heng Chheang, a professor said yesterday.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 03:55
PTTEP eyeing Burma, Cambodia
PTT Exploration and Production sees opportunities for growth in Burma and Cambodia, said Anon Sirisaengtaksin, the firm's president and chief executive officer.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 23:40
Rochester - Jodie's lessons from Cambodia trip
Jodie first visited the town of Siem Reap in June last year, following months of internet research on orphanages in the area.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Thai rice exporter ...
Thailand's top rice exporter in 2011 invests in Cambodia: ready-to-eat-meals & processing for export in Cambodia rather than Vietnam.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 16:16
Shifting gears
Vocational training can provide a bridge for rural youths to enter the workforce, and lessen the need for them to seek employment abroad, according to experts with the Asian Development Bank.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 12:06
Observers slam Khmer Rouge jailer's life term
Former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch attends his appeal hearing at the Court Room of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 10:02
Net gains in malaria battle
Steven Bjorge, director of malaria, vector-borne and parasitic diseases at WHO in Cambodia, said that malaria infections in Cambodia had decreased by 38 per cent last year compared with 2010.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 08:02
Investment in SEZs up 683%
The total values for investment projects in Cambodia's Special Economic Zones increased about 683 per cent year-on-year in 2011, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 03:57
Remarks in Cambodia
Remarks Kurt M. Campbell Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Carden Ambassador to ASEAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Phnom Penh, Cambodia February 3, 2012 ASSISTANT SECRETARY CAMPBELL: I'll just make a very quick statement.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 23:47
Modern Buddhism lecture slated for U of T Scarborough
Dr. Ian Harris, a professor from the University of Cumbria in England will bring his perspectives on Buddhist thought and culture to residents at the University of Toronto Scarborough on Wednesday, Feb.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 20:43
Cooperation among Asian Countries
Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday made public a joint communique on an enhanced engagement for promoting bilateral cooperation in various fields.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 16:28
SRP accuses ruling CPP of election vote-buying
In the wake of what the opposition Sam Rainsy Party has called unprecedented gains in the senate election, the party has said that "virtually every SRP councillor" was approached by ruling Cambodian People's Party officials attempting to buy their vote in the election, a party statement issued yesterday said.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 12:18
'Trapped' families await titles
Former Borei Keila residents Joe Sreang, his wife Touch Kanha and their four young children in their tent at Srah Po village in Kandal province.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 08:09
Families fear abuse overseas
Eight families in Kampong Chhnang filed complaints with Adhoc over the weekend, reporting that their sons and daughters sent abroad to work as maids and fishermen were being mistreated and that in some cases, they had not heard from them in nearly a year.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 08:09
Khmer Rouge Chief Jailer Gets Life in Prison
The surprise ruling increased a lower court's 19-year sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 07:09
Elephant who survived Khmer Rouge needs help
Now the future of Cambodia's most famous elephant is uncertain after a campaign by animal rights activists to force her into early retirement.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 16:45
Khmer Rouge jailer sentenced to life in prison
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA : The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has increased the sentence of a former Khmer Rouge jailer to life in prison, the Phnom Penh Post reported on Friday.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 02:17
Danish ambassador to hit the road to raise safety awareness
Besides his passion for motorcycles, Danish Ambassador to Thailand Mikael Hemniti Winther wants to demonstrate the importance he places on road safety.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 21:57
Cambodian Photography Project
The Cambodian Photography Project is designed to empower children at Sunrise Children's Village, an orphanage in Siem Reap, by providing them with digital imaging and photography skills and then allowing them to document their lives through photos they will take themselves.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 17:53
Pedal powered Asian adventure
THE plan, on this Travelling Tilburys adventure, was to cycle with my sister the 1000km from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 15:43
HS Student Leads ASEAN Contest
MANILA, Philippines - A third year high school student from Dagupan City, Pangasinan, who topped the 5th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Quiz national competition, will lead the group that will represent the Philippines in the ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition to be held in Phnom Penh,Cambodia in August.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 14:38
Linehaul, logistically speaking
A strengthening economy and increasing demands from both domestic and foreign markets have pushed trade growth in the Kingdom, further driving the shipping industry.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 10:19
Man About Town
PHOTOGENIC TOUR GUIDE Congratulations to local tour guide Chansarak Noun for cracking the travel site Viator.com's Top Ten Private Guides List for 2011.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 06:04
Flicks from around the world to screen at Angkor Wat Film Festival
Cannes, Venice, Hollywood, step aside and make way. Siem Reap is the latest destination to become a movie Mecca, as the inaugural Angkor Wat Film Festival comes to town.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 01:54
Malaria kills twice as many as thought - study
Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 21:45
Going under the needle in Phnom Penh
But despite the general high standard of hygiene that many of the places maintain, getting inked in the Penh is still something you should consider carefully.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 17:35
Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison
In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, center, arrives in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 13:21
Ground breaking ceremony for Cambodia school project
Funded by US$115,000 from Dong Thap People's Committee the building will have an area of 1,530 sq.m which is expected to be completed in four months, said GAVC president Chau Van Chi.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 13:21
Fired bodyguard boss in court
Chhoeun Chanthan, a former lieutentant-general, also known as Mao, 41, denied the charges against him, which also included issuing weapons and licences to unauthorised persons and using fake documents.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 09:11
Fleeing drug suspect dies in grenade blast
A Cambodian man had been killed in Thai territory on Tuesday when he activated a hand grenade, Thai authorities said yesterday.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 06:07
Researchers Say Malaria Deaths Are Twice The Official Count
Chhay Meth, 9, suffering through an attack of malaria at the family's home in O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia, in 2009.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 01:57
Cambodia police arrest women protesting against forced evictions
At least six women held in capital over demonstration calling for promised housing and compensation after spate of land grabs Residents from Borei Keila shout at riot police in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in protest at the destruction of their houses.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 00:57
Cambodian workers hold 'people's tribunal' to look at factory conditions
Garment workers eat in front of a clothes factory in Phnom Penh. The minimum wage in Cambodia is equivalent to 42 a month.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 23:57
Tip-off leads to trio of young Thai women who were 'held as sex slaves'
OFF to the Salvation Army uncovered their ''abhorrent situation''. Three young women, allegedly lured to Australia from Thailand on the promise of student visas, had been allegedly held against their will to work as sex slaves in a Sydney brothel.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 19:38
a picture of former Khmer Rouge leader 'Brother Number Two' Nuon Chea.
A survivor lies below a photo of Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea at Tuol Slen jail, now a museum.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 15:23
Ousted workers capitulate
Sok Narith, deputy secretary of the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers' Federation, said 22 sacked workers had succumbed to financial pressure after the Siem Reap Provincial Court mysteriously reversed a reinstatement order on December 14.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 11:13
Cambodia: Mass Fainting in Garment Factories
Cambodia's first ever People's Tribunal on Minimum Living Wage and Decent Working Conditions for garment workers will take place next week which will tackle, among other things, the poor working conditions in garment factories which caused thousands of workers to faint in their workplaces The Asia Floor Wage network is organizing Cambodia's first ... (more)
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 07:09
Vietnam relationship back in KRT spotlight
Former Khmer Rouge Brother No 2 Nuon Chea testified yesterday that he was "concerned" for the future of his country because of what he claimed were territorial ambitions of Vietnam, echoing earlier testimony in describing the situation as "a snake which tries to suffocate a rabbit". Under questioning from his co-defence counsel, Michiel Pestman, ... (more)
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 04:09
I volunteered to build houses in Cambodia
A postmenopausal, empty-nest, middle-class woman, looking for something useful to do in the third act of her life, decides to volunteer in Cambodia on a house-building project.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 00:04
Cambodia to import oil from Iran
The government of Cambodia has announced that it is planning to import and refine oil from Iran in clear defiance of recent US sanctions on Iranian oil imports.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 19:50