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Cambodia has deployed riot police to protect the Thai embassy for fear that a border dispute over an ancient Hindu temple could spark violent protests, officials said on Thursday.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia ordered extra police protection for the Thai embassy on Thursday for fear a row over the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple on their joint border might escalate into violence.
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Cambodia’s genocide tribunal was wrapping up a hearing Thursday (3 July) into the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister’s request to be released ahead of trial, with his lawyers arguing that his royal pardon exempts him from prosecution.
In Cambodia today, more than 150,000 people are threatened with eviction. Forty-five percent of the country’s entire landmass has been sold off - including the…
An investment protection agreement between Cambodia and Japan will finally come into force at the end of July after nearly a decade of negotiation and revision, English-Khmer language newspaper the Mekong Times said Thursday. Diplom …
Theary Seng’s story is one of hope over adversity. As a child, she lived through the brutal Khmer Rouge years, before fleeing to the United States, where she studied to become a lawyer. Now, she is back in Cambodia, promoting human rights.
Thailand’s government will not appeal a ruling that suspended its endorsement of Cambodia’s bid to see a disputed Hindu temple granted World Heritage status, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
Washington, July 2 : Two new reports from TRAFFIC, the world’s largest wildlife trade monitoring network, have suggested that rare plants and endangered species such as tigers are at risk from traditional medicine in Cambodia and Vietnam.
The Cambodian government Thursday deployed police to protect the Thai embassy and Thai companies in Phnom Penh as a local non-government organization planning to demonstrate against Thailand in the case of Preah Vihear temple. “We d …
Dengue, the mosquito-borne illness that claimed the lives of more than 400 Cambodian children, has proven to be less of a menace so far this year, English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodian Daily said Friday. From January throug …
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AFP - At least six people were killed and 20 injured Friday in a stampede at a popular Hindu religious festival in eastern India, officials said.
Reuters - Facing the likely withdrawal of left
allies, India’s government moved closer on Friday to clinching
political support it needs to avoid early elections and to
force through a nuclear energy deal with the United States.
AFP - India’s coalition government underwent a major shake-up Friday with the dominant Congress party pushing on with a controversial nuclear deal with the US and ditching left-wing allies.
AP - Disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan says North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf.
AP - In an unprecedented attempt to revive the tiger population in western India, authorities airlifted a female tiger to a national reserve Friday where it will join a male tiger delivered there last week.
AP - An outspoken pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong was barred Friday from traveling to southwest China to visit areas damaged in a massive earthquake.
AP - Hundreds of Tibetans protesting Chinese control of their homeland tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in the Nepalese capital on Friday, police said.
AP - Fierce fighting raged in India’s portion of Kashmir Friday, killing five army soldiers and a suspected Muslim rebel near the de facto border with Pakistan.
AFP - A study on tigers in one of Nepal’s national parks suggests that the population has been halved by poachers in just a few years, a senior wildlife official said Friday.
AFP - Hundreds of Islamists gathered outside Islamabad’s Red Mosque on Friday and chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf to mark the anniversary of the bloody storming of the building.
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AP - Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt has arrived in France to a hero’s welcome after six years in the captivity of leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle.
AP - Iran delivered its response Friday to an international offer of incentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a central part of its nuclear program, state television reported.
AP - Disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan says North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf.
AP - Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that’s depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.
AP - Hundreds of mainland Chinese tourists some in matching white or pink shirts arrived in Taiwan on Friday on the first regular commercial flights in nearly six decades between the old foes.
Reuters - About 50 people were wounded early on
Friday by a home-made bomb that sprayed nuts and bolts into a
crowd at an open-air concert in Belarus’s capital attended by
long-time ruler President Alexander Lukashenko, officials said.
AP - Israel says it is keeping Gaza’s border crossings closed in retaliation for a rocket attack.
AP - Hugo Chavez, once a key mediator in securing hostage releases from Colombian rebels, could do little more than phone congratulations to President Alvaro Uribe after this week’s bold rescue.
Reuters - Sudan’s north and south armies have
begun to withdraw their forces from the disputed oil-rich
region of Abyei, officials said on Friday, after missing an
end-June deadline agreed to by the former foes.
AFP - At least six people were killed and 20 injured Friday in a stampede at a popular Hindu religious festival in eastern India, officials said.