Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Monday, November 17th, 2008
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at 1:02 a.m. local time today, the U.S. Geological Survey said. One person was injured and buildings collapsed, Agence France-Presse reported.
The quake hit 135 kilometers (85 miles) northwest of the city of Gorontalo at a depth of ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Siem Reap Air, a partnership airline of Bangkok Air will be starting direct daily flights from Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City and Ho CHi Minh City to Siem Reap.
These daily flights will be scheduled as below:
SR- HCM FT981- 11:00am-11:55am- Daily
HCMC- SR FT982- 12:40pm-13:35 Daily
Daily flights will begin on 26 October ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Prime Minister Hun Sen and Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat met in Bejing on Friday, at the Asia-Europe Summint, to discuss the recent conflict at Preah Vihear.
The two Prime Ministers made an agreement to avoide anyt further fighting on the border. They also agreed to set up a committee and negotiate ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Thursday: Siem Reap-A meeting between Thai and Cambodian military officials continued late into Thursday night but failed to end in an agreement.
The two sides refused to agree on the issue of redeployment of troops into the Preah Vihear area and also failed to come to any agreement on establishing a ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
The situation on at the border between Thailand and Cambodia, near the temple of Preah Vihear has remained unchanged, since violent clashes last week ended in a cease fire agreement.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, (the Prime Minister of Cambodia) and Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat of Thailand have confirmed that there will ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
"A tense quiet hangs over Preah Vihear temple [today]" (Tha Cambodia Daily).
After four hours of negotiatins between Thai and Cambodia military officials an agreement had been made that no gunfir will be exchange "just like before" (The Cambodia Daily).
In what seems to be a somewhat unworkable agreement Cambodia and Thailand ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
THAI and Cambodian soldiers exchanged gunfire across their shared border yesterday in a battle over a small and remote plot of jungle adjoining an ancient Hindu temple.
At least two Cambodian soldiers were reported to have been killed and five Thais and two Cambodians were injured in the afternoon battle at ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
A Cambodian court has sentenced three former Khmer Rouge guerrillas to 20 years in jail over the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a British mine clearer and his translator
After nearly 12 years since the Khmer Rouge laid down their weapons and were forced out of power in Cambodia some of ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Thailand has been in political trouble since Aug 26 when thousands of anti-government protesters seized the Prime Minister’s Office at Government House, and called for the resignation of Samak Sundaravej as prime minister who they claim he is a proxy of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
The Constitution Court disqualified Samak as acting ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The first Asian beach Games will be held in Bali from October 18th until October 26th. Bali will become the venue of this international event which will see 45 countries participating with over 10,000 athletes, officials, media and volunteers all flocking to the Island of the Gods for this world ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
In what can only be described as a truely fair settlment a Cambodian couple have circumvented the country's corrupt and expensive legal system by taking the letter of the law literally. In Cambodia when a couple divorces assets are divided equally between the couple. It seems that this couple decided ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
On the 7th October 2008 the Battambang Circus will be presenting a very special show. The circus troupe will perform with the Royal Cambodian Ballet. The show will bring together about 70 performers and include performances of both classical and traditional dances, modern theatre performances, acrobatics, contortion and fun will also ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Thailand's 26th Prime Minister has been sworn in today. Thailand has elected Somchai Wongsawat, a 61 year old former judge and brother-in-law to the ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra. It is not clear what affect if any this will have on the negotiations between anti-government protester's and the government. However, only ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Anyone planning a visit to Vietnam must attend a performance of the famous Thang Long water puppetry in Hanoi. Thang Long water puppetry is a traditional art form with distinctive culture identity of Vietnam. it came to existence, developed and diversified over a thousand years ago in the Red River ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
The ongoing border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand centering around Preah Vihear temple have been delayed due to the unsettled political climate in Thailand.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said by telephone that it was the least Cambodia could do to give Thailand breathing room to get its internal affairs in order. ...
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