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Former Cambodian King donates to China’s flood-hit provinces
BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk donated 50,000 U.S. dollars in his own name to China’s flood-hit areas, Chinese Foreign Ministry said here Monday.
The king sent a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressing his concern for people in the affected areas last [...]
Cambodia announces plan to build country’s biggest prison
Phnom Penh - The government has approved a plan to build Cambodia’s largest prison, capable of holding 2,500 inmates, national media reported Thursday.
Cambodia currently has 24 prisons with a combined capacity of 12,500 prisoners. Many jails are overcrowded.
Heng Hak, the general director at the Ministry of the Interior’s prisons department, told the [...]
Malaysia’s Energy Group To Build Power Plant In Cambodia
According to BERNAMA.COM
HANOI, July 13 (Bernama) — Malaysia’s Leader Universal Holdings Bhd will invest US$160 million in a new coal-fired power plant in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to meet the local increasing demand for electricity, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
Presently, the capacity of all power plants in the Southeast Asian nation is only [...]
“Day of Anger” in Cambodia
Phnom Penh - More than 1,000 Cambodians gathered at one of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious killing fields Wednesday to observe an annual “Day of Anger” and remember the almost 2 million people killed during the regime’s 1975-79 rule. A crowd of government officials, Buddhist monks, survivors of the regime and victims’ families watched high school [...]
Cambodia to reform commune-level policing, border security in 2009
PHNOM PENH, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — Cambodian National Police Commissioner Neth Savoeun has pledged to reform commune-level policing and border security in 2009, said English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily on Tuesday.
One such reform would be establishing telephone hotlines to take complaints at municipal and provincial police headquarters and “national [...]
