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FREEDOM: Hun Sen: killing three birds with one stone

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Monday, July 22, 2013. Hun Sen: killing three birds with one stone. Kavi Chongkittavorn July 22, 2013. With his reign approaching its fourth decade, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen feels the need to stage a summersault to broaden his leadership legitimacy and increase his longevity. His request for a royal pardon for Sam Rainsy was highly calculated as he managed to kill three birds with one stone. Third, the West, which was critical of his style of governance, has been somewhat neutralised. Throug...

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FREEDOM: An audience with Queen For A Night? No, thanks!

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Thursday, September 5, 2013. An audience with Queen For A Night? Sep 05, 2013. There comes a time in the life of every feminist critic and writer when, according to the law of sod, she happens across a press release bearing the immortal first line: ‘Vincent Broustet invites us into the passionate world of young Khmer women.’ To review or not to review, she wonders. Don’t be ridiculous. Martha, fetch me my gun. I mean my pen! However, his works inarguably follow in the aesthetic tradition of painters who ...

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FREEDOM: Chinese doctors hold free eye surgery on cataract patients in N Vietnam

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Chinese doctors hold free eye surgery on cataract patients in N Vietnam. Chinese ophthalmologist (1st R) and his Vietnam's counterpart check a patient's eyes in the. Northern Bac Giang province of Vietnam, Nov. 17, 2009. The free eye surgery program, named "Action for Bright Eye", by Chinese optical doctors for Vietnamese cataract patients living in Bac Giang was held on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Li Qing). The eye surgery program by Chinese optical doctors to bring the light to the cat...

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FREEDOM: Garment workers in Cambodia hold protest over mass dismissal

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Thursday, September 5, 2013. Garment workers in Cambodia hold protest over mass dismissal. Garment workers sit beside police officers during a protest in front of a factory owned by Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, west of Phnom Penh. (File photo). Thousands of garment workers in Cambodia have hold a demonstration after a factory supplying global brands allegedly dismissed hundreds of their colleagues for striking over conditions. About 650,000 people are working in the ...

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FREEDOM: TAT hosts Amazing Thailand “ASEAN Media Fam Trip from Bangkok to Siem Riep”

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Thursday, September 5, 2013. TAT hosts Amazing Thailand “ASEAN Media Fam Trip from Bangkok to Siem Riep”. Thursday, 05 September 2013. TAT hosts Amazing Thailand “ASEAN Media Fam Trip from Bangkok to Siem Riep” on September 6 -11, 2013. The trip will take the media to explore another side of Bangkok at Taling Chan Floating Market then change gears to the busy and world-renowned Chatuchak Weekend Market. The Cambodian portion of the trip will include visits to the majestic historical sites of. Prasat Ta P...

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FREEDOM: Miss ASEAN TV Charming 2011 in HCMC

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Sunday, March 6, 2011. Miss ASEAN TV Charming 2011 in HCMC. The Miss ASEAN TV Charming beauty pageant 2011 will be held on March 7, 9 and 12 at the Ho Chi Minh City Television Theatre. Actress Van Trang will host the ASEAN TV Charming 2011 contest. Candidates will compete in four categories including a traditional costume show, a talent performance, an ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) show and a formal evening wear show at the finale. By NH – Translated by Mong Quynh. Vietnamplus posted: 26 Sept, 20...

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FREEDOM: RI karate squad finish top at Open

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Friday, June 3, 2011. RI karate squad finish top at Open. Agnes Winarti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta. Indonesian top-ranked karatekas struck gold at the Indonesia Open karate championships, sweeping 16 of the 19 gold medals. Three other gold were grabbed by Malaysian athletes. In the first day of the two-day championships, Yolanda snatched her first gold in the women’s individual 68-kilogram class kumite and led the country’s haul that day of eight gold medals. The championship serves as a final test to de...

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FREEDOM: Mekong locals show preference for foreign rice

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Thursday, December 24, 2009. Mekong locals show preference for foreign rice. While the “Buy Vietnamese” campaign has boosted production and consumption of many local products, a paradox exists in the Mekong Delta where foreign rice floods the market and residents prefer it to domestic varieties, an. At a border market in the province of An Giang, one of the leading granaries in the region, it is hard to find grown-in-Vietnam rice. Most stalls sell Cambodian and Thai brands instead. Therefore, the number ...

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FREEDOM: Foreign policy in a bad world

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Foreign policy in a bad world. Mitt Romney, in a speech at Virginia Military Institute October 8, said there was a "longing" for American leadership in the Middle East and he laid out a foreign policy agenda that differed little from that of George W Bush. Not blown up unexpectedly in Havana harbor, triggering a popular demand for retaliation against the supposed Spanish outrage. After World War II, a consensus formed in favor of interventionism, although a sizeable faction of ...

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FREEDOM: Attractive scene in Cambodia

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Monday, January 11, 2010. Attractive scene in Cambodia. The sun sets over banana trees at Koh Okhnatey village along side Mekong river on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. Mekong River are very vital to Cambodia as it provide water for industrial and agricultural development, to sustain subsistence fishing, for transport, to maintain delicate ecological. There are over 11 million Cambodian lives along the river. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). How Vietnam Sees China. Octob...