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Temple row with Thailand dominates Cambodian poll

25 Jul 2008 08:07 GMT

... Phnom Penh: Cambodians go to the polls on Sunday in ... in power to Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla. "The result is not in ... in doubt," said Kek Galabru, head of Phnom Penh-based human rights group Licadho, adding that the ...

Cambodia says Thai expatriates safe during elections

25 Jul 2008 08:06 GMT

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Cambodia to hold general elections

25 Jul 2008 07:29 GMT

... Wat, in Siem Reap July 25, 2008. Cambodians will take to the polls on July ... on July 27 for the country's general elections. ...

Monks stand near a tree growing out of the Ta Prohm temple, near Angkor Wat, in Siem Reap July 25, 2008.

25 Jul 2008 07:29 GMT

... Wat, in Siem Reap July 25, 2008. Cambodians will take to the polls on July ... on July 27 for the country's general elections. ...

Progress giving Cambodia's ruling party edge ahead of vote

25 Jul 2008 06:32 GMT

... Progress giving Cambodia's ruling party edge ahead of vote A ... showing Prime Minister Hun Sen (C) in Phnom Penh on July 24. Cambodians vote on July ... Funcinpec party, for example, won the first post-Khmer Rouge elections in 1993. Since then, the ...

A Den of Sin or a Beacon of Liberty?

25 Jul 2008 05:46 GMT

... game, Senegal is the team to beat Cambodian and Thai troops face off around a ... party's narrow defeat in the 2006 presidential election. PRD legislators have taken the same package ... from these issues because they are afraid voters will see their true intolerance," said PRD ...

Cambodian parties make final push for votes

25 Jul 2008 05:15 GMT

... Cambodian parties make final push for votes KAMPONG ... last day of campaigning Friday for an election Soaring nationalist sentiments have powered the campaigns, ... gave people lives. From zero in 1979, Phnom Penh now has everything. From ghost city, now ...

UN Security Council to discuss Thai-Cambodia dispute

25 Jul 2008 04:48 GMT

... UN Security Council to discuss Thai-Cambodia dispute PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia (AFP) - - ... on nationalist sentiment ahead of Sunday's general election in Cambodia, saying talks would be "less ... most significant symbol of the country's ancient Khmer empire -- sparked a night of riots ...

Preah Vihear

25 Jul 2008 04:35 GMT

... game, Senegal is the team to beat Cambodian and Thai troops face off around a ... Heritage site despite Thailand's insistence that the Khmer temple be jointly managed by both countries. ... political rhetoric ahead of this month's general election.) More than 200 Cambodian women and children ...

Cambodia's PM takes credit for Khmer Rouge trials in polls

25 Jul 2008 02:56 GMT

... Cambodia's PM takes credit for Khmer Rouge trials in polls PHNOM PENH (AFP) - As leaders of

Inflation puts brake on Asian construction

25 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT

... In Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou spoke during his election campaign of 12 grand projects, costing $130bn ... year to rehabilitate damaged track sections across Cambodia, with the backing of a $42m loan ...

The politics of Preah Vihear and Phra Viharn

25 Jul 2008 01:49 GMT

... the military build-up between opposing Thai and Cambodian armed forces over the Preah Vihear temple ... of contention are not difficult to discern. Phnom Penh insists that the 4.6 square kilometres adjoining ... the controversy will dissipate after Cambodia's general election this Sunday. Cambodia 's bid for the ...

Mugabe's thuggery gets help from high places at U.N.

25 Jul 2008 01:47 GMT

... few have denied the killing fields of Cambodia, the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia or the ... step down because he stole the recent election by having voters beaten and turned away from the polls ...

U.N. Security Council split on how to deal with Myanmar

24 Jul 2008 22:59 GMT

... talks on political transition ahead of 2010 elections, and release political prisoners including Nobel laureate ... pressure on Myanmar. ASEAN's members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, ...

Canadian Baptists approve name change

24 Jul 2008 19:54 GMT

... Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. In balloting on the new name, 86 percent voted ... Tania could work with an orphanage in Cambodia. --30-- Harold Campbell is a journalist who ...