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China and Cambodia enjoy time-honored traditional friendship. They established diplomatic relations on July 19, 1958. Chinese leaders of different generations have been very close to King Sihanouk and cultivated profound friendship with him, thus
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China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/27/content_9899403.htm
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Cambodia's genocide tribunal announced Monday that it will give its verdict in July in the case of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture.
Lars Olsen, spokesman for the U.N.-backed
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/2010/05/24/1300667/cambodias-khmer-rouge-trial-verdict.html#RSS=untracked
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ALLEGRA: Sixty years in any relationship is a long time and it's no different for the US-Cambodia relations and on the occasion of the 60th anniversary this year, I mean it's an appropriate time we believe to not only look back and to see where we
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Radio Australia
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201005/s2899459.htm
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Cambodia and Malaysia will further promote and strengthen their trade and investment relations with the visiting of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and the signing of six deals worth more than 1 billion U.S. dollars.
During the three-day official
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90863/6982055.html
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If this drug stops working, there's no good replacement to combat a disease that kills 1 million annually. As a result, earlier this year international medical leaders declared resistant malaria here a health emergency.
"This is not business as usual.
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/166/story/1087143.html?RSS=untracked
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IN the wet season, the roads through the northwestern region of Cambodia turn into an undulating sea of muck, with potholes the size of cars and ruts as deep as truck axles. To figure out which routes were least likely to leave me wet, muddy and
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09360/1023849-37.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml
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Just more than a year ago, Cambodia was praised by the United Nations for its work on behalf of refugees. It was one of only two nations in Southeast Asia to sign the 1951 international convention on refugees, and it opened a brand new office that
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The New York Times
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PHNOM PENH, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- China will make joint
efforts with Cambodia to achieve a win-win cooperation, Chinese Vice President
Xi Jinping said Monday.
"Furthering relations with Cambodia has long been China's consistent policy," Xi told
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/22/content_12684394.htm
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"They are going back to China," he said.
Cambodia has been under intense pressure from China to deport the Uighurs, whom Beijing has called criminals after they fled the country with the help of a secret network of missionaries. The expulsion came a
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Macleans.ca
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This is not a hotel industry article. You may want to avoid reading this piece due to its disturbing content on child abuse and sex tourism. This may not be the most appropriate way to promote Passports with Purpose fundraising efforts to build a
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Boarding Area
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/loyaltytraveler/2009/12/18/child-safe-tourism-for-cambodia-and-the-world/
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PHNOM PENH—Reporters and United Nations officials were waiting early Saturday at the airport here as at least 20 ethnic minority Uyghurs who entered the country seeking political asylum in the wake of deadly ethnic clashes were reportedly headed for a
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Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/return-12182009112249.html
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PHNOM PENH, 17 December 2009 (IRIN) - Cambodia is facing mounting pressure over
the fate of 22 Uyghurs who fled China to avoid prosecution for their alleged involvement in violent protests earlier this year.
Aided by an underground network of
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/ab3d5a1033afa05ad6c792cce55ac795.htm
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Thai man arrested for allegedly spying on Thailand's fugitive former prime minister went on trial Tuesday in Cambodia in a politically charged case that could worsen an already bitter diplomatic feud between
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1666042.html
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Regarding freedom of expression, assembly, and association:
Cambodia's human rights record comes under its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on December 1, 2009 at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Under the process, the rights record of each
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Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/01/universal-periodic-review-submission-cambodia
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I feel compelled to share the very little I know about the state of healthcare in Cambodia. I want you all to read this because:
• You should never take for granted how good your own life is or lose sight of the inequity on the world;
• Some of
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Travel Blog
http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/blog-455079.html
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Terms of Reference
Consultant, A Joint Climate Change Initiative on Capacity Building of Local NGOs
Background
Cord, Danish Church Aid/Christian Aid (DCA/CA) and Forum Syd collaborate on an initiative aimed at building capacity among local Cambodian
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7XYDWT?OpenDocument&RSS20=07-P
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Thailand said Friday it would not be provoked into violence in its diplomatic tussle with Cambodia over fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, even as the ousted leader taunted the Bangkok government by meeting with
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Deseret News
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705344179/Ousted-Thai-PM-rallies-supporters-to-Cambodia.html?linkTrack=rss-5
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Thailand said Friday it would not be provoked into violence in its diplomatic tussle with Cambodia over fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, even as the ousted leader taunted the Bangkok government by meeting with political supporters in
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010269367_apascambodiathailand.html?syndication=rss
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Cambodia intensified a diplomatic skirmish with Thailand, announcing Friday it had detained a Thai citizen on spying charges and expelled a diplomat for attempting to track fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during a visit.
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Taiwan News
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia has detained a Thai man for allegedly spying on fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the latest sign of worsening relations between the two neighbors.
Thaksin, a fugitive from justice in Thailand,
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/1025883.html?RSS=untracked
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CAMBODIA and Thailand moved a step further in their sharp dispute over fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, expelling each other's senior serving diplomats after already ousting ambassadors on both sides.
Thaksin was named an
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Shanghai Daily
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=419378
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By James Hookway BANGKOK -- Since being forced out of power in a military coup three years ago, ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra has made a show of traveling the world to keep himself in the public eye back home. But his latest gambit -- taking up
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125804254318245481.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose political battle against his successors has left his country bitterly divided, received a warm welcome Tuesday in neighboring Cambodia, which shares his disdain for the
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/10/toppled-thai-leader-thaksin-welcomed-in-cambodia/
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BANGKOK, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Thailand is going to officially contact with Cambodia if ousted former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra visits Cambodia on Nov. 12, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said Monday.
Over the weekend, Prime Minister
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/09/content_12416474.htm
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Tensions between Southeast Asian neighbors Thailand and Cambodia are high after Cambodia's leader appointed a fugitive former Thai prime minister as an advisor. Both countries have withdrawn their ambassadors and claim interference in their internal
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-06-voa11.cfm?rss=topstories
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Cambodia has responded to Thailand's recall of its ambassador from Phnom Penh, by recalling its ambassador from Thailand hours later. Thailand's recall was in anger over Cambodia's offer of an advisory post and a home in Cambodia to former Thai Prime
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/8345884.stm
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Cambodia is a "victim" of climate change, and developed countries should shoulder more responsibility in reversing the effects of global warming, said Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Developing countries like Cambodia
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2009/10/20/PM-Cambodia-is-victim-of-climate-change/UPI-33441256056396/
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Watch a sneak peek of THE AMAZING RACE 15 "Sean Penn Cambodia Here We Come (Cambodia)" Episode 4 airing this Sunday, October 11 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Episode Synopsis: THE AMAZING RACE 15 "Sean Penn Cambodia Here We Come
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Daemon's TV
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daemonstv/~3/m69Z5LDPX7o/
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As farmers and city dwellers are uprooted by developments, advocates call on CIDA to rise to their defence.
In tsunami nations, the recovery offers a chance to construct a more culturally sensitive industry.
Hard days for the barista, hotelier,
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The Tyee
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2009/10/09/NotASexTourist/
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As we hurtle down Cambodia’s decrepit train tracks on a bamboo platform the size of a billiards table, another car rushes in our direction, crammed with 17 passengers returning from marshy rice fields after a day of labour. Their trouser legs are still
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The National Newspaper
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090926/TRAVEL/709259892/1196/rss
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Road Safety Regional Evaluator (October - December 2009)
Thematic: Road Safety
Countries: Cambodia and Laos
Period proposed: Oct-Dec. 2009
II. Evaluation context
Deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes are a major and growing public health
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7VYAU5?OpenDocument&RSS20=07-P
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Around two years ago, Alissa Moore (left), now 24, and Diana Mao (right), now 27, started the Nomi Network, an anti-trafficking organization that trains former sex workers in Cambodia for new careers.
The
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Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/5349537/combating-sex-trafficking-with-or-without-ashton-kutchers-help
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The Asian Legal Resource
Centre (ALRC) wishes to bring to the attention of the Human
Rights Council a major lacuna that constitutes one of the
most fundamental obstacles to the enjoyment, protection and
promotion of human rights in Cambodia. The lack
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Scoop - New Zealand News
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00014.htm
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Los Angeles - Three men expelled from Cambodia will face federal charges as part of an initiative targeting Americans who travel there to have sex with children.
Authorities said Ronald Boyajian, Erik Peeters and Jack Sporich would arrive in Los
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Independent Online
http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=nw20090831223500357C388609&setid=1§id=126&url=iol&vne=0&csect=Asia
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2009-07-30 20:15:06 -
the country's economic prospects, and analyses the current telecoms market and its likely future direction. The report also describes the regulatory environment in Cambodia. In summary, our findings are that although
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/research-and-markets-cambodia-telecoms-market-r1415840.htm
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Artemisinin-based therapies are the first-line treatment for malaria, which is caused by most deadly form parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
It is derived from Artemisia annua, also known as sweet wormwood, which had been used in Chinese medicine for
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New Kerala
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-82916.html
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PHNOM PENH: Cambodia launched its new national airline, Cambodia Angkor Air, in a ceremony on Monday, giving the Southeast Asian country its first flag carrier since a previous effort folded in 2001.
It is hoped the airline, a joint venture between the
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Channel News Asia
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/444952/1/.html
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2009-07-27 06:08:05 -
the government of Cambodia regarding the unacceptable cruelty and suffering that are being inflicted on the country's indigenous population of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), concerns regarding the
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/chris-mullin-mp-joins-animal-campaigners-r1407914.htm
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Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong arrived in Phnom Penh on Saturday to pay three-day official visit to Cambodia.
During his visit, Truong Vinh Trong, who is also a representative of the Vietnamese prime minister, will attend a
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6709919.html
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2009-07-24 06:06:04 -
the government of Cambodia regarding the unacceptable cruelty and suffering that are being inflicted on the country's indigenous population of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), concerns regarding the
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/chris-mullin-mp-joins-animal-campaigners-r1405727.htm
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2009-07-22 06:04:04 -
the government of Cambodia regarding the unacceptable cruelty and suffering that are being inflicted on the country's indigenous population of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), concerns regarding the
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/chris-mullin-mp-joins-animal-campaigners-r1401424.htm
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2009-07-20 06:01:03 -
the government of Cambodia regarding the unacceptable cruelty and suffering that are being inflicted on the country's indigenous population of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), concerns regarding the
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/chris-mullin-mp-joins-animal-campaigners-r1396958.htm
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Ask any foreign medical officer what has been accomplished here in the last few years, and he will most likely say: We defeated HIV/AIDS in Cambodia!
Prodded and funded by foreign governments and private groups, Cambodia has
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McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/71943.html
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Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
June 21, 2009
The decades-long conflict in Cambodia devastated not only the human population of the Southeast Asian country but its biodiversity as well. The conflict led to widespread declines of species in the once
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Mongabay.com
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0620-hance_war_cambodia.html
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PHNOM PENH, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed that the
border demarcation between the two nations will be finalized by 2012, a senior
government official said Wednesday.
The set timeframe for the border demarcation was
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/10/content_11521109.htm
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29/06/2009 - 31/06/2009
The Temples at Angkor
I always find it increasingly difficult to blog about things that have struck me and left me in absolute awe. I feel like every word I use, does not do justice to the overwhelming magnificence of it.
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Travel Blog
http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Angkor/blog-406510.html
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An hour and a half outside of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, a man in a cowboy hat wearing a blue surgical mask waits anxiously as a van pulls up.
One of the passengers is his nephew, Bunthoeun Ham, whose parents fled Cambodia in the 1970's
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DVIDS
http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=34559
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I’ve decided that Cambodia is one of those places that you simply can’t figure out. It’s part slum, part tourist park, part killing field, part emerging state. After a tumultuous fifty years (some would say many more) Cambodia is starting to figure
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Britannica Blog
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BritannicaBlog/~3/LkczwhYrgMA/
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Agence France-Presse — Getty Images No rice, please. In Phnom Penh on Tuesday, Cambodia’s royal oxen ate corn and beans, but no rice, during an ancient ceremony said to predict the year’s harvest of various crops.
Add Cambodia’s royal oxen to the list
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The New York Times
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/cambodias-royal-oxen-forecast-poor-rice-crop/
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CARMICHAEL: Leave the famous jungle temple - known as Ta Phrom - outside Cambodia's tourism capital of Siem Reap and - as you can hear - you are surrounded by vendors selling cold drinks, musical instruments and postcards. Cambodia has relied for a
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Radio Australia
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200905/s2571421.htm
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