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Google Street View Visits Cambodia's Angkor Wat
2014-04-03 18:34:06| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The country's 100-plus historic sites are now available for you to virtually visit any time via Google Maps.
Cambodias Carbon Credit Scheme Still Not Making Gains
2013-10-01 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cambodia Daily: Cambodias only U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme is still nowhere near making any money for communities and logging in the area continues to threaten the very forests supposed to generate tens of millions of dollars over the next 30 years, community representatives and officials in charge of the scheme say. The NGO Pact has been working with the government to turn 68,000 hectares of forest in Oddar Meanchey province into a money-making venture since 2007 by selling the forests carbon credits to...
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Cambodia's garment industry at crossroads
2013-08-06 23:28:41| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Cambodia's garment factory workers demand higher wages
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Cambodia's Clothing Exports Boosted by European Orders (Country Report)
2013-07-10 19:34:56| EmergingTextiles.com
Cambodian clothing exports are surging this year, mostly due to a very strong demand from the European Union where duty-free access boosted sales since January 2011. The impoverished country could however be rapidly confronted with such tragedies already experienced in Bangladesh. Our statistical tables provide a comprehensive view of latest export trends with detailed EU and US import data per category of products.
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Cambodias great land grab
2013-05-20 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangkok Post: Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company has it now." She's standing near a cluster of tiny shacks in Cambodia's remote north, hidden in the Dong Nai rubber plantation owned by the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). "Many people have lost their land," she says before wandering off. For more than a decade villagers have pestered and...
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