Phnom Penh News
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A Cambodian shoe factory partially collapsed today, killing at least two and injuring five, Xinhua reported, citing district police chief Khem Pannara.
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Min Sovannry wasn’t born when the Communist Khmer Rouge took power in 1975 and abolished Cambodia’s money, markets and financial system. Now the 21-year- old college student can’t wait to embrace capitalism.
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Standing on a street corner near Foxconn Technology Group’s plant in central China that makes iPhone 5 handsets, employee Wang Ke says he’ll quit if his wage doesn’t double.
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Ieng Sary, one of several senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime on trial for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s, died today in Phnom Penh at the age of 87, according to the court.
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Suppliers to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Hennes & Mauritz AB agreed yesterday to pay about $145,000 in back wages and severance to about 160 workers at a Cambodian factory that closed in November, a labor activist involved in the deal said.
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President Barack Obama met with leaders from China and Japan to wrap up a three-day trip to Asia as countries in the region struggled to resolve territorial disputes that threaten to disrupt economic ties.
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Cambodia has set up an inquiry to determine the cause of a stampede on a bridge last night that killed at least 378 people during an annual water festival which draws more than a million rural residents to the capital.
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Cambodian authorities have agreed to deport Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg to Sweden, the Phnom Penh Post reported today, citing deputy police commissioner General Sok Phal.
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Manulife Financial Corp., Canada’s largest insurer, has opened an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, its first in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Norodom Sihanouk, the former king of Cambodia who survived half a century of political maneuvering that saw his country get sucked into the Vietnam War and endure the murderous regime of Pol Pot, has died. He was 89.
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