Phnom Penh - A delegation from Iraq's national landmine authority is touring some of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge strongholds as part of a bilateral effort to share expertise, a senior Cambodian government official said Wednesday.
Cambodian Mine Action Authority deputy director-general Heng Ratana said the Iraq delegation would visit former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin on the Thai-Cambodian border, about 400 kilometres from the capital, as part of a fact-finding mission.
"We hope to arrange an exchange programme so each country can experience conditions in the other and we can share information and all our lessons learned," he said by telephone.
Phnom Penh- Cambodian inflation was running at a record high of
22 percent for the year through July, Planning Minister Chhay Than said
Tuesday.
Than blamed the global rise in oil prices for the increase in the Consumer Price Index, which ended 2007 at 18.7 per cent.
"The Cambodian inflation rate is at a record high and most of that
rise can be blamed on global oil prices - completely out of the
government's control," Than said.
But he said Cambodia anticipated a reduction in oil costs in coming
Phnom Penh - Cambodia would begin raids on shops suspected of selling pirated movie DVDs and music CDs, a senior official warned Monday.
The South-East Asian nation has become well-known among travellers for its thousands of shops offering dirt-cheap pirated copies of the latest international movies and music, which often hit the stalls before they are in general release overseas.
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's star landmine-detection dogs are in financial trouble and urgently need fresh recruits and donations to keep the programme running smoothly, a senior official said Monday.
Khem Sophoan, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre director, said the 102 mine-detection dogs working in one of the most heavily mined countries in the world were aging, while the landmine problem remained serious.
"Dogs are just like people - when they get old, they have to retire," he said. "We love our dogs, and they never fail us."
Experts estimate Cambodia still has between 4 million and 6 million unexploded mines, which kill and maim about 400 people each year.
Phnom Penh - Thousands of photos and documents from the Khmer Rouge S-21 torture center, also known as Toul Sleng, have been submitted for recognition on the UNESCO international register, the UN cultural body said in a press release received Thursday.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum archives in the capital were registered by UNESCO's Memory of the World grouping for Asia and the Pacific region in February and are now being submitted for listing on the UNESCO international register, the body said.
Phnom Penh - A survey by environmental agency Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has uncovered "surprisingly large" populations of two globally endangered primates in a remote protected area in Cambodia, it said in a press release Friday.
A census by WCS scientists and Cambodian rangers across a 780- square-kilometre area in the remote north-eastern border province of Mondulkiri on the Vietnam border counted 42,000 black-shanked doucs and 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons, it said.
Phnom Penh- Cambodian inflation was running at a record high of
Phnom Penh - Cambodia would begin raids on shops suspected of selling pirated movie DVDs and music CDs, a senior official warned Monday.
Phnom Penh - Thousands of photos and documents from the Khmer Rouge S-21 torture center, also known as Toul Sleng, have been submitted for recognition on the UNESCO international register, the UN cultural body said in a press release received Thursday.
