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• Missing legs of 900-year-old statue spotted in Cambodian jungle

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 145
  An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle. The missing giant legs belongs to an eight-headed, three-metre high sandstone statue of Hevajra, the war-like, tantric Buddhist deity. According to a report in The Independent, the professor in ...
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• Welcome to Siams Termination of the 2001-MoU

  
  Khmerization ?????????????? — Authority: 500
  By The Son of the EmpireWith the overeaction against Cambodia, the Thai government has decided to terminate the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 2001 with Cambodia on Cambodia-Thailand Agreement for common exploitation of hydrocarbons.Practically, I would like to express my great pleasure upon hearing this and warmly ...
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• Japan pledges over 500 billion yen in aid to Mekong states over 3 years

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 143
  MCOT English News (from Thai News Agency) : Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Friday that Japan will provide over 500 billion yen in official development assistance to five Mekong countries in Southeast Asia over the next three years. Hatoyama made the commitment at the first summit meeting involving the leaders of ...
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• Japan urges Myanmar to release Suu Kyi before poll

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 722
  Source: Reuters By Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Japan urged Myanmar on Saturday to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before next years election, adding it was ready to provide more aid ...
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• Journalist Handed Two Years for Disinformation

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 136
  By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer Original report from Phnom Penh 06 November 2009 Phnom Penh court on Friday sentenced a freelance journalist to two years in prison for disinformation, following alleged threats made to a TV commentator. Ros Soket, 40, a part-time journalist for the Southeast Asia Globe, was arrested ...
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• POLITICS: Thai-Cambodia Diplomatic Row Bares Decades-Long Rift

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 498
  By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Nov 7 (IPS) – Thailand’s swift and strong response to Cambodia’s decision to appoint ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser exposed an emotional faultline rooted in decades of mutual suspicion and hatred. By the weekend, Bangkok had delivered its ...
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• Japan steps up ties with Mekong region at summit

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 722
  Source: Reuters By Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Japan stressed on Saturday the development needs of the resource-rich Mekong River region where Japan, China and the United States are competing for ...
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• Thailand - Cambodia Tensions On The Rise Again

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 459
  Thaksin Shinawatra, who has been appointed as an economic adviser to the Cambodian government. Photograph: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images Thailand-Cambodia Tensions Rise Over Appointment of Fugitive Thai Official -- Voice of America Tensions between Southeast Asian neighbors Thailand and Cambodia are high ...
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• The Cambodian-Thai ‘Tit for Tat’ Row

  
  M|O|N|G|K|O|L — Authority: 408
  To most casual bystanders, who aren’t Thai, it’s obvious Cambodia owns the temple. Not only was the temple built by the Khmer in Khmer style, it was also built on land that had always belonged to the Khmer until Thailand took it over in one of their incursions, into what is now Cambodia, a few hundred years ago. ...
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• British Indiana Jones finds missing legs of 900-year-old Buddhist statue

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: an archaeology professor with little more to go on than a yellowing photograph discovers part of a 900-year-old statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process. Dr Peter Sharrock, a senior teaching fellow in the art and archaeology of Southeast ...
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• Thailand recalls envoy from Cambodia

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 161
  Thailand and Cambodia recalled their ambassadors from each others’ countries, deepening a diplomatic row after Cambodia made fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra an economic adviser. The tit-for-tat spat threatens to worsen a political crisis in Thailand by giving Thaksin and his red-shirted ...
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• God’s Love in Pnomh Penh, Cambodia

  
  Ecumenical Women at the United Nations — Authority: 123
  Posted by Onleilove Alston and authored by Yuan Tang God doesn’t need an army of men to change the world.  Rather He needs servants with humble hearts who are willing to do His work.  As Christians, we need hearts of persistence, faith, and love that endures through the discouragements and hopelessness that can ...
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• Asia Cast for Friday 6th October

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 125
  Professor Zhang Zanning (left) and Lawyer Mo Shaoping have both been critical of a vaguely defined crime used to silence dissidents in China. In this Bulletin… - Beijing challenged over unconstitutional law; - Indonesian officials resign over corruption scandal; and - New regional body formed to protect rare ...
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• Angkor Wat - Elephant Terrace

  
  Vietnam and Cambodia — Authority: 117
  © Photographer: Rfoxphoto | Agency: Dreamstime.com By Georgi Dagnall This terrace leads into what is considered the Royal Court. Much like the Egyptian Pharaohs, the Khmer Kings were deified royalty. In fact, many ancient civilizations had god-kings. Incan Emperors of Peru, early Japanese Emperors, ...
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• Thaksin works for Cambodia from Today

  
  Personal Thailand — Authority: 125
  Cambodia have put the former of Thailand PM of Thailand on an adviser seat to the Cambodian government and they will not extradite him to Thailand because of humanitarian reasons. The tension was pretty hot before because of the fighting over the temple land and oil rights but now it will probably be chilly hot.The ...
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• Thailand, Cambodia, and Thaksin

  
  Newley Purnell — Authority: 120
  First this: AFP : “ Cambodia makes Thailand’s Thaksin adviser: government ” Cambodia said Wednesday it had appointed fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra economic adviser to premier Hun Sen in a move that adds to tensions between the countries. The appointment was announced on state ...
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• Years after conflict, war legacy kills

  
  In the Field — Authority: 506
  HONG KONG, China – My recent interview with Aki Ra, a Cambodian dedicated to landmine removal after being forced as a child by Khmer Rouge to plant mines, reminded me of my own close brush with unexploded ordnance. A Cambodian woman walks past a landmine awareness sign near the Thai border in July 2007. ...
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• Thailand Recalls Ambassador to Cambodia

  
  Thai Political Facts Info — Authority: 132
  Appointing Thaksin ‘an insult’ to Thai justice system The Foreign Ministry has responded to Cambodia’s appointment of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic adviser by recalling the Thai ambassador to Cambodia. The Thai government will also review cooperation and bilateral ...
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• Cambodia: Laymen face expulsion over border post row

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  TWO Buddhist laymen who arranged a ceremony for opposition leader Sam Rainsy in Svay Rieng province late last month face expulsion from their pagoda after a controversy in which Sam Rainsy Party officials uprooted posts marking the Cambodia-Vietnam border. Pov Pheap, second deputy chief of Chantrea district’s ...
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• Cambodia-Thailand Rift: Ambassadors Recalled

  
  M|O|N|G|K|O|L — Authority: 408
  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart, Abhisit Vejjajiva And so, the Cambodia-Thailand diplomatic row continues following Hun Sen’s nomination of ousted former Thai prime minister Thanksin Shinawatra. Here is what I woke up to this morning: Cambodia recalled its ambassador to Thailand ...
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