Hilltown Ten Thousand Villages staffers

With no electricity or running water, and sometimes even with no hands, villagers in Laos and Cambodia craft objects of beauty from the remnants of war. Deanna Husk, assistant manager at Ten Thousand Villages Souderton store, witnessed the transformation process during a trip Feb. 6 to 20 to visit some of the fair trade retailer’s international artisan partners.

Thailand says it used "cargo ammunition", not cluster bombs

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to continue border talks after Indonesian-brokered negotiations wound up in Bogor last Friday.

Cambodian prime minister cancels titanium mine project citing impact on biodiversity and local people
Jeremy Hance

In a surprise move, the Cambodian Prime Minister, Sandech Hun Sen, has cancelled a titanium strip mine project in one of Southeast Asia’s last great intact forest ecosystems, the Cardamom Mountains. According to a press release sent out by the Cambodian government the mine was canceled due to "concerns of the impact on the environment, biodiversity and local livelihoods" of villagers. The mine, which was planned to

Cambodia investigates mass fainting of workers

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian authorities began an investigation on Sunday into the mass fainting of about 800 workers at two factories that produce footwear for German sporting goods group Puma

Cambodia probes mass fainting of workers at Puma suppliers
Reuters

(Pictured above: A garment worker Keopich Panha, 19, sits at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital following her fainting this morning at a garment factory in Phnom Penh April 10, 2011.)
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian authorities began an investigation on Sunday into the mass fainting of about 800 workers at two factories that produce footwear for German sporting goods group Puma .

Eugenie and Beatrice may be casualties of privacy breaches

PRINCESS EUGENIE and Princess Beatrice may have been targets of phone hacking - according to reports.
The daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are the latest public figures to have been named in the investigation into practices at the News of the World and the Sun.

Xayaburi dam proposal was 'poorly researched'

Impacts of the Xayaburi hydropower dam planned for northern Laos are unclear as the proposal is poorly researched, says a technical report to the Mekong River Commission.
The four Mekong countries _ Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam _ comprising the commission meet to make a final decision on the project next week.

Filmmaker Daron Ker's story leads back to Cambodia

Filmmaker Daron Ker's earliest childhood remembrances come from the three torturous years he spent in a malaria-ridden concentration camp in the center of Cambodia's killing fields.
His next, more pleasant memories are of watching movies projected on a tattered bedsheet in a refugee camp just across the Thai border.

Anti-munitions group takes aim at Thailand cluster bomb denial

The international anti-cluster munitions group insists Thailand is only "muddying the waters" by attempting to refute the allegation that it used cluster bombs during border clashes with Cambodia in late February.
Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) director Laura Cheeseman yesterday said the Thai army admitted to using Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM) in fighting with Cambodia. The DPICM, she said, is a "classic example of a cluster munition".

Anti-Corruption Unit Mum on Declaration Deadline

Under the new anti-corruption law, officials from ministries from undersecretaries upward and those in other government institutions, about 25,000 total, were to declare               their assets or face a fine of $500 and up to a year in jail.