Stories tagged "cambodia"

Cambodia and Thailand are verging on war. It's thought that the bordering countries are fighting over a lost temple in the deep forest. This conflict isn't as simple as it seems. In 1962, the United Nations International Court of Justice decided that the

An unarmed civilian Cambodian teenager is in serious condition after being shot in the head by Thai paramilitary troops in Thailand's Aranyaprathet district, as he was waiting for a car to take him to a nearby farm.

The parliament has given the government the green light to launch talks with Cambodia aimed at settling a long-running border dispute that boiled over into violence, officials said Wednesday. The next round of talks aimed at ending a military standoff

Cambodia's genocide tribunal on Friday rejected an appeal by the Khmer Rouge's former foreign minister for release from pretrial detention on charges of crimes against humanity and war atrocities.

Thai and Cambodian soldiers clashed Wednesday in a disputed border region where the two countries lay claim to an ancient temple, the Thai military told CNN.

An unusual divorce settlement resulted in a bizarre splitting of the assets, in which the wooden house a couple in rural Cambodia once lived in together, was quite literally sawn in two.

As anti-government mobs wreak havoc on Bangkok, tourists are turning to Vietnam as an entry point to Cambodia, officials say.... As anti-government mobs wreak havoc on Bangkok, tourists are turning to Vietnam as an entry point to Cambodia, officials say.

Sex trafficking is widely acknowledged to be the 21st-century version of slavery, but governments accept it partly because it seems to defy solution.

Okay, but this post is not about the French's Ratatouille, it's more about the Cambodian's Ratatouille. Unlike the French version which is more vege, Cambodians prefer it more meaty I would say.

Answer: about 90 minutes -- that's it! Truly a great example of the far-reaching power of social media. Read Beth Kanter's blog for more insights as to how she did it.