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Award-winning film on KR screened at Meta House

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AN award-winning documentary about the Khmer Rouge, Enemies of the People, will be screened at Meta House in Phnom Penh for three nights starting tonight, marking the first time the film has been shown in Cambodia.
Rob Lemkin – who co-produced the film along with Thet Sambath, a senior reporter at The Phnom Penh Post, said [...]

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A new view of vulnerable children

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AT a glance, it looks like a child floating in the protective cavern of its mother’s womb: the backlit shadowy outline of a foetus against a swirl of blues, reds and what appears to be a cloudy amniotic fluid.
But as your eyes fix on the image, the contradictions emerge. The foetus is a full-grown child, [...]

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Billion-dollar business push

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VIETNAM will invest an additional US$1.3 billion in Cambodia over the next two years. Speaking at a business forum in Phnom Penh yesterday, the director general of Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, Phan The Hao, said the investment would begin to flow late this year or by early 2011.
“We hope the investment will be [...]

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In focus: Filipina tastes success in Kingdom

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STARTING any business from scratch is a challenge, but coupled with the premise of selling unfamiliar products to a new country, it takes an individual with brains, bravery and sheer bloody-minded persistence to make it work.
Fortunately, EXL Filmart President Teresa Gutierrez has all three.
EXL Filmart, which set up base in Phnom Penh in April 2008, [...]

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Banking sector sees boost in deposits, loans

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Cambodia’s commercial banks have steadily increased their deposit and loan bases over the first five months of this year, with deposits collectively growing 12 percent and loans 8 percent since the end of 2009, according to figures from the National Bank of Cambodia yesterday.
In Channy, Acleda president and chief executive, said the growth was a [...]

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Global economic concerns drive uneven gold market

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Gold may advance after two weeks of declines as renewed concern that the global economy is faltering helps to boost demand for the metal as a store of value.
Bullion for immediate delivery rose as much as 0.3 percent to US$1,214.60 an ounce before trading at $1,212.43 an ounce at 2:16pm in
Singapore yesterday.
The metal fell 3.5 [...]

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