Posts Tagged ‘Burma’

Thousands flee as Mekong breaks flood records

TORRENTIAL rain and overflowing rivers have brought some of the worst flooding in decades to Vietnam and its neighbours in the past week, affecting cities and farmlands in five nations. In northern Vietnam, at least 130 people have been killed, dozens are missing and thousands have been driven from their homes. Hundreds of tourists were [...]

The Burma Daily’s publication available online

Phnom Penh: The Burma Daily publication is exclusively available online for download (www.burmadaily.org) – which was published three times as insert inside The Cambodia Daily confiscated by the Cambodian government. The Burma Daily was launched on May 16, which was originally published as a supplement to The Cambodia Daily, but they were removed from all [...]

Govn’t officials confiscated “Burma Daily” publication

Phnom Penh: Four pages of Burma Daily publications in English were confiscated by Cambodian government officials on May 19, 2008 from all newsstands in Phnom Penh, newspapers reported. Khieu Kanharith, government spokesman and minister of information said that “I ordered police to cooperate to confiscate The Burma Daily publication inserted into The Cambodia Daily on [...]

Cambodia to join in forming rice exporting countries with Asian countries

“Thai prime minister’s initiative to form the Organization of Rice Exporting Countries (OREC) is not the new idea for any one, but it is Hun Sen’s idea since 2005” prime minister Hun Sen at the graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh on May 5. A group of five Asian countries proposed to create OREC similar to [...]