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1. Bokor Mountain Golf & Country Club signs up Arnold Palmer
(Regional Travel News/Cambodia - Travel News)

...esidential housing, resorts, recreational parks, restaurants and shopping malls 7. Establishment of farms for the cultivation of vegetables, flowers and fruit trees accustomed to the weather in th...

2. Thailand backs off on "OPEC-style" rice cartel
(Regional News Headlines/Thailand News)

...posal would go nowhere because of the inability of governments to cooperate with each other and control farmers' output. Samak said Thein Sein had agreed in principle to the idea, but the Burmese...

3. Cambodia's floating villages
(Regional Features/Cambodia - Features)

...ong in Cambodia is also in close proximity to the bustling fishing ports of the Tonle Sap region. Fish farming dominates the Kompong Luong in Cambodia. Besides its picturesque setup, Kompong Luong in...

4. Marchers demand speedier KR trials
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...er Rouge. The Khmer Rouge emptied Cambodia’s cities, exiling millions to vast collective farms in a bid to forge an agrarian utopia during its rule. Established in July 2006 af...

5. Burma's military solution
(Regional Features/Burma - Features)

...test movement. University students have gathered, too, along with sidelined politicians and even some farmers. Human-rights groups estimate that more than 100 people have been arrested so far, incl...

6. UK premier's call for Burma crisis talks welcomed
(Regional News Headlines/Burma News)

...quo;We are delighted that Gordon Brown is personally taking this initiative on Burma,” said Mark Farmaner, Acting Director of the Burma Campaign UK. “This is a major breakthrough. The P...

7. Khmer Rouge jail chief key to Cambodia?s genocide trials
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...he communist regime also abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions to vast collective farms in a bid to create an agrarian utopia. Duch is “ready to reveal the crimes comm...

8. Laos, the land of unexploded bombs
(Regional Features/Laos - Features)

...ks as “not very practical”: “its one thing to teach about UXOs now – says one farmer - but how is a little child to really understand the dangers?” He too lost a son t...

9. Politically Incorrect Exit for the UK Ambassador to Thailand and Laos
(Regional News Headlines/Thailand News)

...and chickens, and doing international charity work. Hailing from an Anglo-Welsh family of tenant farmers and coal miners, Mr. Fall's Diplomat Service career included three tours of Thailand, ...

10. Pol Pot's right-hand man declares innocence as genocide trial looms
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...categorisation of "Old People" and "New People". "Old People" - peasant farmers, the rural poor - were the ideal and noble. "New People" - urban dwellers, int...

11. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal running out of money
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...ule. The Khmer Rouge abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions to vast collective farms with the aim of creating an agrarian utopia. So far only one possible defendant is in...

12. Siem Reap Riverside
(Siem Reap - Checking In/Budget Hotels & Guesthouses in Siem Reap)

Crocodile Farm Road, 481, Group 13, Vihea Chen Village, Siem Reap, Cambodia Tel: (855-12) 999 952 - Mobile: (855-12) 550 055 - Contact - Link Pleasant villa-style guesthouse and hotel near the r

13. Holidays with a conscience
(Regional Features/Cambodia - Features)

... surrounding region. They have also helped improve the lives of over 2,000 villagers by teaching them farming and providing material assistance. Families who make outstanding progress are rewarded ...

14. The road less travelled
(Regional Features/Laos - Features)

...is a war going on. Here the notion of personal space is unfathomable, and there is likely to be a farmyard's worth of animals stalking the floor, while higher up, a cocktail of saliva is airbor...

15. The calm before the next big thing
(Regional Features/Vietnam - Features)

... Vietnam will we run out of anti-Western fighters." Soon after, on a boat ride out to a fish farm pontoon, we meet another Vietnamese-Australian, Joe ("from Flemington markets, mate"), her...

16. Cambodian villagers plunder 'killing-field' graves
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...ture and execution. "People said, 'This goose has no owner,' " said Ouk Souk, 60, a farmer. Few valuables were in the graves, but villagers took whatever they could find. The inv...

17. Vietnam goes to the polls
(Regional News Headlines/Vietnam News)

...atherland Front. Meanwhile, women, ethnic minorities and key institutions such as the police, army and farmers' unions are all guaranteed blocks of seats in advance. Vietnam expert Carl Thayer o...

18. Royal cows predict poor harvest in Cambodia
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...f the corn, which means Cambodia could suffer a severe drought and bad harvests," said 65-year-old farmer Choub Yeoun said. Cambodia frequently suffers from drought and flooding, threatening the...

19. Cambodia stops to watch royal oxen predict the future
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...hat foods two royal oxen would choose in a colourful ceremony designed to predict the future of the new farming season. The result was mixed as the two fractious beasts, bedecked in red head cloths ...

20. Animals deaths close Cambodian zoo
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

... Reap, forcing authorities to close the facility and highlighting the growing problem of private animal farms.  The unreported deaths of two rare leopards at the Angkor Zoo were among the reporte...

21. Good times in bad lands
(Regional Reviews/Burma Reviews)

... markets in Burma are remarkable, Wheeler says. "If the Burmese economy was on its last legs, the farmers still seemed to be doing their jobs. In comparison, the markets in Cuba were miserable a...

22. Cambodian rangers trained to help bears
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...ement that more than 10,000 bears in China and 4,000 in Vietnam are kept in inhumane conditions at bear farms. The rangers are being trained by two international experts _ Gabriella Fredriksson, who h...

23. Burma: Should I stay or should I go?
(Regional Features/Burma - Features)

...seven dollars a day. Just the job in these parts where my driver navigated fields, ditches and peasant farmers. Do not expect the driver to speak English but he will take you off the beaten track. ...

24. Themed for war
(Regional Features/Vietnam - Features)

...s a prison during the war, Westerners are still seen as something of a novelty by the island's 50,000 farmers, fishermen and marketeers, most of whom are uneducated and poor. The island itse...

25. Thailand invents crocodile smile
(Regional News Headlines/Thailand News)

...dile egg shells and bones instead, since these were in abundant supply from the kingdom's crocodile farms. Besides tourist attractions, Thailand's crocodile farms produce crocodile skins and...

26. Afloat on the Mekong in Vietnam and Cambodia
(Regional Travel News/Vietnam - Travel News)

...s and a church but no streets to speak of. The floating market is the main attraction here and it lures farmers from the outlying districts who trade their wares straight from the deck of a sampan. Ch...

27. An unhurried life
(Regional Features/Laos - Features)

...t during the years of turbulence. With mine-clearing activities proceeding at a painstaking pace, local farmers still risk being maimed every day as they till the land. Most tragic of all, a state of ...

28. Winemaker ferments a revolution in Burma
(Regional Reviews/Burma Reviews)

...rts all over the world, except to Europe, he says, "where there's too much wine already". Farmers near the vineyard are being contracted to grow extra grapes to meet the winemaker's ...

29. Thailand drought tough on elephants
(Regional News Headlines/Thailand News)

...ought.  The Bangkok Post reported Saturday that drought, along with "ecologically destructive farming practices," have posed a major threat to natural sources of food and shelter for el...

30. Elephants carry hopes of Lao eco-tourism
(Regional Travel News/Laos - Travel News)

...ld and domesticated elephants remain, but they are under pressure everywhere as poaching and demand for farm land is reducing habitats, bringing in poachers and fuelling animal-human conflicts. Mode...

31. Highway to Hue
(Regional Features/Laos - Features)

...ad on the road, watching in frustration as Vietnamese came in from Laos with piglets, bananas and other farm produce. Later that night, we leave behind sleepy Laos and enter a relatively more bustli...

32. Travellers to Laos warned over bird flu
(Regional Travel News/Laos - Travel News)

...lic Health Ministry yesterday warned people travelling to Laos to stay away from poultry - particularly farms near Vientiane, where the first human case of H5N1 bird flu was reportedly found.  Th...

33. La Residence Phou Vao
(Luang Prabang - Checking In/Deluxe Hotels & Resorts in Luang Prabang)

...ng, and use only pure botanical ingredients from the organic herb garden and local farms The Spa offers two signature tr...

34. Life as a Thai sex worker
(Regional Features/Thailand - Features)

...s a typical story: "I grew up in the countryside in Phetchabun, northern Thailand. My parents were farmers and I helped them in the fields. We were poor but we always had enough to get by. When ...

35. Open borders expose Mekong's disparities
(Regional News Headlines/Laos News)

...racts without borders", explaining how Thai companies are sourcing raw materials and using cheaper farm labour from neighbouring countries. But, Pattana says, competition is part of the game. &qu...

36. Vietnam's PM gets up-close and personal
(Regional News Headlines/Vietnam News)

...away from thorny issues, including the lack of press freedom, the Vietnam War and government seizure of farmers' land for development. ``Why did you sign a decree strictly banning privatization ...

37. Thaksin's giant shadow
(Regional News Headlines/Thailand News)

...ll win, courtesy of a silent majority rising up from their paddies and mountain villages. Just ask rice farmer Mukda Phardthaisong, who lives in Nakhon Ratchasima, part of the country's impoverish...

38. Victims of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge fear derailment of trials
(Regional News Headlines/Cambodia News)

...hmer Rouge troops in 1975. Like thousands of others, Sok was relocated by the Khmer Rouge to a communal farm, and for four years, she faced bouts of starvation, torture and rape. "I thought we mi...

39. Way to flow: A lazy river trip in Laos
(Regional Reviews/Laos Reviews)

...ed to eradicate opium production and the hill tribes who relied on poppy growing have been persuaded to farm alternative crops. Opium production is still prevalent over the borders in Laos and Burma, ...

40. THAI Royal Orchid launches special trips to South Africa
(Regional Travel News/Thailand - Travel News)

... Watching : 20-25 October 2007, 6 days/ 5 nights The program starts with West Coast Ostrich Farm, then a trip up Table Mountain on the cable way where the varying flora and fauna will be e...

41. Laos: Out from under an opium cloud
(Regional Features/Laos - Features)

...son — October to April. The best restaurant in town is the Organic Cafe, (856-23) 511-174, www.laofarm.org, affiliated with the Vang Viang Organic Farm a few miles north. The menu, which feature...

42. Royalty, railways & renaissance - Sofitel Central Hua Hin
(Regional Reviews/Thailand Reviews)

...at dusk, fluttering butterflies (from the hotel's own butterfly farm) swooping by and imagine a world a la Somerset Maugham. ...

43. Travel Intelligence for Thailand
(Static Content)

... Bangkok; Northeastern Thais are based around the Issan region bordering Laos, a poor farming region which often suffers from extremes of climate and ...

44. Travel Advice for Thailand
(Static Content)

... small number of human fatalities.  As a precaution, you should avoid live animal markets, poultry farms and other places where you may come into close contact with domestic, caged or wild birds;...

45. Travel Advice for Cambodia
(Static Content)

...d in a small number of human fatalities. As a precaution, you should avoid live animal markets, poultry farms and other places where you may come into close contact with domestic, caged or wild birds;...

46. Travel Advice for Vietnam
(Static Content)

...d in a small number of human fatalities. As a precaution, you should avoid live animal markets, poultry farms and other places where you may come into close contact with domestic, caged or wild birds;...