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US Federal Workers in Annual Charity Drive
US federal employees have begun a fundraising campaign for 2011, in a drive to collect money for local and international organizations. The Combined Federal Campaign is undertaken each year and allows US government employees to deduct money from their incomes to go toward thousands of different organizations, including charities and NGOs. “I donate to a lot of humane societies: Crime Solvers organization, the Red Cross,” said Brandon Garner, an administrative assistant at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a US agency that oversees VOA. Continue reading
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Flooding Claims 250 Lives, as Government Response Continues
The government raised the national death toll from ongoing flooding to nearly 250 on Friday, as Cambodia continues to grapple with its worst flooding in a decade. More than 30,000 families have been pushed out of their homes in flooding that began in August Continue reading
High Floods, Low Funds Keep Some Home for Holiday
With much of Cambodia taking three days off to celebrate Pchum Ben, when the country honors its ancestors and the ghosts who roam the spirit world, some unlucky residents were stuck in the capital. Severe flooding in the provinces and a continued high cost of living meant people living in the city’s margins were not able to return home for the annual festival. Continue reading
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Bird Flu Deaths Up; No New Strain Detected
Health officials in Cambodia say they have so far not detected a new strain of the bird flu virus that appeared recently in Vietnam. Bird flu, or avian influenza, has killed at least eight Cambodians so far this year, and the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned Cambodian authorities in August that a new strain in Vietnam had the potential of crossing into Cambodia. “Virus circulation in Vietnam poses a direct threat to Cambodia,” the FAO said in a statement, adding that the new strain represents “unpredictable risks.” Ly Sovann, deputy director of the Ministry of Health’s communicable diseases department, told VOA Khmer Thursday that doctors and specialists of infectious diseases at the ministry, the World Health Organization and the Pasteur Institute have tested samples of bird flu found in Cambodia and they are not of the new strain. Continue reading
ADB Revises 2011 Growth Rate Up Two Points
The Asian Development Bank on Wednesday said Cambodia would likely reach a 6.8 percent economic growth rate for 2011. The ADB estimate was a bump up from the 6.5 percent forecast earlier this year, but much less than Prime Minister Hun Sen’s figure of 8.7 percent, which he said in a speech this week was possible Continue reading
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Yingluck Visit Boosts Thai-Cambodia Relations
Thailand’s recently elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made her first official visit to Cambodia. The one-day trip marks a new start in bilateral relations, which have been poor in recent years. Continue reading
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