CAMBODIA has quietly marked the 10-year anniversary of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot’s death amid fears time is running out to try his ageing surviving cadre before a genocide tribunal. Pol Pot, the tyr…

Hanoi - With a tropical depression gathering strength as it heads toward Vietnam, forecasters predicted the country would face more severe floods and storms this year than in 2007, an official said Tu…

Bangkok - Thailand, already the world’s second largest producer of one-ton pickup trucks (after only the US), earlier this month secured itself an eco-car niche in the globe’s competitive auto manufac…

It’s my blog and I cuss if I want to, cuss if I want to..If this would happen to you, you would be cussing too :)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BedbugReproductionAll bedbugs mate via a process termed traumatic insemination. Instead of inserting their ge…

By Donald Kirk The young man approached me with a simple enough offer as I strolled through the grounds of the Royal Palace near the banks of the Tonle Sap in Phnom Penh all those years ago. Di…

Vietnam oil company on a roll CAIRO - Vietnam set a record for discovering oil in Algeria. PetroVietnam found oil in the Bir Seba field, located in the Saharan Touggourt area, after 63 drillin…

Bangkok - Thai entomologists have discovered three new species of snout beetles, a subfamily which already includes some 10,000 bug groups, media reports aid Tuesday. “It has just been confirmed by a …

Lao New Year 2008 celebration at Wat Lao Samakhitham in Binghamton, New York. The event took place on April 12, 2008.

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Nam Theun 2 dam ready for flooding, panel says
An independent panel of international environmental and social experts has expressed support for a plan to seal a tunnel to direct water into the Nam Theun 2 dam this week and close the dam gate in June.
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