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Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised the development of relations between the two countries over the past 55 years, while Vietnam reiterated its support and wished the Kingdom success in its role as ASEAN chair in 2022. Hun Sen and Phuc met on December 21 during the latter’s two-day visit to Cambodia for bilateral talks.

Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised the development of relations between the two countries over the past 55 years, while Vietnam reiterated its support and wished the Kingdom success in its role as ASEAN chair in 2022. Hun Sen and Phuc met on December 21 during the latter’s two-day visit to Cambodia for bilateral talks.

Lysine Khao-Levasseur – who is soon to step down as chairwoman after 30 years of driving LBL International forward – shares how the leading Cambodian construction company has played a pivotal role in shaping the Kingdom since its founding back in 1991, the challenges it has overcome and her optimism for the future.

Stéphane Bigorre, managing director of LBL International, outlines the key achievements in the company’s 30-year journey to becoming a leading construction firm in Cambodia.

CP Fresh Shop – a fresh meat specialty store – is inviting Cambodians who are interested in venturing into their own business under the company’s franchise model.

Lysine Khao-Levasseur – who is soon to step down as chairwoman after 30 years of driving LBL International forward – shares how the leading Cambodian construction company has played a pivotal role in shaping the Kingdom since its founding back in 1991, the challenges it has overcome and her optimism for the future.

Left in ruins by jihadists, Iraq’s once-celebrated Mosul museum and its 2,500-year-old treasures are being given a second life thanks to restoration efforts backed by French experts. Ancient artefacts in the museum were smashed into little pieces when Islamic State group fighters seized the northern city of Mosul in 2014 and made it their seat of power for three years.

At the Indonesian embassy in Phnom Penh recently, five women of the Sunda ethnicity – native to West Java – went on stage wearing peacock costumes with crests of large, stiff and spatula-like iridescent tail feathers. They smiled as they moved together synchronously performing a classical Sundanese dance imitating the movements of the birds their costumes evoked.

UNESCO on Tuesday added Arabic calligraphy, a key tradition in the Arab and Islamic worlds, to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Amid the devastation after World War I, Verica Ivanovic’s grandfather used whatever construction materials he could find to build the family’s home including, unbeknown to him, bricks from the Roman Empire.