Cambodia Sports
US Department Of State Post Report
Because of Cambodia’s hot and humid weather, sports enthusiasts should take proper precautions to avoid heat stroke, sunburn, and dehydration. Tennis, swimming, volleyball, soccer, biking, basketball, softball, motorcycling, golf and running are among the locally available sports. ... available at several locations in town. Cooking classes are offered at several hotels and at a local training center. Art and dance classes are occasionally offered individually around town. The CLO’s office periodically arranges various classes at the Embassy based on community interest. Current offerings have included ball-room dancing, pottery, karate, yoga, sketching and aerobics. Higher Education OpportunitiesLast Updated: 12/3/2003 3:41 PM The French Cultural Center offers French language courses and shows French films on a regular basis. The U.S. Embassy offers a post-language program to teach Khmer to U.S. employees and their adult eligible family members. Khmer language classes are also available at several locations in Phnom Penh or private teachers can be eng ... [Read More]
International Sports Programming Initiative RFGP
Exchanges funded under this theme would help American and foreign youth sport coaches, adult sponsors, and sports associations officials share their experience in managing and organizing youth sports activities, particularly in financially challenging circumstances, and would contribute to a better understanding of the role of sports as a significant factor in educational success. Americans are in a good position to convey to foreign counterparts the importance of linking success in sports to educational achievement and how these two factors can contribute to short-term and long-term economic prospects. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Burma, Cambodia, North Korea Cited for Human Trafficking Abuses
The government provided minimal assistance to trafficking victims in 2004. The government continued to lack a systematic procedure to identify trafficking victims among the foreign women detained for immigration or vice violations; there was no evidence of proactive screening during the detentions of over 4,600 foreign women for prostitution in 2004. The few victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation that are identified by authorities are generally referred to NGO shelters that offer counseling; foreign domestic workers who are victims of involuntary servitude or other abuse are referred to shelters run by their embassies or local NGOs, some of which provide legal assistance. The Singaporean Government, through the Ministry of Community Development, Youth, and Sports, provided counseling and health care for abused foreign domestic workers and victims of commercial sexual exploitation. There are no NGOs in Singapore that focus exclusively on trafficking, but there is one NGO ... [Read More]
Article Alert, Archives--Electronic Journals, Dept. of State
Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, is an analyst of economic trends and issues in American sports. He is the author of several books on sports economics, including, most recently, May the Best Man Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy (coauthored with Bob Costas). In this dialogue with State Department writer Michael J. Bandler, Zimbalist discusses the economic dynamics of sports in America ? mostly at the professional level, but at the university and community levels as well ? placing sports in the context of the economy at large. ... [Read More]
I) Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Policy Initiatives. In conformity with a prime ministerial order released in late 2000, all levels of government began to show new initiatives with respect to drugs, with the goal of eliminating opium by 2006. In March, the Seventh Party Congress of the Lao Communist Party set an even more ambitious deadline for opium elimination--2005. The government sponsored many seminars, training workshops, and public gatherings devoted to the topic of drug prevention. Demand reduction programs and activities were introduced in schools, factories, and programs of Lao women and youth unions. Counternarcotics sports events and concerts were held. The Ministry of Education, with assistance from the German government, developed educational curricula for demand reduction and distributed them in the schools. The Ministry of Information and Culture, also with German assistance, produced radio and television advertisements. The Prime Minister’s Office launched a major new initiative regarding methamph ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTMARCH 1995BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRSSOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 237 Australia 239 Burma 241 Cambodia 248China 251 Hong Kong 256 Indonesia 260 Japan 264 Laos 266 Malaysia 272 New Zealand 277 Philippines 278 Singapore 282 Taiwan 284 Thailand ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, March 9, 2000
MR. RUBIN: No, no, the Iranian position is they are prepared to have a dialogue of civilizations in which there are people-to-people exchanges, scientific exchanges, exchanges of academics, sports exchanges. But they have, to date, not been willing to have a direct dialogue. Our view is that we should approach such a dialogue on an unconditional basis, where we would raise our issues of concern and they would raise theirs. That's been our view. They have a different view. ... [Read More]
Law Enforcement Cases
Trade-Based Money Laundering Money Laundering via Gold Smuggling In August 2001, the ICE Boston office received information that narcotics traffickers were laundering drug proceeds through the smuggling of gold, which they had disguised as other commodities. ICE officers used the Data Analysis and Research for Trade Transparency (DARTT) database to corroborate the information and provide additional leads. The scheme centered on gold refineries located in the Northeastern United States. Investigators determined that narcotics traffickers were using a number of overvaluation schemes to move the gold into and out of the U.S. Overvaluation schemes, which are common in trade-based money laundering, allow a launderer to send excess funds overseas, while providing documents to conceal the nature of the ... [Read More]
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