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PHILADELPHIA, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (www.crowncork.com), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, announced today that it will build a new beverage can plant in Sihanoukville, Cambodia to meet growing demand. Sihanoukville is on the Gulf of Thailand approximately 200 km from the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. It is the country's primary commercial port and is also enjoying growing tourism. The new plant will be sized to...
NEW YORK, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Friends Without A Border (Friends) announces that its 10th Annual Gala will take place on Thursday, April 12, 2012 (6 to 9:30 p.m.) at Espace, 635 West 42nd St., New York City. The recipient of this year's Healing Cambodia Award is child of war turned man of peace, Arn Chorn-Pond. Based in New York, with chapters in Canada, Japan, and France, Friends is a 501(c)(3) organization which raises awareness and funds to support Angkor...
OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move to manage network costs and drive new revenue opportunities, S.I. Net, Cambodia's leading provider of high-speed Internet, fiber and hosting services, chose WideCast, the transparent caching solution, from BTI Systems. With WideCast, S.I. Net is able to cache the most popular video, applications and other content and improve the quality of experience for its customers while significantly reducing its IP transit costs. (Logo:...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumner Redstone today announced a grant of $720,000 to the Cambodian Children's Fund (CCF), a non-profit program that provides a wide range of critical health and educational services to impoverished and abused children in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. This most recent gift brings Mr. Redstone's total commitment to CCF to $1.72 million. Mr. Redstone's initial $500,000 grant in 2007 established CCF's child rescue center and was...
BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kim Irvine, professor of geography and planning at Buffalo State College, continues to make significant contributions to the effort to ensure that the people of Southeast Asia have adequate, safe drinking water. In the July 2010 issue of the Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, Irvine, with guest editorial coauthor Thammarat Koottatep of the School of Environment, Resources and Development at the Asian Institute of...
It is a mystery why some children with HIV infection do not get sick.Researchers from The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration at the Thai Red Cross AIDS in Bangkok, the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD in Phnom Penh and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston think that it might be explained by the types of white blood cells the children have.Long-term, non-progressorsHIV kills white blood cells that help fight infections. Without treatment, most children...
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of metal packaging products worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd., plans to install a second beverage can line in its existing facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The new line is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2011 and have an initial annual production capacity of 700 million two-piece 33cl aluminum beverage cans, which will expand the...
TOKYO, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced on July 7 that its subsidiary, NTT Communications (Thailand) Co., Ltd., has begun operating a branch office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, effective immediately. Headed by the concurrent president of NTT Communications (Thailand), Tsuyoshi Kawashima, the Phnom Penh Branch will provide multinational companies in Cambodia with ICT solutions from NTT Com. NTT Com is the first Japanese telecommunications company to set up a branch...
STOCKHOLM, June 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of its world class performance in water supply and self-sufficiency, the Cambodian Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) under the leadership of General Director Ek Sonn Chan has been named the winner of the Stockholm Industry Water Award 2010. For full press release, translations, photos, and video material, visit: http://www.siwi.org/siwa2010 Decades of conflict left the Phnom Penh water supply system running low...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ --The Crown Worldwide Group, a worldwide leader of global mobility, moving services, relocation services, information management, art shipping and logistics services, announced the opening of the second school funded by Crown, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The school will be attended by 3,000 children, aged 6 to 16 years old, and integrates over 100 HIV positive and orphan children. Most schools in Cambodia do not accept HIV positive children. On June...
