Cambodia's 'rice bowl' out as London's twin
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- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
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Cambodia's 'rice bowl' out as London's twin
Fri, September 12, 2008
By KATE DUBINSKI
If London wants to help a city abroad, it won't be in Cambodia.
Well, not in Battambang District, anyway.
Instead, the district in eastern Cambodia with about one million
people is twinning with the municipality of the County of Kings in
Nova Scotia -- population 47,000.
"It would have been a partnership to assist other cities (abroad) with
special needs . . . We could provide our expertise," Mayor Anne Marie
DeCicco-Best said.
County of Kings, on the Bay of Fundy about an hour west of Halifax,
was deemed "the best fit . . . with respect to solid waste management
and local government capacity building," according to a letter from
the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which makes the matches.
"It's OK," said DeCicco-Best, adding London had put its name into a
pool of municipalities willing to partner with cities in need abroad.
The Battambang District is the country's second-largest city and bills
itself as "the rice bowl of Cambodia."
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