PHNOM PENH -- Encased in a teardrop of glass fixed to an elaborately decorated gold-colored pedestal, Cambodia's first drops of oil were memorialized at a ceremony on Wednesday, six months after being extracted from beneath the Gulf of Thailand.
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Cambodia's energy minister, Suy Sem, right, hands a sculpture containing the first drop of oil pumped by KrisEnergy to Defense Minister Tea Banh in Phnom Penh on June 9. © EPA/Jiji
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