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District police stymie mall protest at Hun Sen's house
AROUND 200 Sovanna Shopping Centre vendors were threatened by district police and prevented from boarding buses set to take them to Prime Minister Hun Sen's Kandal province residence on Thursday, where they had planned to protest high rents at the mall.
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THE conservation group WWF has agreed to meet with the Council of Ministers to discuss a controversial report on the Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin population that a government official said earlier this week could lead to charges of publishing false information.
AFORMER child detainee at Tuol Sleng prison told the Khmer Rouge tribunal Thursday how he passed lifeless bodies as he ran through the prison looking for his mother in the final days of the regime.
Israel hails growing Asia ties
DIPLOMATS, government officials and other guests gathered in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to celebrate the independence of Israel, a country that is currently expanding its political and economic links with Cambodia and the wider Asian region.
THREE villagers from Banteay Meanchey's Malai district have been arrested for entering a prohibited area designated as an animal preserve, according to a local rights group.

THE LAWYER for jailed opposition publisher Hang Chakra has sent a letter to Phnom Penh Municipal Court asking for his client to be released for health reasons, though he said Thursday that he had not yet received a response.
Replacement land readied in M'kiri plantation dispute
AUTHORITIES in Mondulkiri's Bou Sraa commune have begun measuring the land of local Phnong minorities displaced by a French-Cambodian rubber plantation in order to establish compensation claims, but local villagers remain sceptical that they will receive allotments equivalent to what they lost.
Few resources exist after release for children of imprisoned parents
Children of jailed parents are required to leave detention by the time they turn 6 years old.
PRIME Minister Hun Sen said this week that one of Cambodia's nine deputy prime ministers would soon be tasked with working to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Uptick in road accidents recorded
Monthly increase comes after Ministry of Interior announces delay in traffic law enforcement.
WORKERS for the garbage collection company Cintri are prepared to go on strike next week unless the company agrees to their demands, the trade union representing the workers said Thursday.
RCAF tells Thai soldiers to leave pagoda near Preah Vihear temple
Thai military commanders say they need time to ask their superiors if they can abandon the pagoda, according to Cambodian general.
Decline will continue, local analysts predict
Cambodian Economic Association tells lawmakers the crisis will worsen through the end of 2009 before recovery sets in.
THE Royal Group's Cambodia Entertainment Production Co Ltd (CEPCO) said Thursday it had obtained the exclusive rights to distribute American cable network HBO channels to nearly 100 cable operators in Cambodia.
Rock grinders hit hard times
Kampot industry facing collapse due to flagging demand in Phnom Penh as changing consumer tastes amid its biggest market fuel a general downturn.
THE number of tourists visiting Preah Vihear province dropped 59 percent in the first half of the year compared with the first six months of 2008, the provincial tourism chief said on Thursday as tensions continued to hurt tourism.
Lending to those with little capital
Hout Ieng Tong, general manager of Hattha Kaksekar Limited, a microfinance institution, says the economic downturn has hit rural incomes, and that lending has declined in turn.
Photographers focused on Cambodia's changing times
SINCE starting the Asia Motion photographers' agency in December last year, Isabelle Lesser has looked to photographers who can tell a story, not just capture one-off images.
The horror of a 'sudden death' news flash
I was at Glastonbury when Jacko died. That's not a factual statement, but a T-shirt slogan.
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