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• Vietnam, Cambodia boost broadcast cooperation
  Vietnam and Cambodia will continue to increase bilateral cooperation in broadcasting, as agreed to during a visit by the General Director of the Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV) to the neighbouring country.
• Campus takes on a Muslim flavour
  In crisis, there is always opportunity. This maxim rings true at Prince of Songkla University's Pattani campus, which is in one of the three troubled provinces in the far South. ''Since the violence erupted four years ago, the number of students studying here from other regions has dropped sharply,'' campus vice-rector Sompong Thongpong said.
• Olympic boycotts – a bad idea
  Opponents of Chinese policy in Tibet, Darfur, and elsewhere are calling for total or partial boycotts of Beijing's summer Olympics.
• World Rice Supplies More Ample
  Global rice production, domestic use, and ending stocks for 2007-08 are raised from last month, while imports and exports are lowered, according to the latest supply and demand update from the USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board.
• CLMV Officers Visit PSD
  Four senior officers from CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) who are participating in the 5th Executive Development Programme for Senior Government Officers (EDPSGO) yesterday afternoon made a courtesy call on Awg Sa Bali Abas, Director General of the Public Services Department (PSD)
• UN Distance-Learning Programme Helps Statisticians
  Statisticians from India and Cambodia today completed the first video conferencing course provided by a new United Nations programme that aims to boost the quality of information received from Governments of developing countries.
• Cambodia's 'happy pizza' banned
  Changing times and politics in South-East Asia may finally spell extinction for one of the most famous (or infamous) fusion cuisines enjoyed by backpackers, Cambodia's "happy pizza".
• The Big Hurt: Clubbing baby seals: not okay
  Pop icon RICKY MARTIN paid a humanitarian visit to Cambodia recently in support of victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Although he’s remembered as the radiant Latin heartthrob behind “La Vida Loca,” Martin has shown an admirable commitment to philanthropy.
• China confirms human-to-human bird flu transmission
  LONDON – Chinese health officials have confirmed that a father caught bird flu from his son last December, according to a report released Tuesday.
• Cambodian economic growth to slow in 2008: UN
  PHNOM PENH (AFP) - - Cambodia's economic growth is expected to slow to 7.0 percent this year, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that the country's exports remained too narrowly based on garments.