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• Cambodia King Ratifies Asean Rights Charter,Says Ministry-AFP
  Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has ratified a landmark new human rights charter aimed at transforming the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the foreign ministry said
• Cambodia suspends foreign marriages: official
  PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia has suspended marriages between foreigners and Cambodians amid concerns over an explosion in the number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women, an official said Thursday
• Rare water birds recovering in Cambodia
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The populations of seven species of rare water birds have recovered significantly in Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake due to a program that employs former hunters as park rangers, conservationists said Thursday.
• http://www.banking-business-review.com/article_news.asp?guid=234ACE0A-AD58-40AE-87D8-302E8C764E6ACambodia
  Mr Abraham will be responsible for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's (ANZ) retail and institutional business in Indonesia and the group's partnership with Panin Bank.
• Cambodia: Garment Workers To Get US$6 A MonthPay Raise To Cope With Inflation
  Cambodian garment manufacturers and labor unions have agreed to a US$6 monthly raise for factory workers, averting potential further strikes by employees struggling to make ends meet, officials said Tuesday (1 Apr).
• Trial begins in Cambodia coup case
  the trial of a southern California resident who allegedly led the attempted overthrow of Cambodia's government in November 2000. Yasith Chhun, 51, president of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters, was charged with conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, conspiracy to damage or destroy property in a foreign country, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the United States and engaging in a military expedition against a nation with which the United States is at peace
• 'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies at 65
  against-the-odds survival of Cambodia's genocide was adapted into the award-winning movie "The Killing Fields," died early Sunday at the age of 65.
• http://torontosun.com/Entertainment/OtherEntertainment/2008/03/31/5150511-sun.html
  Ricky Martin met with victims of sexual exploitation Saturday during a visit to Cambodia to promote the fight against human trafficking.
• Thailand: Talks On Complex Global Warming PactOpen In Thailand, Face Deep Divisions
  opened their first talks on forging a devilishly complex global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol _ and faced wide divisions between rich and developing countries over how to slash greenhouse gases.
• A traditional Khmer dance
  "Women and young people make up a large portion of construction workers doing manual labor in flip-flops and large straw hats."