Cambodia News Headline

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• NA Chairman begins Cambodia visit
  National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong arrived in Phnom Penh on April 25, beginning his official friendship visit to Cambodia at the invitation of President of the Cambodian NA Samdec Heng Samrin.
• Cambodia passes standard law
  The Cambodian National Assembly Wednesday approved the Law of Standard of Cambodia, which is expected to standardize the quality of imported and exported goods of the kingdom.
• Crocodile alert in Cambodia
  Phnom Penh - Cambodian villagers along the Mekong river were on crocodile alert after reports of sightings of a number of large reptiles near a populated area, an official said on Wednesday.
• B.C. firm defuses remnants of war in Cambodia
  Fiona Anderson was in Cambodia with Seeing the World through New Eyes, a short-term fellowship program that sends new B.C. journalists to report from developing countries. It is funded by CIDA and administered by the Jack Webster Foundation.
• U.S. presses Cambodia police chief on trafficking
  The United States on Tuesday urged Cambodia's police chief, himself once a target of U.S. questions over human trafficking, to do more to address the problem and prosecute officials involved in such crimes.
• Protesting Monks Fist Fight On Streets
  A protest by two opposing groups of Cambodian Buddhist monks has ended in a fist fight on the streets of the Cambodian capital, leaving at least one monk hurt.
• Former U.N. ambassador who escaped Cambodia’s killing fields highlights Human Rights Day
  Sichan Siv told an audience gathered Wednesday morning at Indiana State University about his harrowing escape from his native Cambodia in the 1970s.
• Cambodia dismisses rights abuse claims against police chief
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Cambodia on Thursday dismissed calls for the national police chief to be barred from the United States because of alleged human rights abuses, calling the claims against him "nonsense."
• Senior Funcinpec member defects to CPP of Cambodia
  Ly Thuch, lawmaker from the co- ruling Funcinpec Party and senior minister in charge of disaster management, has defected to the ruling Cambodian People's Party ( CPP), an official said here on Thursday.
• MCC partner sees dramatic progress on AIDS in Cambodia
  Cambodia has made dramatic progress in preventing and treating AIDS in recent years, according to Arlys Herem, a nurse practitioner with a Cambodian AIDS care organization that is supported by MCC.