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• Observer Trip Showcases Health Programs in Vietnam and Cambodia
  merican Red Cross Board of Governors members, National Celebrity Cabinet member Elisabeth Rohm, and Senior Vice President of International Services David Meltzer will visit Red Cross programs in Vietnam and Cambodia April 23-28.
• Ronan Keating to play Cambodia
  Irish pop crooner Ronan Keating is to perform before tens of thousands of Cambodians next month, in the country's first concert by a major international act.
• CAMBODIA: Information Minister welcomes new political party
  In Cambodia, another political party has been launched to contest next year's much anticipated national polls. Social activist Kem Sokha has announced the formation of the Human Rights Party. But it's still the ruling Cambodian People's Party which is set to further consolidate its power in the 2008 vote.
• Claims Cambodia is deliberately delaying genocide trials
  Cambodia's opposition leader says the government is deliberately delaying efforts to try former Khmer Rouge leaders. Sam Rainsy is demanding a global effort to try those responsible for one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, following a series of delays to a UN-backed tribunal.
• Bangladesh, Cambodia battle new H5N1 outbreaks
  Apr 16, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – Bangladesh's livestock ministry said today that H5N1 avian influenza has spread to two more farms, and Cambodian officials have reported poultry outbreaks near where a 13-year-old girl recently died of the disease, according to news services.
• US: Notorious Cambodian Police Chief in US for Counter-Terror Talks at FBI
  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on April 19 is scheduled to host Cambodia’s national police chief for discussions on counterterrorism, even though Hok Lundy has been implicated in what the FBI itself has classified as a terrorist act, Human Rights Watch said today.
• Cambodia kills 100 poultry in province bordering Vietnam
  The mass killing was conducted within a radius of three km around the death location of the girl, while an investigation was being carried out within a radius of 10 km in order to contain the possible spread of the disease.
• S.Korea Shinhan Bank to open $13 mln Cambodia unit
  A banking unit of South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group plans to set up a wholly-owned unit in Cambodia with an initial investment of $13 million, a South Korean regulatory agency said on Friday.
• Deputy Minister Of Cambodia Visits IQRA School
  Cambodia's Deputy Minister of Cult and Religior Affairs in charge of Islam, Mr Sith Ybrahim paid a visit' yesterday to the Islamic Quran Reading Association (IQRA) school in Manggis Satu.
• Cambodia confirms new bird flu outbreak
  Cambodia on Saturday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu among poultry a little more than a week after a 13-year-old girl died of the deadly H5N1 virus.