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• Global Challenges | HIV Prevalence in Cambodia Decreases Since 1997
  HIV prevalence in Cambodia has decreased from 3.2% in 1997 to 1.6% currently, according to figures from UNAIDS, VOA News reports. In addition, UNAIDS data indicate that HIV prevalence among commercial sex workers in the country has decreased from 40% in 1997 to 20% currently.
• Elephant's Tusks Stolen for Black Market
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Thieves in Cambodia poisoned a 62-year-old domesticated elephant and sawed off its tusks to sell on the black market, officials said Tuesday.
• Exercise to test Asia readiness for bird flu
  MANILA (AFP) - ASEAN, Cambodia and the World Health Organisation will conduct a two-day exercise next week to test Asia's ability to stem a bird flu pandemic, the UN health agency said here Tuesday.
• Building Phnom Penh: An Angkorian heritage
  PHNOM PENH: Many Asian cities have laid claim to the title of "Paris of the East." During the 1930s, Phnom Penh's candidature was supported by no less a luminary than Charlie Chaplin, who described its orderly, tree-lined avenues as "little sisters" to the Champs-Elysées.
• Kumomo sells your ad space to build schools in Cambodia
  Mar 26, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ -- In rural Cambodia, hundreds of villages are still deprived of functional primary and secondary schools. American Assistance for Cambodia (AAfC) founded the Rural Schools Project in 1999, has led the effort to construct over 300 primary and lower secondary schools.
• Cambodia bar association says genocide judges delaying Khmer Rouge justice
  The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) Monday denounced a threatened boycott by four international judges appointed to the tribunal set to prosecute former Khmer Rouge [MIPT backgrounder; JURIST news archive] leaders for genocide as a "childish game" and an excuse to delay the anticipated tribunal.
• Development, tourist boom threaten Cambodia's Angkor Wat
  SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AFP) - Khun Sokha looks on while camera flashes pop in the pre-dawn haze, as hundreds of tourists perch along the outer wall of Cambodia's Angkor Wat waiting to catch that moment when the sun rises over the temple's distinctive towering spires.
• Lee University Alumna Joins Peace Corps’ First Mission To Cambodia
  Sarah Norton, 22, the daughter of Richard and Melinda Norton of Cleveland, Tn., has been accepted into the first group of volunteers to serve in the Peace Corps in Cambodia.
• Cambodian court charges prince with adultery
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Prince Norodom Ranariddh has been charged with adultery for having a mistress while still being legally married to his wife, a Cambodian court official said today.
• ADB, Cambodia Cooperate in Conserving Resources of Tonle Sap Great Lake
  MANILA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Cambodia are working together to conserve the resources of Tonle Sap Great Lake while pursuing pro-poor development initiatives in the area, said ADB in a news release Friday.