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source: The Phnom Penh Post - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:20:29 GMT+0700

Kratie shooters identified

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Police have identified suspects involved in the shooting of four villagers during a protest last week in which security guards from the TTY company opened fire into a crowd of hundreds of people in Kratie province, provincial police chief Chuong Seanghak said yesterday. ..

Flood challenges still loom

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The floodwaters may have receded, but their effects are far from over, with the government, NGOs and international donors saying yesterday they are still assessing the damage as they shift to long-term rehabilitation. ..

Maid returns after mother’s pleas

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A maid who says she was beaten and tortured while working in Malaysia was welcomed home by her mother yesterday – and scolded by neighbours for having trusted the recruitment company that sent her abroad...

Drinking game turns deadly for engineer

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A group of Cambodian military construction engineers were hospitalised and one of them died last week after drinking eight bottles of locally distilled whiskey in Banteay Meanchey’s province’s Thma Puok district. ..

Free mother, protesters urge

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More than 300 villagers from two districts in Kampong Speu province joined forces yesterday to protest in front of the provincial court over two land disputes, vowing to continue until authorities resolved them and released a mother of seven jailed last month after she had been summonsed to the court over one of the disputes...

Alleged vote-rigger files suit over taping

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AN opposition Sam Rainsy Party councillor who taped a ruling Cambodian People’s Party member attempting to buy his senate vote has been summoned to court to answer charges that he illegally recorded the man’s voice. ..

Dwindling water supplies put dry-season rice haul in danger

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Dry-season rice farmers in some areas west of the Tonle Sap River and in eastern provinces are appealing to the government for help as the reservoirs they rely on for irrigation are drying up faster than usual, farmers and officials said yesterday...

Fears judge row could slow KRT

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A day after the United Nations held firm on its appointment of the reserve co-investigating judge rejected last week by Cambodian authorities, a lawyer expressed concern about the potential impact of the controversy on civil party applicants in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s cases 003 and 004...

New Year’s accidents claim 24

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More than 20 Cambodians died this past week in traffic accidents that took place over the Chinese New Year holiday. ..

A culture on the brink of change

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Orange dirt holds to our skin, secured by the dry sweat from a day of trekking through rainforests, down dusty roads, and past rivers, waterfalls and elephants. Our allegedly English-speaking guide disappears down the hill, leaving us alone in the empty village. He returns 20 minutes later, with his family of 10 at his heels and the key to his hut...

Farmland fight :Villagers make plea to company

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Farmland fightMore than 200 villagers from four villages in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district gathered yesterday to ask Samrong Rubber Industries to stop bulldozing their farmland...

Bikers hit the road for good cause

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Last weekend, roughly 100 bikers rode from Bangkok to Phnom Penh and then onto Sihanoukville in what was touted as the Kindom’s first regional bike fest. ..

KRT hears of Kampot exodus

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A former district secretary during the Democratic Kampuchea regime test-ified at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday that she had observed people being evacuated from Kampot town but did not know who had made the decision to evacuate them...

Westec launches movie mag

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Westec Media, the company behind Cambodia’s first international movie theatre Legend Cinema, is further endearing itself to local cinephiles by launching movie magazine Jai Kon...

Monk accused of rape and sexual assault

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A buddist monk was charged yesterday with raping two girls and sexually assaulting two others he had hired to clear grass from outside his temporary home in Oddar Meanchey province...

Out to Lunch: At the Top Banana

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Street 278, by Independence Monument, is a popular night spot for expats, with the door-to-door combo of Equinox and Liquid Bar. But if you ever venture to the cramped Equinox rooftop to fill your lungs with either fresh air or cigarette smoke, you’ll find yourself almost eye-to-eye with its backpacker equivalent across the road: Top Banana. ..

Kingdom’s 2011 GDP hits 6.9%

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Cambodia's gross domestic product grew 6.9 per cent year-on-year in 2011, and is set to increase to 6.5 per cent this year, according to preliminary projections from the Ministry of Economy and Finance.120127_07 Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post Tourists look out over a cliff on Bokor Mountain in Kampot province on the final day of 2011.Agriculture, which was hit hard by floods last year, climbed 3.3 per cent, according to the ministry’s website. ..

Police Blotter: 27 Jan 2012

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Man argues with wife, ’burns down house’Police in Pursat province’s Kandieng district sent a 27-year-old man to court on Wednesday for setting his house on fire. Police said the fire had gutted the man’s house but the blaze had been extinguished by his neighbours before it could spread to theirs. The man’s wife said he had returned home drunk and argued with her and her mother. He then set fire to the house. Koh Santepheap ..

The mystery of the missing spider sanctuary

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The lifestyle editorial director was in a feeding frenzy. He said he’d read a small item about a spider sanctuary in Skuon and suggested that, as he’d read nothing else about it, surely it was a story that should be covered?..