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1 hr ago | Reuters

VIDEO: New talks in Preah Vihear Temple row

Oct 13 - Thailand and Cambodia launch a new round of talks to resolve their dispute over the 900-year-old temple.

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8 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

Cambodian Couple Saw House In Half In Divorce

A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday.

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Sun Oct 12, 2008

Westmorland Gazette

Couple quizzed over baby's death

An investigation has been launched by police after the death of a three-month-old baby boy.

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Sat Oct 11, 2008

Fort Mill Times

Cambodia gets $35 million in emergency food aid

The Asian Development Bank announced Wednesday $35 million in emergency food aid to ease the burden of soaring food prices among some of Cambodia's poorest people.

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Fri Oct 10, 2008

Daily News

Husband takes half the house in divorce

Phnom Penh - A Cambodian couple decided to circumvent the country's notoriously corrupt and expensive court system in their divorce case by dividing their house in half, literally, local media reported on ...

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International Herald Tribune

Sentence reduced for convicted Russian pedophile

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia : A former Russian businessman convicted of sexually abusing a Cambodian girl had his prison term reduced but still faces another trial for similar offenses involving 18 other victims, ...

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Kansas City Star

Cambodian couple saws house in divorce settlement

A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday.The husband, 42-year-old Moeun ...

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Malaysian National News Agency

OSK Indochina Bank Starts Operations In Cambodia

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 -- OSK Indochina Bank Ltd started commercial banking operations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, today.

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Thu Oct 09, 2008

Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Cambodian couple saw home in half after separation

A married couple in Cambodia who had "finally had enough" of each other have gone their separate ways by literally cutting their home in half.

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Wed Oct 08, 2008

People's Daily Online

Japan may slash funds for clearing land mines in Cambodia

The Cambodian Mine Action Center has expressed concern over a proposed 50 percent cut from Japan's annual aid contribution to clear land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, national media reported ...

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Tue Oct 07, 2008

Vail Daily News

Polls: Indonesia or bust

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of travel stories from local resident Luc Pols, who is traveling through Southeast Asia.

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Mon Oct 06, 2008

hosted The Associated Press | The Associated Press

Free breakfast on menu for Cambodia school kids

The U.N. food agency is resuming free breakfasts for hundreds of thousands of poor Cambodian schoolchildren after securing new funds for a program suspended due to high food prices, the agency said Tuesday.

Under the revived scheme, 450,000 schoolchildren in the countryside will be fed meals in classes before starting their daily lessons.

The new school year started Oct. 1, and food distribution is now under way for students in 1,344 rural schools in 12 Cambodian provinces, said Bradley Busetto, acting director of the U.N. World Food Program in Cambodia.

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The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

2 Thai Soldiers Wounded by Land Mine near Cambodia

Land mine explosions wounded two Thai soldiers Monday near the border with Cambodia, army officials said, three days after both sides exchanged gunfire near a disputed 11th century temple.

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Sun Oct 05, 2008

The Independent

Khmer Rouge soldier tells of Briton's murder

More than a decade after a British charity worker was seized and murdered in Cambodia, a former Khmer Rouge soldier has told how he was shot dead at night, before his body was doused with diesel and burnt.

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Sat Oct 04, 2008

Kyodo News

Cambodia protests Thai armed confrontation

The Cambodian government sent a letter to Thailand on Saturday to protest an armed confrontation Friday with Thai troops near a disputed border temple that resulted in casualties on both sides.

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Fri Oct 03, 2008

Gulf Times

Cambodian and Thai troops clash at border

"Two of our troops were slightly wounded, and I heard three soldiers on the Cambodian side were wounded.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Khmer Rouge guerillas who killed British mine expert go on trial

Five former Khmer Rouge guerrillas went on trial in Phnom Penh yesterday for the murder of the British mine clearance expert Christopher Howes in Cambodia 12 years ago.

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Thu Oct 02, 2008

Clover Herald

Cambodia's genocide trial delayed until next year

The start of the first trial at Cambodia's genocide tribunal is likely to be delayed until early next year because more time is needed to deal with an appeal for more charges against a Khmer Rouge defendant, ...

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Wed Oct 01, 2008

Pnompenh Post

Govt warns of rising traffic deaths

An accident on Phnom Penh's Norodom Boulevard last week. The Ministry of Transport has said it will start fining drivers who break road rules in a bid to reduce accidents, especially over festive periods.

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Tue Sep 30, 2008

Bangkok Post

PM to visit Cambodia, seeks end to row

The disputes over Ta Muen Tom and Ta Kwai temples will be high on the agenda of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat when he visits Cambodia on Oct 13.

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