'Jungle woman' hospitalised

Rochom P'ngieng

October 30, 2009
From correspondents in Cambodia
Agence France-Presse

CAMBODIA'S "jungle woman", whose case gripped the country after she apparently spent 18 years living in a forest, has been hospitalised after refusing food, her father and a doctor said today.

Rochom P'ngieng, now 28, went missing as a little girl in 1989 while herding water buffalo in Ratanakkiri province around 600km northeast of the capital Phnom Penh.

The woman was brought from the jungle, naked and dirty, in early 2007 after being caught trying to steal food from a farmer.

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Decoration row makes no sense

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By Tulsathit Taptim

The Nation

Published on October 30, 2009

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

If you don't know what all this fuss about the royal decoration thing is about, you're in good company. What will the government accomplish from stripping Thaksin Shinawatra of his honours? Why now? And what's the point of Thaksin's hardcore sympathisers trying to oppose the move?

I absolutely have no idea.

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Tourists look for luck at Pol Pot’s grave

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A group of unidentified Cambodian officials tour the cremation site of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia. A $1 million tourism master plan is being finalized to preserve and protect 15 Khmer Rouge sites, and charge admission.

ANLONG VENG, Cambodia - He was one of the greatest mass killers of the 20th century, but that doesn't stop the hopeful from praying at Pol Pot's hillside grave for lucky lottery numbers, job promotions and beautiful brides.

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khmer karaoke - miam miam...

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Thais To Explain Thaksin Charges to Hun Sen

A demonstrator holds a banner with pictures of exiled former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during a rally outside the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok on October 27. (Photo: Reuters)

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
29 October 2009

The Thai government said this week it will send an official document to Prime Minister Hun Sen regarding ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, following a war of words between Phnom Penh and Bangkok over Cambodia’s right to refuse extradition.

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Kathen Worshippers Barred from Remote Pagoda [... due to land concession for a rubber company]

By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
29 October 2009

Police in Kampong Thom province have blocked villagers from participating in a Buddhist ceremony at a remote pagoda on disputed land for the past two days, officials said Thursday.

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Vietnam, Cambodia discuss security, extradition pacts

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thanh Nien News (Hanoi)

Vietnam and Cambodia on Thursday discussed an agreement to strengthen public security ties as well as an extradition treaty to deal with crimes along their border areas.

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