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Garments: Korean investors make visit

OUTH Korean garment industry investors are eager to leave behind higher labour costs in China, but plans to set up shop in the Kingdom are hindered by a lack of information, officials visiting Phnom Penh said yesterday.



Tower may not be tall order

NDUSTRY experts from around the world said yesterday that a proposed 555-metre tower on Phnom Penh's Koh Pich was technically possible, but raised questions about the economics of the plan.



PM says border still an issue

Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at the National Institute of Education yesterday. P RIME Minister Hun Sen chided the Thai government yesterday for its inaction in resolving an ongoing border dispute with Cambodia, taking up a familiar rhetorical pose in remarks before a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh.



NGOs ready a slew of graft complaints

HE Kingdoma s newly formed Anticorruption Unit potentially faces a busy start, as two local organisations are preparing to file more than 50 corruption complaints to the body this month.



Three men assaulted at Thai market

HREE Cambodian men were assaulted at a market in Thailand after a confrontation with market security guards, Cambodian officials said.



Women say they fled detention

Nguon Re, 32 , and Kim Sinoun, 20 , say they fled a Phnom Penh training centre last month because of poor conditions.



Corruption police pledge vigilance

Om Yentieng, head of the government's newly established Anticorruption Unit, presides over a swearing-in ceremony for ACU officials at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh yesterday.



Scheme beefs up husbandry

A farmer in Kampong Cham provides feed for his cattle. A N Australian aid programme designed to improve economic circumstances and prospects for subsistence farmers in Kampong Cham province has been so successful that other farmers throughout Cambodia are beginning to implement its key element: growing fodder crops to feed their cattle.



NGO attempts to curb bird flu

A poultry farmer feeds his chickens in Koh Kong province's Sre Ambel district. Koh Kong province I N a small village in Koh Kong province, poultry farmer Keo Sok is learning that healthy practices can be good for business.



Cambodia boasts of plan for Asia's tallest skyscraper in sleepy low-rise capital

Impoverished Cambodia plans to build a 1,820-foot skyscraper, its prime minister said Wednesday, a feat that would give one of the region's least-developed capitals the tallest building in Asia.



Brothel owner imprisoned

Convicted brothel owner Nguyen Thy Thy, 45, stands outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.



More Cambodians work in Korea

IGRANTS travelling to work in South Korea have increased by almost 15 percent so far this year as its economy has grown, Cambodiaa s Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training said yesterday.



Returnee NGO faces closure

Sochet, a returnee from the US, describes his transition to Cambodia during an interview yesterday at the Returnee Integration Support Centre in Phnom Penh.



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Members of a Hong Kong police forensic team yesterday examine the tourist bus used in the Manila hijack bloodbath.



Lake residents take title demands to PM

A police officer looks through a document as Boeung Kak lake residents gather up thumbprinted papers at a protest yesterday.



AsiaInfo-Linkage inks contract with Mfone

An Mfone employee discusses roaming SIM card services with a customer in one of its Phnom Penh offices.



Four sentenced over leaflets

Thach Le, Licadho's Leang Sokchouen and Thach Vannak are led to Takeo provincial court before their hearing yesterday.



Crackdown targets drunken drivers

Traffic passes Street 108 on Monivong Boulevard. Nighttime traffic checkpoints for the capital and two provinces are expected this week.



Misbehaving mystic charged with sex assault

An Kim Sry, deputy police chief of Kampong Chama s Chamkar Leu district, said the 24-year-old victim visited Ouk Sovanny, 26, last Thursday in the hope of finding a cure for her seriously ill husband.



Cambodia rejects Thai tender of road funds

AMBODIAN officials said yesterday that they would reject US$41.2 million in funding for a road project that Thailand reportedly pledged to resume last week as part of an effort to warm relations between the two countries.





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