http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008082821424/National-news/EU-donates-election...

EU donates election equipment
Written by Mom Kunthear
Thursday, 28 August 2008

In addition to its annual 30 million euro donation to the government,
the EU donated some $180,000 worth of secondhand equipment used by
election observers to Cambodian NGOs

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008082921449/National-news/More-than-100...
More than 100 SRP vote fraud witnesses in hiding
Written by Vong Sokheng and Cat Barton
Friday, 29 August 2008

Opposition leader claims CPP-led government will threaten violence
against election whistleblowers

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008082921447/National-news/Teen-allegedly...
Teen allegedly raped by brother-in-law in Pursat as cases
spiral
Written by Chrann Chamroeun
Friday, 29 August 2008

Victim's parents are demanding jail time for the perpetrator and say
that compensation payments will not absolve him of responsibility

POLICE in Pursat province are investigating the alleged rape of 14-
year-old girl by her brother-in-law as rights workers warn that rape
cases involving juvenile victims are on the rise.

So Sa Hong, Phnum Kravang district deputy police chief, said that the
girl's parents filed a complaint on Tuesday, nearly a week after the
attack.

"I will forward the complaint to the police commissioner's bureau of
juvenile protection tomorrow to send to the court and ask for an
arrest warrant," he said.

Eng Chhun Han, a coordinator for the rights group Licadho in Pursat,
said that he found out about the rape on Thursday.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008082921448/National-news/Overcrowding-dirty...
Overcrowding, dirty conditions push Kampot jail to crisis
Written by May Titthara
Friday, 29 August 2008

As many as 60 inmates are stuffed into each 7-by-15-metre cell,
leading to health problems as increasing numbers of criminals arrive

A SURGE in inmates in Kampot prison has led to severe overcrowding and
mounting health problems, including malnutrition, prison and
provincial health officials said Thursday.

"We've seen a large increase in the prison population since early
2008," said prison chief Toch Banarith, adding that the facility now
houses 265 inmates, including 13 women.

"The main problem is sanitation," Toch Banarith said. "Conditions
become unsafe and unhealthy when you have so many people living in one
room. The smell is nearly unbearable."

In particular, several prisoners suffer from tuberculosis, skin
infections and hypertension, said Lim Kaing Eang, chief of Kampot's
provincial health department.

Most prisoners, he said, also suffer from malnutrition.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-mccainveep30-2008aug30,0,923381.story
By Bob Drogin, Maeve Reston and Johanna Neuman Times Staff Writers
11:55 AM PDT, August 29, 2008

DAYTON, Ohio -- Republican John McCain today introduced Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin as his running mate -- a move that could shake up the
presidential race with a social conservative who will appeal to the
party's base and a woman who may attract disaffected Democrats who
backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton instead of Barack Obama.

"I have found the right partner to help me stand up to those who value
their privileges over their responsibilities," McCain said at a rally
in Dayton, calling Palin "someone of strong principles of fighting
spirit and deep compassion."

http://www.rfa.org/khmer/indepth/authorities-arrested-2Thai-08292008034628.html

Reported by RFA Sophal Muni from Northwest Cambodia

From www.pubmed.com

Open dumping site in Asian developing countries: a potential source of
polychlorinated dibenz-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans.

Open landfill dumping areas for municipal wastes in Asian developing
countries have recently received particular attention with regard to
environmental pollution problems. Because of the uncontrolled burning...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/f9dc36ac3605105b1908c273abee9872....
Q&A: Former Cambodian refugee chronicles Iraqi displacement 29 Aug
2008 13:34:09 GMT
Source: UNHCR
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the author's alone.
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, August 29 (UNHCR) – A former child
refugee from Cambodia, Kalyanee Mam has sought to raise awareness of
refugee issues through her work as a lawyer, photographer and
documentary maker. She and her family fled Cambodia in 1979, following
the Vietnamese invasion that toppled Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge
regime. The fighting in Cambodia continued throughout the 1980s. After
working as a lawyer in Iraq, Kalyanee decided to make a documentary...

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/thestatewerein/otherstates/tswi-080829-cambodia-l...
by Eric Beauchemin

29-08-2008

In 1994, Cambodia began to emerge from decades of instability, war and
genocide. Companies started setting up garment factories, which today
account for 80 percent of Cambodia's export earnings. Initially, most
of the factories were sweatshops, but since 2001 the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) has been running a unique programme to
improve working conditions in the industry.

http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/400473
Calcutta News.Net
Friday 29th August, 2008

Negotiations involving claims to undersea oil and natural gas fields
in the Gulf of Thailand are dragging on for Thailand and Cambodia.

The two countries had opened negotiations in 1995 in a bid to tap into
potentially rich reserves; the talks leading to a memorandum of
understanding signed in 2001 by the Thai and Cambodian prime
ministers.

The two countries agreed in principle to join in development and share
profits from a total of eight blocks of petroleum fields in an
overlapping claims area, but the agreement still needs approval of the
Thai House of Representatives to comply with international treaty
agreements.

Committees and working groups are working to seek an agreeable
solution for the whole 26,000-square-kilometre area which is under
dispute.