Royal Air Cambodge has again suspended flights to Koh Kong province after the second RCAF plane in six months hit a land mine on the airport’s runway, an airline official said Tuesday.

Fifteen thousand riel a day isn’t much. But Ngoun Horn, a Phnom Penh cyclo driver, says it was enough to feed his wife and four children back home in Svay Rieng province.

Police on Sunday arrested a Pursat man in the killing of a Fun­cinpec member, alleging the slaying arose from bad medicine the victim gave the suspect’s mother.

The National Election Com­mittee is still waiting for a transfer of $1 million from the Ministry of Finance so it can meet its July payroll today, an NEC official said Tuesday.

Koh Kong province’s top military official was removed from his post this week after the second incident of a plane hitting a land mine on the Koh Kong airport runway, provincial officials confirmed Tuesday.

odong, Kompong Speu – De­posed first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh apologized to supporters Tuesday, saying it was a mistake for Funcinpec to enter a coalition with the CPP after winning the 1993 elections.

King Norodom Sihanouk has told Asean officials he will stay in Cambodia throughout the entire electoral process to act as an arbiter of whether elections are free and fair, Southeast Asian diplomats confirmed Mon­day.

Left behind for years by the tiger economies of its neighbors, Cambodia’s underdeveloped economic framework has largely protected it from the ravages of the Asian financial crisis, and may offer a blank page on which to inscribe a winning formula for the future, according to a report re­leased Monday.

Police on Monday showed off four men arrested in connection with the slaying of an Iraqi man after a dispute arose over $18,000 paid in an alleged scam to produce illegal US visas.

A dispute between villagers and soldiers has arisen over the ownership of several hundred hectares of paddy field in the Bavel district of Battambang province.

In the 18 months he was finance minister, Sam Rainsy built a reputation as a crusader.

The body of Funcinpec activist missing for a week was found dead Sunday morning in Kandal province, party officials and rights workers said. The body showed signs of severe torture.

Samaki village looks like other poor communities in rural cambodia, with its wood and thatch homes surrounded by rice paddies. But one thing separates it from the rest of the country—it is the first in Cambodia to be powered entirely by solar energy.

The cash-strapped government is seeking to collect more than $5 million in back taxes and loans from Royal Air Cambodge, a Ma­laysian-Cambodian joint venture.

For the second time in six months, an RCAF airplane has hit a land mine on the Koh Kong air­port runway, prompting pro­vincial police to blame the former first deputy governor for planting the mine.

The Phnom Penh Municipality has backed away from its widely criticized—and widely ignored—ban on public demonstrations in the run-up to elections, requesting only that political parties inform officials of planned rallies in the capital.

koh ka-ek village, Kompong Chhnang province – Until recently only a handful of children in this poor fishing village were able to study in its dilapidated rattan schoolhouse.

In 1993, after the most expensive UN intervention in history, Cambodia’s people went to the polls and voted for change in their government and in their lives. The UN-administered elections were hailed at the time as an example of how the international community could help “transplant” democracy in a troubled country like Cambodia.

‘Royalist Democrats’ Attempt to Rebound from Fall

For Funcinpec campaign manager May Sam Oeun, Cambodians have a clear decision to make next month.