Aid organizations are assisting more than 6,200 civilians who fled fighting earlier this month near their villages on the northwest border with Thailand, officials said Monday.

The cleaning, hammering, painting and pruning around Wat Phnom is coming to an end. In two weeks, the city plans to celebrate the finish of the temple’s five-month renovation project.

Planning Minister Chea Chan­to was sworn in Monday as governor of the National Bank of Cambodia, but ques­tions still lingered over why his predecessor stepped down.

Dairy manufacturing giant Nestle Ltd has the green light to open a $6.6 million milk manufacturing operation in Phnom Penh, according to the Cambodian In­vestment Board.

Police arrested nine gang members Sunday night in connection with the gang rape of two women on the outskirts of the city, police said Monday. One of the victims is the wife of a high-ranking government official and the other is her 19-year-old niece, police said.

Two days of intense political maneuvering and reversals culminated late Saturday with King Norodom Sihanouk granting a full pardon to his son, deposed first prime minister Prince Noro­dom Ranariddh.

Top military officials Sunday confirmed the second group defection in two weeks of Khmer Rouge troops aligned with hard-liners in the rebel jungle stronghold of Anlong Veng.

Phnom Penh restaurateurs will be asked this week to sign an agreement not to serve wild animal meat such as deer and bear, environment officials said.

A US politician has asked the US Embassy in Bangkok to issue a tourist visa to Nhiek Bun Chhay so the resistance commander can travel to the US.

Han was 13 when her stepmother sold her for $50 to a recruiter for a Phnom Penh brothel.

Neang, 13, was working as a housemaid in Battambang province when her family let her go to Phnom Penh with a woman promising a better-paying maid job. Neang was taken to a brothel, beaten and kept prisoner.

The alleged triggerman in the 1996 murder of the second prime minister’s brother-in-law recanted his confession Friday at the Ap­peals Court, claiming he had told police he fired the fatal shots only because he feared for his life.

A pardon for deposed first prime minister Prince Norodom Rana­riddh was on hold Friday, pending a joint response by the two prime ministers to King Norodom Sihanouk’s request, officials said.

he decayed boardwalk between the small stilted wooden shacks is just wide enough for a motorcycle. The nurse, however, maneuvers the little Honda with great skill to its destiny, a house on the end of the way, home to one of his tuberculosis patients.

A group of young medical students are filing out of their afternoon class at Phnom Penh’s Faculty of Medicine. They swap notes in Khmer but the language of study here is not their native one. Six hours of lectures a week are conducted in French.

A pessimistic King Norodom Sihanouk said Thursday agreement would never be reached on a pardon for deposed first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranar­iddh.

Ethnic Chinese businessmen were busy exchanging business cards and networking at the Hotel Sofitel Cambodiana on Wednes­day night—a happy sign for Cambo­dian officials concerned about falling foreign investment.

Siem Reap Governor Toan Chay continued to insist this week that disabled people are re­sponsible for clearing land within the Angkor Wat protected area, but called the problem “exaggerated.”

The environmental watchdog Global Witness said Thursday that Cambodia’s two prime ministers in January authorized the export of $60 million of processed timber from the ex-Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin.

More than 50 percent of people surveyed earlier this month by a Paris-based opinion poll agency said they were aware of the upcoming elections but did not know what the polls will be for.

A senior government official instrumental in secretly contracting a private company to stage $26 million elections in July re­fused to speak with reporters about the deal Wednesday and Thursday.