Veteran politician Son Sann, one of the most respected figures in recent Cambodian history, returned to a warm welcome Wednesday after almost a year away from his homeland.

The number of malaria cases is up by nearly 60 percent nationwide, according to the National Malaria Cen­ter’s year-end data.

Cambodia’s deputy chief of anti-drug police said Wednesday there have been plots to kill him since a military police officer was arrested in a drug sting earlier this year.

A visiting UN envoy offered help to bring about a permanent cease-fire between the warring government and resistance factions in Cambodia’s northwest, First Prime Minister Ung Huot said Wednesday.

Finance Minister Keat Chhon called Wednesday for more international assistance for Cam­bodia’s elections, as estimated poll costs have soared from $21 million to between $25 million and $28 million.

Vietnam Airlines flew four trial charter flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap last weekend, but is still waiting for government approval for daily flights, an airline official said Tuesday.

Two envoys, one from the UN and another from the Asean “troika,” arrived Tuesday to assess the political climate in Cambodia leading up to the elections.

Second Prime Minister Hun Sen canceled all public appearances this week to mourn the death of his 79-year-old mother, Di Pok, who died at his Phnom Penh residence early Tuesday of natural causes.

The National Assembly today will take up a long-awaited draft law on the formation of the Con­stitutional Council, the body charged with ensuring the rule of law in the forthcoming elections.

Sam Rainsy charged the government Tuesday with corruption and carrying out a mission to devastate the country through war and deforestation.

The qualities of leadership will be explored in a 12-part television series that hopes to encourage Cambo­dians to take the lead in all walks of life.

A weapons procurer for the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and close adviser to deposed first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh said Monday there was nothing abnormal about the arms shipment for which the prince was convicted last Wed­nes­day.

Running 20 marathons in two years is a mean feat, but Briton Chris Moon has done it with a prosthetic foot and arm.

The Son Sann faction of the divided BLDP is planning to re­name itself after its political lead­er, party activists said Mon­day. But the faction will continue its court battle with Ieng Mouly loyalists for the legal right to the party name.

About 130 vendors from Kom­pong Cham province demonstrated at the National As­sembly in Ph­nom Penh on Monday against plans for a new market in their district.

A Thai shareholder in a residential development company on the outskirts of the city said the Interna­tional School of Phnom Penh has rejected a proposal to take over the development company’s own financially struggling school.

Nearly half of the children enrolled in preschool in Cambodia in recent years were girls. But at the other end of the educational process, only 19 percent of the students enrolled in high school were girls.

International Women’s Day comes Sunday to Cambodia—a nation without domestic violence laws, a staggering gap of opportunities between men and women, and pitfalls for women that include sexual slavery, accepted illiteracy, and pressure to stay in the home. Enter former Supreme Court Justice Im Run. The undersecretary of state for women’s affairs is the highest-ranking woman in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs. The Cambodian People’s Party member is one of a few women to hold an upper-level government job, although she is a few steps below the highest-ranking man in the ministry. She was a physics and chemistry professor who directed the Cambodian Women’s Association before her 1987 appointment to the bench. In an interview with The Cambodia Daily, Im Run discusses the government’s increased advocacy for women, some of women’s greatest barriers, and her view on her own position in government.

UN human rights officials are seeking to reverse the government’s position on new logging concessions, in a push for the rights of the indigenous people in northeast Cambodia.

sihanoukville – In 1995, Voeun Dara was a street child in Ba­t­tambang. Then 16 years old, the orphan—his body infected with tuberculosis—sold ice cream to survive on the streets of Cambo­dia’s second-largest city.