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Value of residential approvals declines
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:00 Soeun Say
THE value of investments approved by the government for residential property in Phnom Penh declined an annualized 65 percent for the first five months of the year, compared to 2009. The Ministry of Land approved 793 projects from January to May this year, worth an estimated US$58 million, government statistics show.
Mineral deposits discovered in Gratie
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:00 Ellie Dyer
AUSTRALIAN miner Southern Gold has identified further “significant” gold, silver and copper mineralisation at its Anchor interest in Kratie province. A statement of results from three drilling holes, released to the Australian Stock Exchange on Tuesday, said its concession was “highly prospective”, and that “an increasing number of mineralized zones are being confirmed”. Resource drilling is set to commence in the last quarter of this year.
Baphoun: French fund restoration of temple
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:02 Cheang Sokha
Baphoun
France has committed over half a million euros to projects aimed at restoring Baphuon temple in the Angkor temple complex and eliminating counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs. According to two agreements – signed by Sun Saphoeun, secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and French Ambassador Jean-Francois Desmazieres on Tuesday – France will give €480,000 (US$588,619) for the continued renovation of Baphuon temple and €123,500 for the fight against counterfeit drugs in 2010. Renovation work at the temple began in 1995 with assistance from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in the past 15 years has cost around €7.8 million, Desmazieres said in a statement released by the French embassy.
Child Abuse: Acid attack on boy, 2, doubted
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 15:02 Mom Kunthear
A police official in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town said Tuesday that his staff had yet to verify reports of a beggar who allegedly poured acid on her 2-year-old son, and that he suspected they had been fabricated. Soum Chankea, provincial coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said he had met with three people who told him the woman had poured acid on the child in the hope that passersby would take pity on her and give her more money. All three claimed to have seen the wounds inflicted on the child, he said. But Um Sopha, the deputy police chief in Poipet, said he had launched an investigation into the case on Sunday, and that it had been fruitless. “I am not sure yet whether there really is a cruel mother who poured acid on her son or not,” he said. “I suspect that it is a rumour, but we will still keep investigating.” The first report came in about three weeks ago, and that witness said he had seen the woman begging at a market along the Thai border, Soum Chankea said. He speculated that the woman might have fled since then.
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