Thursday, 4 November 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


via CAAI

Poison claim queried

Thursday, 04 November 2010 15:01 May Titthara

MORE than 100 villagers in Kampong Cham province’s Memot district staged a protest yesterday at the provincial court, demanding the release of a woman suspected of poisoning her husband. Phuong Sothea, an investigator for the rights group Adhoc, said the victim died on July 25, and that his parents filed a complaint against the suspect on August 27. “It is over one month, and then they filed a complaint against her,” he said. “The police did an autopsy already. They did not find any poisonous substance.” The prosecutor handling the case could not be reached yesterday. Noun Sokha, a neighbour of the suspect, said the victim had not been poisoned because his children ate the same food and were fine. “In fact, her in-laws want to take over her property, so they filed a complaint against her,” he said.

World Bank promises $40m in Ketsana aid

Thursday, 04 November 2010 15:01 Cheang Sokha

THE World Bank has pledged US$40 million towards the recovery from Typhoon Ketsana, which tore through the Kingdom in September last year and left 43 people dead. The Ketsana Emergency Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project is intended to provide “affected people who are mostly poor and live in rural areas” with transportation and water and sanitation services. “Typhoon Ketsana devastated the lives and livelihood of tens of thousands of Cambodian people, particularly the poor,” World Bank Country Manager Qimiao Fan said in a statement. “This project will help to restore the damaged infrastructure such as rural roads and provide basic services such as water and sanitation facilities to the affected people in mostly rural areas.” The four-year project is also intended to strengthen emergency-response mechanisms.

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