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/ 10 December 2004
A lovesick teen landed himself in jail after he stole a motorcycle from his neighbour to get money to pay a sorcerer for love potions that would make his errant girlfriend return, Cambodian police said on Friday. Nuon Ra (18) had visited a ”love magician” in desperation after his girlfriend dumped him.
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/ 15 November 2004
A recent spate of reports of magic cows in Cambodian provinces prompted Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday to beg the public to be more rational in what they believe. The prime minister pointed out two recent reports of people worshipping purportedly magic cows and said it is a trend that concerns him.
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/ 25 October 2004
Two Buddhist monks abandoned their vows after they fell in love with a pair of teenage girls who sold beer across from their temple in central Cambodia, a newspaper reported on Monday. The two monks — Nang Pong and Vom Vong, both 19 — gave up their monastic lives on Thursday.
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/ 25 October 2004
Cambodia’s notorious underwear thieves have struck again, shooting and seriously wounding a motorbike taxi driver just outside the capital, local media said on Monday. The gang earned its name because its members wear nothing but underpants, but wield AK-47s.
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/ 20 October 2004
A 2m-long python welcomed into a Phnom Penh home because the family believes it is a reincarnation of their dead grandmother should be treated with extreme caution and cannot be trusted, police said on Wednesday. Police have warned the family that the snake may not be satisfied with their offerings of bananas and vegetables.
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/ 23 September 2004
Panhandlers who fake disabilities to glean cash from kindly picnickers at the popular weekend getaway destination of Kien Svay, just outside the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, will have to outwit police and locals determined to end their charades. Last week, police said they rounded up five people faking disabilities.
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/ 6 September 2004
A man whose father divorced so he could marry his stepmother took his own life after villagers and neighbours teased him mercilessly, police said on Monday. Seng Yon (22) fell in love with his father’s second wife and far from being angry, Veang Van (42) divorced his wife so his son could marry her, police said.
An ambulance rushing a dying man to hospital in an outlying suburb of the capital lost control and hit and killed his elder brother, district police said on Saturday by telephone. Police said that the family tragedy began when Khut Vit (34) was shot by unknown assailants as he rode his motorbike home at about midnight.
A baby born with a 10cm-long ”tail” to an impoverished provincial family has brought locals flocking to make offerings and pray to her for luck, police in the south-eastern Cambodian province of Svay Rieng said on Friday. The mother, Sok Mao said that before the as-yet-unnamed baby’s birth she dreamed an old man had come to her with a magic monkey that would bring her luck.
A Cambodian reporter was charged with defamation and thrown in jail because he misspelled someone’s name, local media reported on Monday. In a story last week about a conflict between market vendors and a local police chief in Siem Reap province, Teng Mara, a reporter for the Khmer-language newspaper Cochinchine, misspelled a vendor’s name.
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/ 10 September 2003
Cambodian experts have uncovered seven ancient temples in the Siem Reap area that had been lost to the encroaching forest and years of civil war in the country. The most recently discovered temple is unrecorded in any known documents.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday appealed for Asian nations to see HIV/Aids as a security threat, saying the recent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) epidemic had demonstrated the destructive nature of infectious disease.
Cambodia and the United Nations (UN) on Friday formally agreed to establish a tribunal to try surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge for genocide and crimes against humanity.
A routine traffic accident turned into an overnight stand-off with Cambodian police after one of the motorists fled the scene by scaling a tall tree — and then refused to come down for eight hours. The former soldier, identified only as Hun (55) collided with a young man on a motorbike at an intersection, breaking the other man’s leg.
A Cambodian monk and two nuns set themselves on fire in a suicide pact thought to bring them closer to Buddha, police said on Tuesday.
An angry Cambodian mother nailed her daughter’s foot to the bamboo floor of their home because she neglected her household chores, police said on Tuesday.
Michael Hayes knew nothing about running a newspaper. Nor did his wife, Kathleen O’Keefe, who had more expertise in fixing computer glitches than bad grammar.
A prominent US economist on Monday blasted the world’s wealthiest countries, particularly the United States, for not providing enough assistance to poor nations such as Cambodia.
DESPITE four years of peace, Cambodian children still face staggering problems with their childhood blighted by exploitation, poor education, high mortality rates and HIV/Aids.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday offered Cambodia assistance for any trial involving surviving Khmer Rouge leaders held responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity.