News Round-up

• . International nonprofit organization, Room to Read, says it reached a major milestone this week when opening its 2,000th bilingual library on Friday, September 2. This was done at Samdech Euv High School in the village of Thnal in northwestern Cambodia.

• A love triangle reported at iol at iol ended in tragedy as Cambodian police were hunting for a mother accused of murdering her one-month-old baby girl by hurling her down an abandoned well because she had been in love with two men when the child was conceived and did not know which was the father.

• In a lighter report from iol, a month-old calf is a bovine bedfellow for a Cambodian boy on the advice of fortune-tellers who insistent the animal should be allowed to stay because it is is a reincarnation of the boy's best friend.

• If planning a trip to to the northeastern Thai province of Buri Ram bordering Cambodia, then consider the suggestions of Yvonne Bohwongprasert who explains where examples of Khmer art and influence are best located.

• In the aftermath of a defamation case involving the Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, The Cambodia Daily's publisher Bernard Krisher says he is puzzled why local journalist Kay Kimsong was alone fined $7,500 -- whereas two Americans (who no longer work for the daily), and the paper itself, seemed to have escaped similar treatment.
  

• A treaty approved this week is being hailed as helping government efforts to stamp out excessive forms of child labor in Sihanoukville, Kampot and Kompong Cham provinces.