BANGKOK, Mar 9, 2010 - Cambodia's new penal code, which comes into force later this year, should be accompanied by stronger law enforcement measures if the country's women and girls are to be better protected from rape, says the global rights lobby Amnesty International .

PHNOM PENH: Rape of women and girls appears to be increasing in Cambodia and victims face stigma and get little justice, rights group Amnesty International said in a report to mark International Women's Day.

Amnesty International says rape and sexual crimes committed mainly against women and children has become a growing problem in Cambodia.

In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available.

Unwilling to give up just yet on the future of a young patient, representatives from a local nonprofit are hoping a period of rest and recuperation will make the young girl healthy enough for surgery.

This government-run rehabilitation center just outside Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh, was used to detain people rounded up from the street.

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, who spent 13 years in then Czechoslovakia in 1962-75, will arrive for a week-long private visit to the Czech Republic on March 14 during which he will meet Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Klaus announced on his web page www.klaus.cz yesteday.

THAI government spokesman said there is no proof Thai soldiers have killed innocent Cambodian civilians along the disputed border area, even as a local rights group stepped up calls Wednesday for Thai authorities to end what it described as a a oebrutala series of recent slayings.

CAMBODIA'S military mounted a rare public test of rockets on Thursday amid a lingering troop standoff over disputed territory with neighbouring Thailand.

Morning-- I got up before the others today and went to have breakfast in Tat. The staff were already busy at work at 7am.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday warned women to beware of dubious standards in the country's booming cosmetic surgery industry, in which doctors often practise without licences.

South Korea has provided $9.2 million to Cambodia to build a new road that will circle the famed Angkor temple complex and reduce traffic in the area, officials said Monday.

We took a 6 hour coach ride from HCMC to Phenom Penh - a VIP bus costing a grand total of 12 USD for us both! Unbelievable to think that it costs that for a two journeys in zone one on the underground in London.

Visitors to our kingdom enter a country filled with spectacular temples, natural splindor, and world class resorts.

" The big telecommunication and information technology groups in Vietnam like Viettel, FPT and VTC are looking to Cambodia with expansion in mind.

Rumbling bulldozers at 2 a.m. sent residents of the Dey Krahorm community scrambling from their beds.

A federal magistrate has ruled that a convicted sex offender accused of traveling to Cambodia to have sex with a minor must remain behind bars until a preliminary hearing next month.

A Big Island man who admitted having sex with an underage girl in Cambodia will have federal court officials monitoring him for the rest of his life.

Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo on Tuesday pledged to increase cooperation and exchange between Chinese and Cambodian parliaments in a bid to further bilateral ties.

A man who taught English in Cambodia was returned to the U.S. Monday to face charges of traveling abroad to have sex with a minor, according to the FBI.