Angelina Jolie has been talking to Anderson Cooper about Cambodia, among other things.

"I fell in love with the people of Cambodia," she told Cooper, "and I was sitting with a little kid playing blocks and feeling like my son was somewhere there. And he was."

As well as discussing her extensive humanitarian and environmental efforts, she also slipped in that she and partner Brad Pitt discuss wanting to adopt more children and fluctuate between seven and twelve as a goal.

If I was young and rich, I'd be thinking about the same.

None too concerned about the environment, I'm guessing, the Bien Hoa Sugar Company of Viet Nam has decided to cultivate 2,000 hectares of sugarcane in Cambodia's Svay Rieng province.

A monoculture that allows no room for anything else, sugarcane has been responsible for more than one country going ugly fast.

Cambodia, Viet Nam, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos are set to begin collaboration in rice production in an effort to strengthen the region's competitiveness on the world rice market.

Eight Westerners were arrested in Phnom Penh for protesting for the release of two Cambodians imprisoned for murder in what many see as a frame job. Held were one New Zealander, three Americans, two Canadians, one Brit and one Dane.

Some real good news for Cambodia, this report says that the spreading rate of AIDS has dropped from 1.9% in 2003 to 0.6% in 2005.

The rate became lower, because the government has allocated more budgets for prevention and the disease itself is undertaking a change from common spread to concentrated spread in Cambodia, the newspaper said.

The government's budget for AIDS prevention in 2007 stands twice higher than 2006, while the disease is spreading from urban areas to rural areas.

The Cambodian National Election Committee has begun clearing up the voter's list ahead of the general election scheduled for July 27, 2008.

Seventy percent of the more than 70 million registered voters cast ballots in commune council elections last April, a very impressive turn out, and for the most part the voting was said to have gone off smoothly. Of course, there were issues in some areas, and a tidy voter's list should help prevent some of that in the general election.