Tell me if this sounds strange to you, too ...

The US Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are among the groups advising Cambodia's new national heritage police force, the agency that will be responsible for protecting the country's ancient temples from pillage.

Sure, I get that the FBI might have something going on illicit trading in antiquities, but Homeland Security? Sounds a bit of a stretch.

And speaking of strange stories, remember the 'jungle girl' who appeared one day some months back, the "wild woman" one family claimed was their long-lost daughter who'd been raised by the Cambodian counterpart of wolves?

Rochom P'ngieng disappeared while herding buffalo as an 8-year-old, which would now make her 27. Her parents believe the woman captured by local workers who caught her stealing food from their logging camp is their daughter, saying they identified her by a distinctive scar even though the woman was unable to communicate in any known language. They did not undergo DNA tests.

Well, she's gone.

Having had her 15 minutes of fame, the world forgot about this poor woman about as fast as they'd taken to her story like dung beetles to elephant droppings, thereby perhaps teaching her that a lone life in the bush might not be all a bad thing.

On the economic up-side, Cambodia's Minister of Commerce has announced that garment product exports are up by 12% so far this year. That should be good news for the over 330,000 workers in the industry, although they did just take a pay cut for nightshift work a few months back.

On a less positive economic front, two huge methamphetamine laboratories have been found in the country, a discovery that has people worrying about the country becoming a major regional center for the illegal drug trade.

With super-labs now found in Phnom Penh's Dangkor district and in Kampong Speu the head of the UN Office on Crime and Drugs in Cambodia has decided that, "it's now clear that we have drug production taking place in Cambodia."

And frustratingly brief, but oh-so-intriguing, this story from the Wall Street Journal won't tell me any more of what I'm dying to know without me coughing up the price of a subscription, and I'm not doing that.

Titled, "How UNDP Comes Clean", then giving one provocative paragraph about the United Nations Development Program in Cambodia wanting to "clear its name" but having a funny way of going about it, it has me panting for elucidation. Talking about "widespread hiring malpractice and kickbacks in UNDP-supervised programs", the free part cuts off just as an audit is said to have found a range of irregularities.

ARG! I want more.

If anyone has already paid out the nose to get the WSJ, can you please give me the gist? Or write your own blog about it and send me the link?