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PHNOM PENH, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — Former U.S. president Bill Clinton is to be here in the next few days to review the work of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Cambodia, according to a statement issued by the initiative on Tuesday.During his stay, he is also scheduled to visit the Angkor Historical Park and meet Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to local reports.The Clinton Foundation established its office in Cambodia in June 2005. One of its task is to help increase HIV-positive children’s access to certain therapy.Through the foundation’s assistance, the number of Cambodian children receiving treatment for HIV infection has increased from 400 to over 1,200 within the past year, according to its website.Cambodia has an HIV infection rate of 1.9 percent among its people aged from 15 to 49, almost the highest in Southeast Asia.

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Cambodian Prime minister Hun Sen (left) and South Korea Prime minister Roh Moo-Hyun (right)

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At Irinaka subway station (near my apartment)

We miss one of my senior students here (brother Phalty, who took this photo for us). Thanks brother.

Wow… I am absolutely feel pleased to have such a great time having dinner with all my colleagues from Cambodia. Of course, they are all like my brother because not only the age, but also their experience working the governemntal institution, they are my senior too. This Sunday, after caming to join the extra curricular activity as sport event the Nagoya Symposium, they all came to visit us at our apartment and manage to have a nice food with some our Khmer stuff brought from Cambodia, esp Paoaok. haha It has been such long since I left Cambodia to Japan that I have never tasted it at all. Hence, this evening among my senior colleagues, there also has a lady who was at all the target for cooking nice food for us. Actually, they all are studying quite far away from my university called Aichi University of Education (愛知教育大学）, which took around 1 hour and a half by subway, train, and bus, if I am not forgetting went I last visit them a few times ago.

By the time of cooking, and preparing food, I took a while to go shopping for some soft drinks, cake and Sasami too, in a pretty big super market next to my apartment way.  During the cooking time, we all had nice chat together, and mocking at one another simply, just for man to chop the vegetable, and so forth. Then, time to have dinner, and we all start praising the nice food on the dishes, and tasting it nicely.   Of course, it was such a nice dinner that we had to bring more rice from each room to total up to 3 rice store. hahaha sound quite a big dinner, right?

After the dinner, time to pass on joke one by one. The jokes made me laughed to tears and everyone also laugh, and laugh, and laugh. There are a few people who are expert in telling those jokes including, brothers Sovanna, Heng, and Sophea. hahah I just cannot help laughing with every joke I heard, and I did try to save those joke too, so that next time I will have chance to show off the jokes…  hahaha  Of course, I did told a joke too, and it was about a bad student.

Guess what? It also funny somehow… just about a little pupil and a teacher in the class asked a question. He felt very glad to be the only pupil in the class to be able to answer the teacher’s question. After caming back from class, the boy came to meet his father. He felt very happy when he saw his father and started to boast to his father about that.

The boy said:

”Dad, today my teacher asked a question, and no one could answer it at all. Only me who raised the hand and answered bravely.”

Then the father said, ”Aer, this is deserved to be my son.” He then asked, ”What was the question?”

The boy said, the teacher just asked, ”Who got the zero mark?” then only him can answer.  :D  )))

 Sound funny, right?

We all took some photos as nice souvenir for their precious visit to us. 

After have a great dinner tegether they all went back to the subway to get back to there apartment. So, I and one of my friends here (Bong Phalty) went to see them off till the subway station. It was such a great souvenir we had for today.

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U.S. President George Bush, center, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, left, and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at APEC summit

President Bush has joined with leaders of 20 other Asia-Pacific economies in a pledge to advance stalled global trade talks. That pledge came Sunday at the close of the annual summit of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping in Vietnam, where leaders also joined in expressing concern over North Korea’s nuclear test.

The week-long annual meeting of Asia-Pacific business people and ministers aimed to break the impasse in world trade negotiations, which stalled in July, mostly over a dispute on farm subsidies that divide rich and poor countries.

At the close Sunday, leaders gathered for the traditional summit photo wearing Vietnamese outfits. Host Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet read the leaders’ declaration, saying the 21 member economies must spare no effort to break the deadlock in global trade talks and achieve a balanced outcome.

He says his government will look at measures to promote regional economic integration to aid APEC’s goal of liberalizing trade.

Those measures include removing obstacles for business, protecting copyrights, creating ways to fight health pandemics, terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Vietnam hosted the APEC meeting days after it was admitted to the World Trade Organization, marking a major milestone for the communist country in its efforts to keep its economy booming, and open itself to foreign trade and investment.

Leaders also agreed to look for ways to start a U.S.-backed plan for a trans-Pacific free trade area that would stretch from China to Chile, and from Australia to Canada. Discussion of that plan is set to begin at next year’s APEC meeting in Australia.

Regional security was another big theme, after North Korea’s October 9 nuclear test. While not written in the final declaration, APEC leaders verbally expressed strong concern, and stressed the need for members to comply with U.N. sanctions imposed on the North.

Pledges made at APEC are non-binding. However, analysts see the gatherings as significant, considering that APEC economies account for roughly half of the world’s Gross Domestic Product.

President Bush headed to Vietnam’s bustling commercial center, Ho Chi Minh City – formerly Saigon – on Sunday, following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country is one of the six participants in the North Korean nuclear disarmament talks.