Cambodia to recall some troops at border: PM

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Saturday that there was no fighting at border and he will recall some troops to help the farmers to planting crops after some areas had been hit by drought.

"We are monitoring to withdraw the troops from the frontiers and we need soldiers to help the local farmers during this time," the premier said at the opening ceremony of irrigation in Pursat province, southeastern part of Phnom Penh, citing that Thailand now has 30 soldiers at the border.

"But in case we have problem at the border, we can mobilize our troops so quickly to border area," he said, adding that "we are moving back our troops of Kompong Thom and Siem Reap provinces to their headquarters from the border."

"I hope there is no fight each other again there," he stresses. Cambodian and Thai troops have confronted at areas near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple since July, 2008 when the UNESCO listed the temple as the World Heritage Site of Cambodia.

Moreover, Hun Sen said that "in modern age, we need to discuss the matters with each other and we do not want to see any people shed their blood."

Troops tension at border is becoming ease and both side plan to measure the areas soon to plant border markers.

Indian security force arrests man with arms at Indo-Myanmar border

NEW DELHI, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Indian security force has arrested a man with arms at a market near Indo-Myanmar border in the restive northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, reported the Press Trust of India on Saturday.

The report quoted police as saying soldiers of Assam Rifles security force held the man and seized three pistols and as many magazines from him on Aug. 19, said the report.

It was still unknown whether the arms were meant for northeast insurgents, said the report.

Mizoram shares 722 km of border with Myanmar and Bangladesh and has been one of the biggest routes for arms and narcotics trafficking in India, said the report.　

Indonesia becomes promising market for Singaporean property

JAKARTA, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia becomes a promising market for Singaporean property, contributing a big share for foreign investment in the sector, the Kompas daily reported Saturday, quoted an official.

Eindrata Tanukusuma, the general manager of property sales in the Far East Organization, the largest property developer in Singapore, said that at the peak of Singaporean booming property in 2007, Indonesian investors filled 31 percent of foreign market in the country. That time, 27 percent of Singaporean property was bought by foreign buyers.

"We are optimistic that Indonesia still has a chance to contribute much, especially buyers from big cities like Jakarta, Bandung of West Java province, Surabaya of East Java province and Semarang of Central Java province," said Tanukusuma in Semarang on Friday.

He said that the trend was initiated by growing people who chose Singapore to look for qualified education and health services.

He also said that in average foreign buyers filled 13 percent of Singaporean property, the second largest after Malaysia.

"At least Indonesia had once dominated foreign purchasing in Singapore. We hope that Indonesian buyer percentage could return to 2007 level," said Tanukusuma.

He admitted that Singaporean property had decreased in 2008 due to impact of the global financial crisis, resulting in sharply decrease from 14,800 units per year to 4,300 units, the lowest level in the last 13 years.

However, sales tended to increase this year and were expected to recover in 2010.

According to the company's assistant manager of Indonesia's representative office Maikel Tanuwijaya, Indonesia's positive economic growth would promote investment in Singapore.