Photos from Cambodia's Northwe: Pailin and Battambang

Buddhist monks walk past the Phnom Yat temple in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold, the northwestern province of Pailin, near the Cambodia-Thailand border, January 13, 2008. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A Buddhist monk uses a mobile phone at the Phnom Yat temple in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold area of Pailin January 13, 2008. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A Cambodian villager plays volleyball in Pailin town, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian villagers play volleyball in Pailin town, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A thick dust trails behind a car as it drives past a Cambodian farmer herding his buffaloes on a dirt road in Battambang province in northwestern Cambodia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. Some 85 percent of Cambodian population of 14 million people are poor farmers and many of them survive on less than US$.50 a day. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)