Posts Tagged Khmer News
A study of a blind being led by another blind: Sok Chenda Sophea, Hun Sen’s PR salesman par excellence
Before working for him, I didn’t know the real meaning of the word “vision”. He is a man of vision. Without him and his vision, there would have been no peace agreement in 1991.” - Sok Chenda Sophea speaking about Hun Xen
Cambodia’s salesman par excellence
Q&A with a man trying to bring his country into the [...]
Lao Police Arrest Five Cambodians [$15,000 ransom demanded: So much for friendship with Laos!]
Lao border police arrested five Cambodians in Siempang district, Stung Treng province, last week, after a group of eight was found hunting animals and looking for other forest goods.
They couldn’t find a single killer of opposition activists, but they will surely find the distributors of leaflets scorning Hun Xen
Phnom Penh city police is conducting an urgent investigation on Wednesday 19 August, to search for the suspects involved in the distribution of leaflets scorning Hun Xen and his government,
Maritime border: Thailand’s major naval exercise that include an aircraft carrier seen as a show of force to Cambodia
The Thai Royal Navy conducted a major naval exercise which included an aircraft carrier and several battleships near Koh Kut Island.
Decorated athletes return
ELEVEN Cambodian athletes made a triumphant return to the Kingdom on Thursday, fresh from winning 15 medals in the fifth ASEAN Para Games in Malaysia.
Portland Filmmaker Documents Acid Attack Victim’s Story
Ten years ago, Tat Marina was 16, a pretty rising star in the karaoke video scene in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
She was involved in a sexual relationship with a middle-aged man, who – she later learned – was in fact Cambodia’s Undersecretary of State: a man named Svay Sitha.
In December of 1999, Cambodian police say Marina [...]
Acid Attack Film Debuts in Portland
VOA Khmer was not able to reach Khoun Sophal, the wife of Svay Sitha, to check on her involvement in the case. Sources say she is living a normal life with Svay Sitha, who has now been promoted to secretary of state.
“Finding Face,” which examines the life of Tat Marina, a karaoke star who was [...]
Boeung Kak Lake: The last protesters are “prepared to die” [protecting their homes]
Several dozens of families refused to obey the order to evacuate from the lake shore.
Lightning kills 4, raising death toll to 113 this year in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Lightning has killed 113 Cambodians so far this year, making 2009 one of the worst years on record for lightning deaths, local media reported on Wednesday, citing four more people have been killed by lightning since Saturday.
Vietnam, Cambodia strengthen border security [- Will it prevent illegal Vietnamese immigration into Cambodia?]
A delegation from the south-western steering committee led by its deputy head Son Song Son has paid a week-long visit to Cambodia.
Foreign relatives of victims testify at Khmer Rouge tribunal
Phnom Penh - The trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch heard testimony Monday from a New Zealand Olympic rower whose brother was tortured and murdered in 1978 in Phnom Penh. More than 15,000 people are thought to have been killed at S-21, the prison that Duch ran in Phnom Penh. Nearly all of [...]
New Anti-corruption Measures at Khmer Rouge Tribunal are Insufficient
NEW YORK, 18, 2009 -New measures to combat corruption at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal fall short, the Open Society Justice Initiative said in a report released today. According to the report, donors to the court must work to further strengthen the anticorruption effort.
Lawmaker Worried Over Recent Hun Sen Remarks
A new round of barbs opened between an opposition lawmaker and Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday, with the Sam Rainsy Party’s Mu Sochua cautioning the premier to curb rhetoric about a crackdown on the opposition.
On Wednesday, Hun Sen responded to critics of the government by saying he had the power to eliminate the opposition [...]
Groups Lodge Massive Land Complaint [-Getting closer to Hun Xen's predicted "farmers' revolution"?]
More than 300 representatives from 19 provinces urged government agencies and offices to resolve disputes in more than 700,000 hectares of land, complaining their daily existence was threatened by their displacement.
“We are losing land, forests and fisheries that are important sources of our daily livelihoods, because of
A gathering of the displaced
ABOUT 300 Cambodians from 19 different provinces converged on the capital Tuesday to lodge complaints with a variety of government institutions in the hope of securing official intervention in land disputes across the country.
Several villagers told the Post on Tuesday that they had travelled to Phnom Penh because they want the government to cancel economic [...]
Hun Xen is ready to use the military to fight a defenseless woman, he also lashed out on unnamed foreign countries
Coward Strongmen vs Defenseless Women
Hun Xen re-affirmed his defamation lawsuit stance
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
In the morning of 12 August 2009, during a ceremony for the distribution of diplomas and for the inauguration of the
Silence allows dictatorship to exist
After three years, eight months and 20 days of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule, during which 1.7 million Cambodians lost their lives, the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords offered Cambodia and her people a respite from suffering and the destruction, and the promise of a bright future.
The Paris Conference’s Final Act, signed on [...]
S Senator To Visit Cambodia, Region
US Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat from Virginia, is on a two-week tour to five Southeast Asian countries, including Cambodia, exploring opportunities to advance US interests in the region, officials said.
The senator left on Sunday for a visit to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, a statement from his office said.
Khmer Krom: Memorial To Heal Past Atrocities
Phnom Penh will rebuild a Reconciliation Memorial in the name of past victims of the Khmer Rouge, including 2,000 Khmer Krom. Below is an article published by The Phnom Penh Post :
Thirty years after the Khmer Rouge executed thousands of Cambodians on a sugarcane field in Pursat, the Documentation
EU condemns govt crackdown
THE European Commission has strongly condemned the government’s recent legal offensive against outspoken critics, warning it could lead to a severe narrowing of the democratic space in Cambodia.
During a meeting with foreign ministry officials, three EU representatives said a recent string of defamation and disinformation cases against opposition figures and journalists could have “serious consequences [...]
Could it be that Cambodian leaders do not know Khmer language?
Cambodia AngkorAir: national airline pride
For the Cambodian government, 27 July is a humongous and victorious historical day for Cambodia which finally has a national airline that can show that Cambodia was indeed a former empire (sic!).
If one were to hear Cambodia Angkor Air, this name is music to the ears because the country is very [...]
