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Ride Like a Pro V DVD

2009-09-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

Ride Like a Pro V DVD | 1.39 GB
In Ride Like a Pro V, you’ll see a modified version of the police motor officer course and exercises that can be mastered in just a few hours of practice. I’ll show you the most common mistakes actual students make. I’ll show you the proper line through the lines painted on the course as it’s actually being ridden. I’ll show you what happens to students when the proper line is not followed. We even show you overhead views of the pro’s doing it the correct way.
Ride Like a Pro V is a replacement for my first four videos. It includes all the information from Ride Like a Pro I, II, III, IV plus much more. In other words, there is no need to have viewed the first four DVDs to understand the techniques I’ll show you in Ride Like a Pro V. You make learning the 3 motor officer techniques easier to understand. You do not need to have Ride Like a Pro I thru IV, my Ride Like a Pro V contains all the tips, tricks and techniques from those versions plus much, much more! We show the most common mistakes actual students make while taking this very course so that you recognize and avoid those mistakes.
We show a diagram of the proper line through the turns actually painted on the course as it’s being ridden.We show what happens to students when the proper line is not followed. We show overhead views of the pro’s doing it the correct way. In addition, I’ll show you new exercises in the citizen’s portion that will help you to transition to the actual motor officer course you’ll see later in this video. If you’ve ever seen Motor Officers handle their heavy weight cruisers with the ease of a child’s toy and wonder in amazement how they do it, wonder no more.
This DVD will show you how to use the 3 simple Motor Officer techniques the cops have been trained in for more that 60 years. Until now, these training secrets have not been available to the general public. I have developed a simple step by step procedure that will allow you to master the 3 Motor Officer techniques in just 3 to 4 hours. I know my step by step plan works because I’ve put hundreds of students through the exact course you’ll see on this DVD.
Country: United States
Genre: Video training ride on a motorcycle
Duration: 01:47
Language: English
Quality: DVDRip
Format: AVI
Video codec: XviD
Audio codec: MP3
Video: 640Ч480 (1.33:1), 29.970 fps, XviD build 50 ~ 1203 kbps avg, 0.13 bit / pixel
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The Mummy Returns (2001) m-HD x264 uSk

2009-09-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

The Mummy Returns (2001) m-HD x264 uSk
English | 720*362 | 23.976 fps | x264 ~1311 kbps | AAC 6ch ~194 kbps | 130 mins | 1.4 GB
Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
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The story is set in 1933, approximately 9 years after the events of the first film. Rick O'Connell is now married to Evelyn and the couple has settled in London,where they are raising their 8-year-old son Alex. When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep resurrected in the British Museum, the mummy Imhotep walks the earth once more, determined to fulfill his quest for immortality. But another force has also been set loose in the world... one born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, and even more powerful than Imhotep. When these two forces clash, the fate of the world will hang in the balance, sending the O'Connells on a desperate race to save the world from unspeakable evil, and rescue their son before it is too late...
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I Can’t Think Straight (2007) DVDRip

2009-09-02T08:12:00.001-07:00

I Can’t Think Straight (2007)

English | Dvdrip | Runtime: 1hr 20mins | Video: 624Ч336 1100kbps 25fps | Audio: English 128kbps VBR MP3 | 706.26 MB Genre: Drama In the upper echelons of traditional Middle Eastern society, Reema and Omar prepare for the marriage of their daughter Tala... [center]
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Death In Love (2009) PPV XviD

2009-09-02T08:09:00.001-07:00

During World War II, a Jewish woman (Bisset) saves her life thanks to a love affair with a doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp. The woman then marries and moves to New York, where she raises two emotionally stunted sons. The eldest son (Lucas) battles his sense of disconnection from life while working at a scam modeling agency, where he befriends a charming young co-worker (Brody) who begins to restore in him a sense of excitement and purpose. The neurotic younger son (Haas) is locked in a compulsive, co-dependent relationship with his mother.

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2009-09-02T07:55:00.000-07:00

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Description of Cheat Engine 5.5

2009-09-02T07:15:00.000-07:00

Description of Cheat Engine 5.5| 7.5MB

Cheat Engine is an open source tool designed to help you with modifying games so you can make them harder or easier depending on your preference(e.g: Find that 100hp is too easy, try playing a game with a max of 1 HP), but also contains other usefull tools to help debugging games and even normal applications.
It comes with a Memory Scanner to quickly scan for variables used within a game and allow you to change them, but it also comes with a debugger, disassembler, assembler, speedhack, trainer maker, direct 3D manipulation tools, system inspection tools and more.....For new users it is recommended to go through the tutorial(The one that come with Cheat Engine, you can find it in your programs list after installing) and at least reach step 5 for basic understanding of the usage of Cheat Engine
It searches for values input by the user with a wide variety of options such as "Unknown Initial Value" and "Decreased Value" scans. Cheat Engine can also create standalone trainers which function on their own without Cheat Engine. Cheat Engine can also view the disassembled memory of a process and make alterations to give the user advantages such as infinite health, time or ammunition. It also has some Direct3D manipulation tools, allowing you to see through walls, zoom in/out and with some advanced configuration allows Cheat Engine to move the mouse for you to get a certain texture into the center of the screen. This is commonly used to create Aimbots.

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Kitchen Brigade

2009-09-02T07:14:00.000-07:00

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Portable Star Blaze 2 v1.00

2009-09-02T07:10:00.000-07:00

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Alexandra Fortune: Mystery of the Lunar Archipelago [Beta]

2009-09-02T07:07:00.001-07:00

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The Informers (2009) DvDrip Xvid-DMZ

2009-09-01T07:50:00.000-07:00

A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980's Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs -- and one another --with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.

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Generation RX (2008) DVDRip

2009-09-01T07:48:00.000-07:00

Generation RX (2008)

English | Dvdrip | Runtime: 81 mins | 640Ч432 | XviD @ 855 Kbps | AC3 @ 192 Kbps | 700 MB Genre: Documentary For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children...

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He's Just Not That Into You (2009) DvDrip

2009-09-01T07:44:00.000-07:00

A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty- and thirtysomethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex--and hoping to be the exceptions to the "no-exceptions"; rule. Gigi just wants a man who says he'll call--and does--while Alex advises her to stop sitting by the phone.... STARRING : Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, Justin Long MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong language.
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Table For Three (2009) DVDRip

2009-09-01T07:42:00.000-07:00

Table For Three (2009)

Genre: Comedy | Romance A suddenly single guy invites what he thinks is a perfect couple to move into his apartment, only to discover they quickly insert themselves into all aspects of his life.
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The Taking Of Pelham 123 (2009) TS XVID

2009-09-01T07:39:00.000-07:00

The Taking Of Pelham 123 (2009)

English | TS | Runtime: 01:39:22 | 688 x 352 | MP3 @ 128 | 1.37 GB Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway… In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to try outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there’s one riddle Garber can’t solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?
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Machines of Grace - Machines Of Grace (2009)

2009-09-01T07:34:00.000-07:00

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01 - Just A Game
02 - Psychotic
03 - Fly Away
04 - Innocence
05 - The Moment
06 - Prelude
07 - Between The Lines
08 - This Time
09 - Breakdown
10 - Soul To Fire
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Within Temptation - The Rarest Songs (2009)

2009-09-01T07:04:00.000-07:00

Artist:Within Temptation
Album: The Rarest Songs

Year: 2009

Genre: Gothic Metal, Symphonic Metal
Bitrate: 256 kbps
Tracks: 16
Size: 114 mb

Tracklist:
01. Blue Eyes
02. Destroyed
03. Believer (Ice Queen Demo)
04. Gothic Christmas
05. The Last Time
06. Say My Name
07. Towards The End
08. Overcome
09. Orff (Life at Paris)
10. Bittersweet
11. Running Up That Hill
12. In Perfect Harmony
13. A Dangerous Mind
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Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals (2009)

2009-09-01T06:59:00.000-07:00

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02 - evil dogs
03 - .
04 - i am a crooked man
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07 - history is made at night
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Michael Pure - Liberty (2008)

2009-09-01T06:54:00.000-07:00

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Smile Pretty (2009) DVDRip

2009-08-31T05:50:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-31T05:48:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-31T05:36:00.000-07:00

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The IT Crowd S01E03 - Fifty-Fifty

2009-08-30T21:59:00.000-07:00

The IT Crowd S01E03 - Fifty-Fifty

Award-winning sitcom from Graham Linehan. Banished from the ivory towers of Reynholm Industries, the IT crowd lurk below ground, avoiding work and social contact in equal measure...
Roy has a horrible date with a woman because she mistook some accidentally smeared chocolate on his forehead for feces. Roy decides the woman actually didn't like him because women only like "bad boys", and sets out to prove his point by posting a singles ad that makes him sound horrible.
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Dante 01 (2008) REPACK DVDRip XviD DMZ

2009-08-30T21:53:00.000-07:00

Dante 01 (2008) REPACK DVDRip XviD-DMZ
XviD | 23.976fps | 640Ч272 | 1048kbps | MP3 | VBR | 129kbps | 700 mins
Genre: Sci-Fi | Thriller

”Dante 01? is a science fiction film by French director Marc Caro. It is the first solo directing effort by Caro, who is well-known for his directing collaborations with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 1-CD standard size release, check it out!

Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It’s a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship’s depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits… each must confront his own Dragon.

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2009-08-30T21:50:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-30T21:47:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-30T21:39:00.000-07:00

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Devil Beside You 1

2009-08-07T10:38:00.000-07:00

4 August 2009 – Another Dark Day For Justice And Democracy In Cambodia

2009-08-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

Cambodian Center for Human Rights

PRESS RELEASE
Phnom Penh - 7 August 2009

4 AUGUST 2009 – ANOTHER DARK DAY FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN CAMBODIA

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) regrets the verdict of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on 4 August 2009 in the case of Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) lawmaker Mu Sochua, and condemns the police’s treatment of SRP members and supporters that followed this verdict. This verdict provides further proof that the Cambodian judiciary is a political tool of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) used to silence opposition voices. Moreover, the violent scenes that followed the verdict are testament to the RGC’s hostility towards democracy and the freedoms of expression and assembly.

The verdict against Mu Sochua was the culmination of four months of political strong arming by Prime Minister Hun Sen, during which time Cambodians and the international community were given the opportunity to witness the extent to which the Cambodian judiciary and legal system is under the control of the RGC. During this period a campaign against the pillars of democracy; lawyers, politicians, journalists and NGOs, has been conducted through the medium of the Cambodian Court system with charges of criminal defamation, disinformation and incitement being initiated against, to name just a few; Hang Chakra, Soung Sophorn, Moueng Sonn, Dam Sith and Ho Vann.

On 24 July 2009 Mu Sochua stood before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court with no legal representation, her original lawyer having withdrawn from the case as a result of threatened disciplinary action against him by the Bar Association of Cambodia. In her opening statement and closing remarks, Mu Sochua called on the Municipal Court to prove its independence and to avoid making a political decision. The SRP parliamentarian exercised her right to silence when questioned by the Presiding Judge, the Prosecution and the Civil Party Lawyer, seemingly protesting against her lack of legal representation. Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is part of Cambodian law by virtue of the Constitution, guarantees the right to a lawyer of one’s own choosing, a right that had already been denied in this case.

On 4 August 2009, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court delivered its verdict finding Mu Sochua guilty of having defamed Prime Minister Hun Sen and sentencing her to pay a fine of 8 ½ million riel and a further 8 million riel in compensation. This verdict represents a nadir for the Cambodian political and judicial systems and any supposed separation thereof.

Upon hearing the verdict, Mu Sochua and her followers attempted to walk to the SRP headquarters on Sothearos Boulevard. The scenes of violence that followed, whereby members of the various police forces that were present attempted to intervene and prevent a peaceful march, evince an absolute disregard for democracy and the freedoms of assembly and expression. During these scenes the following incidences are reported to have occurred:

Mr. Chan Cheng, 52, SRP lawmaker in Kandal province was first hit with a baton by a policeman at the corner of Olympic Market, and later kicked in the chest in front of Langka pagoda;
Mr. Yon Tharo, another SRP lawmaker, was hit three times with a police baton;
Ms. Mu Sochua’s hair was pulled, and she received bruises and cuts to her body;
Ms. Seng Theary, former Executive Director of the Center for Social Development, was forcibly removed from the crowd;
Mr. Seng Cher, 45, from Kandal province and Mr. Ly Ne, 33, were arrested and released one hour later.
Mr. Yon Tharo’s bodyguard was also arrested. Before his arrest, he was hit on the head, kicked and kneed by up to 10 police officers. He has since been released.
Ho Sirin, 42, SRP activist was grabbed by the throat, kicked and kneed. He said a policeman in black uniform flashed a gun at him so he decided to stay still.
An old woman, aged 70, was beaten from behind on her back and around her waist.

The violent scenes of 4 August 2009 that followed a politically motivated verdict by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court capped what will be long remembered as another dark day for justice and democracy in Cambodia. The CCHR regrets the verdict and condemns the manner in which the police handled a peaceful procession.

For more information, please contact:
Mr. Ou Virak, President, CCHR
Tel: +855 12 404051
Email: ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org

Mu Sochua is not fighting for nothing

2009-08-07T09:02:00.000-07:00

Mu Sochua, a Khmer lady has not been doing nothing, because she doesn't keep her fear and injustice feeling in a quiet place. Like Suyi of Burma and Cory of Philippine, Sochua is heading forward for the sustainable and genuine peace, prosperity and democracy of Cambodia.

Op-Ed: Cambodian Bright Future

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr said "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people". Mu Sochua is the prolific current Cambodian democratic leader who is not silencing in front of a dictatorial leader. After the suffering of civil war, Cambodian people are facing with a new type of regime which has visibly emerged as the pseudo-democracy. Hun Sen who is the main leader has never given up his political culture of violence, dictatorship and he has well utilized the brand name of democracy to fool Cambodian people through the biased mass media and patrimonial system. Observers spontaneously stated that the government has stepped backward by silencing the voices of all dissents and opposition. Sam Rainsy Party has been cornered by Hun Sen government. Mu Sochua has to stand up from that corner and many more will stand up with her.
What Cambodian people want to project for their future? Does current stability of Hun Sen government ensure their future sustainable peace and growth? No one know or can predict it rightly. But what we know and can predict correctly is that when the rule of law and democratic principle are not flourished in any land, that land is still under a despotic leader. So Cambodian people wish to stand up or to keep this status quo?

Look at this video clip. Thousand answers are waiting your brilliant voices and participation. We don't see any national news reporters took this video to broadcast in the TV channel for Cambodian people to watch. Cambodian people are currently living under the darkness with one-sided mass media. All good things are repeatedly broadcasting to fool the Cambodian people. But how about corrupted officials, violence, land eviction and this type of video clip? Do Cambodian people have chance to weight their belief?

Mu Sochua dare to face with powerful prime minister Hun Sen in this lawsuit. It is really injustice for her when a victim like her has been easily twisted. When she used her basic rights to protect herself from insulting, that basic rights has badly reversibly affected her, under this pseudo-democratic country.

University professor James Q. Wilson said that "Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness"

Interestingly, Former German naval officer and victim of the Nazis, Martin Niemöller said that "First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out -- because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out --because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak out for me."

Cambodia folk tale of "a fox and a young sheep". Cambodian people are like a young sheep that have been cared by a fox.

The above quotes were beautifully mentioned by Professor Peang-Meth in his weekly articles. He also ended one of his articles very intrigued that "Man can learn, unlearn, and relearn. Encourage man to think freely, to innovate and not to shy away from risks; dare man to read, write and speak without fear; instill in man hope, which specialists define as “energy and ideas that drive people to change their circumstances,” to reach goals, to have motivation, and to seek improvement. This is the road to a better way for Cambodians."

Mu Sochua, a Khmer lady has not been doing nothing, because she doesn't keep her fear and injustice feeling in a quiet place. Like Suyi of Burma and Cory of Philippine, Sochua is heading forward for the sustainable and genuine peace, prosperity and democracy of Cambodia.

Devil Beside You 1

2009-08-07T08:41:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-05T19:58:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-05T19:44:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-05T19:40:00.000-07:00

Cambodia to lift entry visa restrictions

2009-08-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

Writer: THANIDA TANSUBHAPOL

Published: 6/08/2009 at 12:00 AM

Newspaper section: News

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to waive visa requirements for each other's citizens starting next year to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations.

Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, right, and his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhongafter signing a prisoner exchange agreement inBangkokyesterday. JETJARASNARANONG

The agreement was reached yesterday at the Thai-Cambodian Joint Commission meeting led by Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. The meeting was the first by the commission since talks were suspended three years ago.

The agreement to waive the visas for holders of ordinary passports is expected to be signed next year as part of activities celebrating the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries 60 years ago.

The decision leaves Burma as the only member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations requiring Thais wishing to enter the country to apply for a visa.

Hor Namhong said Thailand and Cambodia also agreed to strengthen cooperation on tourism by jointly promoting the sector under the Two Kingdoms, One Destination project and would expedite the single visa policy between the two countries.

He said the two sides would hasten the next Joint Boundary Commission meeting, chaired by former Thai ambassador to Seoul Vasin Teeravechyan and his Cambodian counterpart Var Kim Hong, and resume the Joint Technical Committee meeting on overlapping maritime claims which has been suspended since 2006.

Mr Kasit said all obstacles to border negotiations would soon be resolved.

In a joint statement, the two ministers said they would work together to identify the area bridging Sa Kaeo province and Cambodia's Banteay Meanchey province before setting up a new international checkpoint.

An Emerald Triangle meeting would be held soon to help develop human resources, Hor Namhong said.

Mr Kasit and Hor Namhong yesterday also signed an agreement that would allow some prisoners, after serving minimum periods of imprisonment, to be transferred in order to serve their remaining sentences in their own country.

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2009-08-01T19:43:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:36:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:30:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:28:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:26:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:23:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:18:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:14:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T19:03:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-01T18:53:00.001-07:00

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2009-08-01T18:45:00.000-07:00

Cambodia Restores Opposition Chief's Immunity [-The CPP only knows the law of the jungle]

2009-03-11T07:30:00.000-07:00

Wednesday March 11st, 2009

PHNOM PENH (AFP)--Cambodia's parliament has restored opposition leader Sam Rainsy's immunity from prosecution after he paid a fine for defaming premier Hun Sen's party, a lawmaker said Wednesday.

The politician was stripped of his protection last month after accusing the Cambodian People's Party, or CPP, of corruption during elections last year and then failing to pay a $2,500 fine.

His Sam Rainsy Party eventually paid the fine to the country's National Election Committee hours after his immunity was lifted.

Lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the parliamentary permanent committee had voted Tuesday to restore parliamentary protection to Sam Rainsy.

"Immunity of Sam Rainsy has been restored," Cheam Yeap said.

The opposition leader, who is abroad, had called the removal his immunity "unconstitutional," saying under Cambodia's charter, at least two-thirds of lawmakers were needed to approve stripping legal protection of a parliamentarian.

However Cheam Yeap said the decision was made in accordance with the law.

The CPP took 90 seats of the 123 up for grabs in the July ballot, while the Sam Rainsy Party received 26 seats.

Garment industry unravels

2009-03-11T07:28:00.000-07:00

WEDNESDAY, 11 MARCH 2009
Written by Chun Sophal and Hor Hab
The Phnom Penh Post

January garment revenues down $180m from last year.

Garment exports - the country's chief source of foreign exchange - contracted in January to less than a third of their value compared with the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce announced Tuesday.

Ministry officials added that January tourist arrivals also dropped 2.19 percent compared with the number of foreign visitors coming to Cambodia 12 months earlier, in a sign that another key economic driver was flagging in the face of the global financial crisis.

Speaking at a charity golf event in Phnom Penh, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said that garment exports generated revenue of only US$70 million in January, compared with $250 million in January 2008, a situation the Ministry of Finance acknowledged was a troubling signal of tough times ahead.

"We recognise that the garment and tourism sectors have been affected to some extent," said Ouk Rabun, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Finance.

Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that, after years of growth, Cambodia's gross domestic product would shrink by 0.5 percent this year in the most negative assessment yet of the Kingdom's economic health.

This contraction comes largely due to falling demand for Cambodian garments, the IMF said.

"Garment exports are under pressure due to sharply lower retail demand in the United States and the European Union," the IMF said, adding that the highly uncertain outlook for 2010 was tied to regional and global growth.

Cambodian garments to the US generated 62 percent of total revenue for the sector in 2008, while the EU was the next-largest market at 20 percent of revenue.

Cham Prasidh held out hope that consumers would begin spending money again by the end of the first quarter.

"I hope that garment exports will recover in March because consumers - facing constraints due to the crisis - could resolve their problems and start purchasing again," he said.

However, most analysts have projected a prolonged drop in global demand, a view backed by the Kingdom's garment industry, which is facing increasing uncertainty from buyers.

Officials with the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia [GMAC], which holds accounts with large Western brands - including Gap, Nike and Adidas - said that in previous years orders were placed in October for the 12 months ahead.

But given the downturn, these companies are now placing orders on a monthly basis, GMAC officials said, predicting that things will get worse before they get better.

"We don't know about the purchase orders for the year," said GMAC labour officer Cheath Khemara. "Purchase orders have not dropped to an alarming rate at the moment, but it will be even more serious come June because the effects of the economic downturn will likely have spread by then."

He acknowledged that the big international brands had decreased their orders, but refused to give figures. "I am very worried about this decline in purchase orders," he said.

The Free Trade Union of Cambodia said Monday that more than 20,000 garment workers have already lost their jobs this year, with another 10,000 at risk of becoming unemployed as more garment factories face closure.

Tourism, another pillar of Cambodia's economy, also appears to have had a rough start as fewer people travel, the IMF said, citing "cuts in discretionary spending".

Some 218,691 tourists arrived in Cambodia in January, down from 223,581 visitors during the same period in 2008, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Tuesday.

"We will track this decline in tourism numbers and will try to prevent a prolonged downturn. We will try to attract short-haul tourists to balance out the decline," Thong Khon said.

Country should ignore GDP estimates and work, says PM [-Dr Hun Xen now admits an economic crisis in Cambodia?]

2009-03-11T07:26:00.000-07:00

A farmer plants rice in a paddy field outside of Siem Reap. Prime Minister Hun Sen warned on Tuesday that those laid-off would have to return to their villages to do farming work. (Photo by: BLOOMBERG)

WEDNESDAY, 11 MARCH 2009
Written by Kay Kimsong
The Phnom Penh Post

2%
estimated growth in the agricultural sector last year, according to the IMF

At the end of 2008, it was estimated that the country's largest sector grew 2 percent compared with 8.1 percent growth for the rest of the economy

Hun Sen says the Kingdom's laid off workers should return home to rural areas to contribute to the agricultural sector, which critics say is also in crisis.

PRIME Minister Hun Sen told the country to ignore productivity growth predictions Monday and to instead focus on working in a bid to escape the worst of the economic crisis, as evidence mounted that Cambodia is heading for a recession.

Speaking to farmers in Kampong Speu province, the premier said that laid-off workers should return home to farming jobs in a bid to shore up agriculture as a driver of Cambodia's economic growth.

"We are the ones here [in Cambodia] ... some say 1 percent [GDP growth], some say 2 percent, 3, 4, 5. But these things don't depend on predictions, it all depends on what we do," said Hun Sen. "The agriculture sector is part of our economic growth, we have to try hard nationwide; industry should keep on going, too."

Cambodia was better off than industrialised countries in that their workers had no farming communities to return to in most cases, he added.

The prime minister's comments come after the International Monetary Fund revised down its 4.75 percent growth forecast for 2009 made in December on Friday to minus half a percent. Hun Sen last month estimated 6 percent growth this year.

"Our country is less badly off than others," he said on Monday. "It is not too dangerous."

On Tuesday, however, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said that the garment industry had contracted a huge 72 percent in January compared with the same period in 2008, from about US$70 million to $250 million. More than 20,000 garment factory workers have lost their jobs already this month and 10,000 more jobs are expected to follow, the Free Trade Union of Cambodia said this week.

"We don't want to lose [jobs], but the problem is that the countries that are supposed to buy our products have no money to buy our goods," he said, adding that he hoped the world's main developed economies could recover soon.

Referring to the construction sector, he said it had not been affected severely as no building sites had been abandoned.

"They say the economy is falling, but house prices remain stable," Hun Sen said.

His assessment of the construction sector contrasts sharply with that of the IMF: "Construction activity and foreign investment are ... slowing rapidly as external investors cut back and financing conditions tighten," it said.

Overall, the prime minister said that Cambodia was on the up. "If we compare it to the period we have just lived through during the Pol Pot regime, now it's much better," he said.

Critics question premier

Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay disputed the prime minister's assessment that agriculture could pull the country through the economic downturn, saying that cassava and other crops could not even get to market. A Thai blockade against cassava and other crops have seriously affected cross-border trade in agricultural products this year, causing prices to drop, he said.

"If we compare it to ... the Pol Pot regime, now it's much better."

"We already face an agricultural crisis," he said, adding that the government needed to do more to develop an agricultural industry that would create demand for agricultural raw materials from the Kingdom's farms. He estimated at least 1 million jobs had been lost in the economy as a whole since the economic downturn first hit the country last year.

"Don't expect to see 6 percent [GDP] growth ... I guess it will be no more than 2 percent," he said.

Chan Sophal, president of the Cambodia Economic Association, said that the fast-evolving nature and instability of the world economy made it difficult to make a realistic projection of the performance of Cambodia's economy over the remainder of the year and beyond. "But various predictions from different institutions will make it more accurate," he said.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY CHUN SOPHAL AND HOR HAB

Hun Sen: Factory workers can live without jobs [-Is the good Dr. Hun Xen becoming completely blind to Cambodia’s economy?]

2009-03-11T07:23:00.000-07:00

(Photo: Bloomberg)

10 March 2009
By Hassan
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

"Houses in Cambodia are not put into the auction block yet, unlike other countries that are facing financial crisis in 1997, therefore we are still continuing to develop" - Dr Hun Sen, PhD from Hanoi and the Irish International University

It turns out that the economy in small countries which, economists professed that it allows these countries to become independent from foreign aid, starts to be affected by the economic crisis occurring in developed nations, and Cambodian government officials start to recognize this fact as well.

In the past, Cambodian government officials used to say that economic crisis in Western countries will not seriously affect Cambodia’s economy because Cambodia’s economy is small.

In the garment sector, the World Bank issued a report on Sunday, indicating that Cambodia lost more than 30,000 jobs in this sector because factories are closing their door in Cambodia. The reason for these closures is because of the drop in foreign garment orders.

The World Bank wrote that 94 of the 116 countries on the verge of development are facing economic slowdown.

Nevertheless, Prime minister Hun Sen believes that Cambodian factory workers can still live even if they are jobless. Hun Sen said: “Compared to factory closures other countries, factory closures in Cambodia are very bad, but when compared to other countries, the closing of factories in those country leads to more danger than us, why? This is very easy to understand in Cambodia: these factories are newly opened, some are 4-5 years old, and some of the factories in Kampong Speu are only 2-3 years old. Therefore, when workers are jobless, they can return back to their villages right away. Since they just left their farming not too long ago, their rice fields are waiting for them, as well their parents, their families. Their families, their parents live on those lands, those houses.”

Hun Sen is not concerned about Cambodia’s economy

When the world is facing with an economic crisis, their leaders are looking for means to pull it up so that investors have confidence and are willing to invest in the businesses. In doing so, these investors are creating more jobs for people, and bringing income for people to spend.

In the US for example, the government is spending billions of dollars to provide help to companies that are facing major losses. The government is also helping their citizens cope with the situation by lowering income taxes, as well as providing stimulus funds to each family.

On the other hand, in Cambodia, if people are jobless, the government does provide any safety net to help these jobless workers live for a while at all.

In his comparison between the Cambodian and the foreign economies on Monday, Hun Sen seems to indicate that there is no issue of concerns for him. Hun Sen said: “The industry is pushing forward so that the factories and the companies that are working will also move forward. In the construction sector, even though there is some drop, but there is no construction sites that are abandoned. The construction of row houses and large buildings is still moving forward, the construction of hotels is still continuing, additional (grading) trucks are added in the construction sector. They said that the economy is slowing down, but if you go buy a house, they wouldn’t lower the price for you. Houses in Cambodia are not put into the auction block yet, unlike other countries that are facing financial crisis in 1997, therefore we are still continuing to develop.”

Khmer Intelligence News - 11 March 2009

2009-03-11T07:16:00.000-07:00

11 March 2009

Nearly 80 percent of Cambodians live under poverty line (2)

Government and aid officials claim that the percentage of Cambodians living below the poverty line dropped from 47% to 35% between 1996 and 2006. The fact is that, during that period, the “poverty line” used to assess the number of poor people and defined as a threshold of daily income, was surreptitiously lowered from US$1.00 to US$0.75. Had the “poverty line” not been changed, the percentage of Cambodians living with less than US$1.00 a day would be close to 50%. Moreover, had the “poverty line” been set at US$2.00 income a day as it is in the Philippines and some African countries, the percentage of Cambodians considered as poor would be 77.7% according to the UNDP. See “Over 75 percent of Cambodians live under poverty line” (KI News, 13 January 2008).

Poverty to worsen in 2009 (2)

Given the population increase, inequality in revenue distribution and gross misallocation of resources in Cambodia, a minimum 5 percent annual GDP growth is required to prevent poverty from worsening. For 2009, the IMF has predicted that Cambodia’s economy would shrink by 0.5%, meaning a negative growth leading to a marked increase in poverty.

Sharp drop in customs revenue (2)

In the 2008 state budget, the Customs Department accounted for over 60 percent of all tax revenue, which is a relatively high figure in the region. For 2009, it should collect US$585 million, a figure that now looks impossible to achieve given the ongoing economic slowdown.

For the first two months of 2009, customs revenue reached only US$64 million compared to US$86 million for the same period last year, which represents a 25 percent drop [adjusted for the collection of a US$7 million duty pertaining to 2008].

State budget for 2009 in jeopardy (2)

The government will soon be obliged to revise downward the state budget for 2009 that was adopted last December because it is unable to collect the projected revenue. See above news “Sharp drop in customs revenue” while knowing that the fall in revenue also holds for other sources of income. The projected 2009 budget amounts to US$1.75 billion compared to US$1.37 billion for the 2008 budget, representing a 28 percent increase. This 28 percent increase will likely evaporate and be replaced by a decrease instead. Cambodia is facing the world economic crisis with a collapsing budget, let alone a strong budget with an appropriate economic stimulus package.

Cambodia losing competitiveness because of its dollarized economy (2)

A dollarized economy puts Cambodia in a weak position in the face of the global economic crisis. The fact that Cambodia’s currency, the riel, is pegged to the US dollar is putting pressure on its economic competitiveness as its neighbors’ currencies (Thai baht, Vietnamese dong) depreciate vis-à-vis the US dollar. Little can be done about this in the short term since 95 percent of Cambodia’s money supply consists of US dollars. Paradoxically for the poorer country, the cost of living is higher in Cambodia than in Thailand and Vietnam. For instance, a factory worker can live on a monthly salary of US$60 in Vietnam but not in Cambodia. Cambodia’s economy has been dollarized as a result of weak economic foundations (low productivity, lack of diversification, over-reliance on foreign remittances, shady foreign investors/speculators, cash economy) and poor governance.
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13 January 2008

Over 75 percent of Cambodians live under poverty line (1)

According to the latest official statistics, 35 percent of Cambodians live below the "national poverty line", which is defined as $0.75 of income a day. But if the poverty line is raised to $2 a day, which is the level used to measure poverty in most developing countries in Asia and Africa, 77.7 percent of Cambodia's population live under this more realistic poverty line. The 35 percent of Cambodians identified above through our "national poverty line", are actually those who survive under a "starvation line" of $0.75 a day.

Foundation to fund Cambodian children victimized by Canadians

2009-03-11T07:11:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Janaya Fuller-Evans
Special to Vancouver Courier

"Cambodia cannot change so long as prime minister Hun Sen, a former member of the Khmer Rouge government, is in power. Nor can it change without support from the international community." - Ian Townsend-Gault, University of B.C law professor and director of Southeast Asian legal studies

Cambodian children victimized by Canadian pedophiles will get help from Canada, says the founder of Vancouver-based Ratanak Foundation.

While the Canadian government ended foreign aid to Cambodia this month, Brian McConaghy is determined that the foundation's centre will take in all children exploited by Canadians in Cambodia and foot the rehabilitation bill.

Though it's an expensive commitment, McConaghy says the situation is too dire to be "financially pragmatic."

"Some of these kids have been raped thousands of times," said McConaghy, a former RCMP forensic scientist. "It's a worst case scenario."

McConaghy says the child sex trade in Cambodia is directly linked to the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. "It goes right back to the killing fields."

The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975 until 1979, allegedly killing 1.7 million people. Cambodian social structures such as law and education were eradicated. The country is still dealing with the atrocities of the recent past.

"The last thing you want is a poverty-stricken culture with no moral compass paired with incredibly rich pedophiles from the West with no moral compass, either," says McConaghy. "And that's what we have."

Ratanak was established in 1990, after McConaghy visited refugee camps in Thailand during the Cambodian civil war. Originally providing medical aid and funding for orphanages, the foundation started helping exploited children in 2005.

McConaghy has travelled to raise money to maintain the foundation's programs, just as the Canadian government has cut foreign aid to Cambodia, among other countries.
Canada's aid cuts came down as the first of five Khmer Rouge officials went to trial for genocide at a U.N.-assisted tribunal, 30 years after the regime ended.

Kaing Guek Eav--also known as Duch--is charged with crimes against humanity. Duch ran the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh where approximately 16,000 people were tortured and killed.

McConaghy doesn't believe the trials will heal the country, though he does think they are a necessary step. "I think Cambodians will go back to their homes feeling strangely empty. I feel it is going to be a big disappointment."

But forgiving and forgetting isn't the answer either, according to Ian Townsend-Gault, University of B.C law professor and director of Southeast Asian legal studies.

"The crimes of people like Duch, who is on trial, are so horrendous," Townsend-Gault said. "And there should be an accounting for it."

He also says Cambodia cannot change so long as prime minister Hun Sen, a former member of the Khmer Rouge government, is in power. Nor can it change without support from the international community.

While the Canadian government's coffers are being guarded more closely, Ratanak Foundation is surviving due to McConaghy's fundraising efforts. "It's certainly not a banner year for growth but I think we're going to pay all our bills."

Despite the foundation's modest financial success, McConaghy works with other organizations on their projects as well.

Agape International Missions, a Christian non-profit organization in California, partnered with Ratanak to lease a former brothel in Phnom Penh. It was gutted and rebuilt as a community centre and elementary school.

Fairview Presbyterian Church in Vancouver provided the construction materials and sent 10 congregation members to complete the renovations last May.

The centre hosts medical clinics a few times a week. The elementary school should open in September.

Kirirom "PROTECTED" National Park - Look who's abetting wildlife poaching?

2009-03-11T07:09:00.000-07:00

Entrance to Kirirom "protected" National Park (All photos: V.O.)
Open display of wild animal parts for sale as medicine in Cambodia's Kirirom "protected" National Park.
Wild animal for sale in Cambodia's Kirirom "protected" National Park
Monkey-baby for sale: This two month old orphan monkey is displayed in the open in the Kirirom "Protected" National Park with heavy chain attached to his neck with asking price of $40. His mom was killed by poachers.

Cambodia: Pride and Compassion

2009-03-11T07:06:00.000-07:00

While I've never subscribed to this hobo-chic sensibility, the sentiment has certainly plagued me lately. I'm writing this column from an Internet café in Cambodia, and I'm sure it goes without saying that this country is pretty down in the dumps. Even as well-read (translation: well Wikipedia-ed) as I consider myself to be, I really wasn't prepared to encounter this level of poverty.

Op-ed at: http://cambodianbrightfuture.blogspot.com/
It's no secret that wearing intentionally ripped jeans is really a microcosmic manifestation of a person's latent middle-class guilt for being able to afford jeans in the first place. I think that's been pretty much agreed upon by the contemporary pop culture scholarly community. While I've never subscribed to this hobo-chic sensibility, the sentiment has certainly plagued me lately. I'm writing this column from an Internet café in Cambodia, and I'm sure it goes without saying that this country is pretty down in the dumps. Even as well-read (translation: well Wikipedia-ed) as I consider myself to be, I really wasn't prepared to encounter this level of poverty.
It's the first time I've ever experienced something I could honestly describe as gut-wrenching. Little kids approach you at restaurants and beg for the rest of your sandwich, and when you walk down the main thoroughfare of the capital city, there are babies literally sleeping in the street. The slums along the roads are surrounded by moats filled with more trash than their inhabitants could possibly have generated on their limited means, and there are people everywhere missing limbs. All the while, I'm staring out the window of a bus, wistfully listening to depressing music on my iPod (trying to justify the fact that I can even afford an iPod) and consciously not complaining about the glaring lack of air conditioning.

To make my financially fueled guilt complex even more complex, a huge part of traveling in Cambodia is simply trying not to get ripped off. As soon as I crossed the border, the actual government of Cambodia sold me a visa for a hugely inflated price and told me that if I didn't like it, I was welcome to walk back over to Thailand. Afterward, a man charged me $10 for what he promised would be a 20-minute ride in his "cab" to the bus station, which was really only a block away. And you thought tricks were just for kids.

This whole Khmer-traveler dynamic is quite frustrating, but to put it bluntly, they need the money more than we do. So do you just blindly get ripped off and taken for a ride by some mean old fruit lady who sends her little kids off to beg instead of to school? Or alternatively, with the pride of "stupid Americans" everywhere hinging on your bargaining ability, do you haggle down to the last quarter with someone who would genuinely notice if they lost a quarter?

I'm not writing advice anymore, so I'll be the first to tell you - I have no f---ing clue. Personally, I handled it by stealthily sneaking ice cream to child beggars when their parents were forcibly peddling drugs to innocent passersby. Unfortunately, in my lifetime, there probably won't come a time when children aren't forced to work in Southeast Asia, or their agrarian society can yield sustaining amounts of income. Instead of stewing in guilt or donating all of my hard-earned bankroll from The Diamondback, as cheesy as this sounds, sometimes you really do have to settle for a child's chocolate-covered smile ... and, of course, take a prominent role in your campus' activism community and so on and so forth.

Kuma Tep Gaeng Ron Teu1-5

2009-03-11T03:04:00.000-07:00

khmer movie Dual Heroes clip1

2009-03-11T02:39:00.000-07:00

Immunity for SRP head

2009-03-09T09:04:00.000-07:00

Monday, 09 March 2009
Written by NETH PHEAKTRA The Phnom Penh Post

OPPOSITION leader Sam Rainsy will have his parliamentary immunity restored when the National Assembly's Permanent Committee meets for an extraordinary session Thursday, officials said Sunday.

Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the committee would hold a preliminary meeting Tuesday to prepare the agenda for an extraordinary session, at which the SRP president's immunity was expected to be addressed.

"Sam Rainsy's immunity is one of seven agenda items for the Permanent Committee meeting," he said.

"I expect that the Assembly will vote to restore Sam Rainsy's immunity on March 12."

Sam Rainsy has been without his constitutional immunity since February 26, when the committee voted to suspend it to force him to pay a 10 million riel (US $2,500) fine to the National Election Committee, imposed for comments made during last year's national election campaign.

SRP lawmaker and spokesman Yim Sovann said that during recent International Women's Day celebrations, National Assembly President Heng Samrin confirmed the leader's immunity would be restored in the next few days.

"What I have heard so far is that the Ministry of Justice prepared a letter to be sent to the Permanent Committee [asking them] to restore his immunity," he said.

Dr Hun Sen, if corruption income received by CPP officials is added to the GDP, Cambodia's economy would fare even better than adding papaya trees

2009-03-09T09:01:00.000-07:00

Prime Minister Hun Sen called for GDP growth figures to include the rural microeconomy.

Revise GDP calculation: PM

Monday, 09 March 2009
Written by Kay Kimsong
The Phnom Penh Post

Prime Minister Hun Sen called on GDP growth statistics to include the rural microeconomy, a measure he said would make information more accurate

PRIME Minister Hun Sen wants national economic growth to include the domestic output of women in individual families and small-scale agriculture, criticising recent estimates for therefore being incorrect in omitting such information.

The premier requested that the National Institute of Statistics consider incorporating "home-garden yield" into national growth estimates.

"We haven't calculated GDP per capita correctly. ... If a family has grown two papaya trees and two banana trees and plants four or five eggplants for a daily living, this is a type of growth," Hun Sen announced Friday in a speech ahead of the 99th Anniversary of the International Women's Day.

The premier said Cambodia's gross domestic product would be much higher if the small or micro-scale economies of individual families were included, and said that such economies have prevented Cambodia from being exposed to the full brunt of the global financial crisis.

Yang Saing Koma, president of the Cambodian Centre for Studies and Agricultural Development (CEDAC), agreed that home-garden yield does contribute to the national economy by creating jobs while reducing the cost of family income in rural areas. He urged the government to take measures to help villagers plant more crops, fruit trees, vegetables and plants for individual family food security.

"If a family has grown two papaya trees ... this is a type of growth."

"It is hard to know how much the microeconomy has shared in the scale of national economic growth, but it is quite a lot," he said.

"Sources of income for villagers are very small. If villagers are able to grow their own vegetables at home, their expenditures will be reduced," he added.

Yang Saing Koma also called for the government to provide financial and technical assistance to slow the importation of fruits and vegetables in order to protect national output.

"If the government is able to limit the amount of imported agricultural goods from neighbouring countries, Cambodian farmers will be able to meet growing domestic demand," he said.

Chan Sophal, president of the Cambodia Economic Association, said he welcomed the idea of encouraging individual families to grow their own products, but including it in GDP would not alter the standard of living.

"If we counted home-garden yield in the official economy, we will see GDP increase, but living conditions will not change," he said.

He added that micro-scale economies did not generate much revenue in rural-level economies, and if it were included in national GDP growth, the number would likely remain unchanged.

"This year a family raises five chickens and next year they keep raising five chickens, it is not growth," said Chan Sophal.

Hun Sen's comments were made the same day that the International Monetary Fund forecast that Cambodia's GDP this year would contract half a percent.

Women evictees join hands

2009-03-09T08:56:00.000-07:00

Ex-residents of the former Dey Krahorm community gather at the central Phnom Penh site on Sunday. (Photo by: SAM RITH)

Monday, 09 March 2009
Written by Sam Rith The Phnom Penh Post

Evictees from around Cambodia assemble at Dey Krahorm community on International Women’s Day to address land rights of women and children
MORE than 100 people evicted from Phnom Penh's Dey Krahorm community and others who are facing eviction elsewhere gathered with provincial land activists and NGO workers Sunday to celebrate International Women's Day.

The ceremony was held near the site of a "sacred ... Banyan tree" at Dey Krahorm where villagers once prayed and made offering to the gods before the tree was knocked down during the eviction. On Sunday, balloons were released to draw attention to the plight of the women and children victims of land-grabbing.

Naly Pilorge, director of rights group Licadho, said it was a symbolic day to consider the union between all women who fight for their rights.

"Today is an example that, whatever you do, it's all interlinked, whether you work on human rights, unions, land rights...we are all affected by the lack of implementation of law, and all have the ability to assemble to express our concern."

"[Evictions] are very serious. We've been getting calls from [people] in Phnom Penh and the provinces almost daily about people being threatened with eviction or evicted," she added.

"Sadly, there is nothing special about this day for many cambodian women..."

Orn Channa, one of the evicted Dey Krahorm villagers, told the Post that her family found it difficult to live at the relocation site, Damnak Trayeung, as there were no schools available for her two children to continue their education and no water, electricity, health care centres or employment opportunities.

"It is very difficult to live there," she said. "[Developer 7NG] transported us to live in the rice fields where there is nothing," she added.

She said her husband had become a motorbike taxi driver but did not earn enough money for her children's transportation costs to school in Phnom Penh. She said that per day, these costs were around 20,000 riel.

Long Khom, 45, another former Dey Krahorm villager, said her family's living standards had also significantly worsened after moving to the new site. She told the Post she had nothing left, not even a mosquito net, as all of her assets were destroyed by 7NG workers during the eviction.

"Sadly, there is nothing special about this day [International Women's Day] for many Cambodian women ... because they have been evicted from their homes or are living in fear of eviction. It is just another day of hardship and suffering," said Licadho President Kek Galabru, in a press release issued Sunday.

Orn Chhanna called on the United Nations to help preserve the rights of evicted villagers.

"I would like organisations ... to help people who are evicted from communities such as Dey Krahorm to have better lives," she said.

Lim Sambo, a representative of neighbouring Group 78 community, which lives under threat of eviction, said he and others on the land welcomed any government proposal for development, but insisted that fair compensation is given to those who are impacted.

"We need negotiation, not violent evicting ... the government must offer proper compensation to people before handing out any plot of land to a private company.... The government must also have its own reserved budget to offer affected people," he said.

Sy Define, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, acknowledged that moving people far away from the city affected women and children who needed to travel to the city. However, she said the government will help build schools near relocation sites.

Thai soldiers forbid Khmer villagers from growing vegetable in their backyards

2009-03-09T04:33:00.000-07:00

In January 2009, 35 heavily-armed Thai soldiers crossed 50 metres deep into Khmer territory at O'Smach to prevent Khmer workers from building a fence near the borders.

Reaksmei Kampuchea newspaper
7th March, 2009
Reported in English by Khmerization

Six Cambodian families living in the border village of O'Smach in Ouddor Meanchey province opposite Thailand's Kap Cherng district of Surin province were prevented by black-clad Thai Royal Guards from growing vegetable aroud their houses.

The Thai border guards said that the village where the Cambodian villagers are living are disputes areas, but the Cambodian border guards said that the areas are Cambodian territories and the Cambodian villagers have been living there since 2000, but only got the problems with the Thai soldiers after the Thais invaded Preah Vihear areas in July 2008.

Mr. Phorn Thol, Deputy Chief of Border Police gurading the O'Smach areas, told Reaksmei Kampuchea on 4th March that the six Cambodian families had been living there since the year 2000 and they had grown their vegetable around their houses since then. But later, Thai soldiers came to forbid them not to grow vegetable, not to clear the lands or make extensions to their houses because they said that the areas are in disputed territories.

Mr. Phorn Thol also said that Thai soldiers forbid the villagers from fishing in the natural pond or not to use the pond named Ang Dop Pram (Fifteen Reservoir) located on the border on top of the Dangrek Mountains.

Before the 1997 coup, Ang Dop Pram was a Khmer territory and Cambodian villagers as welll as Khmer border guard soldiers can use the pond and fish from the pond.

Mrs. Singh Hort who live in Phum Dey Pram Mett (Five Metres Village) in O'Smach district, told Reaksmei Kampuchea that the disputes happened after Thai soldiers invaded the Preah Vihear areas in July, 2008 and since then the villagers in her areas are living in double-hardship. In the areas, villagers are foraging for wild mushrooms, wild plants, tree tars, wild flowers and wild fruit to sell to Thai people across the borders, but after the Thai invasion of the Preah Vihear areas in mid 2008, they have difficulty selling those products to Thai people.

They said that in the past they can grow vegetable around their houses and can use the water from Lake Ang Dop Pram, but now they are prevented from growing the vegetable around their houses and are not allowed to use the water in that pond. Now, they have to buy foods and all consumer goods and everything from Thailand.

The six Cambodian families are families of Cambodian border guards who are protecting the borders in the areas. Their livelihood worsened due to global economic crisis and due to Thai soldiers not allowing them to grow food around their houses.

"...let their children, wives, grandchildren and all their lineage die, those who grabbed the Dey Krahorm land": Curse by Dey Krahorm victims

2009-03-09T04:28:00.000-07:00

People affected by land disputes have gathered in Dey Krahorm on 08 March 2009 to appeal for an end to forced evictions (Photo: Ouk Savborey, RFA)

Victims of land disputes pray for an end to eviction

08 March 2009
By Ouk Savborey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

About 150 people coming from communities where land dispute communities are taking place, and who are about to leave or on the verge of leaving their homes, gathered near the large Boddhi tree located in Dey Krahorm commune, Tonle Bassac district, Phnom Penh, during the 99th International Women’s Day celebrated on 08 March 2009. The people gathered to pray for an end to evictions that saw people being chased out of their homes.

A woman representing the Dey Krahorm community said that women and children are hurt by their forced eviction from their homes on the morning of 24 January 2009: “Please, spirits protecting the land and water of Dey Krahorm, prevent those who grabbed the land from the people from being able to do anything, let them vanish to naught soon, immediately, let their children, wives, grandchildren and all their lineage die, those who grabbed the Dey Krahorm land.”

Another woman representing families who are about to leave their homes in Boeung Kak Lake, added that she prayed so that the eviction that took place in Dey Krahorm does not happen in her community: “I say, for all of us women, if there is an eviction like Dey Krahorm taking place, we will suffer, because as women, we have extremely heavy charge, because in the future, our group will also face the same fate as them.”

Another man from Beoung Kak Lake community said: “Our goal is to obtain freedom, and a voice so that we will not be faced with eviction like Dey Krahorm, we don’t want any violence like this anymore.”

A representative from Group 78 (Tonle Bassac) claimed that those who want to take the land under the pretext of development, as well as the city hall, are forcing people to leave their lands without any negotiation, they hurt all the people, young and old: “If they want to take the people out of the city, they must resolve the money issue first, then they can take the people out, they should not do like Dey Krahorm or Sambok Chap. Now, the people can no longer accept that.”

Representatives from communities in various provinces claimed that any development without prior negotiation to provide proper compensation (for the people affected) will lead to an increase in poverty and it will lead to further destructions of forest, animals and the environment.

Van Sophat, a NGO representative who is observing the land dispute situation under the pretext of government development, indicated that the 150 people who came to pray at this ceremony are from the Dey Krahorm community, the Phnom Penh Thmei community, the Boeung Kak community, the Sambok Chap community, as well as other communities in Cambodia who suffer from eviction without proper compensation. They all came to ask the Cambodian government (led by Hun Sen) to respect the 2001 land law which guarantees the home ownership for the people.

Following a blessing by 5 Buddhist monks, balloons bearing slogans were released asking for an end to eviction in order to support women, for the right of women to have access to proper housing, and for supporting women as it also means supporting the country.

The ceremony took place outside the gate of the 7NG company, no company employees or police officers came to disrupt the ceremony held by these victims of land disputes.

Two Thai jet fighters violate Cambodian airspace 5-6 kilometres deep inside Khmer territories

2009-03-08T18:37:00.000-07:00

Cambodian border soldiers manning the borders.
Reaksmei Kampuchea newspaper6th March, 2009Reported in English by KhmerizationTwo Thai jet fighters have flown three times, 5-6 kilometres deep inside Cambodian territories along the Ouddor Meanchey-Banteay Meanchey provinces.The Thai violations over Cambodian airspace took place between 12 to 12:30 midday on the 4th of March, 2009. The Cambodian side had lodged a formal complaint with the Thai side already.Mr. Leng Mary, chief of land administration of Thmor Puok district and many other officials based at Thlea village in Banteay Chhmar commune, said that they all saw the jets flying over their heads. They said that the jets were flying about 500-600 metres above their heads from Rumduol village in Banteay Ampil district, Ouddor Meanchey at border marker number 27 to Thlok village in Banteay Chhmar commune, Thmor Puok district in Banteay Meanchey province at border markers number 85-86.Brig-Gen. Plon Dara, commander for Ouddor Meanchey province, said on the 5th of March that these two Thai jets have violated Cambodian airspace 10 kilometres in length and 5-6 kilometres deep inside Khmer territories.From 2008 to 2009, Thai jet fighters had violated Cambodian airspace on numerous occasions along the borders of Preah Vihear, Battambang, Ouddor Meanchey, Koh Kong, Pursat and Banteay Meanchey provinces. In Banteay Meanchey alone, Thai jet fighters had violated Cambodian airspace 42 times in 2008 and 6 times in the first two months of 2009.These Thai violations of Cambodian airspace happened after Cambodia and Thailand are locked in disputes over the ownership of the Preah Vihear areas, Ta Moan Thom and Ta Krabey temples as well as other border areas, after the Thai invasion of the Preah Vihear areas on 15th July, 2008.

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RandomKid marks the opening of a school in Cambodia that the kids named FOR EACH OTHER. Attending the event are 5 children from the USA representing 70 children from 19 countries around the world who participated in this project. In order of appearance: Talia Leman (IA), Robbye Raisher (NM) and Maddie Lawry (TN). In Part 2, you will see Allison Sant (OH) and Stevie Peacock (FL). The video has multiple cuts, because we edited out the Cambodian translator. This project was made possible by American Assistance to Cambodia, through Bernard Krisher.

Monitors Worry Over Tribunal Gag Order

2009-03-06T22:37:00.000-08:00

By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
06 March 2009

A group of seven Khmer Rouge tribunal monitors expressed concern Friday over court gag order for a Web site managed by one of the defense teams earlier this week.

In a joint statement Friday, the monitoring groups said an order by investigating judges that Ieng Sary’s defense remove documents from its Web site, on the basis of confidentiality, applied “a harsh rule that unnecessarily limits public information.”

“Transparency is an essential condition of all public institutions, including courts, as a foundation for public confidence and a bulwark against corruption and improper political influence,” the groups said.

Investigating judges ordered the defense team to take three documents off its Web site Tuesday, including the refusal of the tribunal to grant a psychiatrist to Ieng Sary, who is 84 and in the poorest health of five jailed leaders of the regime.

The defense team, which took down the documents, has said the pages were not confidential and that the legal reasoning of the judges was flawed. The team has appealed the order.

Meanwhile, the seven non-governmental organizations said the order and its justification of confidentiality were a reflection of a failure by tribunal judges to meet the demands of the public.

“The Office of Co-Investigating Judges has failed to meet public demands and expectations for a reasonable level of disclosure of information regarding the pre-trial phase, and to fulfill their promises to make more information public,” the groups said.

The monitoring groups are the Cambodian Defenders Project, Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association, Center for Social Development, Khmer Institute of Democracy, International Center for Transitional Justice, Asian International Justice Initiative and Cambodia Justice Initiative.

Sok Samoeun, executive director of the Cambodian Defenders Project and chairman of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, told VOA Khmer Friday the order from the investigating judges came abruptly and without warning.

The monitors “did not see the impact on the confidentiality of the case of the accused,” he said. “We wish that in the future co-investigating judges be patient and find clear measures to avoid controversy.”

Marcel Lemonde, one of two investigating judges who issued the gag order, told VOA Khmer the question of confidentiality was “complicated” and needed much explanation. The decision was made on judicial principals, he said.

“I believe that there are necessities for further explanation from the tribunal side in general and from the co-investigating judges in particular,” he said. “And then we have a wish to organize the discussion with the media and with NGOs on that question of transparency.”

Tribunal Rules Revamped for Expediency

2009-03-06T22:22:00.000-08:00

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
06 March 2009

More than two dozen internal rules for the Khmer Rouge tribunal were refined this week, further speeding tasks of the hybrid courts, officials announced Friday at the close of a biannual meeting.

In their fifth plenary session, judges and prosecutors decided on amendments to 27 of the internal rules of the court that “reflect efforts at harmonization,” in an effort “to streamline and expedite court proceedings,” the judicial officers said in a statement.

Tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath said the amendments were important for improving tribunal proceedings.

“National and international judges and prosecutors passed the amendments in some of the internal rules to work on advancing the success of their work in the court in the upcoming period,” he said.

The jurists met amid lingering concerns the tribunal could see its funding disappear if donors do not contribute more. But that has been made difficult, with allegations of corruption and mismanagement still dogging the court, even as its first trial, for prison chief Kaing Kek Iev, approaches.

Lath Ky, a coordinator at the tribunal for the rights group Adhoc, told VOA Khmer the results of the meeting were not completely acceptable.

“There are some negatives,” he said. “According to the results of the amendments, the Khmer Rouge tribunal does not encourage the participation of civil parties in tribunal process. I am very concerned about the participation of the civil parties, which is likely restricted or reduced.”

The new rules will hasten the accreditation of investigators and the calling of witnesses, among other streamlining procedures, including improving appeals to the Supreme Court Chamber of the special court.

The officers were also briefed on the “trial management challenges” of having so many victims filing for court proceedings, the statement said.

S Korea, Indonesia agree to boost cooperation

2009-03-06T22:01:00.000-08:00

By: AFP

Published: 7/03/2009 at 12:11 AM

Jakarta - South Korea and Indonesia agreed Friday to cooperate more closely on a range of issues including defence, the global financial crisis and alternative sources of energy.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (L) with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed several agreements after talks at the state palace here on the last stop of Lee's three-nation tour, which included Australia and New Zealand.

"This meeting will make a big contribution to bilateral and international cooperation," Lee told reporters after the talks, speaking in Korean.

"We are facing a world economic crisis. Both countries have had economic difficulties but we will work hand-in-hand in the future," he added.

The two leaders signed a memorandum of understanding to "cooperate more actively" in security and defence issues, Lee said.

Both countries are eager to build economic and defence ties and boost cooperation through the ASEAN+3 forum -- the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as well as China, Japan and South Korea.

Indonesia's trade with South Korea has been soaring in recent years, almost doubling in value in 2008 to 20 billion dollars, Yudhoyono said.

"We are committed to maintaining investment cooperation between both countries despite the current global economic crisis," he said.

"Apart from trade and investment cooperation, we also discussed cooperation in other sectors including information technology, alternative energy, defence and security, Indonesian workers (in South Korea) and tourism."

Indonesia is the second-largest supplier of liquefied natural gas to South Korea, which is the seventh-biggest country of destination for Indonesian non-oil and gas exports.

Yuohoyono said the countries had a long history of cooperation in energy, oil and gas but "we agreed that investment and trade in this sector should be improved."

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Pakistan warned of serious internal dangers

2009-03-06T21:58:00.000-08:00

By: AFP

Published: 7/03/2009 at 12:18 AM

Lahore - A top Pakistan official Friday refused to rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attacks despite international warnings that the nation faced serious internal dangers.

Pakistanis pay tribute to those killed during the attack

The attack has subjected nuclear-armed Pakistan, teetering on political and economic crisis, to mounting international concern about its ability to combat Taliban- and Al-Qaeda-linked militants and provide security to foreigners.

"I cannot rule out (involvement of a) foreign hand in the incident," interior ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters, asked if Sri Lanka's separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam could be linked to the attacks.

Local newspapers suggested that preliminary investigations pointed to the involvement of home-grown militant outfits in Tuesday's assaults, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which India blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

An LeT spokesman denied any involvement in the attack, which killed eight Pakistanis and wounded seven Sri Lankan players, in a telephone call to AFP. It is a hallmark of the group not to claim responsibility for any attacks.

Up to 12 men attacked the convoy of officials, coaches and players, firing automatic weapons, grenades and a rocket launcher as the vehicles approached Lahore's Gaddafi stadium. All fled without trace after the attack.

Police released sketches of four suspects and have brought in around two dozen people for questioning, but no leads have been announced and no one has claimed responsibility.

Malik said no clues pointed to the involvement of "religious" militants and Punjab police chief Khaled Farooq told AFP it was "not correct" that jihadi and Al-Qaeda groups were responsible.

More than 1,600 people have been killed in unrest over the past 22 months in Pakistan, where Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants have forged a base in the rugged, lawless northwest along the border with Afghanistan.

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Pakistan is facing a "mortal threat" from its internal enemies and that security is deteriorating.

He told the BBC that a political showdown between President Asif Ali Zardari and the main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, who was last week disqualified from contesting elections, was contributing to the problem.

Thousands of protestors demonstrated in Lahore Friday, when Sharif vowed to continue his struggle to reinstate judges sacked by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf ahead of a nationwide march scheduled to begin next week.

Miliband said it was vital for politicians "to unite against the mortal threat Pakistan faces, which is a threat from its internal enemies, not its traditional external enemies."

For decades, Pakistan's ISI military intelligence agency has fostered Islamist extremists in Kashmir and Afghanistan to counter-balance arch rival India and there are suspicions that some ISI elements have links to militants.

Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday's attack underscored Pakistan's "lack of will" in tackling Islamic militancy.

"As this week's reprehensible attack on Sri Lankan cricketers shows, the government's lack of will or capability in tackling this menace becomes a major hindrance in the smooth process of change," he said.

Pakistani police said they were making progress in the preliminary investigation into the attacks, which they hoped to wrap up within two days.

"It is expected within one or two days. There has been very positive progress in the investigation," Farooq said.

Embarrassing footage, captured by closed-circuit cameras, showed several suspects making a leisurely getaway from the scene of the attack, ambling down a deserted road without any police or security forces chasing them.

Pakistan has a long history of unsolved political violence. Former premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007, and many here have expressed doubts whether her killers can ever be brought to justice.

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Mr. Sar Kheng urged his subordinates to freely debate their work performances

2009-03-06T21:50:00.000-08:00

everyday.com
5th March, 2009
Reported in English by Khmerization

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng (pictured) has announced to allow inter-departmental debates in the Interior Ministry during a ministry's conference to report the results of the ministry's works for 2008.

On 4th March, the ministry's conference was held and participants debated each other to find ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the ministry's future tasks.

Mr. Sar Kheng said that the ministry had achieved good results on issues of social orders for 2008 as evidenced by the thwarting of a terrorist attack and the successful security measures put in place to protect the celebration of 7th January Day.

Mr. Sar Kheng asked the conference to evaluate the ministry yesteryear's works and encouraged the participants to freely debate each other in order to find ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the ministry's future works.

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Khmerization's comments: Mr. Sar Kheng's announcement seems to contradict his boss', Mr. Hun Sen's, announcement of the removal of a National Congress from the constitution. While Mr. Sar Kheng wants a free debate on how to improve the works within his ministry, Mr. Hun Sen wants to remove a National Congress - a national debate forum for all citizens to discuss on how to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of the government's perfomances. It seems that Cambodia is moving toward an autocratic and authoritarian rule by the day. This is a step backward in the democratisation process of Cambodia.

SRP activist shot and killed in Kampong Cham province

2009-03-06T21:45:00.000-08:00

05 March 2009
By Or Phearith
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer

One SRP activist from Memot district, Kampong Cham province, was shot and killed by an armed man in the afternoon of 04 March at his home.

Prack Vanny, the Choam commune chief, Memot district, indicated in the morning of 05 March, 45-year-old Moh Mamvit living in Kok Khloam village, Choam commune, was shot by two armed men (one armed man?) at his home. The motive for the shooting is unknown.

Bin Bao, an eyewitness who was standing 2-meter away from the victim, indicated that Pheang, the killer, knows the victim very well, and there was never any dispute between the two.

However, on the day of the incident, at about 2 PM, Pheang got off his motorcycle and called the victim to come out, then he shot the victim in front of the house.

Bin Bao reported: “(The victim) said: ‘I did not do anything, I know you younger brother Pheang, I know you.’ As the victim was approaching a little bit, the killer raised his gun and shot the victim who fell to the ground. The victim was saying: ‘Are you shooting me?’ After these few words, he died. He was shot near his left hip and the gunshot pierced his bladder and exited near hit butt. The killer was going to shoot more on the victim, I was next to him.”

Bien Pum, a police officer from Choam commune who was investigating on the spot, indicated that the killer was undertaking his action out in the open, and people know who he is and where he is from, but he is now fleeing and he also took a gun with him.

Bien Pum said: “Our police is building up a case in order to bring charge on the killer. We know his name and his unit. He ran away into the mango trees forest, he took a gun with him. My police force and my inspector are searching for the killer. We are posted everywhere, but we did not see him yet.”

Kampong Cham SRP MP Mao Monyvann reacted by saying that, prior to the 2008 general election, 3 SRP activists in Memot district had to flee because they were tortured by a thug, and at that time, the thug was not arrested either.

Mao Monyvann said: “Every time, when it is close to the election period, we saw SRP activists being killed, one after another, this is especially the case in Memot district. The identity of the culprits, the killers, is known, but the authority did not take any measure against them. Such conduct leads the culprit to act the same way over and over again against innocent people, these actions are illegal.”

MP Mao Monyvann asked the authority to take the appropriate measure to arrest the culprit and send them to face justice.

KPNLF commemoration

2009-03-06T21:40:00.000-08:00

Prince Norodom Ranariddh inspects a monument to KPNLF resistance fighters Thursday in Kandal province. (Photo by: BRENDAN BRADY)
Son Soubert (left), son of the Front's founder, prays as Ranariddh lays a wreath on a monument to the movement's fallen soldiers. (Photo by: Brendan Brady)

Friday, 06 March 2009
Written by Brendan Brady and Kouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post

"Vietnamese troops did not invade Cambodia ... They came to help Cambodia from the Pol Pot regime - we should be thankful to the Vietnamese." - CPP MP "Chom Chea Yap" aka "Cheam Yeap"

Former border resistance leaders stand by antagonism towards Vietnamese.

A WHO'S who of anti-Vietnamese leaders of the 1980s gathered at a stupa in Kandal province Thursday to commemorate resistance fighters who had died as part of the movement's effort to expel the foreign power.

The Khmer National Liberation Front (KPNLF) was one of the main resistance groups to emerge along the Thai border following the fall of the
Khmer Rouge by Vietnamese forces and their subsequent administrative takeover of Cambodia.

Former KPNLF army and political leaders inaugurated a monument with inscriptions of the names of resistance fighters who died between 1979 and 1991 at a ceremony in Kien Svay district.

Chuor Kim Meng, who had been a lieutenant general for the movement's military wing, said the resistance helped push the Vietnamese out and forced the local officials it had installed to accept multiparty democracy.

"If not for these fighters, Vietnam may have continued to occupy Cambodia," he said.

Dien Del, former chief of staff of the group's army, said the event "preserve the memory of those who died expelling the Vietnamese occupiers".

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the guest of honour, praised the resistance. "I have never forgotten its fighters who died," he said. He, too, described the Vietnamese troops in Cambodia at that time as "invaders" and "occupiers".

While there was no official condemnation from the government, the commemoration should have proved controversial as the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) evolved from the People's Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (PRPK), the regime that governed Cambodia under the control of Vietnamese forces.

KR alliance necessary

Son Soubert, son of Son Sann, founder and former president of the KPNLF and himself a participant in the movement's administration, said he had sent a letter of invitation to Prime Minister Hun Sen, Senate President Chea Sim and Deputy Prime Minister Sok An. Only Chea Sim responded, saying he had other obligations.

Cheam Yeap, a senior CPP lawmaker, criticised the KPNLF for characterizing the Vietnamese as enemies.

"Vietnamese troops did not invade Cambodia," he told the Post by phone. "They came to help Cambodia from the Pol Pot regime - we should be thankful to the Vietnamese."

The exit of Vietnamese forces in 1989 came about not from resistance pressure from the border but because the PRPK was ready to rule on its own, he contended.

Opposition party representatives present at the ceremony, however, insisted the Front's cause was righteous and attributed the exit of Vietnam to its efforts.

"They fought for our freedom and sovereignty - that represents Khmer nationalism at its purest," said Human Rights Party President Kem Sokha.

Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Son Chhay had been the KPNLF's representative in southern Australia, where he was based then. "Without the resistance from the border, we would not have had the Paris Peace Accords," he said.

Nationalism first

The KPNLF started in 1979, recruiting some of the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian refugees seeking sanctuary along the border with Thailand.

Its key figures had held prominent positions in the administrations of Sihanouk and right-wing general Lon Nol, and were unified in their opposition to communism and to the presence of Vietnamese forces in the country.

The Front was seen by the US and other Western allies as the most reliably anti-communist and pro-Western group in Cambodia.

In its effort to drive out the Vietnamese, the Front struck an awkward alliance with remnants of the Khmer Rouge. In 1982 the KPNLF entered the tripartite Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea.

The new coalition included the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, a splinter group of the defeated Khmer Rouge led by Khieu Samphan, and the royalist resistance movement known as Funcinpec, and represented Cambodia at the United Nations.

For the former leaders of the Front, the alliance with their ideological counterparts was a necessary evil.

"Son Sann always said the country is more important than the party or faction," said Pol Ham, who had been the Front's Information Minister.

"We hated the Khmer Rouge, but at that time we had to prioritise - and the foreign occupiers were the first enemy. We formed a coalition but kept our own identity."

Son Soubert was adamant the Front had never "joined" the Khmer Rouge.

"We were forced to enter a temporary coalition to achieve our goals," he said.

Funcinpec Senator Sabu Bacha, a former general of the Front's army, said the dire circumstances required divisions among Cambodians be put aside "so first we could expel foreign troops from our soil".

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Property fall fails to stop evictions in Cambodia

2009-03-04T05:32:00.001-08:00

These are the housings promised by the 7NG company!
Borei Sontapheap stands by his makeshift dwelling at a site near Phnom Penh, after being evicted from his home in the city centre. Jared Ferrie / The National

Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Jared Ferrie, Foreign Correspondent
The National (United Arab Emirates)
PHNOM PENH -- A property boom in Cambodia’s capital has seen the houses of thousands of poor residents cleared to make way for upscale developments. Although the real estate bubble has burst, the evictions continue.

Advocacy groups say about 70,000 people are in danger of losing their homes since the government began selling off land and they accuse officials of violating a 2001 law that granted residents land ownership.

“The 2001 land law is good. The problem is lack of enforcement of the law and the complicity of the government,” said Naly Pilorge, who heads the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights.

Cambodia has seen massive population shifts over the past few decades, beginning in about 1970 when villagers fled to the capital to escape civil war. Then in 1975, the Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh of its inhabitants and sent them to labour camps in the countryside. When the regime fell in 1979, displaced people converged on Phnom Penh and took up residence wherever they could.

In 2001, the government enacted a law that said those who had occupied the same plot of land for at least five years could own it.

Then came the property boom.

Cambodia remains South-east Asia’s poorest country after East Timor, but its economy has grown steadily since peace returned in the late 1990s. In the past five years, that growth has been “exceptional”, according to a February report by the International Monetary Fund, which measured GDP growth at 10 per cent in 2007.

Local and foreign developers, especially from South Korea and Vietnam, began to buy property. Land prices shot up as much as 100 per cent in 2007, according to the IMF. But they fell by one-quarter in the second half of 2008.

“One could predict that there would be demand for residential buildings, but there were dozens of suppliers and no co-ordination,” said Chan Sophall, the president of the Cambodia Economic Association. “The supply simply exceeded the demand.”

The global financial crisis has had an effect, too.

“A few major urban projects have been scaled back or cancelled outright as foreign investors [mainly from South Korea] reassess their commitments in the face of tighter funding conditions abroad,” the IMF said.

Despite the slowdown, the wave of evictions has not stopped.

One morning in January, Borei Sontapheap watched as bulldozers approached his community of Dey Krahorm. Military and riot police accompanied the heavy machinery, along with about 100 crowbar-carrying employees of the 7NG construction company. When the site was levelled, the company put about 80 families who had refused to leave on buses and dumped them off at a site 16km outside the city, according to the families and advocacy groups.

“I lost a house. I lost rice to feed the family and the money in the house,” said Mr Sontapheap, standing beside the makeshift shelter that is his family’s new home.

“If we knew in advance at least we could sell the wood from the house,” said Rani, another victim of eviction. “At least we would get a few hundred dollars back.”

Ms Rani has also lost her livelihood. She used to sell fruit in the market in Phnom Penh, but now she cannot afford the transportation back to the city. Nor can she afford to send her children to school.

The company has offered each family who owned a house in Dey Krahorm one of the apartments it is building at the new site. But residents say those flats, worth about US$5,000 (Dh18,400) each, are nowhere near the value of the homes they lost.

One square metre of land in central Phnom Penh is worth about $5,000 and the two-hectare Dey Krahorm site is valued at $44 million, according to Ms Pilorge, of the Cambodian human rights group, and other observers.

The company initially offered homeowners $20,000 in compensation, but many residents were convinced they had a legal right to keep the land and refused the offer. Now that it is clear that neither the government nor the courts will back their claims, they say they will accept the offer. But 7NG says it is too late.

“If the company gives them the money it will make the people who took the apartments unhappy,” said Chang Bunna, a company spokesman.

The deputy governor of Phnom Penh municipality, Mann Choeun, who is responsible for housing issues, did not respond to requests for comment. But he told a local newspaper that Dey Krahorm residents were squatting on public land.

International organisations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, condemned the eviction, as did the United Nations’ special rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik.

“Unfortunately this is by no means an isolated case and the increase in forced evictions throughout Cambodia is very alarming,” she said in a Jan 30 statement.

The controversy surrounding Dey Krahorm may prove to be minor compared to what the government has planned for Boeung Kak, a lake in central Phnom Penh. The government has signed a contract with a private company to fill in 90 per cent of the lake and create residential and commercial real estate. The development would displace as many as 30,000 people. Critics say the plan is illegal because it violates the land law and predict it will be an ecological disaster.

Already flooding has worsened since filling began and some homes are reported to have begun to sink as water seeps into what was once solid earth. In the meantime, many of the luxury apartments built at the height of the property boom stand empty, and work has ground to a halt on other developments.

“Why the urgency to evict people?” Ms Pilorge asked.

24-year-old Cambodian ex-wife of deadbeat 54-year-old Malyasian assemblyman asks for RM3 million in divorce settlement

2009-03-04T05:29:00.000-08:00

Siti Aishah Chou Abdullah entering the Kota Baru Syariah High Court with her two children, Wan Ahmad Firdaus and Wan Nor Salwa.

Assemblyman's ex-wife asks for RM3 million [~$805,000]

2009/03/04
New Straits Times (Malaysia)

KOTA BARU: The former Cambodian wife of Pas Melor assemblyman Wan Ismail Wan Jusoh is claiming RM3 million for mutaah (compensation/gift for wife to start a new life after divorce).

Counsel Mohd Sibri Ismail for Siti Aishah Chou Abdullah, told Syariah High Court judge Abdullah Man that his client was entitled to the compensation because throughout their marriage she had never disgraced him and had always protected the honour and safety of their children.

He said Siti Aishah, 24, had also been loyal to her husband.

"The claim is a gift for my client who is now a single mother after she divorced Wan Ismail last year.

"It is for her expenses and also for her to take care of her children's welfare."

Wan Ismail, 54, and his lawyer Mohd Zaki Zainal Abidin were not present in court.

Abdullah postponed the hearing to April 21.

Outside the court, Siti Aishah said she hoped the court would consider her claim.

"My former husband promised me many things during our marriage, including buying me a house and a luxury car but until we divorced, he failed to fulfil his promises.

"He also did not pay me any maintenance for our children after we divorced. Because of this, I have to work to support myself and the children," said the headscarf seller.

The two were married in Kuala Lumpur in 2003 and divorced last April. The couple have two children -- Wan Ahmad Firdaus, 4, and Wan Nor Salwa, 3.

Wan Ismail has nine children with his first wife.

King Father's bequeathal of documents to France shows lack of trust

2009-03-03T07:45:00.000-08:00

Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Written by Somanos Sar
Letter to The Phnom Penh Post

Dear Editor,

I would like to post this comment about the archives donated by the former King Norodom Sihanouk.

Of course, it's great these invaluable documents hopefully can be accessible for all.

But beyond this collective satisfaction, I see one thing that has been saddening me since I was born.

That thing is called trust, or more accurately, absence of trust. In fact, since the decline of the Khmer Empire, Khmers never trusted Khmers.

Khmers have been relying on foreigners to resolve their own problems: Thai, Vietnamese, French, American, Japanese, Chinese, UN, etc.

Just have a look at tourists' booklets. You often see "Western management" mentioned, as if it was a quality label. And it is, in fact.

The reason why the King Father prefers to donate his archives to a French institution rather than to DC-Cam would reflect the same scheme: not enough confidence in Khmers.

Considering the high value of these documents, the motivations are surely legitimate, though DC-Cam is certainly capable of handling the duty as well.

What really dismays me is the missed opportunity. As one of the most prestigious personalities of Cambodia, the King Father has missed the chance to tell everyone: "OK, this is an extremely important inheritance of our History. And I give it to you, DC-Cam, as a Cambodian keeper of history. And I trust you will do your best to bring light on Cambodia's future from the darkness of our past".

Instead, the message to be heard is that "Western management" is better, and mistrust is still as strong as ever.

In my opinion, DC-Cam merits trust. It's sad. It says Cambodia must expect a long wait before restoring real prosperity.

Somanos Sar
French-Cambodian author

Cambodia For Sale - SBS Australia Video

2009-03-03T07:42:00.000-08:00

Vietnam – Cambodia border landmark inaugurated

2009-03-03T07:39:00.000-08:00

03/03/2009

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s Southern Province of An Giang and Cambodia’s Takeo province on March 2 held a ceremony to mark the planting of the 281st border marker.

This border marker designates the international border line separating Lac Quoi Commune in Tri Ton District of An Giang Province from Som Commune in Kirivong District of Takeo province.

The border marker planting was part of the implementation of the Vietnam – Cambodia Land Border Treaty.

It marks the fact that after two years of negotiations and field surveys, the demarcation of the international border between Vietnam’s An Giang Province and Cambodia’s Takeo and Kandal provinces is completed. Border markers having been placed along 99.6 kilometers of the borderline.

The two sides have also agreed upon sites for another 46 border markers, designating the final 60 kilometers of the borderline between Vietnam’s An Giang Province and Cambodia’s Takeo and Kandal provinces.

Indonesia to provide cultural scholarship for Cambodian students

2009-03-03T07:36:00.000-08:00

PHNOM PENH, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia will soon start to provide scholarship for Cambodian students in the fields of dance, cinematography and fine arts, said the official news agency AKP (Agence Kampuchea Presse) on Tuesday.

Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Him Chhem made this announcement upon his recent return from Bali, Indonesia, where a memorandum on Cambodia-Indonesia Cultural Cooperation was signed.

"The memorandum is very important. It helps strengthen our cultural cooperation, human resource development and the close relations between both countries," he said.

In the near future, there will be students, art performance and cultural delegation exchanges between Cambodia and Indonesia, he added.

ECCC says no pay for nationals

2009-03-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

Judge says insufficient funding has left Cambodian side insolvent.

A JUDGE at the Khmer Rouge tribunal has announced that Cambodian staff will not receive their salaries this month, as donor funds dry up amid concerns of corruption.

Kong Srim, president of the tribunal's Supreme Court chamber, told participants and media at the opening of the judge's fifth plenary Monday that the court's long-standing funding problems would now materialise into bankruptcy.

"Unfortunately, the national side of the court will not have sufficient funds for the staff salaries for this month," he said.

"I see this as our most important challenge, as it hardly seems reasonable for judicial officers and staff to be expected to continue working without remuneration," he added.

He said, however, that he was confident the problem would be resolved "before such a situation arises".

Trial chamber Judge Silvia Cartwright, speaking after Kong Srim, said resolving the issue of corruption is the only way to quash donor concerns.
"The problems mentioned by [Kong Srim] concerning funding can be resolved once the international community is confident of a corruption-free environment in which to hold trials," she said.

"International judges have said clearly and repeatedly that they will not allow corruption to interfere with the tribunal's delivery of justice for the people of Cambodia," she added.

The UN Development Program, which was administering donor funds to the Cambodian side of the court, decided to withhold funding after allegations arose in July, leaving hundreds of staff members without salaries for two months.

To date, neither side of the court has confronted previous allegations, and a review made in September by a UN oversight body has yet to be made public.

Court spokesperson Reach Sambath was unsure whether the more than 200 Cambodian staff would continue to work unpaid again.

"It's too early to say.... Our greatest concern is the translators. If it affects translators, it affects the whole court," he said.

The court began its first trial last month, with testimonies to start after March 30.

Khmer Rouge lawyers threatened with sanctions over website posts

2009-03-03T07:34:00.000-08:00

Tue, 03 Mar 2009
DPA

Phnom Penh - Judges at Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal on Tuesday said lawyers of a former Khmer Rouge leader faced "sanctions for a new offence" unless they removed confidential court documents from a website. A statement released by the court said judges had told lawyers for former head-of-state Ieng Sary that they must remove all legal documents from the website, other than those available on the tribunal's own website.

Lawyers were ordered to remove confidential documents already on the independent website within 48 hours, or else they will "force sanctions for a new offence," the statement said.

Ieng Sary, 83, is one of five former Khmer Rouge leaders facing trial for their roles in the deaths of up to 2 million people through execution, starvation or overwork during the ultra-Maoist group's 1975-1979 reign.

His lawyers have previously stated that judges' refusal to make a range of legal documents public has undermined the court's transparency.

Cloggers: young Cambodian voices find their own way on the Web

2009-03-03T07:31:00.001-08:00

02-03-2009

They are young, free and feel like talking about anything without any taboo. These young people are Cambodian bloggers, also known as “cloggers”, the way they self-named themselves. Through the medium of a simple keyboard, they write what very few Cambodians can or dare express openly. Contemporary social issues, love, sex, political opinions, forced evictions... Cloggers will tackle any subject, sharing stories and chatting together without measure, making the most of the Internet, that so-called free space, almost exempt of censorship. The government is only slowly starting to take an interest in that space and would like to see it more regulated via a law, currently under preparation. But till then, the Khmer blogosphere, home to an incredible and surprising breeding ground of opinions, keeps organising itself like busy bees.

Today, internet cafés spring up like mushrooms in the Kingdom of Cambodia but only a few years ago, the Web was still unknown to the majority of Cambodians. Blogs were just not on the agenda. However, someone, who was already used to the European way, launched their own blog as early as 2002 to give news and evoke the sweet country of Cambodia: that person is none other than His Majesty the King Father Norodom Sihanouk .

However, it is not until the middle of the 2000 decade that the Khmer network started developing. Personal diaries and other little posts signed by artists and young Cambodian intellectuals gradually began to appear, but the most convincing starting point seems to be found in 2006 with the establishment of the Personal Information Technology Workshop (PITW) . Five Cambodians, quite into the art of blogging, set out to share their knowledge on that topic via workshops organised in twenty universities throughout the Kingdom. These five ‘cloggers’, deeply involved in the awareness towards new information technology, launched in August 2007 the Clogger Summit, with the collaboration of the Open Forum of Cambodia’s Khmer Software Initiative , an NGO which is also at the origin of missions for the initiation to the Internet in the provinces. This event, among other things, allowed for the first time cloggers, webmasters, media and NGOs to gather together and share, but most of all, debate about their ideas. This is how in 2007, about thirty existing Cambodian bloggers expanded and several dozens of blogs appeared. In the meantime, their initiators took the name of cloggers, as if to mark the identity of a blogosphere defined by strong personality, and showed their determination to use this incredible space of freedom of speech and opinion that Cambodia does not offer them.

Cloggers, who are you?
For the time being, cloggers are still seen as marginal in the Cambodian society. Indeed, in a country where, according to United Nations statistics, 26.4% of inhabitants are illiterate and where a third of the population lives with less than a dollar a day, a minority has access to the Internet or to a computer. According to the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the Internet penetration rate in Cambodia does is no more than 1%. Most cloggers are therefore part of the new middle class. They are under-30 and can be students, artists or working with NGOs. Male and female, both sexes are equally represented on the Khmer blogosphere. Apart from their interest in new communication tools, one common element brings them together: they all speak English.

Serei Bonat, a 19 year-old “clogger” and a student at the Phnom Penh University of Technology tells us that “Some find that we should communicate more in Khmer. It is true that we should preserve our language, but with English, I think there are less chances of being censored. For now, there is no interdiction, but sometimes it seems too good to me to last.” For Prum Seila , another active blogger and a journalism student, “in many respects, Cambodia is still very much cut out from the world. Blogging in English allows people to open up more easily on other countries. By this way, we learn a lot about other nations and other nations can also know us better, know us in another way than through what is broadcast in the media.”

An incredible pool of poets, thinkers and aesthetes
Beyond borders, Cambodia is often considered as a country in suffering, a victim of prostitution, sex tourism and corruption. In such a decor, youth often proves disillusioned and takes more interest in motorbikes and karaoke than in their country’s future or their own career. In that context, the windows opened by cloggers have the effect of a true breath of fresh air. Their cultural references abound: here goes a Victor Hugo quote, or Gandhi there. On his blog, Mean Lux posts his thoughts online, but also articles or other posts he finds here and there, to brighten things up and be happy. His photographs are moving because of their simplicity and their poetical comments. For February 14th, the clogger posted a picture showing the back profile of a couple of kids, walking back from school, with, as a caption, those simple words: “Valentine’s day. Very little good friends on their way home from school. Traffic is so bad buddies, be careful.” Below, another image depicting a heap of trash: “This is how my family make a living.” Not even trying to focus on human misery, the young man is telling, and that’s all.

Cloggers: a new thorn in the government’s side?
More than just diaries, these blogs are also used by many Cambodian youngsters as a way of expression for their political opinions and sometimes even to fill up gaps left by the media. Among the Web’s most famous Khmer activists, [Sopheap Chak INSERT LINK TO KA-SET ARTICLE] appears as a leading character. Aged 24, the young woman started running a popular clog in 2007, all the way from Japan where she is doing a Master in International Relations. There, she talks about current affairs, about what she is experiencing and learning about the land of the rising sun, but always keeps an eye on Cambodia. She recently wrote a post about her fears regarding the Bokor Park after the government authorised its exploitation, especially in farming, and put forward the fact that the decision was against Cambodian environment laws. But apparently, not everyone liked those positions. After a comment about corruption, Sopheap did an op-ed contribution for the English-language newspaper The Cambodia Daily and put down her opinions in writing. A few days later, she read on the website KI Media , who published the op-ed, a comment advising her to “go before she gets killed”. “People often ask me if I am scared at the idea of receiving threats of attempts of intimidation”, Sopheap says, “or how I would react if I was asked to stop. My answer is always the same: if we silence these attempts, they will spread. Besides, as long as we are neutral and independent, we must not fear to use our right to freedom of speech.”

Exploitation of governmental passivity
Up until now, the government has remained relatively tolerant facing the existence of those clogs. For some, expressing oneself in English and on the Internet still prevents the government from taking too much interest in it. An anecdote, recounted by journalist Geoffrey Cain on the blog Global Voices , simply expresses, on its own, how badly the government missed out on the impact of the Internet today. In May 2008, the Cambodia Daily decided to publish, on top of the daily paper, a supplement on Burma, The Burma Daily . Very rapidly, the government ordered the newspaper to cease publication, fearing it might offend the Burmese junta. The Cambodia Daily” then asked the Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith, if they could publish this supplement on the Internet. To the amazement of all, the Minister replied that “Online, yes, this is OK”.

However, this passivity started to fade away and since the end of December 2008, the blog Reahu.net has been fuelling debates. After putting online photo-montages of bare-chested Apsaras, the Minister of Women’s Affairs threatened to shut the blog down. Today, it appears impossible to access the website from Cambodia and Thailand, where the blog also made the headlines.

A law soon to be enforced?
Are high-ranking authorities possibly starting to worry about what goes on the Khmer network? They might well be. A law is currently under consideration regarding the regulation of the Internet and audiovisual content . Among other things, it stipulates the obligation for Internet Service Providers (ISP) to apply for a licence at the Ministry of Information. Since they are the ones who allow internet users to connect to the network and access data, the authors of the Draft law reckon that the ISP must also be accountable to the Ministry, as broadcasters, just like data producers are. Here again, the goal is to forbid the broadcasting of pictures and obscene sounds... “We don’t know the content of that law yet, so we cannot tell whether it is good or bad”, Thrum Bun, a famous and very active clogger, explains. It can also bring positive elements. For my part, I think it is too early to tell whether Cambodia is going to follow the path of repression like China or other Asian neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam.”

What future for clogs?

Unlike many rare species in Cambodia, cloggers seem to be fully expanding. Internet connections work better and better and besides, even though not all of them have a computer in their vicinity, many Cambodians do possess a mobile phone. Specialists predict that following the example of many developing countries and neighbouring Asian countries, Cambodians will go straight to the ‘mobile Internet’ and skip computer use. This perspective makes one feel optimistic about the future of clogging.

[Also: read our interview with Chak Sopheap INSERT LINK TO CHAK SOPHEAP ITW on KA-SET], published on Ka-set on 02-03-09

Human Rights: Sen and Sein see red

2009-03-03T05:17:00.000-08:00

Sen and Sein Inc. from the dictatorship club

01 March 2009

The PMs of Cambodia and Burma barred two human rights activists from their country from participating in the ASEAN summit.

This episode brings another dark spot on Hun Sen’s glory. According to a report by AFP dated 28 Feb, the Cambodian leader and his Burmese counterpart threatened to boycott a meeting between the 10 ASEAN countries and civil society group during the Hua Hin summit in Thailand. The reason for their ire: they did not want to see the participation of human rights activists from their respective country. This news was divulged by NGOs participating in the meeting. The meeting took place, but with the absence of Khin Omar who defends women rights in Burma and Pen Somony, a coordinator of volunteers program in Cambodia. Nobody was present to represent Laos, a country ruled by a very authoritarian communist regime. AFP quoted Khin Omar as saying that this incident proved that the ASEAN (human rights) charter, which was in effect since December of last year and which plans on setting up a regional human rights organization, is nothing more than “for show.” Obviously, this does not amuse Hun Sen nor Thein Sein, the Burmese junta chief.

If only you can read their minds...

2009-03-01T05:35:00.001-08:00

Abhisit speaking in Thai to his wife: Honey, you remember the bloody Khmer Rouge ruler of Cambodia I talked to you about last night before we went to sleep, here's he is!
Pimpen Vejjajiva to Hun Sen: Ah, Dr. Hun Sen! My husband was praising you so much last night!
Hun Sen to Nguyen Tan Dung: Hi Boss! You saw how I barred that pesky Cambodian civil society activist from attending?
Nguyen Tan Dung: Ma, good job, Hoon Xen boy!

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Top: Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) is greeted by Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his wife Pimpen at the gala dinner for the 14th ASEAN Summit in Cha-am February 28, 2009. REUTERS/Udo Weitz/Pool

Bottom: Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Myanmar's Prime Minister Thein Sein, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L-R) raise a toast after a signing ceremony of ASEAN Summit outcome documents in the seaside resort town of Hua Hin, some 200km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, March 1, 2009. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

ASEAN leaders take actions to tackle financial crisis [... but Strongman Hun Sen said there is no financial crisis in Cambodia, was he lying?]

2009-03-01T05:34:00.001-08:00

March 01, 2009

HUA HIN (Xinhua) - ASEAN leaders stressed in a statement today the necessity of proactive and decisive actions to restore market confidence and ensure continued financial stability to promote sustainable regional economic growth as the global economic downturn was deepening.

The leaders, who gathered in Thailand's central seaside resorts of Cha-am/Hua Hin for the 14th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), agreed to stand firm against protectionism and to refrain from introducing and raising new barriers.

Facing the sweeping financial crsis and a slowed world economy, the leaders reaffirmed their determination to ensure the free flow of goods, services, investment and capital, and facilitate movement of business persons, professionals, talents and labor.

Meanwhile, the leaders from the 10 ASEAN member states appealed for more coordinated action by both developed and developing countries in a bid to restore financial stability and ensure the continued functioning of financial markets, which will provide support for growth.

The leaders also called for a bold and urgent reform of the international financial system to achieve a more comprehensive, equitable and inclusive system that takes into consideration the interests and voices of the emerging and developing economies.

The leaders looked forward to working with other partners to convey the abovementioned messages at the forthcoming London Summit scheduled in April.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told a press conference, after the leaders signed a series of documents, that in efforts to cope with the current crisis, ASEAN would pursue the path of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM), a regional foreign reserve pool in case of currency flow shortage.

Abhisit, whose country currently holds ASEAN's rotating chair, said Saturday that ASEAN welcomed the progress achieved at an ASEAN+3 finance ministers' meeting on Feb. 22.

At that meeting, finance ministers from ASEAN as well as China, Japan and South Korea agreed to speed up the process of operationalising the CMIM. Under the agreement, 120 billion U.S. dollars, instead of 80 billion as initially proposed, would be injected into the reserve pool.

The 14th ASEAN Summit is scheduled to conclude here Sunday afternoon. ASEAN consists of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.

Asean to Back Stimulus Measures [... but CPP Cheam Yeap said there was no need for economic stimulus in Cambodia, was he shooting in his foot?]

2009-03-01T05:31:00.001-08:00

MARCH 1, 2009
By DAVID ROMAN

HUA HIN, Thailand -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, Sunday said it will support economic stimulus measures and reject protectionist moves during the global economic crisis.

In a joint statement delivered at the close of the 14th Asean summit here, the heads of government of the 10 member countries said economic measures must promote sustainable growth in a region where the top economic powerhouses are highly dependent on exports to developed countries, such as Japan and the U.S., now deep into recession.

No specific policy actions were announced during the summit, where the focus of interest was on human rights and illegal immigration issues. This followed recent disputes among Asean members on the treatment of seaborne migrants along the eastern half of the Indian Ocean.

As planned, Asean leaders during the summit signed an ambitious free-trade agreement negotiated last year with Australia and New Zealand. This is the most comprehensive trade pact ever completed by the 41-year old regional grouping, and a harbinger for a joint Asean FTA deal now being discussed with the European Union.

In a related meeting the previous weekend, Asean finance ministers had agreed to increase the size of the so-called Chiang Mai Initiative -- a pool of bilateral currency swaps for emergencies -- to $120 billion from $80 billion, and turn the pool into a multilateral swap system, possibly with easier access to the funds.

However, that move remains largely symbolic as three non-Asean countries -- China, Japan and South Korea, accounting for 80% of the extra funding for the pool -- have yet to agree on their respective contribution, and the pool has been very sparsely used since it was launched in 2000.

Asean leaders inked other minor deals at the end of the summit, including the general outline of an internal regional mechanism to address a potential lack of oil products in any member, and stressed that the region must cooperate more to surmount the current economic crisis.

Abhisit Vejjajiva, prime minister of host country Thailand, said Saturday that the regional grouping -- including several export-oriented countries -- faces negative short-term economic prospects.

In its closing statement, Asean called for a "bold and urgent reform of the international financial system" to take into consideration "the interests and voices of the emerging and developing economies."

Besides Thailand, Asean comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.

14th ASEAN Summit ends in Thailand

2009-03-01T05:29:00.000-08:00

HUA HIN, Thailand, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The 14th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit closed here Sunday after leaders of ten member states ended their annual discussions on a series of issues including the economic crisis and signed the declaration on the roadmap for an ASEAN Community.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, whose country currently holds ASEAN's rotating chair, said after the conclusion of the summit that the leaders had a very productive meeting on a series of issues which matter not only to the region but to the international community as a whole.

During the two-day summit, leaders of the ASEAN member states focused their discussions on economic crisis, human rights body, ASEAN integration, and other regional issues like Myanmar and immigration.

On economic crisis, ASEAN leaders said that while ASEAN's economic fundamental remain sound, the deepening global economic downturn, coupled with heightened risk aversion in financial markets, have adversely impacted trade and investment in the region.

The leaders stressed the necessity of proactive and decisive actions to restore market confidence and ensure continued financial stability to promote sustainable regional economic growth.

They also agreed to stand firm against protectionism and to refrain from introducing and raising new barriers.

On ASEAN integration, the leaders signed Cha-am Hua Hin Declaration on the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015), setting out the guidelines for the creation of a single free trade area for the region of 800 million people by 2015.

According to the declaration, the ASEAN leaders emphasized that "narrowing the development gap shall remain an important task to ensure the benefits of ASEAN integration are fully realized through effective implementation of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration and other sub-regional framework."

A total of 24 ASEAN related documents were signed or adopted by ASEAN leaders, foreign ministers and economic ministers. These documents include, among others, the issues relating to the ASEAN community building, trade and investment, sub-regional economic cooperation, food and petroleum security.

ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Hey, Hor help Hun read this paper! Are they cursing me with ligthning strike at noon time?

2009-02-28T18:30:00.000-08:00

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, confers with Foreign Minister Hor Namhong during meeting of ASEAN Heads of State and ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly Representatives Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009, at the 14th ASEAN summit in Cha-am, Thailand. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, Pool)

SRP MP Yim Sovann: Cambodian media are under government control and free and independent thinking is almost impossible

2009-02-28T18:27:00.000-08:00

Asean MPs vow to ensure charter implementation

March 1, 2009
The Nation

Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan yesterday morning took time off from his tight schedule to have a working breakfast with a group of lawmakers from the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand. The Asean members of parliament are seeking his endorsement on the plan to establish a new caucus on rights and freedom of expression.

They hope their new group will help Asean to transform into a people-oriented community.

Djoko Susila, MP of Parai Amanat Nasional (National Mandate Party), minced no words when he said that Asean had been dragged down by conservative new members Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Burma. They acted as a team, he said. That was why the Indonesian lawmakers at first were very reluctant to ratify the Asean Charter. They were not happy with the charter, but it was too late to do anything.

He said that as an Indonesian MP he did not want to make the same mistake again. This time, he said, he wanted to make sure Asean leaders would implement the charter and protect human rights. Without rights protection and freedom of expression, how can Asean become a people-oriented community, he asked.

Yim Sovann, an MP from Cambodia, concurred, saying that to make the Asean people feel that they belonged to the grouping, the charter must be fully implemented. At the moment, the Cambodian media are under government control, he said, and free and independent thinking is almost impossible. A caucus to protect freedom of expression would facilitate the realisation of the Asean charter in the near future.

Both Senator Francisco Pangilinan and Congressman Teddy Casino of the Philippines gave strong support to the idea of establishing a new caucus that would not only ensure that Asean legislators understood the content of the charter but also how to implement it.

Casino said the caucus could be used to promote public awareness of the role of freedom of expression in promoting the Asean community. Free flow of information is an important element for such an endeavour, he said.

Kraisak Choonhavan, a Democrat Party MP, pointed out that the new caucus needed the support of local people and communities. Since this new group is aimed at materialising the objectives of the charter, it needs cooperation from the people's sector, he said. He said he was sharing the experience of his own five-year caucus on Burma. Now the Inter-Parliamentary Caucus on Burma has a secretariat office in Kuala Lumpur.

From the meeting with Surin and the subsequent brainstorming session, it emerged that the Asean lawmakers, especially from member countries with more liberal political systems, will no longer take Asean norms and values for granted, they said.

"We are reading the Asean Charter and other documents, so that we can effectively monitor it," they said.

Hun Sen and his dictatorial Burmese friend Thein Sein do not consider civil society as partner

2009-02-28T18:26:00.000-08:00

Treat us as partners: civil-society groups

March 1, 2009
By KITTIPONG THAVEVONG
THE NATION ON SUNDAY

Cha-am - Representatives from the civil society yesterday strongly disapproved the exclusion of two activists from Burma and Cambodia for a historic meeting with Asean leaders.

The meeting was organised on the sidelines of the 14th Asean Summit here where regional leaders also met parliamentarians, youths and businesspeople from the grouping's member states.

In the wake of this incident, Asean civil-society groups called on the grouping's leaders to treat them as partners and institutionalise their interface to ensure full implementation of the people-oriented Asean Charter.

"The Asean peoples should be seen as partners - not obstacles - in the planned integration as enshrined in the Asean charter, with the people as the cornerstone," said Prof Thitinan Pongsudhirak of Chulalongkorn University.

Thitinan, who served as a coordinator of the first dialogue, said at the outset of his briefing to the Asean leaders that their people have suffered a "participation deficit". As a result, they were very enthusiastic in the week-long workshops, debating wide-ranging problems related to the three key pillars of the Asean community - security, economic and socio-cultural.

The Asean civil society, Thitinan added, expressed its gratitude to the Asean chair for the "unprecedented attention" to transform Asean into a more inclusive community. "The prime minister is very sincere and responsive," Thitinan told The Nation.

Other representatives said the interface was constructive and they had positive exchanges.

Abhisit answered all questions posed by the Asean civil society and urged them to work together with the Asean governments.

The dialogue coordinator said he was surprised to hear very positive responses from Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet, who welcomed the idea of putting the interface between the leaders and civil society into the Asean framework. He said that there must be a guideline governing such relations as stated in the Asean Charter. Vietnam will succeed Thailand as the |Asean chairman next January.

During the informal exchange, Yuyun Wahyuningrum of Indonesia also managed to raise pertinent issues that affect 575 million Asean citizens.

She asked the leaders about the possibility of setting up an institutional mechanism such as an Asean Civil Society Advisory Council. The Indonesian human-rights activist said that representatives of women and youths should be part of the civil society representations at all levels.

On the issue of Burma, Yuyun quoted Aung San Suu Kyi's oft-repeated quotation: "Use your liberty to improve our liberty". She asked Asean leaders what immediate measures would be taken to stop ongoing human-rights violations, including the release of all political prisoners?

The last question focused on gender issues. She asked how the Asean leaders would like to address these issues and ensure its compliance with international human rights of substantive equality and non-discrimination.

After the informal interface, Abhisit and Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya also met Burmese dissident, Khin Omar and Cambodian civil society representative, Pen Somony.

On Friday, both Cambodia and Burma threatened to boycott the dialogue if these persons attended. As a compromise, it was decided that Abhisit, as the Asean chair, would meet them separately.

Omar thanked the two leaders for their efforts to broaden the dialogue with the civil society while expressing concerns that her country was not fully committed to the Asean Charter.

Pen Somony, the Programme Coordinator of Cambodia Volunteers for Civil Society, told the Thai leaders to widen the space for the young peoples of Asean.

Meanwhile, Soe Aung, spokesman for the Forum for Democracy in Burma, said what had happened had raised doubts about the sincerity of certain Asean leaders in allowing civil society's participation in the process of creating a people-centred Asean.

Debbie Stothard, coordinator of the Alternative Asean Network on Burma, said the Burmese and Cambodian leaders "sabotaged" the Asean leaders' meeting with civil-society representatives.

Cambodian opposition leader loses immunity

2009-02-28T18:22:00.000-08:00

Sam Rainsy, leader of Cambodia's opposition Sam Rainsy Party, speaks during a campaign rally in Kandal province, 50 km west of Phnom Penh in this July 11, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian parliamentary committee has suspended the immunity of opposition leader Sam Rainsy, a move he condemned on Friday as unconstitutional and intended to silence criticism of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

The French-educated former finance minister, who leads a party named after himself, was stripped of his immunity for refusing to pay a $2,500 fine for defaming Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party during last year's election.

Rather than paying the fine to what he says is a systemically corrupt government, he had offered to give the same amount to a hospital.

Under Cambodia's constitution, only the full National Assembly, not its Permanent Committee, can strip a sitting Member of Parliament of immunity from prosecution.

"They are definitely taking a short-cut. They definitely violated the constitution, which means that they want to silence me," Sam Rainsy told Reuters.

When stripped of his immunity in the past, he has often fled Cambodia shortly afterwards, normally to France.

A former Khmer Rouge soldier who has been in charge for the last 23 years, Hun Sen won a landslide in July's election but remains vulnerable in Phnom Penh to Sam Rainsy, who commands support from the capital's increasingly educated youth.