Silverdocs film festival addresses pollution in Cambodia

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Excerpt from The Washington PostPOLLUTIONTroubled water, near and farSilverdocs The annual Silverdocs documentary film festival runs through June 27 in Silver Spring. This year's lineup of 102 films from 54 countries includes...

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Thai police arrest suspected seller of 'child ghosts' [Kaun Krork]

Tue, 22 Jun 2010DPA Bangkok - Police arrested a former nurse as a suspected seller of "child ghosts" after 14 pickled foetuses were found in an abandoned house in north-eastern Thailand, media reports said Tuesday.Police said Naengnoi Kaan admitted...

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Many senior red shirts are reportedly hiding in Cambodia?

Blacklisted people to be summoned for questioningJune 22, 2010The NationStarting next Monday, the 83 people blacklisted for allegedly funding last month's violent red-shirt protests will be summoned to meet with the Department of Special Investigation...

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Hun Xen is truly a puppet and lackey of Yuon Hanoi: Ven. Tim Sakhorn

Hun Sen and his masterClick here to listen to Ven. Tim Sakhorn's interviewon World Khmer Radio (MP3)For additional news on World Khmer Radio, click h...

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Their Royal Highnesses of Cambodia visit their former Comrades in Hanoi: it's a private visit ... of course ;)

February 1973: General Vo Nguyen Giap and his wife visit Norodom Sihanouk and Princess Monique in their residence located in a discrete location in Hanoi (Photo: NorodomSihanouk.info)Cambodian Former King Leaves for Vietnam for Visit 2010-06-22XinhuaCambodian...

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Comrade Im Chaem: The center of attention

Im Chaem, right, 67-year-old former Khmer Rouge provincial secretary, reacts as she witnesses delivery of copies of 'A History of Democratic Kampuchea'to students in Anlong Veng, in Uddor Mean Chey province, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) north...

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The Prey Nokor News No. 17 Vol. 1 now available

Views of Khmer Krom Youths following their participation at the 2010 UNPFII meetingClick here to read The Prey Nokor N...

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Sacrava's Political Cartoon: The Sick Xmer Prime Minister

Cartoons by Sacrava (on the web at http://sacrava.blogspot.c...

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"Sva Lém Leum" a Poem in Khmer by Sék Serei & Hin Sithan

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The many ways to curse Heng Soy ... please choose your words curse wisely

Dear Readers,It's early morning here in Phnom Penh. After spending the whole night awake, I thought I would share with our readers the many ways one can curse my name and the explanation that goes with it. My advance apologies if I may offend any...

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“We are not ignorant to the problems that devastate the country” ... it's just that we don't want to do anything about them: Hoon Xhen

An irate Hun Xen (Photo: Sovannara, RFI)Hun Sen Angered by UN Envoy’s Remarks Chun Sakada, VOA KhmerPhnom Penh Monday, 21 June 2010 “I did not escape the meeting with [Subedi],” Hun Sen said. “I had no other reason other than my own health problems,...

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“If [Mu Sochua] still opposes, she will be arrested”: Ultimatum from CPP-controlled Sok Roeun

Ultimatum Issued in Mu Sochua Court FineHeng Reaksmey, VOA KhmerPhnom Penh Monday, 21 June 2010The Phnom Penh municipal treasury department has issued a court order to opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua that requires her to pay a court-mandated fine and...

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'Enemies of the People' Garners Rights Award

Filmmaker Thet Sambat interviewing former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea in his home. (Photo: Courtesy of Thet Sambath)Men Kimseng, VOA KhmerNew York Monday, 21 June 2010 Co-producer Thet Sambath, who remained in Cambodia for the screening, said the...

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Recasting The Map Of Cambodia

62ENG-Refonte MAP-18 JUN-2010COMMUNIQUE RECASTING THE MAP OF CAMBODIA(Paris June 18, 2010)Modern definition​​​​ of the Khmer Nation is quite similar to that of the Khmer people, in accordance with the traditional definition in the international...

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From Hue to Hanoi

Tuesday, June 22, 2010Op-Ed by MPSOMETIMES men commit treason deliberately for the advancement of their own narrow self-interests; while others commit treason unwittingly through lack of foresight.Which of the above categories does this reported...

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Sacrava's Political Cartoon: My Beloved Samdach Akkek Decho Hun Xen

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Do We Have Pride to Be Born As Khmer?

Meas Srey Has Pride to be Born as KhmerMonday, June 21, 2010Op-Ed by Khmer BorannWhen you are visiting Preah Vihear temple, you will see a big billboard with the writing in Khmer and English ‘We have Pride to Be Born as Khmer’. It is not known who...

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KPNLF calls for action on ‘lost’ land

Monday, 21 June 2010Vong SokhengThe Phnom Penh PostA KHMER nationalist group has called for the joint administration of former Cambodian territories in South Vietnam in advance of King Father Norodom Sihanouk’s unofficial visit to Hanoi this week.In...

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Yuon to boost investment in Kingdom's rubber industry ... at the expense of forced Khmer evictions from their land?

The Vietnamese Rubber Enterprise Federation breaks ground Sunday on a new rubber plantation in Cambodia. The group announced it would increase investment by US$200 million through 2012. (Photo by: Chun Sophal)Vietnam to boost investment in Kingdom's...

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Cambodia instructed to host SEA Games by 2015, says NOCC official

NOCC General Secretary Vath Chamroeun has revealed that Cambodia may have just five years to organise the hosting of the SEA Games, or risk waiting much longer. (Photo by: Yeun Ponlok)Monday, 21 June 2010H S ManjunathThe Phnom Penh PostTHE Southeast...

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Former sex slave fights illegal trade

"Girls are taught only shame and ignorance about their bodies and men have their first sexual experience in brothels. Rape is the only thing they know." Photo: AFPJune 22, 2010AAPSomaly Mam emerged from a life of sex slavery in Cambodia to become...

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Former Khmer Rouge stronghold gets first textbook about atrocities committed in the 1970s

The Associated PressANLONG VENG, Cambodia — Cambodian students in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold were issued a textbook Monday that for the first time teaches the atrocities of the past, a little more than a decade after government forces captured...

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SRP plans to visit other border posts with neighboring countries

Location of border post no. 270 in Anh-chanh villager, Chey Chauk commune, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo province on 12 June 2010.19 June 2010By Den AythyeaRadio Free AsiaTranslated from Khmer by SocheataClick here to read the article in KhmerSRP leaders...

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Aung San Suu Kyi's Birthday

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Cambodia's Red Klansman?

(Photo: Pring Samrang)The Cambodia Daily reported in its 18 June’s edition that the statue (photo above) found shrouded under a red material cover in front of the Anticorruption Institution could be a 5-meter-high statue of Hun Xen which Om Yentieng...

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Brilliant Film Premiers Monday in NYC, Offering Solution to Global Child Exploitation

June 19, 2010Jim LuceHuffington PostNot often does a filmmaker present both an untenable social problem - and its solution. Not often is its filmmaker an artist as well as a banker and a lawyer. Meet Guy Jacobson through whose eyes in the film Redlight...

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CAMBODIA: Key role for universities in healing society

Vicheth Sen*20 June 2010Issue: 129University World NewsUniversities need to move beyond their traditional roles of teaching, learning and research towards another core function - linking campuses to communities. They can play a key role in organising...

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