Cambodian women and children evacuated from border areas

Cambodian woment and children have been evacuated from Thmor Daun village near Ta Krabey temple in Oddar Meanchey province ahead of a possible armed clashes with Thai troops. Thai troops had also staged a military drill in the area, causing Cambodian villagers to panic. ពលរដ្ឋ ​នៅ​តំបន់​ថ្ម​ដូន​បាន​ជម្លៀស​ស្រី្ត​និង​កូនក្មេង​ចេញពី​ព្រំដែន​ ដោយ : សូផុន (ថ្ងៃទី 29 មិថុនា 2011,05:50:PM) ព្រំដែន​កម្ពុជា​-​សៀម: ​ពលរដ្ឋ​ក្នុងភូមិ​មួយចំនួន​តាម​បណ្តោយ​ព្រំដែន​ខេត្តបន្ទាយមានជ័យ​ឈម​គ្នា​...

Thai frontline soldiers wear Cambodian military uniforms

Thai frontline soldiers based near Preah Vihear temple are wearing Cambodian military uniforms, with Cambodian military logo. Cambodian soldiers Thai soldiers have been wearing Cambodian military uniforms with Cambodian military for the last few days already.------------------ ទាហាន​សៀម​ពាក់អាវ​ប៉ា​ រ៉ា​មាន​រូប​សញ្ញា​កងយោធពល​ខេមរភូមិន្ទ​របស់​កម្ពុជា​ ដោយ : បាយ័ន (ថ្ងៃទី 29 មិថុនា 2011,04:32:PM) ព្រំដែន​កម្ពុជា​-​សៀម: អាវ​ប៉ា​រ៉ា​ដោយ​មាន​រូប​សញ្ញា​កងយោធពល​ខេមរភូមិន្ទ...

[Thai] Army 'has no plan to attack'

29th June, 2011 Bangkok Post Commander of Army Region 1 (Northeast) Lt-Gen Udomdej Sitabutr (pictured) insisted on Wednesday that Thailand has no plan to attack Cambodia. “The army chief has made it a clear-cut policy that Thailand will not invade any country first, but if our country is invaded, the armed forces are ready to protect...

Villagers flee the border

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 David Boyle Phnom Penh Post Villagers in Banteay Meanchey province have fled their homes amid growing front-line tension and reports of troop reinforcement on the Cambodia-Thai border, local officials said yesterday. Relations between the countries have become increasingly strained since Thailand announced on Saturday that it was walking away from a UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in...

Thailand’s hard stance on UNESCO under scrutiny

Director-General Irina Bokova has sent a letter expressing her regret over Thailand's decision to withdraw from the World Heritage Convention. June 29, 2011 Boris Sullivan Thailand Business News Thailand announced its departure from the World Heritage Convention with‬ ‪immediate effect on Saturday, after the World Heritage Committee...

Thai premier denies planning Cambodia offensive to delay election

Monsters and critics Jun 29, 2011, Bangkok (DPA)- Thailand will not escalate a border conflict with Cambodia in order to delay a general election scheduled this weekend, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Wednesday. Abhisit was responding to comments reportedly made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen that Thailand would use a conflict over a border dispute to attack Cambodia as a excuse to postpone the election,...

No attack on Cambodia: Thai commander

By Thai News Agency, The Nation First Army Region Commander Lt Gen Udomdej Sitabutr on Wednesday dismissed reports that Thai troops will attack Cambodia on July 1. He said the Thai military has a clear stance that it will not invade other countries. "We will retaliate only after being attacked first." Gen Udomdej said the Cambodian military has moved infantry units closer to the border province of Sa Kaew, but there has...

PHUNG DINH PHAN v. HOLDER [Phung Dinh Phan, a Cambodian native and Vietnamese citizen]

PHUNG DINH PHAN; HUY THE PHAN; HUY TUONG PHAN; HUY TRUNG PHAN, Petitioners, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent. No. 09-72941. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 10, 2011 — Seattle, Washington. Filed June 28, 2011. Before: REINHARDT, W. FLETCHER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges. NOT FOR PUBLICATION MEMORANDUM* Phung Dinh Phan, a Cambodian native and Vietnamese citizen,...

59 refugees complete path to U.S. citizenship

Sonn KeJOHN WALKER / THE FRESNO BEE For many, the new start was decades in the making. Posted Tuesday, Jun. 28, 2011 By Valerie Gibbons / The Fresno Bee It was 1980 when Sonn Ke escaped the Cambodian city of Battambang just ahead of the Khmer Rouge. On Tuesday, 31 years later, the 84-year-old Ke finally reached the final leg of her...

US critical of efforts on trafficking

Wednesday, 29 June 2011 Mary Kozlovski and Mom Kunthear Photo by: Heng Chivoan Five migrant workers who spent almost a year in an Indonesian jail after being tricked into working as fishermen on Thai boats for two years were repatriated to Cambodia in July last year.Phnom Penh Post The United States government has indicated...

Landmines kill 20, injure 75 Cambodians in 5 months

People's Daily Online June 29, 2011 Cambodia has seen 95 landmine casualties in the first five months of this year, with 20 killed and other 75 injured, a report said on Tuesday. According to the report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System, from 1979 to May 2011, a total of 63,901 mine/ERW casualties were recorded. Of the casualties, 19,595 were killed and 44,306 injured...

Walking among Asia’s ghosts

Top: Asia’s ghosts in pictures : A deadly reminder of what humans are capable of. Bottom: A Cambodian Buddhist monk looks at a painting depicting torture at a former Khmer Rouge prison, known as S-21, at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum, in Phnom Penh. AP June 29 2011 By Yasmin Palani IOL, South Africa In the Killing Fields...

[Australian] Local group helping Cambodian families

Making a difference: Some of the Blue Mountains residents headed for Cambodia tomorrow, back row, from left, Andrew Kirkwood, Carlo Pascolini, Andy Levingston, Damon Dreves, Christy Dreves, Mitch Levingston; front row, from left, Kate Pascolini, Ruth Henderson, Liz Dreves, Daniel Dreves, Chrissy Gordon, and Madi Weston. BY SAM BUCKINGHAM...

CCHR Media Comment - CCHR commends calls for ECCC to be free from political interference

CCHR Media Comment, Phnom Penh, 29 June 2011 Media Comment: CCHR commends calls for ECCC to be free from political interference Chea Sim, the President of the Senate and the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), yesterday appeared to endorse Prime Minister’s Hun Sen’s stated opposition to any further prosecutions at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (the “ECCC”) beyond Case 002, while conversely the visiting...

Inside a Cambodian Building, a Feeling

Inside the White Building. June 29, 2011, See more pictures at The Lens By KERRI MACDONALD It’s not that Carlotta Zarattini can’t explain why she wanted so badly to photograph a dilapidated marvel of 1960s architecture in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, known as the White Building. It’s just that she has trouble putting it into words. It’s...

Khmer Rouge Turned Cambodian Family Members Against One Another

Top: Seventy-one-year-old Som Chhorm denies allegations that he was a low-level Khmer Rouge official responsible for atrocities in the 1970s. Bottom: Pol Yum, who accuses her cousin Som Chhorm of being head of the local Khmer Rouge cooperative, says she is still afraid of him June 28, 2011 By Daniel Schearf Read original article...

Is Judgment Day too late for Engineers of Cambodian Genocide?

(Photo: REUTERS / Chor Sokunthea) Tourists look at skulls on display at the memorial stupa filled with more than 8,000 skulls of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at Choeung Ek, a "Killing Fields" site located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh July 24, 2010. By Michael Martin International Business Times June 29, 2011 Has judgment day...

Cambodian troops on high alert

Cambodia had test-fired 200 BM-21 rockets in Kampong Chhnang province on 4th March, 2010. These rocket launchers have been deployed and fired during clashes with Thai troops in Preah Vihear from 4-7 February and again during clashes in Ta Krabey temple from 22-28 April 2011. By Khmerization Source: RFA Cambodian troops stationed along...

Human Rights Watch Award Goes to Cambodian Monk Fighting Forced Evictions

Venerable Luon Sovath at WITNESS' 6th Annual Focus for Change Gala By Ryan Schlief Blog.witness.org June 28th, 2011 Human Rights Watch has awarded a prestigious Hellman/Hammett grant to the Venerable Loun Sovath for his human rights defender work supporting communities facing forced evictions and land-grabbing in Cambodia. On Monday...

Another French Member of Parliament, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan takes the defense of Sam Rainsy whose appeal starts to resonate

26 June 2011 NICOLAS DUPONT-AIGNAN: “SAM RAINSY VICTIM OF A RELENTLESS JUDICIAL PERSECUTION” BECAUSE HUN SEN WANTS “TO SILENCE HIM” Mr. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, a French National Assembly Member who does not belong to any political group, wrote on 15 April 2011 to Mr. Alain Juppé, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, to ask him...

Khmer Rouge Dictator Pol Pot Still Revered Among Some in Cambodia

Top: Incense stick holders stand at the grave of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold, about 305 kilometers (190 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2008 file photo) APPhoto: AP Middle: Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot answers questions during an interview near Anlong Veng,...

[California's] La Jolla woman campaigns for a school in rural Cambodia

Top: Nicole M. Sahin Below: A teacher and classroom in Kmer. Denise Hummel By Kirby Brooks La Jolla Light San Diego, California Supplying a young girl in Cambodia with just $10 a month can make her the breadwinner of her family, help to eradicate poverty, and probably keep that child out of the sex trade. This is the message Nicole...

Doubt impairs Cambodia struggle

Jun. 29, 2011 | Guam Pacific Daily News By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth Two thousand, five hundred years ago, Lord Gautama Buddha taught: "Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." He said, "There is nothing more...