August 22, 2008
By: amina
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Hun Chea, a nephew of Cambodia’s prime minster, was speeding along a busy downtown street a few days ago when he ran down a man on a motorbike.
Phnom Penh’s streets are teeming with motorbikes, hundreds of them, criss-crossing busy traffic without seeming to look or care where they are going. Collisions are inevitable. But that’s not the point of this story.
Hun was tearing down the street at high speed when he hit the biker, witnesses reported, and his car ripped off an arm and a leg. The biker, Sam Sabo, was killed. Hun began to drive off, but running over the motorbike had shredded a tire. He had to pull over, so there he sat in his big black Cadillac Escalade SUV.
Now, listen to how the Phnom Penh Post newspaper described the events that followed.
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August 22, 2008
By: amina
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(photo: Rey BaniquetOPS-NIB Photo)
MANILA, Philippines — Periodic armed conflict and social unrest in the Philippines, particularly in Mindanao, have undermined the supportive environment needed for child survival, according to a
Hu Sen brought peace to Cambodia but he has sacrificed the poor on the altar of an economic boom With yet another election victory in the bag, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, is now entering his thirty-fourth year in power. Hun Sen draws his inspiration not from south-east Asia’s more democratic leaders, but from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, who used dictatorial methods to build a modern, prosperous but tightly-controlled island city-state. Still only 57, Hun Sen has now served two years longer…
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August 05, 2008
By: amina
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By: H.D.S Greenway
Published: August 5, 2008
There is nothing like a disputed place to bring incendiary nationalism to the boil. The mother of all examples is Jerusalem. Much of the energy of Europe was taken up in trying to wrest it from Muslims from the 11th to the 14th centuries. Today we are told there will be no progress in settling the 100-year dispute between Jews and Arabs in the Palestinian territories this year because of disagreements over the holy city.
But nations can face off over less exalted territory. Think of the predawn assault by Spanish commandos in July 2002, to force Moroccan soldiers off an uninhabited rock in the Mediterranean. Secretary of State Colin Powell got on the phone to calm the situation, and no one got hurt. The Spanish call the islet “Perejil,” while the Moroccans call it “Leila,” and both think it’s theirs.
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August 05, 2008
By: amina
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By Ker Munthit
ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 5, 2008
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia on Tuesday demanded that Thailand pull its troops back from a second temple site along their border, the latest in a series of territorial claims and counterclaims that have prompted armed tensions between the Asian neighbors.The dispute surrounding the 13th century Ta Moan Thom temple started when Cambodian officials said some 70 Thai soldiers started occupying the temple site last week and prevented Cambodian troops from entering. Thai military officials countered that their troops had been in the area for years.
It is located several hundred miles west of the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, where Cambodian and Thai soldiers have been locked in a standoff for three weeks in a dispute over nearby land.
Thai army commander Gen. Anupong Paojindasaid said Tuesday the temple is within “Thai territory.”
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July 22, 2008
By: amina
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By SOPHENG CHEANG, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 22, 2:06 PM ET
A Cambodian soldier relaxes near a rocket launcher outside a Buddhist pagoda where Thai soldiers have occupied, near Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Cambodia has requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to break a military stalemate with neighboring Thailand over disputed frontier territory around a historic temple.
(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia - Cambodia asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to intervene in its dispute with Thailand over land near an ancient temple, saying the standoff had created “an imminent state of war.”
But a clash seemed a remote possibility near the hilltop Preah Vihear temple, where more than 4,000 troops from both countries were camped out. The soldiers — some without their weapons — shared cigarettes, ate and chatted together in a disputed area a few hundred yards from the site.
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July 17, 2008
By: amina
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By AP/SOPHENG CHEANG
Friday, Jul. 18, 2008
Quote of the day
I am not afraid to make war with the Thais. Even if death is one step ahead, I won’t leave here.
- Cambodian SEOUNG PISITH
- 27, explaining why he refuses to evacuate his village on the border with Thailand even though a longstanding land dispute between the two countries could turn violent
Photo: Heng Sinith / AP | Source: AFP
(PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia) — Cambodia and Thailand escalated their troop buildup Thursday at disputed territory near a historic border temple despite moves to hold talks next week to defuse the flare-up in tensions, a Cambodian general said.
Cambodian Brig Gen. Chea Keo said the Thais now have more than 400 troops near the Preah Vihear temple, up from about 200 the day before, and Cambodia has about 800 troops there, up from 380 the day before.
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July 16, 2008
By: lylins
Category: POEMS-General
kjol bouk yop nis….trojek klang nas
nov knoung bonthop tea mnek engh
jet sen jombengh…yum sraek kdengh kdengh
kmein nek na lir….kondal reatrey..doungjet pi sey
gondoch gondengh….nirk dol pros bong pol peik snea snoung
loung-lom metrey….moy jivit nis…smos smak pek-kdey
tea roub srey tlaiy…min prea krolas….
gour oy songvech….jet sen ron-thot..snea klaiy jear thok
bot ben tam kjol…doch sat baksey…roungcham svamey
nov knoung sombok…jam tnak tnom thea…jam nov kiek kbea
pros snea punlork…jam heuy jam teit…min kerngh pektra
gour oy agnija…thok kha min theang…plerng prey so-seang
chhes os theng sbeang..lomnov thi tan
baksey komsot…ban ding pro-gott
pros kbott sunya…ber slap jeat nis…rir gert jeat na na
som sbott sachja sma leah heuy pros…
ber mein bun tlaiy…gert jeat jear tmey…grom mech ler dey
kom sdey boros…saorb euy sen saorb..pros pros theng oss
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