Archive for May 14th, 2009
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Kasit during a meeting with Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on 26th Jan, 2009.
By Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Nation
Published on May 14, 2009
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya dismissed yesterday Cambodia's compensation demand for damage to a market in front of Preah Vihear temple in a border skirmish in April."We have to understand it was a military clash and there are rules of engagement for the fighting. We have already made clear the buildings are in Thai territory," Kasit said.
Phnom Penh demanded compensation of more than $2 million (Bt65million) for damage to a total of 246 stands within the market which were completely destroyed, "causing hardship and misery to 319 Cambodian families."
In a diplomatic note to Bangkok on Monday, Cambodia demanded the Thai government take full responsibility for this damage by Thai soldiers and to appropriately compensate for the losses.
Kasit said security agencies were collecting information over the incident in the vicinity of the Hindu temple on April 3 in which three Thai soldiers were killed and many other people injured.
However, Thailand would not make a counter demand to Phnom Penh and would not reply to the Cambodian diplomatic note, he said.
Map of the 1962 ICJ's verdict: Areas above yellow line is Thailand. Areas below yellow line is Cambodia. Red stars with arrows are spots where clashes took place on 3rd April, 2009.The Preah Vihear, as ruled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1962, belongs to Cambodia but its surroundings are claimed by both sides and have not yet been demarcated.
The border dispute with Cambodia began last year as Thailand opposed Phnom Penh's proposal to list the Hindu temple as a world heritage site due to fear of sovereignty loss.
The dispute sparked military clashes last October and again in April this year
Unesco approved Cambodia's bid for the Khmer sanctuary in July last year and has begun to survey the areas for a buffer zone.
Kasit warned the UN about doing the job with transparency and with respect for Thai sovereignty over the territory.
"We are collecting information about Unesco and the World Heritage Committee's work to see if they are conducted properly," he said.
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Korn Dabbaransi, former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, recently confirmed that his nation and Taiwan would set up a biotech cooperation program participated by government, academia and industry.Th...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Cambodian "Killing Fields" Survivor, Ambassador Sichan Siv, Bestselling Author of Golden Bones, Will Visit the Long Beach Public Library May 19th The Long Beach Public Library Foundation will present "killing fields" survivor's story of success at the Main Library in Long Beach, CA on Tuesday May 19th from 5:30.-7:30p.m. Ambassador Sichan Siv will tell his tale of endurance and triumph rising from Pol Pot prisoner to U.S. Ambassadorship to achieve the American Dream.Long Beach, CA (
PRWEB) May 14, 2009 -- Daring escapes from war horrors coupled with meteoric rises from tragedy's ashes are often thought to be only the stuff of Hollywood films. But the dramatic and courageous life of The Honorable Sichan Siv - a refugee from the Cambodian "killing fields" and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations - is a true story.
The Long Beach Public Library Foundation is pleased to present Ambassador Siv on Tuesday, May 19, to tell his amazing and inspiring story from his best-selling book, Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America. This will be the Ambassador's first appearance in Southern California.
While war raged throughout Southeast Asia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ambassador Siv was a young intellectual and graduate student in Cambodia. He was part of the target demographic that dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge sought to eradicate, resulting in the infamous "killing fields" or rice paddies dotted with millions of skulls.
Siv was captured and placed in a slave labor camp, but made a daring escape though the jungle to Thailand. After months in a refuge camp, he entered the United States. Once here, through diligence and hard work, he rose to the heights of the U.S. government.
Tuesday, May 19 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Main Auditorium, Long Beach Public Library
101 Pacific Avenue, Long Beach
Tickets are available for $30 by calling (562) 628-2441 or purchasing online at www.lbplfoundation.org. The event will include a live reading by Ambassador Siv, book signing and refreshments. Books will be available to purchase.
The non-profit Long Beach Public Library Foundation supplements and supports the Long Beach Public Library. The Foundation's programs include Family Learning Centers at each of the city's 12 libraries, as well as the Raising A Reader program, which has graduated more than 5,700 parents and pre-schoolers from its reading readiness course. Among the Foundation's most prominent programs is the annual Long Beach Reads One Book, when the entire city spends a week celebrating a selected book and its author. Funds from Ambassador Siv's appearance will support these programs.
Long Beach Public Library Foundation
101 Pacific Avenue, Long Beach, CA
562/628-2441 - lbpl.foundation@charter.net
Contact: Sara Pillet
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
MANADO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts of rare cor...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
BANGKOK, May 14 (Xinhua) -- A boy in lower northern Thailand was quarantined after having high fever following a foreign trip, Thai health official said. According to The Nation online, Deputy Perman...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
NEW YORK: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that 33 countries have reported 5,728 laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu with Cuba, Finland and Thailand the latest to join the list. ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that 33 countries have reported 5,728 laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu with Cuba, Finland and Thailand the latest to join the list. Mexico has re...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
May 13, 2009The Post Chronicle (New Jersey, USA)A man who won a court-ordered release from sex offender treatment in California has been charged in Cambodia with molesting boys.
Jack Louis Sporich, 74, is in custody in Siem Reap, a tourist destination near Angkor Wat, Action Pour Les Enfants-Cambodia told the Sacramento Bee. Seila Samleang, the organization's executive director, says he allegedly enticed four boys to his house.
Samleang told the Bee in a e-mail Sporich could get as many as three years in prison if he is found guilty.
Sporich spent nine years in prison in California for molesting children. On his release, he was committed to Atascadero State Hospital for treatment as a sexual predator.
In 2004, Sporich was released from Atascadero, where he had refused treatment, and moved to Arizona. His sister, June Caine, told the Bee he married a Cambodian waitress after giving her a $100 tip and built a house there.
"I don't want him out anymore," Caine said. "I think he's sick, and he's never going to get well. I don't want this to go on."
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
NEW YORK: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that 33 countries have reported 5,728 laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu with Cuba, Finland and Thailand the latest to join the list. ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
GENEVA - H1N1 flu has now reached Cuba, Finland and Thailand, with nearly 6,000 people infected in 33 countries, the World Health Organization said yesterday. In its latest tally, which lags nation...
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Kasit during a meeting with Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on 26th Jan, 2009.
Map of the 1962 ICJ's verdict: Areas above yellow line is Thailand. Areas below yellow line is Cambodia. Red stars with arrows are spots where clashes took place on 3rd April, 2009.