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Friday, May 15th, 2009
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Thailand's international reputation among investors and tourists has been much tarnished in recent months. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was forced to step down by protesters (identified by yellow ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Thailand's international reputation among investors and tourists has been much tarnished in recent months. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was forced to step down by protesters (identified by yellow ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Friday, 15 May 2009Written by Neth Pheaktra
The Phnom Penh Post
SRP lawmaker urges objectivity in Bar’s investigation into lawyer
OPPOSITION lawmaker Mu Sochua maintained Thursday that she would not withdraw her defamation suit against Prime Minister Hun Sen, but urged the Cambodian Bar Association to act objectively in its investigation of her lawyer for misconduct, saying that she feared no one else would represent her if the organisation banned him from practising law.
"If Kong Sam Onn is disbarred, I don't know who I have confidence in and who would dare defend me in court," Mu Sochua said, referring to her lawyer, who is the subject of a complaint from Hun Sen's own counsel and former Bar Association president Ky Tech.
The Bar has said it will investigate Kong Sam Onn on accusations that he defamed Hun Sen. It said that he could be disbarred in a move that many see as politically motivated.
"Ky Tech made many comments about me that could be seen as an attempt to exert influence on the court. The Bar must show its independence.... This case is not about Mu Sochua; it is about justice," Mu Sochua said.
"I do not intend to withdraw my case from the court. Please rest assured that I intend to go all the way," she said.
"I will not apologise to Prime Minister Hun Sen in order to conclude the case. If I apologise to him, it means I accept that I am at fault.... Do not think that I will leave my pursuit for justice."
Bar Association spokesman Ly Tayseng said Thursday the investigation had not started because of the public holiday. "We expect to review the work after the public holiday next week," he said.
Mu Sochua is suing Hun Sen, saying that he called her cheung klang, a term that when literally translated means "strong leg".
She says the term can be derogatory when applied to women.
In response, Hun Sen is countersuing Mu Sochua for defamation, as well as asking that her lawyer be disbarred for violating the Bar Association's code of ethics.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009Robert Carmicheal
ABC Radio AustraliaCambodia's government is denying reports it is spying on foreign staff at the Khmer Rouge tribunal underway in Phnom Penh.
Government spokesman Phay Siphan told Radio Australia that earlier media reports had misrepresented his comments.
He said his office had received files over the past three months naming some foreign tribunal staff as being involved in corruption and wrongdoing - but he stressed the allegations were solely related to professional misconduct.
"That one is the professional working area only.
"We don't want to go to the private life of the people," Mr Phay Siphan said.
He said his first step would be to verify the accusations and hopes to reinstall faith in the trial.
If the allegations are verified, he said the government would share the files with its partners in the tribunal process.
Mr Phay Siphan said he would also look at other allegations that named some people and organisations as 'enemies' of the tribunal.
The two sides have had a difficult relationship in the years-long effort to establish the tribunal.
But Mr Phay Siphan stressed Phnom Penh wants a good partnership in its efforts to try and find justice for the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Live rats are stored awaiting transport to Vietnam at Chrey Thom district in Kandal province, 65km (40 miles) south of Phnom Penh near the Cambodia-Vietnam border, May 15, 2009. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
A boy shows off a rat he caught at Khos Thom district in Kandal province, 65km (40 miles) south of Phnom Penh near the Cambodia-Vietnam border, May 15 ,2009. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
PHNOM PENH - Vietnam has become the main importer of Cambodia's rats with 50 tons of rats being imported through the checkpoints along the border everyday, local media reported on Friday.
"We are working in the rice fields during the day and catching the rat at night. We can catch about 10 kg to 20 kg rats every night, " the Chinese language newspaper Cambodia Sin Chew Daily quoted a young rat trader as saying. The rat traders could sell them at border for about 3,000 riel (about 75 cents) to 4,000 riel (about $1.00) per kilo.
At the Chrey Thom border checkpoint, immigration police officer Roeun Narin said there was regular stream of middlemen in the rat-meat trade crossing the border, and he knew of more rat-trading at other checkpoints along the border.
Leh, the rat trader in the town of Chrey Thom, by the Vietnamese border, said she buys about one ton of rats per day during April and May from middlemen who bring the rodents from Cambodia's Kandal, Kompong Cham and Takeo provinces. From November to March the haul usually drops to between 300 and 400 kg per day, she said.
Every day there are more than 30 Vietnamese middlemen waiting at the border checkpoints to purchase the rat from Cambodia, an online Vietnamese media outlet reported. The rat sales at the checkpoint of Vietnam's An Giang province alone has reached to about 50 tons in recent days, the officials of Vietnam were quoted as saying.
"Most Cambodians only know a few ways to cook it, but in Vietnam they know many dishes, such as soups, curries and fried rat," Chhoeun, another middleman said. Vietnamese enjoy the small rice-field rats, as they think they are natural.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
LAOS will not execute a pregnant British woman who is in prison on drug trafficking charges, the country's deputy prime minister said yesterday. "Our constitution prohibits death penalty for any ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
(RTTNews) - Cuba, Finland and Thailand became the latest to join the list of countries with confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases as the World Health Organization (WHO) said globally the new flu virus has infec...
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