Look to make change in new year
Tuesday, 15 December 2009December 16, 2009"Let me share with you what I have learned: Positive attitudes breed positive results; you cannot always control your life circumstances, but you can control your attitudes toward those circumstances; what whips you is not defeat but your mental attitude toward it; a positive attitude produces a positive perception and changes the situation for the better; thoughts can be developed."
A. Gaffar Peang-MethPacific Daily News (Guam)
In 15 days, 2009 will give way to the new year, 2010. Time does not stand still, life evolves and changes. And how the world has changed!
Change comes in different forms. Some change occurs without our input; some change is of our making. Some changes are positive, other changes cause us to feel regret. But in the ages-old process of renewal and new beginnings, the advent of a new year brings us opportunity to look forward to the inevitable changes that will challenge us in 2010.
Some of us like the slogan, "Yes, we can," and speak of change, but leave to others the hard work of bringing it to fruition.
Change comes in different forms. Some change occurs without our input; some change is of our making. Some changes are positive, other changes cause us to feel regret. But in the ages-old process of renewal and new beginnings, the advent of a new year brings us opportunity to look forward to the inevitable changes that will challenge us in 2010.
Some of us like the slogan, "Yes, we can," and speak of change, but leave to others the hard work of bringing it to fruition.
Spy farce turns into a comedy of errors
Mr. Bean (R) met his match (L) in Phnom Penh?December 16, 2009
By Tulsathit Taptim
The Nation
I SPENT the last 24 hours trying to figure Hun Sen out. I failed. The sugar daddy smile, the warm handshake, the photo session - in fact, the overall treatment of pardoned Thai "spy" Sivarak Chutipong was simply out of this world. It was the closest real-life diplomacy has ever come to Mr Bean.
Cambodia: King-Father, Queen-Mother to Return Home in March 2010
PHNOM PENH, Dec 15 (NNN-AKP) — Cambodian King-Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk will return home in late March next year.
"In the end of March 2010, several days before the Khmer New Year, I will probably return to Kampuchea to live there with our King, our nation and our respected and beloved People," said former king, who is currently in Beijing, China, for medical treatment, in his message dated Dec. 10.
He further said he will live in Phnom Penh, in Kantha Bopha residence at the Royal Palace, not in Siem Reap province as before.
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"In the end of March 2010, several days before the Khmer New Year, I will probably return to Kampuchea to live there with our King, our nation and our respected and beloved People," said former king, who is currently in Beijing, China, for medical treatment, in his message dated Dec. 10.
He further said he will live in Phnom Penh, in Kantha Bopha residence at the Royal Palace, not in Siem Reap province as before.
Comrade Nong Duc Manh bringing marching order to Hun Xen and the CPP?
The puppet (L) and the puppet master (R)Strengthening Vietnam-Cambodia relations
12/15/2009
VOV News (Hanoi)
"In 2010 Vietnam is expected to grant 550 scholarships to Cambodian students. In turn, Cambodia will also grant scholarships to Vietnamese officials studying the Khmer language."The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nong Duc Manh will pay an official visit to Cambodia on December 17-19 at the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni. This is Mr Manh’s second visit to Cambodia after his first in March 2005.
Hun Xen offered alleged Thai spy to continue working at his former spying job: Hun Xen's kafkaesque moment?
Monday, 14 December 2009Supposed spy treated very well at end of fiasco
December 15, 2009
The Nation
Just a few days ago, Sivarak Chutipong was a billed by Cambodian authorities as a spy for the Thai government and a threat to national security. He was charged and convicted for supplying the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh with Thaksin Shinawatra's flight schedule - a crime that is punishable by death in many countries.
However, all Sivarak was doing was just seeking the itinerary of Thaksin, a man who prides himself as a figure whose advice is often sought by countries like Cambodia, and a handful of African and Central American nations.
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December 15, 2009
The Nation
Just a few days ago, Sivarak Chutipong was a billed by Cambodian authorities as a spy for the Thai government and a threat to national security. He was charged and convicted for supplying the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh with Thaksin Shinawatra's flight schedule - a crime that is punishable by death in many countries.
However, all Sivarak was doing was just seeking the itinerary of Thaksin, a man who prides himself as a figure whose advice is often sought by countries like Cambodia, and a handful of African and Central American nations.
Cambodia Lacks Clear Spending of Resource Money
By Im Sothearith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
14 December 2009
[Editor’s note: VOA Khmer recently spoke with specialists in the field of natural resource management in developing countries and learned that Cambodiais not alone in struggling to use natural resources to benefit its citizens. The resource curse, where natural riches fail to help the poor, is a worldwide scourge, the global experts told VOA Khmer in numerous interviews. Below is Part 15 of the original VOA Khmer weekly series, airing Sundays in Cambodia.]
Phnom Penh tried to hide the Yuon encroachment in Chantrea district?
Khmer anti-riot troops prevent Khmer MPs from visiting the encroached area14 Dec 2009
By Uon Chhin Radio Free Asia Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
A group of 21 SRP MPs visited 2 locations of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border in Svay Rieng province on 14 December 2009.
Uon Chhin report about this visit in the following audio segment:
Some regions encroached into Vietnam as well in border delimitation -sic!-: Cheang Am, CPP Svay Rieng provincial governor
Authority tried to prevent border visit by SRP MPs
14 Dec 2009
By Ly Meng Huor
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Click here to read the article in Khmer
Time for justice never run out in Cambodia ... because there was NO justice to be had in Cambodia in the first place!!!
"For the record, Cambodia is still ruled by the former Khmer Rouge. Hun Xen, Heng Xamrin, Chea Xim, Keat Chhon, Hor Namhong, Sar Kheng and Pol Saroeun, to name a few, were all former Khmer Rouge cadres" - KI-Media
Time running out for Cambodia justice
If the trial of four elderly former Khmer Rouge leaders is not expedited, it may degenerate into a death watch
Monday 14 December 2009
Tom Fawthrop
guardian.co.uk
The clock is ticking away at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh. Only one trial has been completed so far. The next case: the all-important trial of four surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders is shrouded in doubt, given the court's timetable and calculations that the trial not begin until mid-2011.
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Time running out for Cambodia justice
If the trial of four elderly former Khmer Rouge leaders is not expedited, it may degenerate into a death watch
Monday 14 December 2009
Tom Fawthrop
guardian.co.uk
The clock is ticking away at the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh. Only one trial has been completed so far. The next case: the all-important trial of four surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders is shrouded in doubt, given the court's timetable and calculations that the trial not begin until mid-2011.
Sam Rainsy is charged by the Yuon Puppet regime of destroying public properties and racial discrimination
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: Ayuthyea, RFA)Svay Rieng court officially sues Sam Rainsy
12 Dec 2009
By Sok Serey Radio Free Asia Translated from Khmer by Socheata Click here to read the article in Khmer
The Svay Rieng provincial court brought a criminal lawsuit against Mr. Sam Rainsy, charging him with uprooting the border stakes between Cambodia and Vietnam in Svay Rieng province.
The Svay Rieng court officially sued Mr. Sam Rainsy and accused him of perpetrating two criminal offenses: destruction of public properties for the uprooting of the border stakes between Cambodia and Vietnam in Svay Rieng province, and also for racial discrimination.
The Svay Rieng court officially sued Mr. Sam Rainsy and accused him of perpetrating two criminal offenses: destruction of public properties for the uprooting of the border stakes between Cambodia and Vietnam in Svay Rieng province, and also for racial discrimination.
He's baaaaaack!!!!
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra walks down the steps of his plane upon arrival at Phnom Penh international airport. Thaksin has landed in Cambodia, setting the stage for another diplomatic fracas between the neighbouring countries.(AFP/Str)
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) shakes hands with Mong Kim Heng, the director of Prey Sar prison, during his visit to see Siwarak Chutipongse in the outskirts of Phnom Penh December 13, 2009. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni granted a pardon on Friday to Siwarak, a Thai engineer sentenced to seven years in jail for leaking the flight schedule of Thaksin. REUTERS/StringerFormer Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra arrives in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Cambodia for the second time on Sunday afternoon, a government spokesman said.
Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, said that Thaksin arrived in Cambodia on Sunday afternoon and went straight to meet with Sivarak Chotipong in a prison at Prey Sar, about 15 kilometers south of Phnom Penh.
Sivarak Chotipong, 31, was sentenced to seven years in jail and a fine of 10 million riel (about 2,500 U.S. dollars) on Tuesday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and was pardoned last weekend by Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni.
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Khieu Kanharith, the government spokesman, said that Thaksin arrived in Cambodia on Sunday afternoon and went straight to meet with Sivarak Chotipong in a prison at Prey Sar, about 15 kilometers south of Phnom Penh.
Sivarak Chotipong, 31, was sentenced to seven years in jail and a fine of 10 million riel (about 2,500 U.S. dollars) on Tuesday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and was pardoned last weekend by Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni.
Thaksin provokes Thailand with new Cambodia visit
Sunday, December 13, 2009
By Suy Se
AFP
PHNOM PENH — Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra landed in Cambodia Sunday, setting the stage for another diplomatic fracas between the neighbouring countries.
Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006, was escorted from a small private jet at Phnom Penh International Airport into the capital by a convoy of cars under tight security, an AFP reporter said.
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By Suy Se
AFP
PHNOM PENH — Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra landed in Cambodia Sunday, setting the stage for another diplomatic fracas between the neighbouring countries.
Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006, was escorted from a small private jet at Phnom Penh International Airport into the capital by a convoy of cars under tight security, an AFP reporter said.
Ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra arrives in Cambodia
2009-12-13
By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press
Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Cambodia on Sunday where he met a Thai airline employee convicted of spying on the toppled leader.
Thaksin's visit, the second in less than a month, is certain to further stoke tensions between the neighboring Southeast Asian countries.
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni pardoned Siwarak Chothipong, 31, Friday, three days after he was sentenced to seven years in prison for spying on Thaksin. He will be released Monday.
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By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press
Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Cambodia on Sunday where he met a Thai airline employee convicted of spying on the toppled leader.
Thaksin's visit, the second in less than a month, is certain to further stoke tensions between the neighboring Southeast Asian countries.
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni pardoned Siwarak Chothipong, 31, Friday, three days after he was sentenced to seven years in prison for spying on Thaksin. He will be released Monday.
Hun Sen’s Political Pawn
Op-Ed by Khmerization
Saturday 12th December, 2009
“The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva.”
The Thai spy’s case, the arrest and the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, has been played out like a soap opera on prime time television. In fact, it is a drama with the script written by Mr. Hun Sen and the soap opera being directed by Mr. Hun Sen alone and the hero being the Pheu Thai Party of Thailand which is claiming credit for his release for its domestic political consumption to satisfy its Thai electoral constituents back home. And the victims of all this political game are Siwarak Chotipong and his poor mother who has to endure the pain and the suffering of seeing her son being handcuffed, incarcerated and used as a political pawn.
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Saturday 12th December, 2009
“The arrest and the release of Siwarak Chotipong is Mr. Hun Sen’s political and diplomatic game, set up to canvass political supports back home and to use as a diplomatic weapon to fight against the Thai Prime Minister Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva.”
The Thai spy’s case, the arrest and the release of Mr. Siwarak Chotipong, has been played out like a soap opera on prime time television. In fact, it is a drama with the script written by Mr. Hun Sen and the soap opera being directed by Mr. Hun Sen alone and the hero being the Pheu Thai Party of Thailand which is claiming credit for his release for its domestic political consumption to satisfy its Thai electoral constituents back home. And the victims of all this political game are Siwarak Chotipong and his poor mother who has to endure the pain and the suffering of seeing her son being handcuffed, incarcerated and used as a political pawn.
Thaksin Back In Cambodia as Thai "Spy" to Be Freed
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
Thaksin came to Phnom Penh in November to take up a job as economic adviser to the Cambodian government, a move that fuelled fears of further political instability in Thailand since it gave him a base over the border for his campaign to unseat the Thai government.
The episode led to a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control being found guilty of spying for leaking Thaksin's flight details to the Thai embassy.
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Thaksin came to Phnom Penh in November to take up a job as economic adviser to the Cambodian government, a move that fuelled fears of further political instability in Thailand since it gave him a base over the border for his campaign to unseat the Thai government.
The episode led to a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control being found guilty of spying for leaking Thaksin's flight details to the Thai embassy.
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