Siam Mental Problem: Siamese effort on Prasat Preah Vihear

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Another Greedy Face: Suwit

It is amazing to know that Thailand  will put its effort to object Cambodia´s management plan at all cost. Read the whole article here.

Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said cabinet members instructed Mr Suwit to create a better understanding among WHC members before the next meeting about why Thailand objected to Cambodia’s plan.

“We will continue to ask the WHC to postpone consideration of Cambodia’s management plan until Thailand and Cambodia finish demarcating the disputed zone,” Mr Panitan said.

NOTE: The world know that Siamese people are Buddhists who normally must follow the five moral precepts- no killing or harming of sensitive life, no stealing or taking what is not given, no sexual misconduct, no false speech, and no taking of intoxicants, order to lead a good life. But what we see here Siamese people are not, for they are greedy, like stealing, robbing, cheating, flip-flopping, have no compassion, and tolerance.

Furthermore, it seems that the effort of Siamese people on Prasat Preah Vihear Khmer is not the effort towards positive, solidarity, friendship, respect, peace, development, cooperation, and assistantship, but it is about obstruction, creating conflict and war, aggression and invasion without due respect to Cambodian sovereignty and international laws and treaties.

With this, I just want to ask other Siamese people who love peace, respect and friendship among our nations that please call them to stop such a sinful acts and illegitimate claim over Khmer property so that we can live in peace together. We Khmer don´t want war anymore!

And lastly, I just want to tell Abhisit and Suwit that UNESCO has nothing to do with the border issues, so if you really have the will to solve the border conflicts,  please help faster the work of the Joint Border Committees of Cambodia and Thailand so that they can finish their tasks as soon as possible in order to bring about peace and development in those regions.

Vietnam, Cambodia Meet Over Trade, Security

Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh

Interior Minister Sar Kheng met with his Vietnamese counterpart on Tuesday in talks aimed at improving trade and relations among

Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, smokes as he sits with Interior Minister Sar Kheng on his left.(Photo:AP)

provinces along the border.

Trade volume between the two increased more than 120 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year. But smuggling and other trade barriers remain.

“Both sides agreed to create favorable conditions and further encourage trade and services in the border areas,” according to a government statement released following Tuesday’s meeting.

The two sides also agreed to provide each other with trade preferences, simplify import and export procedures and enhance the prevention of contraband.

“Both sides also agreed to consider the possibility of upgrading the border checkpoints and/or to establish additional new border checkpoints,” according to the statement.

Officials along the border provinces say they need more work done to capitalize on trade, but that Vietnamese investment has begun to bring jobs.

“We do not have the Vietnamese in our province across the border because the road across the border has not been developed yet,” said So Neak, provincial governor of Ratanakkiri.

However, there is some trade, mostly of tools, fruit, cement and fertilizer imports, as well as rice, rubber, cassava and soybean exports.

There, Vietnamese rubber plantations have been established, employing more than 4,000 people, he said.

Similar Vietnamese plantations have employed more than 3,000 Cambodians in Kratie province, Governor Kham Phoeun told VOA Khmer.

“The Vietnamese investment and trade exchange helps boost our people’s living, tax collection and work for Cambodians,” he said.

Siam mental problem: Abhishit’s best resolution to Prasat Preah Vihear conflict

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Abhishit

Regarding to the ongoing conflicts caused by Thailand after Abhisit and his extremist alliance PAD have tried  hard to reclaim Prasat Preah Vihear, demand for joint listing of World Heritage Site for Prasat Preah Vihear and the joint management plan of the temple is that Abhishit shamelessly claims that the best resolution to end the conflict is to co-manage the temple.

On Sunday, Mr Abhisit said the best solution is to change the arrangement, from having Cambodia solely register the temple to  the two countries jointly proposing that the World Heritage site be co-managed.

NOTE: It’s a shame for Abhisit to ask for such a co-management over Prasat Preah Vihear Khmer, the property that you doesn’t belong to you. Does such a thing happen anywhere in the world? Impossible!

I also want to ask Abhisit and Thais people if we Khmer are allowed to join co-management of Prasat Phnom Rong and Prasat Pimai which built by our ancestors-the Khmer Kings?

Actually, the resolution is very easy if Abhisit stop being arrogant and just learn to respect the international treaty, law, agreement, MoU, and agreement, then all the conflicts will be ended.

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Thais slash jail terms for 16 Cambodians

TUESDAY, 03 AUGUST 2010 15:02
By: CHEANG SOKHA
Source: Phnompenhpost

ATHAI court has halved the jail terms of 16 Cambodians convicted of entering Thailand illegally to destroy forests a year ago, the foreign ministry said.

The 16 loggers, from Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces, were arrested in July last year after entering Thai territory to cut down trees.

In September, a court in Ubon Rachathani province sentenced 15 members of the group to nine years and three months in jail, and a 16th man – 18-year-old San Kros – received a lesser sentence of six years and two months.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said Ubon Rachathani provincial appeal court ruled yesterday that the 15 would have their sentences slashed to four years and nine months, and that San Kros would serve only three years and two months.

“Of course, our purpose is for them to be released, but we see that the appeal court gave them more justice than the lower court,” Koy Kuong said. “Our consular officials in Thailand and lawyers are in discussion to find a way for their release so that they can return home.”

He said consular officials based in Sa Kaeo province have not yet decided whether to file an appeal to the Supreme Court, since Thailand often reduces the jail terms of prisoners if they behave well in custody.

Café staff accused of running a brothel

TUESDAY, 03 AUGUST 2010 15:02
By: CHRANN CHAMROEUN
Source: Phnompenhpost

Un Samnang leaves Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. He was charged with procuring prostitution after police raided a coffee shop rented under his name.Photo by: Pha Lina.

Two Vietnamese nationals appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday on charges of procuring prostitution for allegedly running a brothel out of a coffee shop in the capital’s Daun Penh district.

Chang Ty Hok, 35, and 23-year-old Un Samnang were arrested on Street 63 in Daun Penh’s Chaktomuk commune in October by police who discovered 25 Vietnamese prostitutes at the scene.

Un Samnang, who also holds a Cambodian identification card, told the court that although he had accepted US$80 to allow the coffee shop’s proprietors to rent the facility under his name, he was not involved in the sale of sex. An elderly Khmer Krom woman named Ky Nang was responsible for the criminal activity, he said.

Judge Suos Sam Ath swiftly rejected this testimony.

“Don’t deny this and put the blame on another person called Ky Nang when there’s no one with this name,” he said.

“Based on the confessions of more than 20 Vietnamese women, it was you who served as the boss of this coffee shop and who collected half the money when the women served sex to customers for $5.”

Chang Ty Hok also denied the allegations against her, saying she had only worked as a cleaner at the coffee shop. Suos Sam Ath, however, said these statements were not credible.

“Don’t deny this, because several prostitutes told police that you always collected 10,000 riels from them on behalf of Un Samnang every time they had a customer,” Suos Sam Ath said. “You were their madam.”

In written testimony read out by a court clerk yesterday, one Vietnamese woman said she had been lured to Cambodia by the promise of a job at the coffee shop earning $50 per month. She said she was then forced to become a prostitute, serving four to five customers each day and giving half her earnings to the shop’s owners.

Another woman said in her written testimony that she had come to the shop voluntarily to work as a prostitute.

Suos Sam Ath said a verdict would be announced on August 12.

Jailed journalist reports graft

TUESDAY, 03 AUGUST 2010 15:02
By: CHHAY CHANNYDA
Phnompenhpost

Freelance journalist Ros Sokhet is led out of Phnom Penh Municipal Court after a hearing in October last year.Photo by: Sovan Philong.

AJAILED journalist whose Appeal Court hearing is scheduled for later this month said yesterday that he had been asked to pay

US$1,000 before court officials would tell him the exact date.

Speaking from Prey Sar prison, freelance journalist Ros Sokhet said his lawyer, Sam Sokong, who was provided free of charge by the legal aid NGO Cambodian Defenders Project, had told him the court had requested the money in exchange for information about the hearing.

“My lawyer said that the court wanted my family to pay $1,000 for telling me the exact date of the hearing,” he said. However, the journalist said he had refused to pay.

“I have no money to pay so I did not get the hearing summons,” he said. “I will not pay. I’ve been in prison for nine months.”

In November, Phnom Penh Municipal Court found Ros Sokhet guilty of spreading disinformation after he sent a series of text messages to well-known commentator and news anchor Soy Sopheap. He was sentenced to two years in prison. His appeal was filed later that month.

Eang Nakry, a clerk at the Appeal Court, said yesterday that Ros Sokhet’s hearing was scheduled for August 18. He declined to comment on Ros Sokhet’s statements about the alleged payment request.

Ros Sokhet said yesterday that it was possible the request had not come from the courts, and that his lawyer might have been trying to collect money to be used as a bribe to secure his release.

“I am wondering if the court ordered it, or it is just from my lawyer who wanted to help me out of prison,” he said.

Sam Sokong could not be reached yesterday, nor could CDP president Sok Sam Oeun.

Duong Sovan, CDP project coordinator, said Sam Sokong would not have asked his client for money because CDP lawyers never ask clients for money in “fee-free” cases.

Soy Sopheap, former publisher of Deum Ampil News and a commentator for Bayon TV, said yesterday that he would not testify at the Appeal Court hearing, and that he had never filed a complaint against Ros Sokhet.

“I have had no involvement in this case since the beginning,” he said. “I did not file a complaint against Ros Sokhet, but against an anonymous person who sent text messages to threaten me.”

During the trial in November, the court heard that the text messages accused Soy Sopheap of demanding money from a woman arrested for firing a pistol illegally in exchange for keeping her story out of the press.

Ros Sokhet told the court that he had sent the messages, but said he was only alerting Soy Sopheap to rumours already in circulation.

Suwit denies signing temple accord

Published: 3/08/2010 at 04:23 PM

Online news: Breakingnews

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti denies having signed any documents that legally bind Thailand to Cambodia’s proposed management plan for the Preah Vihear temple during the World Heritage Co

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mmittee (WHC) meeting in Brazil last week.

Mr Suwit, who returned to Thailand on Monday, said he, as the leader of the Thai delegation, did not sign any document approving Cambodia’s plan for the ancient temple.

“I did not sign a memorandum of understanding or anything that binds Thailand legally,” he said.

On Monday, political activist Veera Somkwamkid called on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to clarify Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An’s claim that the two countries had reached an understanding on managing areas near the temple.

Mr Suwit said he reported to the cabinet on the progress of the temple issue at the weekly meeting on Tuesday.

The Manager website today published what purports to be a copy of a compromise draft decision proposed by the chairman of the World Heritage Committee and submitted to the Brazil meeting and signed by Mr Suwit.

It takes note that the World Heritage Centre had received documents submitted by the “State Party” and it welcomes the “steps taken towards the establishment of an international committee for the sustainable conservation of the Temple of Preah Vihear”.

The draft document says the committee, “Decides to consider the documents submitted by the State Party at its 35th session in 2011”.