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2002 Don't miss the cool photo... BTW: NYT requires free registration to view their articles. What's behind the Sok Yoeun case?
- Khmerintelligence.org Read the retraction! - The
Bangkok Post, November 29, 2002 Route
No. 6 - The Nation, November 28, 2002 Website for Piseth
Pilika Ballet
dancer in line to be king - The Australian,
Monday, November 25, 2002 Long
lost Crown Prince of Cambodia? - The Columbus
Dispatch, September 11, 2002 The
"Vietnamese puppet" fianlly gains respect
- Asia Times, November 20, 2002 Pailin's casinos - October 2, 2002 From "Irony is News" journalism: Pailin, once the heart of Khmer Rouge territory, is now full of Thai casinos. The troops have been replaced by armies of croupiers in red waistcoats and short black skirts on their way to work at the Caesar International Casino, an aircraft hangar-style monstrosity offering "Disco, Dance, Karaoke, Restaurant, Massage." Interesting to note that when this article is used in a Canadaian newspaper it has the title: "Cambodia's jungle Klondike thrives" but direct from Reuters, it has the title "Las Vegas overruns Pol Pot's rural idyll in Cambodia." Rumors swirl over King's abdication threats - September 30, 2002 Many sources are reporting that King Norodom Sihanouk is prepared to abdicate in order to have the issue of succession settled before his death. Mekong Airlines Gives Up on Siem Reap Route - September 20, 2002 ...the route was “too sensitive” and the company had abandoned attempts to get permission to fly it. New Cambodia checkpoint to have Thai casinos - Bangkok Post, September 15, 2002 Some more info on the incredible Thai casinos on the Cambodian border Arranging the "disappearance" of top Khmer Rouge leaders - September 15, 2002 There is a South China Morning Post article (you cannot get to the link without paying) about how Hun Sen allegedly asked Thai PMs Chuan Leekpai and General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh to arrange for the "disappearance" of top Khmer Rouge leaders. The Bangkok Post reports that Chuan has no memeory of the request. Updated: What is the Living Angkor Project? Almost a year ago we broke the story about "Living Angkor," a new vistor's center in the Angkor area. Here's a World Bank page with more details on the project. Our original report on October 16, 2001: The upcoming Angkor Visitors Centre will be called the "Living Angkor Project." In response to angkor.com's inquiries, Martin French, Managing Director of the Angkor Visitors Centre, writes: Apart from the centre, (the Living Angkor Project) will also incorporate a trust which will help promote culture and heritage in Cambodia as well as find ways to prevent tourism erosion in the archaeological park, which we feel is particularly important as visitor numbers rise. Location will be just outside the park, it will incorporate an interpretation centre, environmental centre and garden, an open air theatre putting on cultural shows, and quite a number of other features. Completion will be in early 2004. Phase one will be around US$15m, with a budget of $40-50m for the complete phase. Project has full support from all parties involved. UPDATE: We have had many questions about this project, especially its relation to other planned tourist development in the area. When we passed along these queries, we were informed that the parties involved "are restricted from discussing it" as negotiations with investors proceed. We will post more detailed info as soon as we obtain it. Checkpoint mate - Bangkok Post, July 28, 2002 “We need a decision, not more studies,'' lashed out traders and politicians alike when they learned that the National Security Council (NSC) had requested the provincial authority to gather more information pending the upgrade of the present temporary crossing point between Chanthaburi and Cambodia into a permanent checkpoint. Crossings everywhere - Bangkok Post, July 28, 2002 After meetings of the National Security Council (NSC) to address the status of border crossing points with neighbouring countries, most border crossings will remain as they are. A few more temporary checkpoints will be allowed to open. For more Thai news see 2bangkok.com Humor: New Barnes and Noble in Siem Reap - The Onion Don Entz pointed out this old Onion story about a Barnes and Noble opening in Siem Reap. Here's another Onion/Cambodia piece. UPDATE -Land dispute resolved - Press release from the SRP Members of Parliament, July 27, 2002 We have just received information according to which a satisfactory solution has been found to the land dispute opposing some 200 families and the Koh Kong provincial authorities over a 300-hectare area in Pak Klong commune, Mondol Seima district, near the Thai border (see SRP statement dated July 23, 2002 posted on SRP website www.samrainsyparty.com). Following Sam Rainsy’s visit to the area on July 22, Thai businessman Ly Yong Phat confirms that he is prepared to buy all the villagers’ land at a price of Bath 100 per square meter and that he has already given Bath 300,000,000 to the Koh Kong provincial authorities to buy all the 300 hectares for him (1 hectare = 10,000 square meters). The provincial authorities took the money but forced villagers to sell their land at a price of only Bath 10 per square meter. Now, the problem is settled with all the villagers accepting to sell their land at a price of Bath 100 (US$ 2.5 or Riel 10,000 per square meter). Sam Rainsy has not decided yet whether he would re-sell the parcel of land he symbolically bought from a villager on July 22 to Ly Yong Phat. Sam Rainsy buys land to defend farmers - Press release from the SRP Members of Parliament, July 23, 2002 Opposition leader Sam Rainsy spent the last three days visiting poor villagers in Kompong Speu, Kompong Som and Koh Kong provinces. Yesterday morning, he led a demonstration of villagers in Neang Kok village, Pak Klong commune, Mondol Seima district, Koh Kong province, to protest against a government project to seize more than 300 hectares of land near the border with Thailand from some 200 families under the pretext of establishing a “development zone”, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen earlier this year. In fact, Hun Sen gave power to the Koh Kong provincial authorities to illegally chase farmers who have been living in that area for many years (sometimes up to 20 years) in order to take their land and sell it to Thai businessmen who intend to build a golf course next to existing casinos and to indulge in land speculation. Many Thai businessmen who are extending their interests in Cambodia are Mafiosi who have bought Cambodian passports, such as ringleader Ly Yong Phat. They are involved in drug and human trafficking, illegal logging and fishing, gambling and money laundering, and land grabbing. They are tools for Thailand to infringe on Cambodia’s territory as evidenced by continuous border encroachments. They provide large amounts of corruption money to the Hun Sen government, which turns a blind eye to the plunder of Cambodia’s natural resources and the sufferings of the Cambodian people. Koh Kong is not far from being already a Thai colony where more and more Cambodians are becoming landless and destitute people. Ly Yong Phat and other Thai businessmen have asked the Koh Kong provincial authorities led by Thai-born Governor Yuth Phouthang to chase Cambodian farmers and fishermen from a large area between the Thai border and a Thai-built bridge linking, on Cambodian territory, the commune of Pak Klong and the commune of Dang Tung. Besides, the Thai army is building a road from the Thai border to the city of Sre Ambel, about 200 kilometres eastward. In order to smoothen the eviction of Cambodian farmers and fishermen from the above-mentioned Neang Kok area, Thai businessmen have proposed a compensation of Bath 100 (or $2.5) per square meter for the present land owners. They have asked the Koh Kong provincial authorities to negotiate a deal with the present land owners and to make all the necessary administrative arrangements (transfer of property deeds). But the Koh Kong provincial authorities are forcing the present owners to sell their lands for a price of only Bath 10 (or $0.25) per square meter. They threaten the present owners that if they don’t accept the deal, their lands will be taken for nothing. They have sent police and military police forces to dismantle or demolish many villagers’ houses. Villagers are afraid and they know that the court is corrupt and will never render justice to them. “Small people can never win over big people”. Before such a situation Sam Rainsy yesterday afternoon bought a parcel of land from a farmer named Seng Kim Meng, in Neang Kok village. The parcel has a size of 630 square meters and the price paid by Sam Rainsy was Bath 63,000 (or $1,575) corresponding to a price per square meter of Bath 100 (or $2.5), meaning ten times higher than the price proposed by the provincial authorities. As a Member of Parliament not afraid to confront the provincial authorities or even the central government, Sam Rainsy will refuse to re-sell his newly acquired parcel of land at a price lower than Bath 100 (or $2.5 or Riel 10,000) per square meter and he appeals to other land owners to resist eviction under the unfair terms and conditions arbitrarily set by the Koh Kong provincial authorities. In order to stall similar illegal and unfair eviction plans, other Members of Parliament from the Sam Rainsy Party will also start to buy small parcels of land in areas all over the country where poor villagers are threatened to be chased from their lands. Interview with Pen Sovann - Phnom Penh Post, July 19-August 1, 2002 Pen Sovann was prime minister in the Vietnamese-installed Cambodian government for six months in 1981 until his arrest and incarceration for ten years U.S. consortium plans US$100 million development for Cambodian islands - June 10, 2002 ...Deputy Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Island Development Group Inc., a consortium from Las Vegas, Nevada, has proposed a dlrs 100 million investment to develop Rung and Rung Sanleum islands. The two islands are located about 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of Sihanoukville, which is a port city 185 kilometers (114 miles) southwest of the capital Phnom Penh. ...He called the project a "professional one," which will include construction of an airport, hotel, casino and other resort facilities. ...He said the two sides are now working on terms and conditions of a contract for a 70-year lease on the islands... King Sihanouk wants clear rules on succession - Reuters, July 19, 2002 Pass upgrade to boost trade - Bangkok Post, July 13, 2002 Chong Chom crossing on the Cambodian border will become a permanent checkpoint from next month in a bid to promote trade and tourism in the Northeast... ARBITRARY RULE IN ODDAR MEANCHEY PROVINCE - Press release from the SRP Members of Parliament, July 15, 2002 Today at 10:30 AM, Pheung Sam Ban, the elected First Deputy of the Krasaing Commune Council in Chongkal District, Oddar Meanchey Province, was arrested from his house by seven armed policemen bearing no arrest warrant. After asking about the charges against her husband, the wife of Sam Ban was told that the police were executing orders from their superiors. In the afternoon, the same police also arrested Lay Sophearith, a representative of the Sam Rainsy Party in Chongkal District. This arrest was also conducted without any clarification or arrest warrant, the police claiming they were again only following orders. Villagers who witnessed the arrest said that Pheung Sam Ban and Ly Sophearith were stripped down to their underwear before being brought into custody. Both individuals are being detained at the Chongkal District Police Station. Too often, opposition members are the victims of these practices of arbitrary rule and the prevalent disregard for the law by the Hun Sen government. Hun Sen vows to block new law on King's succession - The Straits Times, July 28, 2002 Prince
Ranariddh backs Prince Sihamoni as successor to throne
- Kyodo News Service, July 8, 2002
Prince Norodom Ranariddh said Monday he will support his half-brother Prince Sihamoni as the successor to King Norodom Sihanouk, 79.... In the long-standing succession issue, candidates who have been named are Prince Sihamoni, currently ambassador to UNESCO, Prince Ranariddh, head of the FUNCINPEC party and president of the National Assembly, Queen Monineath Sihanouk and Prince Sirivudh, the half-brother of the king.... Constitutionally, the king of Cambodia must be at least 30 and a member of the royal family and descended from King Ang Duong, King Norodom or King Sisowath, and should be a man. But government officials have hinted at possible amendments to the Constitution because of Queen Monineath's gender and the fact that she is not from the royal family. According to the Constitution, the new king shall be chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne within seven days after the death of a king. The council consists of nine members -- the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, the prime minister, leaders of the country's two largest religious sects and the first and second vice presidents of the two chambers. Malaysian logging company kicked out of Cambodia
- Global Witness June 26,
2002 Hun Sen urges rivals to cancel ceremonies on coup anniversary TELL ME WHERE YOU COME FROM, I WILL TELL
YOU WHO YOU ARE - SRP Members of Parliament,
June 29, 2002
SRP oppose land grabs in Pailin and
Poipet - Phnom Penh, May 31, 2002 [It's always interesting to the dispatches from Cambodian parties. Just remember, the Vietnamese (and sometimes the Chinese) are always trying to take over Cambodia.] Yesterday, June 28, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) celebrated the 51st anniversary of its founding in 1951. It was a pompous ceremony attended by CPP President Chea Sim and Prime Minister (and CPP Vice-President) Hun Sen. How was the situation in Cambodia in 1951? We were a French colony within the French Indochina. We were a weak country and had no real significant force of our own. With the support of communist China and the former Soviet Union, the powerful Vietminh (or Vietnamese communist forces under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh) were waging an intensive independence war against the French and had occupied large portions of Laos and Cambodia under the pretext to help us get rid of the French. The Vietminh claimed they were fulfilling their "internationalist duty" but in fact they were pursuing the Ho Chi Minh dream of an "Indochinese Federation" under the direction of Vietnam led by the Vietnamese-controlled Indochinese Communist Party. For tactical and propaganda reasons, the Indochinese Communist Party and its Vietnamese leaders decided to set up a local branch in Cambodia that could be presented, at least on paper, as a distinct entity from the Vietnamese Communist Party. They gathered a few local puppets and created the Cambodian People's Revolutionary Party (CPRP), which later on dropped the word "Revolutionary" because of its dubious consonance in the ears of more moderate people the communists wanted to attract. The Khmer Rouge (this name was given later on by King Norodom Sihanouk to Cambodian Communists in the 60's) including Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and Nuon Chea very soon joined the CPRP. They were followed by Chea Sim, Hun Sen, Heng Samrin and most of the present CPP leaders in Phnom Penh. All these people fought together the American-backed Lon Nol regime, which they defeated on April 17, 1975 when they triumphal entered Phnom Penh. Following bloody internal purges under the China-backed Pol Pot regime, the Cambodian communist leaders split from mid-1977, with a group led by Chea Sim, Heng Samrin and Hun Sen fleing to Vietnam to ask support from their very first master and protector. Thanks to Vietnamese support this latter group defeated Pot Pol on January 7, 1979 with another triumphal entry to Phnom Penh. All this batch of Communist leaders (some people call them "la creme de la crasse") share a very heavy past marked by two important dates: June 28, 1951 and April 17, 1975. June 28 has been celebrated every year in Phnom Penh under any communist regime from Pot Pot to Hun Sen. April 17 was celebrated in Phnom Penh, of course by Pol Pot when he was in power, but also by Chea Sim, Heng Samrin and Hun Sen until the late 80's because these pro-Vietnamese leaders also claimed April 17, 1975 as the day of their victory over the "imperialist Americans". Only two or three years before the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1991, in order to make their propaganda consistent with the new political situation and because they needed money from the West, especially from their former American foes, the current Phnom Penh leaders gave up any reference to April 17. Fortunately, there is still June 28 that can be preserved because 1951 is a long time ago and few people know what this is about. Never forget your roots, comrades. Long live June 28! -SRP Members of Parliament Monks, pagodas near Cambodia's Angkor Wat can stay, senior official says - Associated Press, Saturday, June 22, 2002 Several hundred monks and nuns living in Buddhist pagodas near Angkor Wat are no threat to tourists and should be allowed to stay, a senior official at the world famous tourist attraction said Saturday. Local officials have complained that some of the monks and nuns harass tourists, and the authorities also claim they could potentially loot the ancient sites. But Bun Narith, director of the Apsara Authority - the government agency that oversees Angkor Wat temple complex, said the allegations were unfounded. He said the presence of the monks and nuns enhances the experience of tourists visiting the dozens of 9th-14th century Buddhist and Hindu temples surrounding the quaint town of Siem Reap in northern Cambodia. ....There are about a dozen functioning Buddhist pagodas among the ruins of the ancient Angkor temple complex, Apsara Authority officials say. Two are more than 60 years old and four are recognized by U.N. conservationists, Bun Narith said.... From a SRP press release: On June 1, opposition
Members of Parliament Sam Rainsy, Sun Kim Hun and Lon Phon will be in
Pailin to help some 600 families resist their eviction by the city authorities
that are seizing their lands for the implementation of a dubious development
project involving businessmen from Thailand. SRP controls the only seat
representing Pailin at the National Assembly.
On June 2, Sam Rainsy and several other SRP lawmakers will be in Poipet to help find a solution for some 1,000 villagers who are being expelled from their lands because of another dubious development project involving Thai businessmen engaged in land speculation, gambling and illicit activities. Following the last commune council election, the mayor of Poipet is from the Sam Rainsy Party. In addition to pushing for the implementation of the land law, showing their support to victims of land grabs and helping oppose abuses by local authorities and businessmen, SRP lawmakers have decided to: 1- Write to Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra asking him to use his influence to convince Thai businessmen to refrain from engaging in activities that bring about serious social problems in Cambodia. 2- Organize a demonstration of landless farmers and homeless people from all over the country on June 19 when donor countries start their annual meeting in Phnom Penh in order to draw the attention of donor representatives to the need for a land reform if poverty reduction means anything. In volatile regional markets, straight dial tones are safer - Far Eastern Economic Review, May 30, 2002 Satellites and politics have often proved a volatile mix for Thailand's Shin Corp. in regional markets. In the early 1990s, Shin landed a controversial 99-year concession to operate a television service in neighbouring Cambodia. But when pre-election programming in 1993 was deemed biased in favour of the Hun Sen-led government that awarded Shin the contract, Norodom Ranariddh's newly elected administration quickly cut the licence to 30 years. In a bizarre twist, Cambodian officials later implicated a group of Thai nationals, including current Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and other then-Shin Corp. employees, in a botched coup attempt in July 1994. Thaksin has always denied the charges, but soon thereafter dropped the Cambodian television venture altogether. Shin executives say the experience spurred a corporate rethink. Now Shin Satellite, or Sattel, only ventures into pure satellite or telecoms services in regional markets, far above the potential political fray of broadcasting. "We found the TV business is very sensitive, politically and culturally," says Shin Satellite executive chairman Dumrong Kasemset."Straight dial tones are reasonably harmless." And increasingly profitable. Soon after Hun Sen retook power in a 1997 putsch, Shin won a new Cambodian deal, a 35-year build-opeate-transfer wireless-telecoms licence. That concession - held by Sattel's 100%-owned subsidiary Cambodia Shinawatra, or Camshin - is now proving quite a coup for the company. Last year, Camshin booked a tidy 88 million baht ($2.1 million) in profits from its nearly 50,000 Cambodian subscribers. New subscriptions were up 240% in the first quarter of this year, lifting revenues 23% year on year. Merrill Lynch expects Camshin and Lao Telecom to contribute 21% and 29% to Shin Satellite's total earnings in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Cambodia's young mobile-telecoms market is already a competitive free-for-all. Five different operators compete for a mere 300,000 customers, though analysts believe the market will double in size this year. because Sattel also provides the satellite network for its Cambodian competitors, including market leader Mobitel, Cambodia has finally become a win-win battlefield for Shin. Barring, of course, another change in government. More SRP comments on Thai
casinos in the western part of the country - May 25, 2002
From a SRP press release: The Sam Rainsy Party today issued a statement signed by all its National Assembly Members and Senators supporting His Majesty the King Norodom Sihanouk for the royal message to the Government and the Parliament calling for a proper defense of Cambodia's territorial integrity against serious and continuous border encroachments by Vietnam and Thailand, while condemning the Hun Sen Government for its negligence and complicity with foreign countries allowing the latter to annex Cambodian territories in exchange for political or financial support for the current anti-national Phnom Penh regime. SRP reiterates its condemnation of the border agreements and treaties that the puppet Hun Sen regime signed with communist Vietnam in 1979, 1982, 1983 and 1985, which illegally gave large portions of Cambodian land and sea territories to Vietnam. SRP also denounces the authorization given more recently by the corrupt Hun Sen regime to Thailand to push border marks deeper and deeper into the northern and western part of Cambodia. We condemn Hun Sen's criminal links with the Thai mafia, which has taken control of Koh Kong province, Pailin, Poipet and O' Smach with their casinos, smuggling and drug trafficking activities, while plundering Cambodia's riches (timber, fish, gems) and grabbing Cambodian farmers' land. We denounce the latest and scandalous deal made by traitor Hun Sen with Thai maffiosi led by Li Yong Phat: a bridge and a road built by Li Yong Phat in Koh Kong province in exchange of Cambodian passports for Thai maffiosi and the right for the latter to be the new masters of all Cambodia's provinces. We appeal to all patriotic forces to respond to the call of His Majesty the King and to unite in order to liberate Cambodia from the foreign-subservient, undemocratic and backward Hun Sen regime. King says sorry for land-grab inaction
- The Straits Times, Friday, May 24, 2002 Wildlife conservationists are up in arms at a casino owner's plans to open a dolphinarium near Cambodia's border with Thailand. But the palaver does not seem to have fazed Thai-Cambodian magnate Phat Supapa, who has ignored a March 4 letter from the Agriculture Ministry ordering him to release more than a dozen dolphins. The mammals, including endangered Irrawaddy dolphins, were caught by local fishermen in a river estuary in Koh Kong province. Staff at Phat's casino-hotel complex in Koh Kong say the dolphins--considered an endangered species by the ministry and protected by its fisheries department--are still there. They add that a Russian trainer has been brought in to teach them tricks before they are displayed in a new dolphinarium. Phat's plans have annoyed conservationists, who have been gathering information for the ministry. "Removing between 10 and 20 dolphins from Cambodian waters is a severe threat to an already endangered species," says Isabel Beazley of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, while a colleague says captivity will cause extreme mental and physical stress and lower their life expectancy. That's likely to cut little ice with Phat, who won friends in high places after recently funding a $7.2 million road and bridge link between Koh Kong and Thailand. A grateful Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen designated him his personal adviser on the development of Koh Kong, according to one official. Proposal for new crossing to Angkor at Sangam in Sri Saket - MCOT, 09:26, May 26, 2001 Call back and net services debated in the National Assembly - May 23, 2002 From a press release from the Sam
Rainsy Party (SRP): During the debate on the government draft law
on the Post from May 13 to May 17, National Assembly Members from the
Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) raised the issue of the Internet and the use
of a new type of telephone service through the Internet, as well as
the legality of the callback system in the classical telephone network.
International telephone calls that pertain to the classical telephone services under the control of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) are an essential source of revenue for the Government in an industry with no real competition and where prices are up to ten times higher than in most other countries. In order to protect its revenues and to preserve a de facto monopoly based on kickbacks and under-the-table payments, the Government has banned the callback system as well as new telephone services through the Internet, while stifling competition among a restricted number of Internet service providers. SRP Members of Parliament publicly denounced the present telephone system based on government corruption, the lack of competition, the obsolete equipment in use, the poor quality of the service, the exorbitant and unacceptable fees, which are a serious hindrance to foreign direct investment and therefore contribute to increasing unemployment and poverty. They insisted on transparency and fairness in the granting of licenses for Internet services providers, so as to open up the market, promote information technology, help develop human resources through Internet-based research, and lower telephone cost through new systems such as the Voice On Internet Protocol (VOIP) developed by Yahoo, which has allowed a dramatic reduction in telecommunications fees in neighbouring countries. Following a heated debate, MPTC Minister So Khun announced that his ministry would henceforth allow all telephone users to use the callback system, and Internet shops to offer Internet telephone services, especially international calls, without any restrictions. He also announced that a full license for offering Internet services, which had been so far issued “free of charge” to three Internet services providers (Camnet/MPTC, Bigpond/Telstra, Telesurf/Mobitel), would be issued free of charge to all legitimate applicants, including the non-government and non-profit organization Open Forum, which had been established as the Internet pioneer in Cambodia since 1994. - SRP Members of Parliament Termites pose new threat to Angkor temples - AP, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 Cambodia's mystery animal that never was - New York Times, May 6, 2002 Khmers Kampuchea-Krom
Federation official web site - May 5,
2002 Siem
Reap could become "like Pattaya"?
- May 5, 2002 The "menace" of Vietnam and/or China
- May 5, 2002 The demise of Cambodian donut shops
- LA Times, May 5, 2002 The
boss's whims - Hun Sen's regal powers
- The Economist, May 5, 2002 Incredible Angkor Flash site
- May 1, 2002 Next election: July 2003
- May 1, 2002 Child sex flourishes in Cambodia despite crackdown - Reuters, May 1, 2002 Ranariddh's first movie to debut this weekend
- AP, April 30, 2002 Sihanouk film memorabilia finds home in Hollywood
- AP, April 25, 2002 Vietnamese
island of Phu Quoc - Phnom Penh Post,
06:46, April 28, 2002 The Cardamom Mountains
- April 28, 2002 'Don't go' warnings seen as too alarmist - Bangkok Post, April 28, 2002 Cambodia
museum evicts world's biggest bat colony - AP,
April 11, 2002 Cambodian King's website
- 07:54, April 26, 2002 Ta Phrom to be "renovated" -
April 10, 2002 Karaoke replaces communism in old Khmer Rouge town - AP, April 7, 2002 Something scary - 21:19,
April 4, 2002 Communique number
13 of the Union of Khmer Democrats (UKD) -
February 4, 2002 The
limits of pre-industrial, urban growth in Angkor -
February 2, 2002 Indochina plans "three countries, one
destination" - excerpted from
Reuters, January 26, 2002 Let's help create Cambodia
Town! - January
18, 2002 Cambodia removes "killing fields"
map of skulls - Reuters, March 10,
2002 Tonle Sap: chief source of food
for most of Cambodia - Newsweek,
January 11, 2002
This article is now pay-to-read, but the salient point is: A staggering 60 percent of the population of 11 million get their daily protein from Tonle Sap. Starting
the presses in Cambodia - CPJ,
February 23, 2002 Cambodian
border casinos - AFP, February
17, 2002 What's going on - February
13, 2002 The bridge that gambling
built - 21:19, April 4, 2002
AFP - Cambodia opens its longest bridge, links with Thailand From the Post website - A new bridge linking Trat province with Ko Kong in Cambodia will be opened by Supreme Commander Narong Yuthawong, representing the defence minister, and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen tomorrow.... The 200-million baht bridge spans the Krang Kruen river. Construction was funded by Pat Supapa, owner of Casino Koh Kong International. A new national carrier
- 07:56, April 2, 2002 Thailand opens new permanent check point for Cambodia - MCOT Senate Report on the 1997 Grenade Attack - 13:42, March 31, 2002 Khmer culture started in Thailand? - 13:42, March 31, 2002 The other treasures of Angkor - Japan Times, 13:42, February 26, 2002 Cambodian
Leader Rules as if from Throne - March
19, 2002 When Thais are the villians
- March 21, 2002
Here's a short article about Decho Domden, a patriotic Cambodian film in the vein of Suriothai, in which Thais are the bad guys. Mindful of the importance of maintaining friendly ties with Thailand, the CDCD and the Ministry of Fine Arts and Culture are still mulling the wisdom of portraying the predecessor of Cambodia's neighboring Kingdom as an imperialistic aggressor. Vanthy told the (Phnom Penh) Post that in order not to create a potential diplomatic incident... the CDCD will ask the film's producers to replace references to "Siam" in the script with the more generic term "enemy." What's happening in Siem Reap
- March 2, 2002 - Reuters, March 10, 2002 Tonle Sap: chief source of food
for most of Cambodia - Newsweek,
January 11, 2002
This article is now pay-to-read, but the salient point is: A staggering 60 percent of the population of 11 million get their daily protein from Tonle Sap. Starting
the presses in Cambodia - CPJ, February
23, 2002 Cambodian
border casinos - AFP, February 17,
2002 What's going on - February 13,
2002 The bridge that gambling built
- 21:19, April 4, 2002
AFP - Cambodia opens its longest bridge, links with Thailand From the Post website - A new bridge linking Trat province with Ko Kong in Cambodia will be opened by Supreme Commander Narong Yuthawong, representing the defence minister, and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen tomorrow.... The 200-million baht bridge spans the Krang Kruen river. Construction was funded by Pat Supapa, owner of Casino Koh Kong International. A new national carrier
- 07:56, April 2, 2002 Thailand opens new permanent check point for Cambodia - MCOT Senate Report on the 1997 Grenade Attack - 13:42, March 31, 2002 Khmer culture started in Thailand? - 13:42, March 31, 2002 The other treasures of Angkor - Japan Times, 13:42, February 26, 2002 Cambodian
Leader Rules as if from Throne - March 19,
2002 When Thais are the villians
- March 21, 2002
Here's a short article about Decho Domden, a patriotic Cambodian film in the vein of Suriothai, in which Thais are the bad guys. Mindful of the importance of maintaining friendly ties with Thailand, the CDCD and the Ministry of Fine Arts and Culture are still mulling the wisdom of portraying the predecessor of Cambodia's neighboring Kingdom as an imperialistic aggressor. Vanthy told the (Phnom Penh) Post that in order not to create a potential diplomatic incident... the CDCD will ask the film's producers to replace references to "Siam" in the script with the more generic term "enemy." What's happening in Siem Reap
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