Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva arrived Cambodia for his official visit, one day

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit arrived Cambodia at 9.00AM by Royal Thai Army which land on Phnom Penh International Airport.

PM Abhisit will go to the independent monument to pay his respect and put flowers bunches after that he will have a double parties meeting with Prime Minister Samdach Hun Sen at 10.00AM in the same day at the ministry of Foreign Affair; the topic of the meeting are about the border conflict, the search of the oil under the sea, and giving back seven pieces of Cambodian ancient to Cambodia.
After the meeting, he will meet Samdach Chea Sim, the President of the senate, His majesty the king Preah Borumaneat Norodom Sihakmony, the king of the kingdom of Cambodia, and also Samdach Heng Samrin, the President of the Parliament to give his respect. After those meetings, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will go back to Thailand at 20:30 on the same day.

Bosba PANH - Recital la Vie en Rose

French restaurant, Topaz, and BosbaPANH are collaborating to raise funds for Cambodian arts and artists.
The fundraising recital was initiated when bosbapanh heard about the difficulties facing the family of EM Theay, Cambodian classical artists whose house burned down when fire swept their neighborhood.
Using the launch of her 2007 Concert VCD, bosbapanh will give a recital to raise fund to be donated to EM Theay’s family.
The concert will include a range of music from the elegant songs of King Father Sihanouk to traditional mohori Khmer lullabies, eternal songs from an international repertoire and bosbaPANH’s own rendition of La Vie en Rose.
Tickets for the recital and dinner are $90 (+10%VAT) per person and include a cocktail reception, a gourmet 3-course dinner and wine.
5 June 2009Topaz RestaurantRecital la Vie en Rose - 19:00 pm182 Norodom BdPhnom PenhCambodia

FLU spreads to 74 countries - WHO increase alert level

The World Health Organization,WHO, declared the global swine flu outbreak a pandemic on Thursday after weeks of very public wrestling with its own conscience.
The move indicates that the virus is spreading geographically, but does not mean that the illness, generally described as mild, has become any more severe. As she raised the global alert to level 6, the highest possible level, the agency's chief, Dr. Margaret Chan, immediately emphasized that she expects the early phase of the pandemic to be of "moderate severity." But, she added, "the virus writes the rules," so countries should prepare for mutations that could make it worse and for second waves of illness. And rich countries should help poor ones less able to protect themselves, she said.
"The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic," said Dr. Chan, the W.H.O.'s director general. "We are all in this together."//New York Times

Ieng Thirith was sent to hospital

Mrs. Ieng Thearith, former minister of social affair in Pot Pot regime who now jailed in KR tribunal prison, was sent to Kalmete hospital on Wednesday 11th morning. Mr. Las Osen, KR tribunal spokesman, told in a conference that Mrs. Ieng Thearith was sent to Kalmete hospital on Wednesday to check her health. “She was sent to hospital just to check her normal health only,” he said. Mr. Reach Sambath, former KR tribunal spokesman, said that the former minister of social affair came back to the prison on the same day and the result of the medical checkup is normal.
Mrs. Ieng Thearith, a spouse of Mr. Ieng Sary, former minister of ministry of foreign affair in Pol Pot regime was accused of criminal war by the KR tribunal. She had been sent to hospital also in October last year when she complaint of having eyes and knees paint.

There are 300 Vietnamese Prisoner in S-21, Duch told the KR tribunal

On June 10, 2009, the former S-21 chairman Kaing Guek Eav called Duch told the KR tribunal that during KR regime, there are 345 Vietnamese had been sent to S-21. Duch told the tribunal when talking about the fact of the fight between Vietnamese Communist Party and Cambodian Communist Party.
Those Vietnamese mostly arrested during 1978 which devided into three categories, military, prison of war, spy, and civilians. According to the diagram shown in the tribunal, there are 35% of military, 42% of spy, and 23% of the civilian. Duch did not reject the diagram.

Noppadon – Thakshin is well

Noppadon Pattama, a legal adviser to the exile PM Thaksin Shinawatra, has rejected the news which saying that Thakshin is in a bad health condition that’s why he has not appeared in media recently.
Noppadon said on Thursday that the former PM has not time to appear on media. He’s very busy with his business and meeting with the world leader who is very much closed to him.
Noppadon certify that Thaksin’s visa to Germany was cancelled but the European Union Countries have not prohibited him from entering their country yet, he says.
Noppadon also said that he is not sure whether Thanksin will phone in to his supporter, UDD, during their gathering at Samnaglung on June 27 against present government.

Ten People were killed on the Attack in Narathiwat

Insurgents open fires on Thai Muslims who were praying in a mosque in Narathiwat on Monday, killing at least ten and injuring many others.

Police said that a group of five heavily-armed men broke into Al Pukon Mosque in Joh I Rong district through the back door and sprayed the bullets on about 50 people inside the mosque.
Police said ten of them, including an Imam, died instantly at the scene.

THAKSIN in GERMANY's Blacklist

Germany has put the exile Priminister Thaksin Shinawatra in the Blacklist ans sweared to arrest him if he enters the country with a resident permit that was issued illegally, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

Chawanon Intarakomarasut, secretary to Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the ministry had obtained a letter from the German Embassy explaining the situation.Chawanon said, according to the embassy, the German government had put Thaksin on its "national exemption" persona non grata list in December last year, following his repeated phone-in addresses to anti-government rallies by his supporters in Thailand.It was found later that Thaksin carried a resident permit to stay in Germany.The German embassy explained in its letter to the foreign ministry that given the federal government's ban, the permit was considered illegally issued. Thaksin had not formally informed the federal government about his trip to Germany and its authorities were investigating the matter."In addition to rescinding his Schengen visa [for travel in European Union countries], Germany also cancelled Thaksin's resident permit," said Chawanon."The German authorities said they and the EU governments will not allow any individual to use their countries as a base to attack another country. They also said that if Thaksin returns to Germany, they will detain him," he said

A/H1N1 in Thailand

Three new cases of A/H1N1 were confired by Thai Health Ministry

On Tuesday, Thai Public Health Ministry reported three new cases of the Influenza 2009, A/H1N1, bringing the number in the country to 13.
Permanent Secretary to health Dr Prat Boonyawongwirot said the two women, both 20, who travelled to the United States under "Work and Travel" Programme were found infected by the flu.
The first woman went to the US in May and returned to Thailand on June 6. She had the symptoms of the flu such as running nose, sore throat and high fever and was admitted to a Bangkok hospital on June 7.
Lab test showed that she was positive to the new H1N1 strain that has hit at least 73 countries with 25,288 cases, including 139 deaths.
The second woman, working in the US under same programme, had the symptoms during her flight back to Bangkok. She arrived Bangkok on June 5. Lab test revealed she was positive to the flu strain.
The third was a 30-year-old man who returned from a trip to the US and Canada on May 30.
The three were given antiviral Oseltamivir drug, Dr Prat said, adding those who had contacts with them were under observation.
As of Tuesday, a total of 31 Thais were under observation for the flu.

US Embassy still keep silence on Rodley’s remarks on Corruption in Cambodia

After a nearly a week of government censure, the US Embassy is still mum on the fallout from Ambassador Carol Rodley’s remark on 30th may addressing corruption in Cambodia.
Cambodian government have reacted severely to Ms. Rodely’s assertion, made at an anti-corruption concert that Cambodian government loss US$500 millions in public funds every year to corruption.
Two ministries and the Cambodian ambassador to London have now issued statement condemning the ambassador’s speech, while Phnom Penh municipality on Thursday questioned organizers of the Clean Hands anti-corruption concert.
Embassy spokesman John Johnson said yesterday that he still has no comment on the reaction to Ms. Rodley’s speech or the apparent consequence for the Clean Hands organizers.
Most of the concert’s organizers were equally silent on Monday.
Pact Cambodia Country director Paul Mason and People’s Centre for Development and Peace President Yang Kim Eng both declined to comment.
Cambodian Defenders Project Executive Director Sok Sam Oeun said that the government’s response to Ms. Rodley’s speck was unfortunate.
CDP helped organize the Clean Hands concert, but Mr. Sam Oeun was not personally involved.
“I think that the government reacts too fast ….. What she said, it is opinion,” Mr. Sam Oeun said of the ambassador’s comments that put a dollar sum on the amount of money lost to the exchequer and the uses to which such money could have been put, including building schools.
Although he would not comment on whether organization working on anti-corruption issues would be intimidated into silence by the government’s strong response to perceived critics, Mr. Sam Oeun said that education and public awareness were keys to fighting graft.
“We must do campaigns to encourage people to hate the corruption,” he said. “If we are too afraid, we cannot fight corruption.”
In the most recent official rebuke, Cambodia’s ambassador pt Britain Hor Nambora, a son of Foreign Minister Hor Namhong who also has another son who is ambassador to Japan, wrote to Ms.Rodley on Thursday, starting that “I am both surprise and disappointed that you should choose to make such inflammatory comments.”
He acknowledges that the position in Cambodia is Ms. Rodley’s first ambassador. “However,” he added, “I’m sure you will be familiar with the overriding principle to which diplomats of all countries normally adhere…..namely that we seek to maintain neutrality at all costs and refrain to the nation to which we have been appointed envoy.”

A/H1N1 case Number 13

Viet Nam confirmed the country’s thirteenth case of A/H1N1 yesterday.

The latest victims are a mother and the younger sister of a 10-year-old boy who was earlier diagnosed with the virus. All three have been placed in isolation wards at Paediatric Hospital 1 in HCM City.
The parents and brother and sister of the 10-year-old have been isolated and are undergoing tests.
One of the 13 is the first instance of the disease in someone not in transit from an affected country, Dr Phan Van Nghiem of the HCM City Health Department, said.
Dr Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine and Environment Department, said the number of infected people was on the rise throughout the world.
He said there was a sudden increase in the number of affected people in Viet Nam in the past three days, from 5 patients last Friday to 11 at present.
This number includes the first person residing in Viet Nam to test positive for the virus after coming into contact with a family member, who had returned to southern Dong Nai Province from the US.
Nga said more than 22,000 people in 69 countries and territories throughout the world had contracted A/H1N1 flu. As many as 125 people in five countries and territories had died of the virus.
He said that supervision of the flu in Viet Nam had helped uncover and isolate thousands of patients who tested positive for the A/H1N1 virus, preventing the further spread of infection.
"Current treatment and preventative measures are suitable for the disease’s current status," Nga said. —VNS

He's responsible for Child Victims-Duch, former S-21 Chairman

Kaing Guek Eav called Duch who is a former chairman of S21 told the Khmer Rouge(KR) tribunal on monday that he takes the respondibility for the murder of children by his people under his command who he personally trained to interrrogate and killed detainees unquestioningly seen as enemies. After a week's recess, trail resume Monday for its 24th day.

"When children arrived at the center I gave the order to kill them because we were afraid those children would take revenge," the 66-year-old told the court.

"I had to implement the policy of the Communist party," said the former chief of the S-21 interrogation center where more than 14,000 men, women and children were killed.

Only a handful of inmates, some of them children, survived the prison. Most victims were tortured before they were taken outside the capital Phnom Penh and clubbed to death in the Cheoung Ek "Killing Fields". During Monday's hearing, the Cambodian prosecutor asked Duch who ordered guards to kill babies by smashing them against trees. "I did not order that crime, but I believe my comrades did that," said Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav. With no death penalty in Cambodia, Duch faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted by the joint U.N.-Cambodian tribunal on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and homicide. He is expected to be a key witness in the future trials of those also deemed "most responsible" by the tribunal for one of the darkest chapters in the 20th century. The other four - "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, the regime's ex-president Khieu Samphan, and Ieng Sary, its foreign minister, and his wife - have denied knowledge of any atrocities. If convicted, the five face a minimum of five years and a maximum of life in prison.

Global Financial crisis effected to Cambodia bussines

Global financial crisis has made modern car sale companies in Cambodia face problems. Some car sale companies and garage owners have complained that since the early 2009, the car are just in the show room-- no customers come to buy or ask any information. Not only car selling company, but also many more bussineses also get effected.

There is no evident of Thaksin changing his name

Vice Foreign Minister Panich Vikitsreth said yesterday that there is not enough information to prove former PM Thaksin Shinawatra has travelled under different names - although he has used many foreign passports.

Panich said"It is not easy for a well known person like Thaksin to change his name," and "As long as we have no clear information, we shall not jump to any conclusion." Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said earlier that since his Thai passports had been revoked, Thaksin had moved around the world under different names. Former secretary-general of the now defunct People Power Party, Surapong Suebwonglee said the premier should not confuse the public with such inaccurate information. He said it was extremely difficult for celebrities, especially former prime ministers, to use fake names on passports or visas. Abhisit's personal spokesman Thepthai Senphong defended his boss saying the Prime Minister's information was based on hypothesis, since no Thaksin name had appeared on any immigration system, although the ex-premier kept travelling. Last week a German newspaper reported Thaksin had obtained a 90-day visa for Germany last summer and then received a one-year residency permit. However, the permit was cancelled on May 28 following a demand by the central government in Berlin, the Munich newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. Panich said the Thai embassy in Berlin is now investigating whether Thaksin was in Germany as reported. The Foreign Ministry would take a week to gain clear information about the ex-PM's movements, he said. Panich declined to confirm Thaksin's whereabouts since the United Arab Emirates informed the Thai government he was no longer living in the country. "Although somebody saw and met Thaksin there, we have to respect the official information from UAE," he said. Former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama said it was unnecessary for Abhisit, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya and the Foreign Ministry to check on Thaksin's identity since the former PM continues to travel under his own name. "Pol Lt. Col. Thaksin could travel anywhere since many countries understand the chase is a political game," he said. Abhisit and Kasit should concentrate on economic problems and the border conflict at Preah Vihear Temple, he said. Thaksin is still in Dubai and the German authorities cancelled his visa after his Thai passports were revoked, he added.

Khmer Rouge Victims seek Justic

Most people out side cambodia hardly know the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime. Only Cambodian people and those who stay next door of Cambodia territorries and some big countries behind. But now, people start to know about Cambodia and the regime, Khmer Riuge, leaded by Pol Pot because cambodia have KR tribunal.

The victims in the regime seeking justic for themself and family because all Cambodian people are victims of that regim. Not only Khmer who live in Cambodia seek justic, but also Khmer who live abroad.

Some nights, Chea Marie who is Cambodian American finds herself running from the black-clad Khmer Rouge guerrillas who have come to torture her. She runs and keeps on running until she wakes up. More than 30 years after the collapse of the regime, these nightmares continue to haunt her, even though she has moved to the US.
“I look everywhere to see where I am now. Am I in Pol Pot’s time or in America?” she told VOA Khmer at a recent gathering of regime victims, in Virginia.
Chea Marie’s father was burned alive in a brick kiln. Her mother and her seven siblings were all killed under the regime. Now, like others who met last week in Arlington, Va., Chea Marie has filed suit as a civil party in upcoming Khmer Rouge trials under the UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh.
Chea Marie filed her case during a gathering organized by the Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia and Cambodian American for Human Rights and Democracy this weekend in Arlington, Va.
According to research by Nou Leakhena, a sociology professor at the Long Beach University, nightmares often follow victims of the Khmer Rouge, a symptom of the trauma that has eroded trust in Cambodian communities at home and abroad.
“I don’t trust others, not even my friends, and, honestly speaking, not even my own husband,” Chea Marie said. “I always think all people are bad.”
Most of the victims do not speak out about the tragedy and continue to bear their sufferings silently.
Mam Somethea, who was seven years old when the Khmer Rouge rose to power, was forced to work like an adult. He witnessed torture and killings in his area. More than 30 years later, Mam Somethea never talks about it and the Arlington gathering was his first time to speak out.
“They would accuse someone of a crime without concrete evidence and started torturing until the accused was dead in front of the whole community, to establish an example,” Mam Somethea said.
Mam Somethea, whose mother and two sisters died, has now also filed as a civil party in the tribunal.

The Applied Social Research Institute has so far received 35 complaints, including three civil party cases.

The third to file a civil party case was Neou Sarem, a staff member at Voice of America who was imprisoned in one of Khmer Rouge correction camps after she returned to Cambodia from a study in France. She also filed as a witness.
Efforts to collect more complaints are underway before a January 2010 deadline, despite some difficulties.
“They are afraid that the [Cambodian] government will do them harm,” Nou Lekhena said. “They are afraid that the government will abuse their rights and harass their relatives in Cambodia. They are afraid that they will not be allowed to go back to Cambodia.”

Foreign Tourists were robbed in Thailand

Two Filipino men - Angor Roger Novo, 36, and Billionet Manni, 55 - were arrested on May 26 for robbing 54yearold Canadian Faramad Adadian of US$3,000 (Bt103,000)in cash, $3,000 in cashier cheques, and Bt1,000 in cash.

Police arrested the duo as they were fighting with good Samaritans helping the victim at the mouth of Soi Silom 28. Other victims also identified the duo as their robbers.
Police say that the duo, along with five other gang members, assaulted and robbed tourists by pretending to drop papers near the victim. They would then shake the victim's legs in a chaotic scene, while other gang members pocketed the victim's valuables. Then all would flee in taxis.
One victim, jewellery businessman Thana Komenthiti, 59, told police he was robbed of Bt100,000 worth of valuables by five men while crossing Silom after withdrawing money from an ATM machine.

Metropolitan Police Area 6 chief Major General Wittaya Rattanawit said the gang members came into Thailand on threemonth tourist visas before leaving and coming back to Thailand to commit the crimes. "Sometimes, they stun victims with an electric shock device or by applying psychedelic medicine to the victim's body before getting away with their valuables, often by taxi," he said.

Wittaya said the gang lived in the Suparp Hotel in the Saphan Kwai area and operated for about a year in the city's other tourist areas. Three people had filed complaints to Yan Nawa police. Each said they had lost Bt100,000 worth of valuables.
After the latest assault, on Wednesday, tourist police arrested Novo and Manni, another Filipino man and two Filipino women, along with a notebook and assets worth Bt100,000 from Ratchada Soi 3 in Din Daeng area.

Deputy Tourist Police commander Colonel Yongkiat Monpranit said Tourist Police gave priority to this case after French tourist Sophia Yenepelliton, 49, lost gold ornaments worth Bt100,000 and Bt9,200 in cash to the gang at a Starbucks coffee outlet on Silom Road on March 18.
The complaint was filed and the victim talked to TV news reporters, leading to the police investigation that found the gang's operation on the cafe's security camera footage.
"The gang of about five or six members came into the cafe and chose to sit near the victim and pretended to read newspapers. While one member seated behind the victim grabbed the victim's purse on the floor by her foot, other members used newspapers as a cover, before escaping with her purse," he said.

Police found the suspects had also pickpocketed tourists in Pratunam area. Two suspects found in Din Daeng were said to belong to a 10strong Filipino "legshaking gang" that had operated many times before, luring tourists to gambling games and taking their valuables, the officer said. He expressed concern the gang had damaged Thailand's image. -->

THAKSIN tavelling with different name

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday that the search of ex-premier Thaksin Shinwatra has been made more difficult because he has used different names while travelling

He said the name changes added to the problems of investigators, making it harder for the government to arrest Thaksin.
Reacting to Abhisit's remark, former Thai Rak Thai Party deputy secretary-general Dr Surapong Suebwonglee said the premier should ensure he had accurate information before making such a statement. He said it was extremely difficult for celebrities, especially former prime ministers, to use fake names on passports or visas. "The best way is to avoiding giving information, if you cannot supply correct information,'' he said.

Thaksin remains a popular figure among the country's rural poor.