Singaporean Firm Cancels Deal to Buy Land at Boeng Kak Lake

Shukaku Inc. and Singapore’s HLH Group have agreed to terminate plans that would have seen HLH pay Shukaku $14.9 million for a 1.35 hectare plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood, the scene of some 3,000 forced evictions.

In an announcement on the Singapore Stock Exchange on Wednesday, HLH said the purchase agreement it announced six months ago was scrapped by mutual agreement with Shukaku, a local firm owned by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin.


“The board wishes to announce that the seller and the buyer have mutually agreed and entered into a termination agreement on 16 December 2014 to terminate the [sale and purchase agreement] due to commercial reasons, strictly without any liability or breach of either party,” HLH said.
The announcement offers no further explanation for the deal’s demise but says HLH will get its $1.46 million deposit back.

With City Hall’s help, Shukaku evicted thousands of families over the past few years—illegally, housing rights groups say—to make room for a high-end real estate project in Boeng Kak that would cover some 120 hectares.

HLH claimed not to know about the evictions when it announced the purchase agreement in June and did not respond to a request for comment Sunday. Shukaku also did not reply to a request for comment.

Earlier this month, however, Shukaku spokeswoman Amu Pillay said the deal was unlikely to come off due to unspecified financial troubles on the part of HLH. At the time, HLH responded that money was not an issue.

HLH would have been the first company to buy into the area, which has remained undeveloped.
Despite HLH’s departure, Ms. Pillay said Shukaku is moving ahead with plans to install a drainage system at the site and build a five-story office block at the cost of a “few double-digit million U.S. dollars.”

Shukaku says City Hall has also approved a master plan for the 120-hectare site, but has refused to release a copy.

Source: Cambodiadaily

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Asylum Seekers’ Position ‘Extremely Precarious,’ UN Agencies Say

 

PHNOM PENH—

  Two UN agencies have expressed increased concern for a group of potential asylum seekers in hiding in the remote northeast of the country.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and its office of human rights said in a statement they are “increasingly concerned about the health and well-being of 13 Vietnamese Montagnards who have been hiding in the Cambodian jungle with no access to assistance or protection.”

The group has been in hiding for at least seven weeks, putting them in an “extremely precarious” position, the UN agencies said. “They are reportedly suffering from various physical ailments, including dengue fever and malaria, and are afraid to venture out due to fears of arrest and deportation. They told local sources that they had fled religious persecution back home and wished to seek asylum.”

Local authorities in Ratanakkiri province have refused to allow UN workers to seek out the group, increasing concerns that Cambodia intends to send them back to Vietnam without providing them a chance to apply for asylum.

Chhay Thy, Ratanakkir coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said the Cambodian authorities appear to be ignoring international conventions for refugees.

Wan Hea Lee, a representative of the UN’s human rights office in Cambodia, told VOA Khmer in a phone interview from Ratanakkiri that she was waiting for a plan to proceed.

Khieu Sopheak, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said the UN was working without cooperation of Cambodian authorities by not informing them where they were going.

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Cambodian Parliament Votes to Create House Minority Leader Post

Cambodia’s parliament unanimously voted on Friday to amend the constitution to elevate the country’s opposition party leader to a legislative rank on par with Prime Minister Hun Sen, in a move the opposition said would end the “culture of revenge” and animosity among lawmakers.

National Assembly (parliament) lawmakers voted to allow opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy to become the house minority leader with 102 votes in favor of the move from members of both the CNRP and Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).
Rainsy told reporters outside the assembly building that the amendment served the interests of a younger generation of people and would strengthen the country’s democratic process.

He also said the move was “a vital political turn” that recognized the opposition party’s role.
“A so-called opposition party now is recognized for its role, duty and rights in order to allow it to completely fulfill its job,” he said.

“Until now, the ruling party has always tried get rid of the opposition party. This is the culture of revenge and violence. If they [the CPP] don’t harm us physically, they use the court instead to end the political careers of opposition party members.”

Despite the vote, Rainsy said the situation remained tense because several CNRP members are being held in detention for participation in an opposition-led protest that saw supporters clash with security personnel on July 15 in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park.

Strong support

Kem Sokha, first vice president of the National Assembly and vice president of the CNRP, told lawmakers that he strongly supported the amendment.

“This amendment proves that this is a real national reconciliation and in the spirit of strengthening the democratic process,” he said, adding that it would “contribute to the country’s development.”

“We have dreamed for a long time to see national reconciliation. Even though the amendment recognizes the leadership of the minority party leader, lawmakers must be responsible because they can’t rely on the minority leader and allow [him] and the prime minister to control the country’s fate.”
On July 22, the two parties had struck a deal that saw elected CNRP lawmakers return to the National Assembly following a 10-month boycott protesting the July 2013 election results, which the opposition said were rigged.

Ou Virak, a human rights activist, intellectual and president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said Rainsy’s recognition as a legislative equal to Hun Sen was merely a gesture by the prime minister that would not boost the opposition party’s bargaining power, according to reports.
“Making the new post equal in rank to prime minister but with no real power is a tactic used successfully by Hun Sen many times before,” he was quoted as saying.

Source: rfa

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‘Khmer for Khmer’ Takes Party Plan on Road

BATTAMBANG CITY – Forging ahead with a nationwide tour that it insists does not belie an intention to form a new opposition party, Kem Ley’s “Khmer for Khmer” collective touched down at a small university here Sunday declaring a desire to be an incubator for grassroots political action.

A high-profile political commentator, Mr. Ley created the advocacy group in late October and has since been traveling the country, introducing his team of civil society leaders to small crowds drawn by his growing status as a renegade willing to pour scorn on both of the country’s major parties.

Kem Ley speaks to a group of students and monks during a public forum in Battambang City on Sunday morning. (Alex Willemyns/The Cambodia Daily)

Mr. Ley says his team goes wherever it is invited, so long as the organizer can gather about 80 people—the critical mass he says is necessary for each of the community-run political parties he hopes Khmer for Khmer will spark.

“You probably know me already; I am Kem Ley, the social analyst,” he said at Dewey International University’s campus, where he arrived sporting nylon track pants and blood-red leather Nike Air Force One sneakers.

About 80 students and monks huddled in a small meeting room, with Mr. Ley’s unofficial deputy, Yang Saing Koma from the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture, opening the floor to questions.
“We want the Cambodian people to hold their destiny in their own hands; we want political affairs to become a normal thing that is not an affair of leaders and politicians but it’s for general people,” Mr. Saing Koma said.

Many in the audience criticized the opposition CNRP, whose policies are governed by an unelected standing committee dominated by longtime opposition loyalists appointed when the party formed in July 2012.

A young monk stood to offer a quick sketch of recent Cambodian political history, bemoaning the lack of internal democracy in the country’s opposition parties.
“Sam Rainsy was with the Funcinpec party, and then he split to form his Khmer Nation Party, because he saw that Funcinpec had no democracy,” the monk told the room.
“After that, he created the Sam Rainsy Party, and then Kem Sokha saw that the Sam Rainsy Party also did not have democracy, so then he formed the Human Rights Party.

“Then we saw them join together into the CNRP,” the monk continued. “Now Khmer for Khmer forms as a party because it has been seen that the CNRP does not have real democracy.”
Mr. Ley stressed that he has no plans to create a political party of his own, before attempting to draw a distinction between himself and Cambodia’s current opposition leaders.

“I will not go to the places where there are large platforms and megaphones, because I just want to sit on a mat on the soil in village in order not to waste money,” Mr. Ley said.
“Some party leaders become so rich, meaning that they not only have money to do politics but they also have money to build villas, because they are professional politicians who have turned politics into a business,” he continued.

Mr. Ley then launched into a defense of his plans to help incubate commune-level micro-parties run by locals. Next year, he plans to help establish 25 of these micro-parties—in which he insists he will then play no direct role—as a pilot before the February 2017 commune elections.
“Where can we get the money for those who collect the people to form a party? I have already discussed this with a group of about 20 people,” Mr. Ley explained. “Most of them drink coffee, and they drink it twice a day for 1,500 riel.”

“If you have 80 people, you should instead drink only one glass of coffee a day if you want to do politics in your commune. Then if you each contribute about $1, you will have $80 and that’s enough to run a political party.”

Mr. Ley, who has been accused of harboring intentions to turn his network into his own party for the 2017 commune elections and the 2018 national election, said he is now set on expanding the pilot beyond just 25 communes.

“Our group will go to organize any commune that can form a party. If they say they can get 80 people to form a party, we will help them and discuss the legal procedures,” he said.

The event’s organizer, Meas Nee, from the Battambang-based Village Focus Cambodia NGO, said he believed in Mr. Ley’s vision for Khmer for Khmer.
“[People] always think that this group comes to gather forces so that they can vote for Kem Ley one day, but it’s not like that,” Mr. Nee said.

“We just want to help the people to do some small things in line with democratic principles, and to say, ‘If you don’t solve this problem, we will not vote for you, Mr. Commune Chief. If you are not re-elected, please don’t blame us.’”

 Source: Cambodiadaily

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PMs talk migration, statues

The shooting of a Cambodian woman by Thai soldiers was left off the agenda during recent talks between Cambodia and Thailand’s prime ministers, which instead focused on issuing migrants passports and the ownership of ancient treasures.

Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart General Prayuth Chan-ocha met on Friday during the Mekong Sub-Region leaders meeting in Bangkok.

The pair reached an agreement to issue Cambodian migrants in Thailand with passports and progressed on talks over the ownership of Khmer antiques seized by Thai authorities.

However, the case of 55-year-old Horn Chem from O’Smach commune in Oddar Meanchey’s Samrong town, who was shot by Thai soldiers after straying across the border in search of food, was avoided.

The omission contrasts sharply with a strongly worded letter delivered to Thai authorities by the Cambodian government last week, demanding an investigation and calling for a stop to border killings by the Thai military.

Prior to the meeting, Prayuth dismissed reports of the shooting as inaccurate, saying Thai soldiers did not shoot unarmed people at the border.

He said the region was “plagued by illegal logging” leading to fights between soldiers and loggers.
He did, however, say that a joint panel involving both countries would be set up to investigate.
Prayuth’s denial came as deputy O’Smach commune chief Nhean Sarom said Chem was likely looking for timber as well as food, which was common among villagers.

Arriving back in Phnom Penh with Hun Sen on Saturday, a minister attached to the premier, Kao Kim Hourn, said 10 teams of officials would be dispatched across the border to issue Cambodians passports, helping potentially thousands avoid repatriation.

According to Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng, there are more than 600,000 Cambodians working legally and illegally in Thailand.

Meanwhile, Kim Hourn said Cambodian experts would be allowed to inspect 36 antiquities recently seized by Thai authorities, including Buddha statues, works presumed to be from Phnom Da and figurines of Hindu deities.

The loot was confiscated as part of an investigation into Thailand’s former Central Investigation Bureau chief Pongpat Chayapan’s alleged extortion racket.
Other issues discussed included linking Cambodian towns Koh Kong and Poipet with two border areas in Thailand through “economic zones” and opening a new border crossing in Stung Bot.

Source: PhnomPenhPost

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Homes Destroyed in Blaze; Villagers Suspect Arson

Twenty-six homes in a village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district burned to the ground Saturday night in a fire that villagers suspect was started in retaliation for their refusal to obey an order by City Hall to vacate the area.

In late November, more than 600 people living in Kilometr Pram Muoy commune’s Boeng Chhuk village received a notice from City Hall signed by district governor Thuy Sokhan ordering them to vacate their homes to make room for a planned road expansion—or face eviction.

Villagers receive relief goods from the Cambodian Red Cross yesterday after a fire destroyed 26 houses in Boeng Chhuk village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district. (John Vink)

But so far, no apparent effort has been made by authorities to follow through with the threat.
Villagers said Sunday, however, that they believe the fire Saturday night, which started inside one of the homes, was a vengeful act of arson.

“Most of the people suspect someone planned to burn the houses because we didn’t leave, but we don’t have evidence,” said Chhim Sophon, 40, who lost the house he had lived in with his wife and three children.

Din Srey Nuch, 19, who lived in the house where the fire originated, said she and her husband left shortly before it started.
“The villagers who opened the door said they saw that the fire started on a pile of clothes in my room, and they smelled gasoline,” Ms. Srey Nuch said.

“We never sold gasoline or kept gasoline in the house,” she added.
Toch Vanna, 40, who also lost her home in the blaze, said fire trucks arrived at about 7 p.m.— an hour after the fire started— but made no attempt to extinguish it until about 8 p.m.
Prum Yort, chief of the municipal fire police, who led 15 trucks to the scene, acknowledged that firefighters were late in responding, blaming traffic congestion, and the condition of the road leading to the village.

“We ran into a lot of traffic and the road in that area has a lot of potholes,” said Mr. Yort, adding that the blaze was extinguished at about 7:20 p.m., contradicting reports from residents.
“Our officers are still investigating the case,” he said. “We cannot say whether it was an accident or someone started it on purpose.”

Mr. Sokhan, the district governor, said Sunday that district officials delivered “gifts” to the villagers affected by the fire, but added that the order to vacate the area still stands.
“We are still ordering them to leave as soon as possible,” he said before hanging up on a reporter.

Source: Cambodiadaily

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Doctor at Center of HIV Case Reused Syringes

The unlicensed doctor suspected of spreading HIV to more than 100 people in Battambang province’s Roka commune has admitted to routinely reusing syringes and was sent to provincial court for questioning Sunday, according to police.

Preliminary testing for HIV be­gan on December 8 at the Roka commune health center in Sangke district after a 74-year-old man, along with his granddaughter and son-in-law, tested positive for the virus in late November.

Police and other investigators collect medical equipment from the remnants of a trash fire in the yard outside the home of Yem Chrin last week. (Alex Consiglio/The Cambodia Daily)

The elderly man blamed Yem Chrin, a local unlicensed doctor from whom he had received treatment, for infecting him with HIV and advised his other patients to get tested, too.
Of the nearly 110 villagers who have now tested positive at the commune health center, 90 had their cases confirmed at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh as of Friday, according to the institute’s director, Didier Fontenille.

Dr. Fontenille could not be reached Sunday.
Deputy provincial penal police chief Seng Luch, who has taken part in the questioning of Mr. Chrin since police detained him on Wednesday, said Sunday that Mr. Chrin admitted to being careless in his use of syringes.

“According to his answers, he used the same syringes,” he said. “For every two or three people, he used one syringe.”
Mr. Luch said a single syringe used by Mr. Chrin might have also been used for multiple purposes, including the extraction of blood and injection of medicine.
“[Mr. Chrin] said he changed the needles, but sometimes he did not change the syringes,” he said, adding that “two or three” blood tests have been carried out on Mr. Chrin, who tested negative for HIV.
“We accused him of transmitting the [HIV] virus to the villagers in Roka commune,” Mr. Luch said. “He was sent to the court [Sunday] as a normal suspect and after being questioned he will be put in jail.”

Contacted Sunday, provincial court prosecutor Nuon San re­ferred questions to his deputy, Heng Luy, who he said had begun questioning Mr. Chrin on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Luy said he was “busy” and could not discuss the case, but provincial police chief Sar Thet said the court had not yet finished questioning Mr. Chrin.
“He was sent back to the provincial police station and will be sent to the court tomorrow to continue being questioned,” Mr. Thet said.

By Beng Sor, chief of the Roka commune health center, said Sunday that young children, elderly villagers and two monks are among the more than 100 people who have so far tested positive at his clinic.

Masami Fujita, the World Health Organization’s HIV team leader in Cambodia, who is aiding the government in its investigation into the cause of the HIV outbreak, said Sunday that it is entirely possible to spread the virus via contaminated medical tools.
“Scientifically, it’s possible for the virus to survive outside the body for days or even weeks if all the right conditions are met,” Dr. Fujita said.

“Contaminated medical tools could be one of the causes in this case,” he said, adding that HIV is far more likely to survive outside the body if it is contained, as it would be in a syringe.

Source: Cambodiadaily

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Camera traps reveal rare wildlife living in Virachey’s ‘paper park’

For the first time ever in Virachey National Park, conservation NGO HabitatID has captured photos of the stumped-tail macaque. “The local villagers said they were there, but the NGOs had never photographed  them, so there was no official record of them living in Virachey,” said Greg McCann, field director at HabitatID.

Through their camera-trapping project, the NGO aims to use photos of rare animals to convince larger organisations to provide more resources – such as rangers – for neglected National Parks, starting with Virachey.

Located in Ratanakkiri in the far northeast, the 333,000 hectare national park became a recognised park in 1993 and received support from a number of NGOs until 2008, when the World Bank withdrew funding for its conservation and ecotourism programs.

A bear at night. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Nowadays McCann refers to Virachey as a “paper park” – in reality there aren’t enough resources in place to protect it from loggers and poachers.

“The idea behind the camera trap project is that we put camera traps where NGOs or governments don’t want to or can’t afford to, and then we will present the photographs to them and hopefully inspire them to come in and do something with the place,” said McCann, who was surprised by the amount of wildlife they had captured since the cameras were installed in January.

So far, they have photographs of a dhole, a wild Asiatic dog listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as endangered, along with clouded leopards, gaur, pig-tailed macaques, sun bears and black bears, which are all listed as vulnerable, as well as civets, hog badgers, serow and lots of deer and pigs, many of which are on the verge of being threatened.

Dholes. PHOTO SUPPLIED

“We’ve got basically everything except elephants and the large common leopard,” McCann said. “I’m pretty sure we will get elephants and leopards; we’ve found elephant footprints, so we know they are there, but are yet to get them on camera.”

According to a survey conducted in 2007 by Conservation International, there is still little known about many areas within Virachey. “Due to its size, accessibility and lack of resources, many areas are not patrolled,” Stephane de Greef, a former technical advisor to the national park in 2005 and researcher who took part in the survey, said via email.

He lists poaching and illegal logging as some of the problems within Virachey.
McCann suggested poaching may have reduced slightly as illegal logging of rosewood increased, but De Greef said this was unlikely.

A hog badger. PHOTO SUPPLIED

McCann said they had found a surprising number of clouded leopards but refused to provide photos of them for publication, fearing they would encourage poaching. “Nearly all our cameras have clouded leopards on them, which has led us to the conclusion that maybe it is the top predator in the park now, where historically that should be the tiger,” McCann said.

The cameras also showed that “prey bait” such as deer are flourishing in the new environment without the larger predators such as tigers and leopards.
Some of the deer are not shy and would walk back and forth in front of the motion sensor camera, McCann said.

Despite the abundance of wildlife appearing on their cameras, McCann said it was unlikely it would prompt any NGO to invest in the park.

A gaur with her calf. PHOTO SUPPLIED

“I really think the only thing that would make them come in [to Virachey] and do something would be the rhino,” he said.

Nick Marx, Wildlife Alliance rescue director, doubts this would happen. “I think they are too late to protect rhinos and tigers in this country,” he said.

Locals say there are rhinos near the Laos border, but the last rhino photographed was in the 1930s and it has been 10 years since any local villagers have reported spotting one.
“It’s anecdotal evidence; you can tell it to the scientists and they won’t think much of it,” said McCann. “But the local people are the ones who spend the most time in the forest.”

A sambar deer. PHOTO SUPPLIED

HabitatID will patrol the park in January next year when they check and set up the next round of cameras. They will also be moving the cameras to more remote parts of Virachey, such as the Yak Yuek Grasslands and up on the Laos border. In some instances, they will be the first foreigners to enter those parts of the forest.

“There are two groups of animals that I’m kind of hoping to get,” said McCann. “I think there is a reasonable chance we will get big cats, leopards, open cats, fishing cats, and an outside chance we get the rhino, tiger, kouprey and tek tek.”

Stump-tailed macaques. PHOTO SUPPLIED

 

 

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3 Ways Steve Jobs Made Meetings Insanely Productive — And Often Terrifying

Steve Jobs made sure that Apple wasn't one of those companies.
Here are three ways the iconic CEO made meetings super productive.

1. He kept meetings as small as possible.

In his book "Insanely Simple," longtime Jobs collaborator Ken Segall detailed what it was like to work with him.
In one story, Jobs was about to start a weekly meeting with Apple's ad agency.
Then Jobs spotted someone new.
"He stopped cold," Segall writes. "His eyes locked on to the one thing in the room that didn't look right. Pointing to Lorrie, he said, 'Who are you?'"
Calmly, she explained that she was asked to the meeting because she was a part of related marketing projects.
Jobs heard her, and then politely told her to get out. 
"I don't think we need you in this meeting, Lorrie. Thanks," he said.
He was similarly ruthless with himself. When Barack Obama asked him to join a small gathering of tech moguls, Jobs declined — the President invited too many people for his taste.

2. He made sure someone was responsible for each item on the agenda. 

In a 2011 feature investigating Apple's culture, Fortune reporter Adam Lashinsky detailed a few of the formal processes that Jobs used, which led Apple to become the world's most valuable company.
At the core of Job's mentality was the "accountability mindset" — meaning that processes were put in place so that everybody knew who was responsible for what.
As Lachinsky described:

Internal Applespeak even has a name for it, the "DRI," or directly responsible individual. Often the DRI's name will appear on an agenda for a meeting, so everybody knows who is responsible. "Any effective meeting at Apple will have an action list," says a former employee. "Next to each action item will be the DRI." A common phrase heard around Apple when someone is trying to learn the right contact on a project: "Who's the DRI on that?"

The process works. Gloria Lin moved from the iPod team at Apple to leading the product team at Flipboard — and she brought DRIs with her.
They're hugely helpful in a startup situation.
"In a fast-growing company with tons of activity, important things get left on the table not because people are irresponsible but just because they're really busy," she wrote on Quora. "When you feel like something is your baby, then you really, really care about how it's doing."

3. He wouldn't let people hide behind PowerPoint.

Walter Isaacson, author of the "Steve Jobs" biography, said, "Jobs hated formal presentations, but he loved freewheeling face-to-face meetings." 
Every Wednesday afternoon, he had an agenda-less meeting with his marketing and advertising team. 
Slideshows were banned because Jobs wanted his team to debate passionately and think critically, all without leaning on technology. 
"I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs told Isaacson. "People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint."

Source: businessinsider

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Election NGOs to Begin Testing New Voter Registration System

Testing of a computerized voter registration system will begin next month in the hopes of addressing flaws in the current system, which remains susceptible to election fraud, a coalition of NGOs working to promote democracy in the country announced Thursday.

The Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) has been working toward improving the country’s widely-criticized voter registration system since the CPP and CNRP began negotiating election reform in August, with the aim of passing it on to the National Election Committee (NEC) prior to the next election in 2017.

Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia, said at a roundtable meeting of the ERA Thursday that the technology was now ready for testing.
“With a new modernized voter registration system, we can input thumbprints, photographs and the identification cards of voters,” he said. “Another thing is that we can reduce the mistakes…and ensure there are no double names.”

“We are going to do a pilot in two communes in Ratanakkiri and Kompong Cham provinces,” Mr. Panha said, adding that the pilots would take place in Ratanakkiri from January 11 to 19 and in Kompong Cham from January 14 to 22.

The electoral roll has come under fire from local and international election monitors for including double names and missing many others.
An internal audit carried out by the NEC two weeks before the July 2013 election found that 9 percent of people registered to vote in the election could not find their names on the voter list, and would thus be unable to cast their ballot.

A similar audit by Comfrel had found that about 1.25 million people would be disenfranchised by not being able to find their names. Another audit, carried out by the National Democratic Institute, found that 10 percent of people registered to vote in the election did not appear to exist.
The July 28 election was eventually lost by the CNRP by 289,793 votes, according to the NEC’s official results.

Mr. Panha said many of the system’s shortcomings were down to the fact that responsibility for registration is currently shared between the NEC and commune clerks, explaining that the NEC could operate an electronic system on its own.

The system, he said, would only require one computer per registration site, with an Internet connection to send the data to Phnom Penh for processing.
“We think that to implement voter registration for about 10 million people, we would have to spend only about 80 days,” Mr. Panha said.
“When we carry out [the pilot] with success, we will make a document recommending that the new NEC take our system …and do a pilot themselves officially,” he added.

NEC secretary-general Tep Nytha said he has no problem with the ERA pilot, but was not sure if a computerized system would be a panacea for voter-list problems.
“I do not know what they are doing but I think even countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh that have implemented a new modern system still have double names,” he said. “This is them advertising, and it is their right.”

CNRP official Kuoy Bunroeun, who has been named as one of the opposition’s appointments to the new NEC when it is formed early next year, said he welcomed the pilot program as it could safeguard citizens’ right to vote.

“We can delete anything suspicious that occurs—especially the issue of double names, ghost names and the names of anyone who doesn’t have the right to vote but has their name on their voter list,” Mr. Bunroeun told reporters after the roundtable meeting.
“But we need to examine this mechanism and what challenges it could face, for example, in timing, and secondly it’s a matter of budget, whether we can afford to cover the big spending…and whether Internet access will be convenient.”

Mr. Bunroeun said he would raise the proposal with the CPP in election reform talks Friday.

Source: cambodiadaily

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Film treaty paves way

Cambodia's film industry is expected to play a greater role on the global stage after a treaty was signed with France on Thursday making it easier for the country to be named a co-production partner in international films.

The agreement will allow Cambodian investors to become a major stakeholder in international films to which they contribute a minimum of 10 per cent of the funding, according to Phoeung Sakona, minister of culture and fine arts.

Speaking at the opening of the fourth Cambodia International Film Festival (CIFF) at Legend Cinema on Saturday evening, Sakona said the agreement could have important consequences for a new adaptation of Francois Bizot’s Khmer Rouge memoir The Gate. French filmmaker Régis Wargnier (Indochine) will direct the movie, which is set to begin filming in January. French-Cambodian director Rithy Panh is also involved in the production.

Cedric Eloy, CEO at the Cambodia Film Commission, which co-organised the festival with the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre, praised the move, saying the treaty gives Cambodia input in the content, artistic side and technical sides of films.

“It will give hope to filmmakers here not to make projects that are based only on this small market but to have projects that are universal and can be interesting to other countries.”

He added that the treaty will allow Cambodia to co-operate in heritage protection, training, exchanges and film festivals.

France has already signed a similar co-production agreement with other Asian countries such as India, China, Japan and South Korea.

The announcement came as this year’s CIFF launched in a ceremony featuring traditional Cambodian dance and the screening of two Cambodian short films.

At the event, the festival awarded recognition to director Rithy Panh and actor Thon Thanet, for director of the year and actress of the year, respectively.

Panh’s critically acclaimed film The Missing Picture has been shortlisted for an Academy Award and was awarded a prize at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, but this was the director’s first Cambodian award.

He said: “It’s very important for me to be recognised by my own country.”

This year’s edition of CIFF, organised by the Cambodia Film Commission and the Bophana Centre, features more than 80 screenings across five Phnom Penh venues over five days this week.

As well as screening recent celebrated Cambodian films such as The Missing Picture, A River Changes Course and Where I Go, it will also premiere Hok Visal’s new feature film Gems on the Run. Other highlights include Indonesian and Indian films.

Eloy said: “I think the festival and the film industry are getting better every year.”

Source: phnompenhpost

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Most see Kingdom on wrong path: poll

Nearly a year after the contested 2013 national election, a majority of Cambodians believed the Kingdom’s democracy was headed in the “wrong direction”, according to a report released on Wednesday.

“Democracy in Cambodia”, The Asia Foundation’s third national public opinion poll on democracy, says that 59 per cent of Cambodians thought that the country was taking a turn for the worse in the wake of the election and amid the opposition’s ongoing boycott of the National Assembly due to claims of voter fraud.

The chief reason for the pessimism – and the biggest single problem facing Cambodia, according to those surveyed – was corruption, the accompanying report says.

Despite recent significant economic growth and poverty reduction in the country, the findings mark a significant downward shift in national mood since the foundation’s last poll in 2003.

“The political sentiment that took place on July 22, when the CPP and the CNRP reached a compromise, definitely changed the tempo of the calls for change in the country,” said Asia Foundation’s country representative Silas Everett.

“There were confirmations that this kind of change was pretty much what people wanted.”

Eighty-six per cent of the 1,000 respondents said they voted in the last election, where the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) experienced its first decline in support in 20 years.

Fifty-eight per cent also believe that their votes could make some or a big difference in how the country is run, though an even higher percentage (60 per cent) expressed what the report termed a “paternalistic” view of their government.

“There have been more people engaging in voting compared to past elections, and the quality of the participation has also increased from what we’ve seen, because people think their comments and ideas are given more weight,” said Koul Panha, executive director of independent election monitor Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL).

But although voter engagement was particularly high among Cambodians, the majority of respondents still think that the 2013 elections were “not free and fair”.

Fifty-seven per cent said the election was unfair, while 31 per cent said otherwise and 12 per cent were unsure.

These findings demonstrate a substantial reversal in public opinion from The Asia Foundation’s survey in 2000, in which only 13 per cent thought the 1998 election was not free and fair.

The major reasons for this view change were the way elections were conducted, and primarily, how names were lost from the election list and instances of electoral fraud, the report concludes.

“Post-election 2013, we were aware that there were some problems taking place, like how the people who are conducting the elections did not have enough experience and how there were not enough resources,” said National Election Committee (NEC) Secretary General Tep Nytha.

Along with independent groups like COMFREL, and the CPP and the CNRP, Nytha said, the NEC has been working to improve Cambodia’s electoral process and ensure its own independence.

The move resonates with the report’s findings on how four out of five Cambodians preferred the NEC to be independent, regardless of cost.

Currently, the two main parties are working on a new version of the NEC draft law, which is set to overhaul Cambodia’s electoral system after accusations of voter fraud surfaced following the last election.

In October, CPP working group chief Bin Chhin and his CNRP counterpart Kuoy Bunroeun said the parties had reached “90 per cent” agreement, though the talks were momentarily snagged when the CPP insisted that NEC members hold only Cambodian citizenship. The CNRP ultimately ceded the point amid a broader political deal brokered by party president Sam Rainsy.

Apart from the upcoming NEC draft law, COMFREL is also currently developing a computerised voting system to avoid past election problems that were largely due to the old pen-and-paper system, like duplicating the names of voters, Panha said.

“We’re going to finish this project by January and present the recommendation to legislature in order to integrate the system in the new election law,” he said.

The report found that there is broad public support for election reform, but 56 per cent of people polled said that before another election is held, the government must “wait until reforms are passed”.

“There’s not going to be a quick fix, because there are long-term reforms required, but the sober part is that we’re in a period where people accept and understand that,” Everett said.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MEAS SOKCHEA AND TAING VIDA

Source: phnompenhpost

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រាជធានី​ភ្នំពេញ ៖ តាម​ប្រភព​ព័ត៌មាន​បាន​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ថា គណៈកម្មការ​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​បទល្មើស​ព្រហ្មទណ្ឌ (​ឧក្រិដ្ឋ និង​ម​ជ្ឍឹ​ម​) របស់​ក្រសួងមហាផ្ទៃ​ដែល​មាន​នាយកដ្ឋាន​៥​ចំណុះ​ឲ្យ នាយកដ្ឋាន​កណ្តាល​នគរបាល​យុត្តិធម៌​មាន​លោក​ឧម​ត្តម​សេនីយ៍​ឯក ម៉ក់ ជី​តូ ជា​ប្រធាន​បាន​បើក​កិច្ចប្រជុំ​ពិសេស​មួយ ដើម្បី​ធ្វើការ​ស៊ើបអង្កេត​តាម​ចាប់ខ្លួន​មេខ្លោង​ឧក្រិដ្ឋជន​ដែល​ជាប់​ពាក់ព័ន្ធ​បាញ់​សម្លាប់​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា អ៊ឹ​ង ម៉េ​ង​ជី បន្ទាប់​ពី​សមត្ថកិច្ច​នគរបាល​រាជធានី​ភ្នំពេញ ចាប់ខ្លួន អង្គរក្ស​៤​នាក់ ដាក់​ពន្ធនាគារ​រួច​ហើយ​នោះ ដែល​មេខ្លោង​កំពុង​គេចខ្លួន ហើយ​ថែម​ទាំង​បង្ហោះ​ពាក្យ​សំដី​តាម​សង្គម​ហេ្វ​ស​ប៊ុ​ក និង​គេហទំព័​រវេ​ប​សាយ​មួយ​ចំនួន​ទៀត​ផង​។

ប្រភព​បន្ត​ថា លោកនាយ​ឧត្តមសេនីយ៍ នេ​ត សា​វឿ​ន អគ្គស្នងការ​នគរបាល​ជាតិ​បាន​ដាក់​បទបញ្ជា​ទៅ​គណៈកម្មការ​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​បទល្មើស​ឲ្យ​ធ្វើ​ការងារ​នេះ ឲ្យ​ខាង​តែ​បាន ពោល​គឺ​ចាប់ខ្លួន​មេខ្លោង​នៅ​ពីក្រោយ​ឃាតកម្ម​ដ៏​សាហាវ ។ កិច្ចប្រជុំ​ត្រូវ​បាន​មន្ត្រីជាន់ខ្ពស់​ក្នុង​គណៈកម្មការ​នោះ​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ថា ខ្លឹមសារ​សំខាន់​មាន​៣​ចំណុច ១-​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​ពាក្យ​សំដី​ដែល​អះអាង​ថា លោក​ឧកញ៉ា ថោ​ង សា​រ៉ាត់ បាន​វាយប្រហារ​តាម​សង្គម​ហ្វេ​ស​ប៊ុ​ក និង​គេហទំព័​រវេ​ប​សាយ ២​លើក​មក​ហើយ​នោះ ដែល​សមត្ថកិច្ច​មាន​ជំនឿ​ថា ជា​សំដី​ពិតតែ​៥០​ភាគរយ​ប៉ុណ្ណោះ​ទេ ២-​បែងចែក​កម្លាំង​ស្វែងរក​ចាប់ខ្លួន​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា ថោ​ង សា​រ៉ាត់ ឲ្យ​ខាង​តែ​បាន និង​៣-​បើ​តាម​ការ​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា ថោ​ង ស​រ៉ាត់ មិន​បាន​ចេញ​ទៅ​ក្រៅប្រទេស​ទេ បានជា​មានការ​អះអាង​ដូច្នេះ​សមត្ថកិច្ច​បាន​ធ្វើការ​ឆែកឆេរ​តាម​ច្រកព្រំដែន​ប្រទេស​ជិតខាង​មិន​មានឈ្មោះ​ថោ​ង សា​រ៉ាត់ ចេញ​ទៅ​ក្រៅ​ឡើយ លើកលែង​តាម​ច្រករបៀង ។ គណៈ​ការ​បង្ក្រាប​បទល្មើស​បាន​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ទៀត​ថា កិច្ចប្រជុំ​សំដៅ​សំខាន់​លើ​ពាក្យ​ពេជ្រ​ដែល​បង្ហោះ​ក្នុង​សង្គម​ហ្វេ​ស​ប៊ុ​ក​២​លើក គឺ​វា​មានការ​ខុស​គ្នា​នឹង​សម្លេង​គ្នា ដែល​សមត្ថកិច្ច​បាន​ដាក់​ជំនឿ​តែ​៥០​ភាគរយ​ប៉ុណ្ណោះ ជា​សំដី​ឧកញ៉ា ថោ​ង សា​រ៉ា​ត់ ។          
សូមស្តាប់ខ្សែអាត់ជាសម្លេងរបស់​ លោកថោង សារ៉ាត់ទាំងអស់គ្នា៖

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​បើ​ Abante ​​មាន​ឱកាស​ទៅ​សម្ដែង​នៅ​អាមេរិក​មែន ​វា​ក៏​មិន​មែន​ជា​លើក​ទី​ ១​ដែរ​ ដែល​លោកស្រី​ Ellen ​អញ្ជើញ​​តារា​ចម្រៀង​ល្បី​តាម ​Youtube ​ចូលរួម​​កម្មវិធី​របស់​លោកស្រី​ ព្រោះ​កន្លង​មក​តារា​ល្បី​ក្នុង​ Youtube ​ជនជាតិ​ហ្វីលីពីន​ដូចជា​​ កុមារា ​Aldrich Lloyd ​និង​​កុមារី Charice ​សុទ្ធ​តែ​ធ្លាប់​ទទួល​បាន​​ឱកាស​នេះ​ដូចគ្នា។ ​

ពិធីការិនី​ Ellen កំពុង​រាំ​ជាមួយ​ស្ត្រី​ទីមួយ​អាមេរិក​លោក​ស្រី Michelle Obama

ឈប់​រៀបរាប់​ច្រើន ​ស្ដាប់​​​ការ​បង្ហើរ​សំនៀង​ដ៏​មាន​ទឹកដម​របស់​ Abante ​វិញ៖

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ភ្នំពេញៈ ភរិយា​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ កំពុង​ស្ថិត​ក្នុង​ស្ថានភាព​សោក​សៅ​ចំពោះ​មរណភាព​ប្តី ដែល​ត្រូវ​ឃាតករ​បាញ់​សម្លាប់ កាល​ពី​ចុង ខែ​វិច្ឆិកា ដោយ​រំពឹង​រង់​ចាំ​ដំណោះ​ស្រាយ​ពី​សមត្ថកិច្ច​វែក​មុខ​ឃាតករ​ពិត​ដើម្បី​រក​ យុត្តិធម៌។

ក្រោយ​មរណភាព​និង​ការ​រៀបចំ​ពិធី​បុណ្យ​សព​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ ចប់​សព្វ​គ្រប់​មក ក្រុម​គ្រួសារ​និង​សាច់​ញាតិ​ជន​រង​គ្រោះ​មិន​ធ្លាប់​បាន​បង្ហើប​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ជា ​សាធារណៈ​ជុំវិញ​ករណី​ឃាតកម្ម​នេះ​ឡើយ។

បើ​តាម​សន្តិសុខ​ម្នាក់​បម្រើ​ការ​នៅ​ការដ្ឋាន​គ្រឿង​សំណង់ និង​ជា​គេហដ្ឋាន​របស់​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ នៅ សង្កាត់​ភ្នំពេញ​ថ្មី ខណ្ឌ​សែន​សុខ បាន​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ថា ក្រោយ​បញ្ចប់​ពិធី​បុណ្យ​សព​នៅ​ការដ្ឋាន​នេះ ប្រពន្ធ​និង​កូនៗ​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា មិន​បាន​មក​ទីនេះ​ញឹក​ញាប់​ទេ ហើយ​អង្គរក្ស​ត្រូវ​ពង្រឹង​និង​បង្កើន​កិច្ច​ការពារ​ជាង​មុន។

លោក​ថា៖ «លោក​ឧកញ៉ា គឺជា​មនុស្ស​សាមញ្ញ​បំផុត គាត់​ដូច​ជា​មិន​ដែល​មាន​រឿង​អី​ជាមួយ​នរណា​ទេ គាត់​រវល់​ច្រើន មិន​ដែល​និយាយ​ជាមួយ​កម្មករ​ច្រើន​ទេ ហើយ​ពួក​ខ្ញុំ​ក៏​គិត​តែ​ពី​ធ្វើ​ការ មិន​សូវ​ជួប​គាត់​ដែរ»។

លោក​ស្រី តាំង គឹមឆេង ជា​ភរិយា​លោក អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ និង​ជា​ថៅកែ​ហាង​ពេជ្រ ហុង កុង មាន​ទីតាំង​នៅ​ជិត​ផ្សារ​ធំ​ថ្មី បាន​ថ្លែង​រៀបរាប់​តាម​ទូរស័ព្ទ កាល​ពី​ម្សិល​មិញ​ថា រហូត​មក​ទល់​ពេល​នេះ​គឺ​ក្រុម​គ្រួសារ​កំពុង​បន្ត​ភាព​សោក​សៅ។

លោក​ស្រី​ថា៖ «ទុក​ឲ្យ​សមត្ថកិច្ច​ជា​អ្នក​ដោះ​ស្រាយ​រក​យុត្តិធម៌ ខ្ញុំ​មិន​ទាន់​និយាយ​អី​បាន​ទេ ព្រោះ​កំពុង​សោក​សៅ...សមត្ថកិច្ច​គេ​អត់​ទាន់​មក​សួរ​នាំ​អី​ផង»។

ចំណែក​ប្អូន​ស្រី​បង្កើត​របស់​លោក​ស្រី​និង​ត្រូវ​ជា​ប្អូន​ជីដូន​មួយ​ លោក អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ សុំ​មិន​បញ្ចេញ​ឈ្មោះ​បាន​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ថា ក្រុម​គ្រួសារ​កំពុង​ពង្រឹង​ស្មារតី​ហើយ​ក៏​បាន​ប្រគល់​ភារកិច្ច​ទាំង​ស្រុង ​ទៅ​សមត្ថកិច្ច ដើម្បី​ស្វែង​រក​យុត្តិធម៌ ព្រោះ​បច្ចុប្បន្ន​នេះ ម្តាយ​លោក អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ ចាស់​ជរា​ត្រូវ​ការ​ការ​ថែទាំ ចំណែក​ប្រពន្ធ​របស់​គាត់​កំពុង​ស្ថិត​ក្នុង​សភាព​ទន់​ខ្សោយ។ នៅ​ពេល​សួរ​ថា តើ​ក្រុម​គ្រួសារ​លោក អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ ស្គាល់​ឧកញ៉ា ថោង សារ៉ាត់ ឬ​ទេ?
អ្នក​ស្រី​បាន​ឆ្លើយ​ថា៖ «បើ​សួរ​ភរិយា​គាត់ ក៏​មិន​ដឹង​ដែរ ព្រោះ​ការងារ​រក​ស៊ី​ប្តី​ប្រពន្ធ​គាត់​ផ្សេង​គ្នា យើង​អត់​ដឹង​ថា មាន​ពាក់​ព័ន្ធ​គ្នា​ឬ​អត់​ពី​មុន​មក​ទេ?»។

កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ ទី២២ ខែ​វិច្ឆិកា លោក​ឧកញ៉ា អ៊ឹង ម៉េងជឺ ត្រូវ​ខ្មាន់​កាំភ្លើង​ពីរ​នាក់ បាញ់ ៦ គ្រាប់​ស្លាប់​ភ្លាមៗ នៅ​ចំណុច​មុខ​ហាង​លក់​ផ្លែ​ឈើ យីហោ ឡោ តិចសេង តាម​ផ្លូវ​ព្រះ​សីហនុ កែង​ផ្លូវ ១០៥ ស្ថិត​ក្នុង សង្កាត់​ទួល​ស្វាយ​ព្រៃ​២ ខណ្ឌ​ចំការមន ហើយ​ករណី​នោះ សមត្ថកិច្ច​បាន​ដាក់​ការ​សង្ស័យ​ជំហាន​ដំបូង​ថា ជា​រឿង​គំនុំ។

ក្រោយ​ការ​ស៊ើប​អង្កេត​ជាង ១០ ថ្ងៃ សមត្ថកិច្ច​បាន​ឃាត់​ខ្លួន​បុរស ៤ នាក់ ជា​អង្គរក្ស​លោក ឧកញ៉ា ថោង សារ៉ាត់ ហើយ​តុលាការ​បាន​សម្រេច​ចោទ​ពួក​គេ​ពី​បទ​ឃាតកម្ម​គិត​ទុក​ជា​មុន ដែល​សង្ស័យ​ថា លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់ ម្ចាស់​ក្រុមហ៊ុន​បុរី ៩៩៩ និង​ក្រុម​ហ៊ុន​សាច់​ប៉ាតេ​មាន​ជ័យ ៩៩៩ គឺជា​មេ​ខ្លោង​ក្នុង​ឃាតកម្ម​នេះ ខណៈ​ដែល​លោក បាន​កំពុង​រត់​គេច​ខ្លួន។

អ្នក​នាំ​ពាក្យ​ក្រសួង​មហា​ផ្ទៃ លោក ខៀវ សុភ័គ បាន​ប្រាប់ ភ្នំពេញ ប៉ុស្តិ៍ ពី​ម្សិល​មិញ​ថា តម្រុយ​នៃ​វត្តមាន​របស់​ជន​ជាប់​ចោទ គឺ​ទំនង​ជា​កំពុង​ស្នាក់​នៅ​ប្រទេស​វៀតណាម ហើយ​សមត្ថកិច្ច​ក៏​បាន​កំពុង​ស្វែង​រក និង​ស្នើ​ទៅ​ប្រទេស​នេះ​សុំ​សហការ​ចាប់​ខ្លួន​លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់ តាម​ដីកា​របស់​តុលាការ​ផង​ដែរ។

លោក ខៀវ សុភ័គ បាន​អំពាវនាវ៖ «សូម​ក្រុម​គ្រួសារ​លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់ សហការ​ផ្តល់​ព័ត៌មាន​ដល់​ប៉ូលិស​ពី​ទីតាំង​លាក់​ខ្លួន​នោះ​ដើម្បី​ឲ្យ​លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់ ចូល​ខ្លួន​ទទួល​ទោស។ អ្នក​ដែល​ដឹង​ហើយ​មិន​ប្រាប់ គឺ​ស្មើ​នឹង​ទោស​សម​គំនិត»។

កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ចន្ទ ទី៨ ខែ​ធ្នូ តាម​រយៈ​ខ្សែ​អាត់​សំឡេង​ដែល​អះអាង​ថា ជា​លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់ បាន​ស្រែក​យំ​និង​អង្វរ ស្នើ​អន្តរាគមន៍​ពី​នាយក​រដ្ឋ​មន្ត្រី​លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ចំពោះ​ការ​ចោទ​ប្រកាន់​រូប​លោក ក្រុម​គ្រួសារ និង​អង្គរក្ស​ដោយ​សំអាង​ថា ការ​ចោទ​ប្រកាន់​របស់​តុលាការ គឺជា​ការ​មួល​បង្កាច់ «ប្រែ​ពី​ស​ទៅ​ជា​ខ្មៅ»។ ថ្មីៗ​នេះ ខ្សែ​អាត់​សំឡេង​ថ្មី​មួយ​ទៀត​ដែល​អះអាង​ថា ជា លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់ ដែរ ក៏​បាន​សុំ​អន្តរាគមន៍​ពី​មេ​ដឹក​នាំ​គណបក្ស​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ មាន​លោក សម រង្ស៊ី និង​លោក កឹម សុខា ឲ្យ​អន្តរាគមន៍​ជួយ​រក​យុត្តិធម៌​ដល់​ខ្លួន ឪពុក​ម្តាយ និង​អង្គរក្ស ដែល​កំពុង​ជាប់​ឃុំ​ដោយ​លើក​ឡើង​ថា ខ្លួន​ធ្លាប់​បាន​ជួយ​ទំនុក​បម្រុង​សកម្មភាព​បាតុកម្ម​របស់​គណបក្ស​នេះ​ កន្លង​មក។
ខ្សែ​អាត់​សំឡេង​ថ្មី​នេះ​រៀបរាប់​ថា៖ «ខ្ញុំ​បាន​ជួយ​ឧបត្ថម្ភ​គណបក្ស​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ បាតុកម្ម​តាំង​ពី​ដើម​ដល់​ចប់​អស់ ១ ម៉ឺន​ដុល្លារ ជា​ពិសេស លោក កឹម សុខា ដឹង​ច្បាស់​ថា វាសនា (អង្គរក្ស​លោក ថោង សារ៉ាត់) ជា​អតីត​អង្គរក្ស​ដែល​លោក​ណែនាំ​មក...ខ្ញុំ​សន្យា​ថា បើ​ខ្ញុំ​រួច​ផុត​ពី​ទោស​ខ្ញុំ​នឹង​បន្ត​ជួយ​ផ្គត់​ផ្គង់​ដូច​មុន ខ្ញុំ​នឹង​សង​គុណ​នេះ»។

ជុំវិញ​ការ​អំពាវនាវ​នេះ លោក កឹម សុខា អនុ​ប្រធាន​រដ្ឋសភា និង​ជា​អនុ​ប្រធាន​គណបក្ស​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ កាល​ពី​ម្សិល​មិញ​បាន​ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ថា៖ «ខ្ញុំ​អត់​ដែល​ស្គាល់​គាត់​ផង (ចុះ​ការ​ជួយ​ឧបត្ថម្ភ​ដល់​គណបក្ស​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ!!!) ខ្ញុំ​អត់​ដឹង​ទេ»

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យ៉ាង​ណា​ក៏​ដោយ ខ្សែ​អាត់​សំឡេង ដែល​បាន​ចែក​រំលែក​បន្ត ក្នុង​បណ្តាញ​សង្គម​ទាំង​អស់​នេះ ត្រូវ​បាន​អ្នក​ប្រើ​ប្រាស់​ហ្វេសប៊ុក​ខ្លះ​ចាត់​ទុក​ថា ជា​រឿង​កុហក ដើម្បី​បោក​ប្រាស់​កេង​ចំណេញ​នយោបាយ ចំណែក​អ្នក​ខ្លះ​បាន​ស្នើ​ឲ្យ​សមត្ថកិច្ច បង្ហាញ​ភ័ស្តុតាង​នៃ​ការ​ចោទ​ប្រកាន់ ហើយ​មាន​ខ្លះ​ទៀត​ថា ខ្សែ​អាត់​នោះ​ពិត​ជា​សំឡេង​លោក​ឧកញ៉ា ថោង សារ៉ាត់ ពិត​មែន៕

Source: postkhmer

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Tycoon’s widow says police have ‘asked us nothing’

The wife of slain businessman Eng Meng Cheu, Tang Kim Chheng, has barely been involved in the investigation of her husband’s murder, despite police having charged multiple suspects, she said in an interview yesterday.

Speaking to the Post for the first time, Kim Chheng, who runs a jewellery shop that is part of the Shimmex Group, said she has had few dealings with police since her husband’s death.

“Leave it for the authorities to seek justice for us,” she said. “I do not want to talk about anything since we’re still grieving and the authorities have asked us nothing.”

According to a relative, who asked to remain anonymous, Kim Chheng does not know the alleged mastermind behind her husband’s murder – tycoon Thong Sarath.

“If you ask his wife, she does not know him,” the family member said.

“Meng Cheu and her ran businesses separately, so we don’t know if Meng Cheu and Thong Sarath had a connection or not.”

Meng Cheu, the chairman of the Shimmex Group, was gunned down outside a fruit shop in the capital on November 22. Security camera footage shows the businessman being shot six times after getting out of a Lexus.

Four of Sarath’s bodyguards were later arrested and charged over the murder, two of them as accomplices. Sarath has fled into hiding and has been charged in absentia with instigating premeditated murder.

Sarath’s parents have also been arrested and charged with possessing illegal weapons.
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said yesterday that the investigation was currently focused on the whereabouts of Sarath, who is suspected to have fled to Vietnam.

“We urge Sarath’s family to cooperate with police and tell us where he is so he can be brought to court,” he said, adding that anyone who knew where he was but did not say could be charged.

Source: phnompenhpost

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Teachers demand cash for institute

More than 100 teachers from Boeung Trabek High School are demanding that the government increase a payment to them due to what they characterise as their contribution to a plot of land that has been designated as the site of Cambodia’s much-anticipated genocide studies institute.

Though the Sleuk Rith Institute, spearheaded by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), will not displace the teachers, and though they do not own the land that the project will occupy, 126 of the school’s nearly 200 teachers are demanding that a $600 “encouragement” bonus offered to each teacher by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports be upped to a whopping $5,000.
However, Education Ministry spokesman Ros Salin said yesterday that the teachers’ request is unwarranted, and that the $600 is simply to “encourage them to cooperate with the building” of the Sleuk Rith Institute.

The imposing, Angkor-inspired edifice will comprise a museum, graduate school, research centre, library and document archives. Its design is being carried out by the prominent architect Zaha Hadid.
The institute is set to be built on a 4,800-square-metre plot of government-owned land that houses an unused and dilapidated building that was formerly a part of Boeung Trabek High School. A new unit has been constructed to replace the old building.

Though most of the 126 teachers support the institute’s creation, they have nonetheless signed a petition asking the government to award them $5,000 each for their work in developing the land.
“Some of us have taught here for more than 20 years and took care of the land, so $600 is very cheap,” a teacher, who requested anonymity and has taught in the school since 1987, said. “We spent so much time helping build the school into what it is now, so we think it’s only fair.”
But their request has been repeatedly denied by the Ministry of Education, citing that the teachers are not entitled to more compensation because they’re not the land’s legal owners.

“They have no ownership claim over it … and in fact, they have no right to ask for more money because the $600 we’re offering is just a bonus, an encouragement,” Salin said. “By doing this, they’ve turned something good into a political matter.”
Apart from the compensation, some teachers say they fear the institute might later displace students and turn the quiet high school into a chaotic complex.

“The money is important, but at the same time, we don’t want Boeung Trabek to become like Tuol Sleng, where there are a lot of people coming in and out and it will be hard for students to learn and do activities,” said one teacher, who has worked in the school for 25 years and wished to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job.
DC-Cam director Youk Chhang disagreed, saying that the institute would instead become a hub of learning.

“This will give students more access to research and history unlike before, so I’m very sad that they don’t see that this is the future of our country,” Chhang said. “As teachers, they should understand better when we’ve had less-educated villagers who have given us a couple of thousand riel as donations to the institute.”
According to Salin, the Ministry of Education plans to visit the school on Monday and offer the teachers $600.
“If they don’t take it, we will still proceed with the construction anyway, because what we’re doing conforms to the law,” Salin said.

The Sleuk Rith Institute is scheduled for groundbreaking in early 2015.
As a part of the project, DC-Cam has plans to rebuild another crumbling building at the high school’s south side and provide landscaping for the area.
The cost of the donor-funded project is still under evaluation, Chhang said, but he added that it’s set for completion after two to three years.

Source: phnompenhpost

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Cambodian firms face bigger risk of economic crimes

Businesses in the Kingdom experience economic crimes at almost twice the global average rate, according to a small-scale survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Cambodia branch.
PwC conducted the assessment during a seminar last week for the launch of the global Economic Crime Survey, which did not include Cambodia.
Of the 27 Cambodian businesses who responded at the seminar, 85 per cent reported experiencing some form of economic crime in the past two years, much higher than the 37 per cent reported globally.

Respondents included companies in the logistics, professional services and financial sectors.
Although the sample was small, the results showed that certain forms of economic crime were of particular concern to companies here.
For example, of the companies who said they were victims of economic crimes, the survey found 43 per cent of firms had experienced bribery and corruption in Cambodia over the last two years, the study’s global average was 27 per cent.

The Kingdom’s years of economic growth could also have a darker side, said PWC partner Marius Kunneke, as such rapid expansion increases the opportunities for fraud.
“It’s part of a global trend,” he said.
Procurement fraud, asset misappropriation, and cybercrime were the kinds of fraud most expected by the Cambodian companies surveyed.

Andrew Tan, PWC’s associate director for Cambodia and Laos, noted that opportunities for cybercrime have increased as companies adopt new technology.
Charles Van, president of the Association of Banks in Cambodia, said that for Cambodia’s banking sector at least, new technology had helped the country leapfrog older security systems to strengthen cybercrime protections.
“I think Cambodia is one of the lucky parties as we use the latest technology to give us more protection,” he said.

Source: phnompenhpost

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Koh Kong set for visitor influx

Hotels and restaurants are expected to be stretched at this weekend’s Sea Festival in Koh Kong, with authorities expecting up to 50,000 people to attend the annual beachside event this year.
Starting on Friday, the three-day festival is a mixed bag of events that hopes to appeal to all tastes. The coastal celebration aims to draw visitors to Cambodia’s lesser-known beachside tourist areas – Sihanoukville, Kep, Kampot and Koh Kong.

Hosted in Kep and Kampot last year, the event attracted over 30,000 people, according to Tourism Minister Thong Khon, and he expects numbers to increase this weekend with more international interest in the event.

“Around 50,000 visitors are expected to join the Sea Festival this year as Koh Kong has a much bigger beach than Kep,” Khon said. “Among the number, we expect around 10,000 visitors from Thailand to join the festival as the province is very close to Thailand,” he added.
The Sea Festival will showcase local and international food and will include cultural shows from featuring performers from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. The festival also hosts a number of sporting contests including boat races and bike riding.
The annual event has already proven a boon for local hoteliers who have been booked out well in advance.

“Guests started booking a month before the festival. All the 54 rooms in our hotel were booked two weeks ahead of the festival,” said Keo Chhunleng, a reservation officer at Koh Kong City Hotel.
But with numbers expected to swell, the event will also put a strain on an area still developing its tourism accommodation options. Provincial authorities are working on alternatives to house the anticipated sharp rise of visitors.

“There are around 1,700 rooms available in total in the province which will not be enough to accommodate visitors,” Bun Beav, director of Tourism Department in Koh Kong province.
“But we know the issue and have encouraged local people to put their house for rent if available. We have tents for rent and the province’s pagodas will open space to be able to help accommodate the remaining visitors too,”
he explained.

Hor Vandy, co-chair of the Government-Private Sector Working Group on Tourism, was concerned that Koh Kong may not yet be ready to accommodate such a large number of visitors.
“Though I expect a lesser amount of visitors will join the festival this year than last year, the gap between the number of hotels and restaurants and the number of people who will visit is still high,” he said.

Vandy, who said he too was unable to secure any accommodation himself, called on the government to ensure high standards of security and food hygiene were in place at this weekend’s festival.

Source: phnompenhpost

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បើទោះបីជា​អ្នកដំណើរ​បាន​ឃាត់​ប្រឆាំងនឹង​ទង្វើរ​នេះ​ក៏ដោយ ក៏​យុវជន​ខាងលើនេះ​ធ្វើ​ព្រងើយ ដោយ​ថា នេះ​ជា​ម្តាយ​របស់ខ្លួន ហើយ​គាត់​មាន​សតិ​ពុំ​ធម្មតា ។​

​បន្ទាប់ពី​រូបភាព​ទាំងនេះ ត្រូវបាន​បង្ហោះ​លើ​បណ្តាញ​សង្គម នា​ថ្ងៃទី​០៣ ធ្នូ វា​បាន​បង្ក​ជា​រលក​កំហឹង​ពី​សាធារណជន ។​

​ប៉ុន្តែ ស្ថានការណ៍​បាន​ស្ងាត់បាត់​ទៅវិញ គ្រា​ដែល​ស្ថានីយ៍ទូរទស្សន៍ TVBS របស់​តៃវ៉ាន់ ប្រកាសថា វា​ជាកា​រៀបចំ​ឈុត​ឆាក ក្នុង​បំណង​ដាស់សតិ​ឲ្យ​បុត្រាបុត្រី​ទាំងឡាយ នឹក​គិតដល់​អ្នកមាន​គុណ​របស់ខ្លួន ត្រូវមាន​ការយកចិត្ត​ទុកដាក់​ថែទាំ ប្រកបដោយ​មនសិការ​ទទួលខុសត្រូវ ។​

​រីឯ​តួអង្គ​យុវជន​នេះ​ក៏​ចែករំលែក​ថាៈ លោក​ពិតជា​មានការ​អល់ឯក​ចិត្ត នឹង​ដើរតួ​ក្នុង​ឆាក​បែបនេះ ។ ប៉ុន្តែ ក្រោយពី​យល់ដឹង​នូវ​អត្ថន័យ​បង្កប់​យ៉ាង​ជ្រាលជ្រៅ ក៏ដូចជា​ប្រយោជន៍​ទទួលបាន​ពី​ឈុត​សម្តែង​នេះ លោក​ក៏​ងក់ក្បាល​យល់ព្រម​ទៅ ៕​

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Source: KSN-NEWS

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