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UN Warns Officials To Stop Remarks Opposing Tribunal Cases
The UN’s top legal representative has warned Cambodian officials to cease public statements in opposition to two cases before the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Patricia O’Brien, UN undersecretary-general for legal affairs, met with government officials Thursday night to discuss UN concerns in the wake of the resignation of international investigating judge Siegfried Blunk Continue reading
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Tagged cambodia, cases, council, country, government, indictment, khieu-samphan, khmer, khmer-rouge, news, prime-minister, thursday, urged-the-royal
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Demonstrators at Court Delay Questioning of Lake Residents
Phnom Penh Municipal Court postponed the questioning of eight Boeung Kak lake residentsTuesday, after more than 100 people showed up in front of the court to demonstrate. Tep Vanny, who has been a representative of lake residents refusing to take a developer’s buyout in the neighborhood, was summoned for questioning over a counter-lawsuit brought by city officials. The officials say that a lawsuit brought by eight villagers, led by Tep Vanny, against the city and the developer, Shukaku, Inc., claiming they had been left out of a land compromise, was defamatory Continue reading
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Tagged case, city, defamation, demonstration, destruction, freedom, homes, lake, lake-residents, municipal-court, prime-minister, questioning
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China provides Kingdom security scanners
China has donated 17 secur-ity scanners worth about US$12.5 million to Cambodia in the run-up to the Kingdom’s ascension to the 2012 ASEAN chairmanship. Continue reading
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Tagged asean, business, cambodia, china, chinese, country, deputy, inspection, kingdom, minister, penh-on-sunday, prime-minister, sihan-oukville, sihanoukville, transport
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Cash crop deal to aid Kingdom
A Malaysian firm on Saturday signed a joint agricultural agreement with property development company Paragon Corporation Cambodia worth a potential US$2 billion in exports of corn, rubber, coffee and other cash crops. Penned by Paragon Corporation Cambodia and Markmore Group Malaysia, the joint development project will develop 400,000 hectares of corn, sugarcane, rubber, cocoa, coffee, pepper and rice in Mondulkiri, Kampong Cham and Kratie provinces. At current prices, the export value of the products is expected to be about $2 billion, according to those familiar with the deal Continue reading
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Tagged business, cambodia, current-prices, halim-saad, kampong-cham, malaysia, markmore-group, paragon, poverty, prime-minister, products, project, sophalet
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IMF’s Cambodia outlook upbeat
Tokyo The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook on Cambodian GDP growth in 2011 from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent just days after government officials announced a full percentage-point reduction in economic expectations. Continue reading
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Leading Researcher Calls on UN to Investigate Tribunal Judges’ Office
The head of the Documentation Center of Cambodia on Wednesday called for the UN to take “decisive action” to investigate the office of investigating judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, following the abrupt resignation of its international judge on Monday. The Documentation Center is a major researcher of Khmer Rouge atrocities, providing thousands of documents that have made the tribunal possible. Chhang Youk, director of the center, said the resignation of German judge Siegfried Blunk—who cited government statements against further indictments as his reason for quitting—required the UN to “restore the reputation” of the court Continue reading
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Tagged court, foreign-affairs, german, khmer, khmer-rouge, prime-minister, reputation, resignation, tribunal, victims
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Floods force GDP revision
Officials now expect 6 per cent growth Cambodia has lowered its economic growth projection from 7 to 6 per cent for 2011 after more than a month of flood devastation in the Kingdom and continued economic turmoil in the United States and Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon said yesterday. The full impact of the floods cannot yet be determined, but growth should remain at or above 6 per cent, officials and experts said. Economic problems abroad will have less of an effect on the Kingdom’s outlook. Continue reading
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