Archive for June, 2007

Thursday, 28.6.2007: Sam Rainsy Says Hun Sen’s Speech Is a Folding Screen

Posted on 29 June 2007. Filed under: Week 514 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 514
“The President of the opposition party calls Prime Minister Hun Sen’s speech a folding screen that exaggerates some facts in order to hide corruption in Cambodia.
“Mr. Hun Sen said during a ceremony of awarding certificates to the students of a seminar of the European Federation on Tuesday that those, [...]

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Wednesday, 27.6.2007: Samdech Hun Sen Calls Citizens to Vote for Cambodian People’s Party in 2008

Posted on 28 June 2007. Filed under: Week 514 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 514
“Phnom Penh: Responding to accusations against some humanitarian activities claiming they were carried out to attract votes, Samdech Hun Sen called for the citizens to vote for the Cambodian People’s Party [CPP] in next year national election.
“Samdech Hun Sen’s reaction was triggered after officials of the opposition party and a [...]

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Tuesday, 26.6.2007: Keo Remy Leaves Sam Rainsy Party and Resigns as Parliamentarian

Posted on 27 June 2007. Filed under: Week 514 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 514
“Phnom Penh: Mr. Keo Remy, a parliamentarian from Phnom Penh, announced on 25 June that he decided to leave the Sam Rainsy Party [SRP] and give up his position as a parliamentarian, in order to join the Human Rights Party which is led by Mr. Kem Sokha.
“Without making any comment [...]

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Monday, 26.6.2007: Camko City Announces $2 Billion Capital for Sister City Development, but It Uses Khmer Citizens’ Money

Posted on 26 June 2007. Filed under: Week 514 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 514
“A [South] Korean company, which announced to invest approximately $2 billion in Cambodia, giving the image that this will be foreign investment, finally will use the money of Khmer citizens to build a city. An economic analyst said that such kind of an investment game would not be accepted [...]

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Sunday,2007-06-24: A Financially Successful Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum Meeting

Posted on 25 June 2007. Filed under: *Editorial*, Week 513 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 513
The financial results of the two days Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum meeting – pledges of assistance by the international community of more than $689 million for Cambodia in the coming year – is being welcomed by many voices, in the country and abroad. But many press reports about this event [...]

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Saturday, 23.6.2007: Japanese Imperial Ambassador: This Is an Appropriate Time for Japanese Investors to Look at the Investment Market in Cambodia

Posted on 24 June 2007. Filed under: Week 513 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 513
“Phnom Penh: Mr. Shinohara Katsuhiro, the Japanese Imperial Ambassador to Cambodia, said that it is time that Japanese investors look at the investment market in Cambodia, because now everything in Cambodia is changing.
Mr. Katsuhiro said in a forum, organized by the Club of Cambodian Journalists on 22 June, ‘Now the [...]

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Friday, 22.6.2007: Amnesty International Questions Detention of Foreign Protesters

Posted on 23 June 2007. Filed under: Week 513 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 513
“Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the detention of eight foreigners on Tuesday, 19 June 2007, for demonstrating outside of the donors’ meeting in Phnom Penh, to draw attention to the conviction of two men accused of killing the trade union leader Mr. Chea Vichea in 2004, an accusation that [...]

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Thursday, 21.6.2007: Cambodia Receives Foreign Aid of More Than $689 Million for Development in 2008

Posted on 21 June 2007. Filed under: Week 513 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 513
“Mr. Keat Chhon, a Senior Minister, the Minister of Economy and Finance, the first Vice-President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and the President of the Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum, said in a press conference on the afternoon of 20 June 2007 in Phnom Penh after the [...]

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Wednesday, 20.6.2007: Samdech Hun Sen: ‘Royal Government Has Firmly Vowed to Fight Corruption without Reluctance’

Posted on 21 June 2007. Filed under: Week 513 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 513
“Samdech Hun Sen, the head of the Royal Government of Cambodia, stated again, ‘The Royal Government of Cambodia has firmly vowed to fight corruption without reluctance.’
“In a statement to the first Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum on the morning of 19 June 2007 at the Council for the Development of [...]

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Tuesday, 19.6.2007: Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum Meeting on 19/20 June 2007

Posted on 20 June 2007. Filed under: Week 513 |

The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 513
Instead of the translation of one article from a Khmer newspapers on the important event of the present donors meeting, we share today a collection of references – in random order – to some sources on the Internet, related to this event.
It is interesting that not only the big international [...]

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