Archive for January 16th, 2008
Tuesday, 15.1.2008: Getting Angry with Other People Who Grab Land, Taking Revenge on Parliamentarian Chin Kimsreng
The Mirror, Vol. 12, No. 543
“Phnom Penh: A man, who seems to have mental problems, knocked a Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker down, causing serious injury. Moreover, the same man rammed the lawmaker’s car into the front gate of his house, damaging it badly.
“This event happened at 11:30 p.m. on 13 January in front of the house #17, Street 71, Boeng Keng Kang, Chamkarmon. While being detained by the police, the offender tried to commit suicide repeatedly, but he was rescued in time.
“Local police said that the above home belongs to Mr. Chin Kimsreng, 70, a lawmaker of the Cambodian People’s Party from Kompong Cham. His house is separated into two halves, to rent one to a French person to open a small bar, while the rest was kept as his residence. The offender is Ros Sovann, 28, a guard working for Protek Security, residing at Russey Sros, Niroth, Meanchey. He had been sent by his company to guard Mr. Chin Kimsreng’s home.
“Ros Sovann seemed not to be frightened about his act. A witness, as well as the police, said that Ros Sovann behaved like a mad man. However, according to what Ros Sovann said, his act was planned. Ros Sovann said that he had a rancor against high-ranking officials, after his land in Russey Sros village had been abusively grabbed by high-ranking officials. This land problem prevents him also from getting married. His mother told him that only if she could sell her land she would be able to support his wedding. Since then, he has always been so rancorous against high-ranking officials so that he even requested that his company send him to guard high-ranking officials’ homes, in order to find a chance of taking revenge on them. Later, the company sent him to guard Chin Kim Sreng’s home which was rented to the French person to open a small bar.
“Ros Sovann added that while he saw Chin Kimsreng stopping his Lexus car in front of his house and was opening the gate, he attacked Chin Kimsreng with a steel pipe and knocked him unconscious, so that he fell on the ground. Then Ros Sovann got into Chin Kimsreng’s car and began ramming it into the front gate of the house.
“Police said that Ros Sovann confirmed that he never had a rancor specifically against Chin Kimsreng as a person, and he did not run away.
“Alerted by the noise of the Lexus, nearby private security guards turned out to help and stopp Ros Sovann. The victim Chin Kimsreng was sent to Calmette Hospital, and on 14 January he was still unconscious.
“At the Chamkarmon district temporary detention center, Ros Sovann tried to commit suicide 2 or 3 times, until the electricity was disconnected.
“According to the police report, first Ros Sovann tore a pillow into pieces and tied himself with the pieces to the bar of the door to commit suicide, but he did not succeed, because the pieces of the pillow were too fragile. After that, Ros Sovann tried to commit suicide with an electric wire, but he was rescued by police in time. Police said that they could not sleep the whole night, as they had organized shifts to keep watching Ros Sovann.
“Nov Yeab, 54, Ros Sovann’s mother said that her son has had mental problems after she didn’t agree to support his wedding, because her land dispute was not settled. She added that formerly she had a plot of land of 15×200 meters at Russey Sros village. Currently she has only 15×40 meters of land, because the other part was grabbed from her. That land had been rented out to Klauk Dul, the village chief, to build a village office, but later the land was sold by a new village chief. In 1994, she filed a complaint to the court, but no one has sought justice for her so far.” Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.16, #4489, 15.1.2008
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.7, #1545, 15.1.2008
- One Oknha [San Than] Dares to Makes a Fences Around and Grab 7,000 Hectares of Mountainous Land [Kors Kralor, Battambang]
- Saudi Arabia Beheads Indonesian Housemaid [who killed her landlady and robbed her jewelry]
Khmer Machas Srok, Vol.2, #91, 15.1.2008
- Hun Sen Warns Funcinpec Not to Consider Those Who Join the Cambodian People’s Party to Be Traitors
Koh Santepheap, Vol.41, #6245, 15.1.2008
- Computer Room [of Open School Program, built in cooperation between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the NGO Open Institute] Set Up [at National Institute of Education] to Study How to Use [low-priced, low electricity consumption computers] at Schools
- Ministry of Interior Opens Way for Khmer Republic Party Whose President Is Former Field Marshal Lon Nol’s Son [Lon Rithi – to open offices in villages, communes, subdistricts, districts, provinces, and towns]
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.15, #3364, 14.1.2008
- Mr. Sam Rainsy Criticizes Printing Money to Buy Votes Which Makes Value of Riel Decline
- Yuon [Vietnam] Agrees to Release Tim Sakhan from Prison [who has been defrocked on accusation of having perpetrated an offense against the Buddhist law, because he is accused to have destroyed the harmony between Vietnam and Cambodia, now jailed in Vietnam] if He Will Not Return to Cambodia
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.16, #4489, 15.1.2008
- Getting Angry with Other People Who Grab Land, Taking Revenge on Parliamentarian Chin Kimsreng
- Thailand Considers $41 Million Loan to Cambodia [for road development]
Monday, 14.1.2008: Each Government Institution Should Review Their Web Sites
The Mirror, Vol. 12, No. 543
“Phnom Penh: Government institutions should review their web sites in order to facilitate those who do research and want to study about Cambodia.
“Earlier this week, a group of students discussed their research in a meeting in a complex of an university in Phnom Penh in order to complete their assignments and submit them to their professors; however, Rasmei Kampuchea became interested in their complaint about the lack of documents on the web sites of different ministries of the Cambodian government.
“The students complained that the web sites of almost all ministries do not have sufficient information for their research, and the information is not up-to-date.
“None of them dared to give an interview to Rasmei Kampuchea, but after getting this information, Rasmei Kampuchea tried to browse a web site they had mentioned – the web site of the Council of Ministers with the address http://www.pressocm.gov.kh. But when it was visited, what they had stated seemed not to be right at all. The web site is written in Khmer, in good order, with many documents, though there are in general not so many which try to show something new and up-to-date. Rasmei Kampuchea tried to browse through it step by step, from the first page to a page which says ‘Ministries.’ When we clicked it, it names 26 ministries, 2 secretariats-of-state, and another link is to the Phnom Penh Municipality. From this point on, Rasmei Kampuchea journalists spent time from the beginning until the end of the week to click on the names of all ministries, from one point to the next, and they found that all ministries of the Cambodian government have their own web sites, and those web sites are designed not worse than the web sites of ministries or departments of neighboring countries. But what is a pity is that hardly any of those web sites have anything new, and some ministries show only information collected in 2005, while at this time the world moves already into the year 2008.
“Rasmei Kampuchea could not contact the designers of those web sites; however, Mr. Phu Leewood, the Secretary-General of the National Information Technology Development Authority [NiDA], told Rasmei Kampuchea by phone that the government pays very high attention to information technology, but the design of the different ministries’ web sites is the work of the ministries. He said on Friday, 11 January, ‘According to the Rectangular Strategy of the government, information technology development receives high priority attention, but such development has always also many lacking points.’
“He continued to say that, seeing the importance of information technology, the government decided to create NiDA in 2000, and up to now, this Authority has trained approximately 6,000 public servants and the public; as for web site design, more than 30 people have been trained.
“Since 2000 up to now, after eight years, looking at the web sites of different ministries, it seems that a lot of information is lacking.
“Mr. Leewood said stated that it is normal that during a development process, there are always some missing points, but the government pays much attention; and concerning the web sites of the ministries, the Authority [of NiDA] does not have the right to intervene.
“He stated, ‘As for the web site of any ministry, that ministry has to find up-to-date information, not NiDA.’
“Mr. Eng Chhay Ieng, a parliamentarian [and secretary-general of the Sam Rainsy Party], said that web sites are like libraries or bookshops. Therefore the government should pay attention to organize them well, so that it becomes possible to find lots of information, because web sites are warehouses of documents which facilitate the work of those who do research and study about Cambodia.
“He stated, ‘The Ministries should pay attention to improve their web sites.’
“A senior official of a non-government organization who is working on information technology development, told Rasmei Kampuchea – without giving his name – that the lack of information on web sites is a deficiency that the ministries should rectify. He said, ‘The government should pays attention to this deficiency so that researchers do not waste time.’
“He went on to say that because some officials in some ministries have not been aware, they also seem not to be interested in this problem, and they do not consider the collection of information as a priority, while other countries pay much more attention. Mr. Leewood said that the promotion of web site design is part of the Cambodian government’s intention in its public administration reform programs.” Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.16, #4488, 13-14.1.2008
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Monday, 14 January 2008
Chuoy Khmer, Vol.2, #27, 14-15.1.2008
- Kem Sokha [president of the Human Rights Party]: Success of the Cambodian People’s Party Is to Rob People’s Land, Corruption, and Yuons [Vietnamese] Entering to Live in Cambodia [ironic]
- Prices of Goods and Gasoline Increase because of Corruption and because the Economy is Managed Only by Families of Ruling Party Officials
- If Khmer Citizens Want Prices of Gasoline and Goods to Decline, Don’t Vote for the Cambodian People’s Party
- Cambodian Labour Supply Group Agents Deceive Each Citizen going to Work in [South] Korea of $4,500
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.7, #1544, 13-14.1.2008
- CPP Extraordinary General Assembly Hopes to Win in 2008 Election
Khmer Amatak, Vol.9, #546, 14.1.2008
- Hun Sen Leads the Country, Making Progress in Casinos Like Mushrooms; Foreigners Happily Collect Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Each Year from Cambodia
- Chief Thief Nhek Kosal Vithyea [Director of Telecom Cambodia – plus some international background reporting] Who Steals from the Nation Prepares to Take Money Again from Telecom Cambodia] in a Project of More Than $2 Million through the PCP Company [owned by Nhek Kosal Vithyea’s wife – no entry in Yellow Pages only indirect web reference found]
- The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights 2007 Report Says Land Disputes with Fatal Shootings and Arrests of People Sending them to Jail Were More Serious Than in 2006
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.15, #3363, 14.1.2008
- Sam Rainsy: Increase of Inflation Is Caused by Corruption and Limited Economic Management
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.16, #4488, 13-14.1.2008
- Each Government Institution Should Review Their Web Sites
- Cambodian Is Not Prejudiced against Child Adoption to French Nationals [says Long Visalo, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation]
- CPP Moves Toward Success [in elections], but Not on Smooth Road
Samleng Yuvachun Khmer, Vol.15, #3228, 13-14.1.2008
- China Rushes to Exploit Oil in Cambodian Gulf
Sralanh Khmer, Vol.3, #599, 13-14.1.2008
- Son Chhay [Sam Rainsy Party parliamentarian from Phnom Penh] Says When Sam Rainsy Party Wins Elections It Will Get National Road 4 Back for the Citizens [it is now contracted out to the AZ Company – no direct web site found]
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