DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: ““No Justice for Van Nath” a prisoner of S-21 prison in Khmer Rouge said” plus 9 more

DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: ““No Justice for Van Nath” a prisoner of S-21 prison in Khmer Rouge said” plus 9 more

“No Justice for Van Nath” a prisoner of S-21 prison in Khmer Rouge said

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:31 AM PDT

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Sept 05, 2011-Bou Meng, a survivor from notorious S-21 prison in Khmer Rouge regime announced on Monday that the UN- Cambodian tribunal could not offer the justice for Van Nath.

Van Nath, another survivor for S-21 prison died Monday afternoon at a hospital in Phnom Penh in the age of 66 from long diseases – high blood pressure and kidney failure, his daughter, Vann Chan Simen said today.

"The Court did not offer justice for Van Nath," Bou Meng announced at the funeral ceremony of Vant Nath. Van Nath used to tell media for several occasion before he died. He was tortured and hit nearly to death at the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, which was counted about 14, 000 to be killed there.

"Van Nath's eyes did not close while he died. It means Justice has not been offered for him by the court", Bou Meng supposed.  Van Nath survived from s-21 prisons due to his painting skill which was made the top Khmer Rouge leaders satisfy his merit.

"We also appealed to the court to speed up the final judgment for case 001for several times because the witnesses of S-21 prison are too old. In common, plaintiffs and defenses are not good health conditions." He stresses.

"I am concerned that I could die before final judgment for case 001" he said.

The high court at UN- Cambodia tribunal announced recently that in case 001 will have appeal hearing for late year. The decision from high court is the final stage for legal processing of the court.  Kang Kek Iev known as Duch is only a person in case 001, which the court sentenced him to 35 years in jail and his jail term reduced to 19 years, but victims and prosecutor appealed to high court in UN- Cambodian tribunal. Duch is in the custody of the court.

Ultra- communist's Pol Pot regime was blamed of killing about 2 million Khmer over execution, overwork, execution.

Van Nath, Main Witness of Notorious S-21 Prison in Khmer Rouge Regime Dies

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:19 AM PDT

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Sept 05, 2011- Mr. Vann Nath, 66, former S-21 prisoner and main witness for the UN- Cambodian tribunal passed away On Monday after suffering a chronic blood disease for years," family and relatives said.

"Van Nath was a memory of S-21 Security Center in KR regime," Neth Pheaktra, a media officer for UN- Cambodia Tribunal, announced on facebook. "It is a big loss for his family and Cambodia. We wish him rest in peace," Neth said personally. Van Nath was hospitalized last week at Calmette Hopistal in Phnom Penh.

Van Nath, one of seven prisoners who survived from notorious s-21 prisoner in Pol Pot regime. He was waiting for the final verdict against his perpetrator, Kaing Guek Eav-known as Duch, since five months.

"Mr. VANN Nat was a former prisoner in S-21 prison during Pol Pot Regime and is an important witness of a trial of senior Khmer Rouge leaders during Democratic Kampuchea period (1975-1979)," the Phnom Penh city hall said its statement after donating 1,000 last week. He has fallen seriously ill and been in a private clinic since 26th August 2011 due to high blood pressure and kidney disease, it added.

His biography said: Vann Nath is an important painter and writer whose memoirs and paintings of his experiences in the infamous Tuol Sleng prison are a powerful and poignant testimony to the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.

Vann Nath (born 1946) is a Cambodian painter, artist and writer and human rights activist who is amongst a diverse group of writers from 22 countries to receive the prestigious Lillian Hellman/Hammett Award which recognizes courage in the face of political persecution which he faced during the Khmer Rouge. He is the eighth Cambodian to win the award since 1995. Vann Nath was born in Battambang province.

Crisis management cannot help ConocoPhillips: People's Daily

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:18 AM PDT

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- If it lacks the least bit of social integrity and a responsible attitude towards the environment, so-called "crisis management" skills not only cannot help ConocoPhillips China, but may make it "go for wool and come home shorn," said a People's Daily article published Monday.

"Time after time, delays, negligence, cover-ups and cheating, ConocoPhillips China's oil field operation was finally stopped by China's maritime authority," said the article on the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China.

ConocoPhillips China (COPC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Houston-headquartered ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), has complied with a suspension order, said a statement on the company's website.

The suspension order issued by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) came last Friday after COPC failed to meet the SOA's requirements for finding potential oil spill sources and sealing existing oil leaks before an Aug. 31 deadline.

As the operator of the leaking Penglai 19-3 oil field in north China's Bohai Bay, COPC has been blamed for incidents that occurred on June 4 and June 17, respectively, and resulted in the release of approximately 700 barrels of oil into Bohai Bay and 2,500 barrels of mineral oil-based drilling mud onto the seabed.

However, on Aug. 31 the company submitted a report to the SOA claiming that all oil spills had been cleaned up.

Moreover, public condemnation grew stronger after a China Central Television (CCTV) report revealed on Friday that, during a conversation between a CCTV reporter and an anonymous COPC employee, someone told the reporter via the ship's intercom system that the company intentionally set out to deceive Chinese authorities when it announced that it had met the SOA's requirements. The company has since denied this charge.

"There is a sharp contrast between the company's sensitivity regarding its image and its inadvertence towards China's oceanic environment," said the article.

The article stated that, using modern detection analysis techniques, it would be easy to judge whether the voice from the intercom belongs to a company employee, but "isn't it too serious for the company to fuss about such details, instead of addressing the problem that has lasted for three months?"

However, COPC used its crisis management skills quite well -- covering up the incident for as long as possible, lied in July by saying that the spills had been "basically cleaned up," and, on the day of the clean-up deadline, claimed that all leaks had been "thoroughly blocked," the newspaper said.

After the lie was exposed, COPC said that the delay was caused by "unsound weather conditions," it said.

According to the SOA investigation, the oil spill was an "inferior mistake" caused by substandard operations.

The oil spills have spread to beaches in Hebei and Liaoning provinces. The spills have also been blamed for losses in the provinces' tourism and aquatic farming industries.

"In the face of spreading oceanic pollution and fishermen's losses, it is both a legal and just requirement for the company to shoulder responsibility, regardless of its wealth value and crisis management skills," it said.

Powerful typhoon leaves 27 dead, 51 missing in Japan: Kyodo

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 01:17 AM PDT

TOKYO, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- A powerful typhoon that hit western Japan on Sunday has killed 27 people and left 51 missing, making it the heaviest typhoon toll in the country in about seven years, Kyodo News reported Monday.

Police, firefighters and the Self-Defense Forces resumed searching for the missing Monday in Nara and Wakayama prefectures and found the body of Danzo Mori, an 82-year-old man who went missing in the village of Totsukawa in Nara.

The number of victims from Typhoon Talas could grow over a wide area including the Kii Peninsula, south of Osaka, as flooded rivers, damaged roads and mudslides have hampered relief work, Kyodo News quoted rescuers as saying.

The extent of the latest damage represents the worst since Typhoon Tokage left a total of 98 people dead or missing in October 2004.

On Monday morning, the typhoon moved north along the Sea of Japan, triggering heavy rain in central Japan's Tokai region. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that the Kinki region in western Japan and eastern Japan areas could still suffer damage from landslides.

Cambodia makes 7th troop withdraw from border with Thailand

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 11:38 PM PDT

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday pulled out another 500 troops from the border area with Thailand, marking the seventh of such withdrawals since the two neighboring countries' military tension began to ease in July.

The troops in the Battalion No. 408 stationed along Cambodian and Thai border, some 32 kilometers west of the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, moved back to their barracks in Siem Reap province.

The troop pullback ceremony was held on Monday with the participation of Gen. Kun Kim, deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Force, and Gen. Chea Dara, deputy commander-in-chief of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces for Preah Vihear Direction.

Kun Kim reiterated that the pullout was made at the behest of Prime Minister Hun Sen, adding the withdrawals have been made only outside the provisional demilitarized zone (PDZ) defined by the International Court of Justice.

"The pullout from the PDZ of about 17 kilometers surrounding the Preah Vihear temple must be done simultaneously with Thai troops," he said.

On July 18, the International Court of Justice ordered Cambodia and Thailand to immediately withdraw their military personnel from the provisional demilitarized zone on the disputed border near Preah Vihear temple and allow ASEAN observers access to the provisional demilitarized zone to monitor ceasefire.

The conflict between Cambodia and Thailand broke out just a week after the Preah Vihear temple was listed as World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008.

Thailand claims the ownership of 4.6 sq km of scrub next to the temple.

However, the military tension has eased since former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Pheu Thai Party won a landslide victory in July's general election.

Tens of thousands visit Borobudur Temple park during Eid-el-Fitr festival

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:32 PM PDT

MAGELANG, Indonesia, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Indonesians have visited the Borobudur Temple park during Islamic festival of Eid-el-Fitr.

The number of visitors peaked the second day after Eid-el-Fitr and it is predicted that 40,000 people have flocked to the Buddhist temple located in Magelang regency of Central Java province.

"During the second day of Eid-el-Fitr, about 34,000 people visited this temple and we expect 40,000 visitors two days after Eid-el-Fitr," Irfan, a field official of the Tourism Area of Borobudur Temple, told Xinhua.

However, visitors are disappointed as they are not allowed to see the main statues on the top of the temple, which is under reparation.

Another official, Faizal, said that the reparation work started following the eruption of the country's most active volcano Mount Merapi last year.

"Ashes resulted from the eruption damage the temple's stones. The worst affected area is the top as the ashes caused holes on the floor. When it rains, water seeps through the floor holes and there is no drainage system," said Faizal.

He added that the reparation work, directly monitored by the UNESCO, is expected to be finished by November this year.

Faizal said that during Eid-el-Fitr holidays, there are not too many foreign tourists.

"They are advised by their travel agents not to come here during Eid-el-Fitr as there are too many people visiting this tourism object," he said.

According to him, many foreign tourists visit Borobudur during fasting month of Ramadhan where there are not many local tourists.

Foreign exchange rates in Laos

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:31 PM PDT

VIENTIANE, Sep. 5 (Xinhua) -- The following are the main foreign exchange rates against Lao Kip issued by the state-owned Banque Pour Le Commerce Exterieur Lao (BCEL), which is the largest commercial bank in Laos, here on Monday.

Chinese delegation leaves for visits to Algeria, Switzerland, Iceland, Italy

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:30 PM PDT

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese delegation left Beijing on Monday for goodwill visits to Algeria, Switzerland, Iceland and Italy.
The delegation was headed by Wang Gang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and also  vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to a press release from the CPPCC.
The delegation is making the visits at the invitation of Algeria's national economic and social council, the Swiss Federal Assembly, Althing (Parliament) of Iceland and the Italian Senate, said the release.

CPC delegation leaves for four European, Asian countries

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:30 PM PDT

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) left here Monday for good-will visits to Ireland, Oman, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The delegation, led by member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and Party chief of China's Tianjin municipality Zhang Gaoli, was invited by the government of Ireland, the government of the Sultanate of Oman, the Justice and Development Party of Turkey and the government of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Enditem

China stock index futures open lower Monday

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:29 PM PDT

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- China's stock index futures opened lower on Monday with the contract for settlement in September, the most actively traded, down 12.8 points to 2,792.8 points.
The contract for settlement in October opened 13.2 points lower at 2,800 points while the contract for settlement in December opened at 2,815.8 points, down 12.6 points.
The contract for settlement in March 2012 opened at 2,837.2 points, down 20 points.
The stock-index contracts, agreements to buy or sell the Hushen 300 Index at a present value on an agreed date, are designed to allow investors to bet on and profit from both gains and declines in the market.
The index futures were launched at the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) and started trading from April 16, 2010. The CFFEX has set the base value for all the four contracts at 3,399 points.  Enditem

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