DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “Phnom Penh Court delays Verdict for illegal forces against government” plus 9 more

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Oct 04, 2011-The Phnom Penh court on Tuesday delayed to release verdict for illegal forces that plans to topple Phnom Penh government. This illegal group was known Sovannaphum Army Movement. The verdict will be released on October 20,"presiding judge council Duch Kimsorn announced after the process of court hearing for this morning.

Prosecutor Meas Chan piseth charged Chea Saran, Chum Vichey, Liv Soksovan, Plot Vey, Yim Hav, Poy Por with the establishment of illegal military forces to topple government and illegal forces.  We asked the court to condemn them by the law, Meas added. At the hearing, Chea saran confessed about the acts and claimed that he is the master of the group.

"We recruited the forces in purpose of getting the foreign aid from foreign countries which pledged to offer $20 million for the movement". "So far we have not received any cent from those foreign partners," sovan claimed.

Chum said he had joined the group since 2006 through a man, Chea Saran, who recruited forces to topple the government.  But my participation is for providing the information for Heng Dyma to transmit the information to the government," Chum said.

Plot Vey said: I am a spy for Heng Dyma to investigate the acts for the movement as Chea Saran is a mastermind for the group and I joined this movement through Chea Saran."Saran told me that I will become a commander of battalion number 3 for Mean Chey province and oddar mean chey province.  "Where I found the Cambodian people party (CPP)'s billboard, I need to destroy it,"Plot said.

Liv soksovan said: "I just joined it and Chea saran promised me to be the head of bodyguard for him".

Yim Hav refused about the case and my arrest was conducted inside a restaurant. "I did not know any one of suspects,"  Hav said. Confessed about the case," I joined the movement to get some benefit and position, " Por claimed.

Chea Saran, 49, chey chum 42, liv, 49,  plot 62, Hav 31, Por, 46, respectively and the six have been charged with creating illegal forces , and now detained in jail. All were arrested in March by military police forces and they used list of sovannaphum force movement which seek fund from foreign country to topple government and cpp.

CAMBODIA. POI PET, Oct 04, 2011-Two Thai nationals and a Cambodia have been detained over fake amount of 430,000 dollars by Cambodia military forces, the military sources said on Tuesday.

"Our forces are investigating the case of fake dollar notes and are questioning three suspects, "the military force sources said, adding that three suspects detained while they was on the way on national road 7 in Poi Pet town.

WELLINGTON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The severe drought in the tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu and Tokelau is "grim" and likely to get worse, the New Zealand Red Cross warned Tuesday.

Neither country had seen any significant rainfall for the last six months and none was expected for another two months, said New Zealand Red Cross international operations and emergency manager Andrew McKie.

The New Zealand Red Cross had sent two relief aid workers and supplies on Monday aboard a New Zealand Defence Force C-130 aircraft to work with the Tuvalu Red Cross and New Zealand government representatives and to assess any further assistance.

Both countries had declared states of emergency and water rationing had reached critical levels in Tuvalu and Tokelau, said McKie.

"We are working closely with Tuvalu Red Cross who asked for our assistance to support immediate impacts of the drought. As a result of this request we have mobilized 2,000 collapsible water containers, hand sanitizer, tarpaulins to be used to capture rain, two emergency desalination units and sent two New Zealand Red Cross aid workers."

The New Zealand Red Cross had identified the need for small emergency desalinators five years ago to suit the requirements of small isolated Pacific communities, sending units to Tonga and Vanuatu, he said.

The desalinators could convert sea water to drinking water at a rate of one to two liters per minute and were designed for emergency rather than long-term use.

Both units were being deployed to Tuvalu's small island group of Nukulaelae Tuesday, where it was reported just 60 liters of water was left for a population of 350.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Monday that New Zealand would work with partners and other donors to consider the best medium-to-long-term response options to the crisis.

Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people, who live across nine atolls with a total land area of about 27 square kilometers.

Tokelau, which has a population of about 1,200, comprises three atolls located about 483 km north of Samoa. The atolls are 3 to 5 meters above sea level.

KABUL, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the head of high ranking delegation left for Indian capital New Delhi on Tuesday, a statement released by Presidential Palace here said.

"During the two-day visit, the Afghan president will hold meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Indian leaders to exchange views on matters pertaining mutual interests including enhancing cooperation between the two nations," the statement added.

According to the statement, series of agreements for enhancing bilateral relations between the two countries would also be inked during the visit.

BANGKOK, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to visit Myanmar on Wednesday to meet President Thein Sein for discussing important issues, including promotion of trade and investment, the opening of a permanent border crossing, drug smuggling across the border and illegal labor.

They will also witness the presentation of meteorological equipment and the contract signing ceremony of road and the friendship bridge construction. The contract will be signed by Thai and Myanmar foreign ministers.

Yingluck will then join a gala dinner hosted by the Myanmar president and will return to the country on the same day. She has also planned to visit Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and China later this month.

The first female prime minister of Thailand, who is a younger sister of the ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, officially came the office early August after her Pheu Thai party won a decisive election on July 3. Trip to Myanmar is part of her plan of ASEAN members tour which she paid visit to Brunei on Sept. 10, Indonesia on Sept. 12 and Cambodia on Sept. 15.

NEW DELHI, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank has approved a 250 million U.S. dollar credit and loan to the Indian state of West Bengal for increasing agricultural production of small and marginal farmers, reported Indo-Asian News Service Tuesday.

About 139,000 hectares of irrigated area were expected to be developed under the West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project, which would be funded by the World Bank credit and loan, benefiting an estimated 166,000 farm families, said the report.   In West Bengal, the average yield of paddy, which accounts for more than half the annual cultivated area in the state, is about 70 percent of the India average and less than half of what is obtained in more advanced agricultural states.

An important reason behind the low productivity was that large cultivated areas were still rain-fed and exposed to weather fluctuations, the report quoted the World Bank as saying.

NEW DELHI, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 376 people have died of encephalitis, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this year, health officials said Tuesday.

Eight deaths have been reported in the past 36 hours, taking the total toll to 376 this year. All the deaths have been reported in the eastern part of the state. Several others are admitted to government hospitals battling for their lives.

The government is looking into the deaths and steps have been taken to eradicate mosquitos from the affected areas.

In the neighboring state of Bihar, at least 100 deaths of children have been reported over the past several months in hospitals where they were treated for suspected encephalitis, a brain disease.

GUIYANG, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen workers are missing after a coal mine accident Tuesday morning in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said.

The accident occurred at around 7 a.m. at Anping Coal Mine, which is located in the Lihua Township in Libo County, said Min Luming, secretary of the Communist Party of China of Libo County.

Initial probe said 28 miners were working in the shaft when the accident happened. Of them, 13 escaped from the site and the remaining 15 are missing.

Rescue efforts are under way.

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Two militants including a divisional commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant outfit were killed in two different gunfights Monday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.

A divisional commander of LeT was killed in a gunfight between Indian army and police at village Shubdani of district Pulwama, 40 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

"We had inputs about the presence of two to three militants here but when our men zeroed on their position they fired indiscriminately towards us," said Brigader Shivender Singh, an Indian army officer on the spot to reporters. "In the standoff one of their commanders was killed and the other two are believed to have escaped in the melee."

The slain militant was identified as Abdul Rehman alais Rehman Bhai, a Pakistani national.

Police officials said Rehman infiltrated into the region in 2005 and shifted to south of Srinagar (Pulwama district) in 2007. Police said he was also involved in several attacks on policemen.

Indian army spokesman has also claimed recovery of an assault rifle from the possession of slain militant at gunfight site.

In another ongoing gunfight at village Dardpora -Tregham of frontier Kupwara district, around 100-km northwest of Srinagar, another militant was killed.

"One militant has been killed so far in Tregham," said Indian army spokesman. "The operation is still in progress."

The identity of the slain militant is being ascertained.

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the Mekong River and flash floods in Cambodia has reached 164 people by Tuesday morning, Keo Vy, cabinet chief and spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, said on Tuesday.

He said that according to the reports, since early August, the flash and Mekong River floods have inundated 15 cities and provinces and had killed 164 people.

The number of flood-affected people has increased to 215,662 families and up to 291,000 hectares of rice paddies have been affected, he told Xinhua.

On the public infrastructure side, the floods have affected more than 200 kilometers of national roads and up to 2,019  kilometers of gravel roads.

"It's the worst flood in Cambodia in the last decade," he said.

He added that in 2000, the country suffered similar floods, killing 347 people, but at that time, the impacts on people, rice paddy and roads were small.

Keo Vy said that as of Tuesday, floods have receded in most flooded provinces, but the water level is still continuing rising in Mekong River, especially in Stung Treng province, Kratie province and Phnom Penh.