DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “Myanmar int'l airline to extend wing to more destinations” plus 4 more |
- Myanmar int'l airline to extend wing to more destinations
- Local elections in Cambodia run smoothly, no violence: monitoring group
- Senior CPC leader confers with Russia's State Duma chairman on ties
- Cambodian court convicts 8 Vietnamese of drug production, trafficking
- Merger plan between Cambodia's 2 royalist parties fails: Prince Ranariddh
| Myanmar int'l airline to extend wing to more destinations Posted: 19 Jun 2012 09:14 PM PDT YANGON, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar Airways International ( MAI) will extend its flight services from Yangon to Vientiane, Hong Kong and Seoul later this year, a local media reported Monday. Reinforced by more airbuses, MAI is expected to start operating flight to Vientiane in October while that to China's Hong Kong and South Korea's Seoul will be by the year-end, said the Myanmar Times. Meanwhile, the airline will also increase flight frequency with the present routes to Singapore, Gaya of India and Guangzhou of China. An extra flight a week to Singapore will be added on Oct. 1 while flights to Gaya and Siem Reap of Cambodia, which were suspended, will be resumed in October for winter schedule, the report said. The airline will increase Yangon-Gaya route from two to three flights a week, the report added. MAI is now known as a joint venture of the state-owned Myanmar Airways and the private Royal Myanmar Transport Co., which was transformed from that with a Singapore-based company -- Jester Asia in 1993. The share of the Jester Asia was taken up by the Royal Myanmar Transport Co. Besides the MAI flying internationally as Myanmar's national flag carrier, there are also 13 foreign airlines flying Yangon, including Air China, China Southern Airline, China Eastern Airlines, Thai Airways International, Indian Airlines, Air Asia, Taiwan's China airlines, Silk Air, Malaysian Airlines, Bangkok Airways, Jetstar Asia, Thai Air Asia and Vietnam Airlines. |
| Local elections in Cambodia run smoothly, no violence: monitoring group Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:56 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The nationwide commune council elections on June 3 were held secretly and smoothly and there were no remarkable irregularities or violence, said a leading election monitoring group on Wednesday. "We found that there are no serious irregularities, violence or otherwise during the electoral process on June 3," the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said in its final assessment report released Wednesday. The Comfrel deployed 5,852 election observers including members and staff of national and international non-governmental organizations for the elections. "The National Election Committee assured that ballots were held secretly and that procedures on voting day ran smoothly. Nevertheless, there is much work to be done to ensure free and fair elections," said the report. Thun Saray, the Comfrel's board chairman, said during the report release that, on the voting day, the Comfrel found that local authorities stationed closely to the polling stations and observed voters. "These activities could cause fear among voters, creating unreliability in the process of the election." The June 3's local elections were held to elect 11,459 councilors for the country's 1,633 communes. According to a preliminary results, the ruling Cambodian People' s Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen won a landslide victory with 8, 283 commune councilor seats, the Sam Rainsy Party, the country's main opposition party, gained 2,155 seats, the Human Rights Party took 800 seats, Funcinpec Party won 160 seats, while Norodom Ranariddh Party achieved only 53 seats. The official results are expected to be released on June 24. |
| Senior CPC leader confers with Russia's State Duma chairman on ties Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:56 PM PDT MOSCOW, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Visiting senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) He Guoqiang on Tuesday conferred with the chairman of Russia's State Duma Sergei Naryshkin to discuss further development of relations between their two countries. He, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and the head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, applauded the development of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperation and partnership, adding that the two nations have forged close coordination on the regional and international issues. China highly values its relation with Russia, He said, vowing that the country would make concerted efforts with Russia to push bilateral ties in the various fields to a higher level. He also noted that exchanges between the countries' legislative bodies and their cooperative mechanism had played a significant role in promoting China-Russia relations and cooperation in all respects. The CPC leader hoped that under the leadership of the two countries' top legislators, the China-Russia Legislative Cooperation Committee will work closer to play a more active role in facilitating the development of bilateral relations. Naryshkin agreed with He's views on the bilateral ties. He said China-Russia relations had maintained good momentum in recent years, adding that such a development has reached its record new height. People from various walks of life in Russia welcomed a friendly relationship with China, Naryshkin said, noting that Russia would adhere to its foreign policy that gives priority to its relations with China. He arrived in Moscow to start his official visit to Russia on Monday. Russia is the final leg of He's four-nation visit which has taken him to the Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia. |
| Cambodian court convicts 8 Vietnamese of drug production, trafficking Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:55 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday convicted eight Vietnamese of drug production and trafficking and sentenced them 5-15 years in jail, according to the verdict read by presiding judge Duch Kimsorn. Some of those Vietnamese perpetrators have used Cambodian names. According to the verdict, a 30-year-old woman, a 17-year-old girl, a 19-year old man, and a 55-year-old man were sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 2,500 U.S. dollars each. Two men and a woman were all sentenced to 5 years in jail and fined 2,000 U.S. dollars respectively, and another man was sentenced to 6 years in jail and fined 1,750 U.S. dollars. All the convicts were arrested on July 10, 2011 by Cambodian anti-drug department police in Phnom Penh's Prampi Makara district. During the raid, police seized 122.7 grams of methamphetamine, and many types of drug substances, and materials for drug production and use. According to Cambodia's law, the convicts have one month to appeal against the verdict. |
| Merger plan between Cambodia's 2 royalist parties fails: Prince Ranariddh Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:55 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The merger plan between Cambodia's two royalist parties--Funcinpec Party and Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP)-- ahead of next year's general election has failed, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the NRP's president, said Tuesday. "The failure is because of Nhiek Bun Chhay, Funcinpec's executive president and his group,"he told a press briefing."Nhiek Bun Chhay does not want to reunite the royalists, the Sihanoukists. " The rift occurred just three weeks after the two parties signed an agreement on May 24 to merge as the Funcinpec party in order to reunite royalists towards the parliamentary elections in July next year. Under the agreement, Prince Norodom Ranariddh would be the president of the merged party and Nhik Bun Chhay would be the vice- president. "Now, the NRP cannot merge with the Funcinpec anymore because Nhiek Bun Chhay has already torn up the agreement signed last month,"said the prince. The prince's reaction was made after Nhiek Bun Chhay said Monday that among the NRP's core activists, there are two groups: one sides with the current government and the other has opposition trend. He added that Funcinpec would not merge with the NRP if they failed to clarify that they are in line with the incumbent CPP government. "Funcinpec is the alliance party in the current ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), so if the NRP has opposition trend, the CPP- led government will sack us (Funcinpec),"he told Xinhua over telephone on Monday. Ranariddh said Nhiek Bun Chhay's accusation is groundless and it is his pretext to tear up the agreement. The prince added that he doesn't has any idea to join forces with the opposition party to oppose the current government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen. The Funcinpec and the NRP won two seats each in the 123-seat parliament in July 2008 elections. |
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