| Although Laos has officially put off building a dam in Xayaburi province, researchers say the future of the Mekong is still unclear. Laos's decision to put off the dam was a positive step that recognized the river as common property, but more studies need to be done to find its best use for everyone. (Say Mony, Phnom Penh) |
| A senior official for the Cambodian Mekong Committee says that Laos could face a complaint at the International Court if it chooses to go forward with a planned hydroelectric dam without the support of other Mekong countries. The Xayaburi dam project is not supported fully by other Southeast Asian countries, and if it goes forward unilaterally, the country will be in "noncompliance" with a 1995 Mekong River agreement, said Watt Botkosal, deputy secretary-general of the committee. |
| Andrew Cayley,the international prosecutor for the tribunal, who was in the US, spoke
to VOA Khmer while giving a talk at Rutgers University, in New Jersey.
The international prosecutor at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal
says the court must work to ensure the practice of law if its legacy to
Cambodia is to be assured. “We have to show a good example to young lawyers,” Andrew Cayley told VOA Khmer in an interview. Cayley spoke after a talk he gave to law students at Rutgers, in the US state of New Jersey, last month. |
| The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia wrapped up its opening hearings last week. Prosecutors laid out their case against three individuals accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed while serving in top leadership positions in the movement |
| Jailed Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan told a UN-backed court on Wednesday he knew nothing about the mass atrocities that took place while he was the nominal head of the regime. For one genocide researcher attending the landmark trial in Phnom Penh, this sounds unlikely. Say Mony reports for VOA Khmer from the court. |
| The UN-backed tribunal opened a landmark case against three Khmer Rouge leaders in Phnom Penh on Monday, with prosecution claiming the former communists were involved in a criminal policy that led to mass atrocities. The widely welcomed proceedings marked the first substantial hearing for the three leaders, Nuon Chea, 85, the chief ideologue of the regime; Khieu Samphan, 80, its nominal leader; and Ieng Sary, 86, its foreign minister, whose case took four years to investigate and bring to trial. VOA Khmer reports. |
The Combined Federal Campaign for 2011
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US federal employees have begun a fundraising campaign for 2011, in a drive to collect money for local and international organizations.
The Combined Federal Campaign is undertaken each year and allows US government employees to deduct money from their incomes to go toward thousands of different organizations, including charities and NGOs. |
| Hundreds Cambodians held Kathina ceremony and got free flu shot at Buddhikarama pagoda in Silver Spring, Maryland on Sunday October 23. Participants shared contribution for the ceremony and gave donation to build a stupa for Buddha relics. VOA's Khmer Cheang Sophinarath reports. |
| Never in her life did Chhea Vat imagine she would have such an occasion: meeting her husband again after 36 years. The 73-year-old Cambodian-Canadian had always thought her husband, Peou Nam, was killed when soldiers of the regime took him away, so many years ago. “I never imagined this meeting before, because I thought the Khmer Rouge never left their captives alive,” Chhea Vat said in a recent interview in Phnom Penh, where her family had found him at long last. |