tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53210714111755664892024-03-14T01:28:52.685+07:00The Kampuchea Krom PostThe Khmer Krom's Independent Media.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-16182829008684832912014-11-01T02:15:00.001+07:002014-11-01T02:18:10.424+07:00The Plight of Cambodia’s Khmer Krom Community
By Clothilde Le Coz
October 30, 2014
THE DIPLOMAT.COM
Khmer Cambodian and Khmer Krom Burned Vietnam's Flag During Protest
Ethnic Khmer from South Vietnam are seeking an apology and recognition, to little avail.
Marching in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement – the country’s national day – between 800 and 1,000 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-23371350833511350182014-01-09T10:18:00.001+07:002014-01-09T10:18:19.501+07:00Vietnam's New Constitution Shows Limits of ReformSource: Deutsche Welle Jan 6,2014
Vietnam has had a new constitution since the beginning of this year, after a near-unanimous vote by the National Assembly in November 2013. But it leaves much to be desired in terms of political and economic reform.
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has been in power in the Southeast Asian nation for 68 years. That makes it one of the longest-ruling Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-83970631412897592172013-12-26T01:21:00.003+07:002013-12-26T01:21:50.305+07:00CPJ: Vietnam Intensifies Crackdown on JournalistsBy Tra Mi - VOA News Dec 18,2013
WASHINGTON — The Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, says Vietnam is the fifth biggest jailer of journalists in the world, and second in the Asia-Pacific region after China.
The group Wednesday released its annual list of the world's top repressive regimes
as measured by press freedom. The CPJ report said “Vietnam was holding 18 journalists, up from 14 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-88684693873406493562013-12-26T01:12:00.001+07:002013-12-26T01:12:50.707+07:00US' Misbalanced Agenda in VietnamASIA TIMES ONLINE- By Duvien Tran and Khanh Vu Duc - Dec 19,2013
US Secretary John Kerry Meets Vietcongs Leader Nguyen Tan Dung
When United States Secretary of State John Kerry attended Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in the former Saigon, once capital of the US-backed South Vietnam, the message was clear and deliberate: Washington will continue to push for human rights reform in Vietnam, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-28135028854507392502013-12-11T10:49:00.001+07:002013-12-11T10:49:41.947+07:00President Barack Obama's Eulogy at South Africa's former president Nelson MandelaPresident Barack Obama's eulogy at South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela
Remarks by President Obama at Memorial Service for Former South African President Nelson Mandela
First National Bank Stadium
Johannesburg, South Africa
1:31 P.M. SAST
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-83746677607352649632013-12-11T10:40:00.000+07:002013-12-11T10:40:14.039+07:00Nelson Madiba Mandela's Life and TimeBBC News - 8 June 2013 Last updated at 14:23 ET
Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy.
The world's most revered statesmen Nelson Madiba Mandela
Jailed for 27 years, he emerged in 1990 to become the country's first black president four years later and to play a leading Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-20891011334468226172013-12-11T10:18:00.000+07:002013-12-11T10:18:33.895+07:00Vietnamese Activists Stopped from Holding Rights RalliesTra Mi
December 09, 2013 - VOA News
Dissidents in Vietnam say authorities have stopped them from holding gatherings to mark International Human Rights Day.
In interviews with VOA's Vietnamese service, online activists say officials dispersed crowds in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.
Activist Trang Loan said her group was treated roughly by police.
"They had members of Communist Youth Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-57466973955860500022013-11-29T09:18:00.002+07:002013-11-29T09:20:12.209+07:00In Vietnam, weary apparatchiks launch quiet revolutionBY MARTIN PETTY
HANOI Thu Nov 28, 2013
Vietnam's National Assembly's deputies press voting buttons to pass the new constitution during a meeting in Hanoi November 28, 2013.
(Reuters) - The Vietnam of today wasn't what Le Hieu Dang had hoped for when he joined the Communist Party 40 years ago to liberate and rebuild a country reeling from decades of war and French and U.S. occupation.
The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-36989896169882734772013-11-28T11:31:00.002+07:002013-11-28T11:31:46.706+07:00Vietnam Announces Big Fines for Social Media PropagandaReuters - November 27, 2013
HANOI — Vietnam will hand out fines of 100 million dong ($4,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, under a new law announced this week, the latest measure in a widening crackdown on dissent by the country's communist rulers.
Comments that did not constitute criminal offenses would trigger fines if held to be “propaganda against the state”, or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-69527304352097045222013-11-20T10:20:00.001+07:002013-11-20T10:29:22.607+07:00Vietnam Wins Human Rights Seat Despite Tainted RecordThe Diplomat, by Luke Hunt - November 15,2013
NGOs are skeptical about the UN’s odd choices for upcoming Human Rights Council.
Earlier this year, Global Witness scored international headlines with a telling report on illegal land grabbing in Cambodia and Laos by Vietnamese companies and the extraordinary damage these companies had inflicted on the environment from which they profited.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-21743375769962823202013-11-20T09:57:00.003+07:002013-11-20T09:57:58.391+07:00Vietnam's deputy prime ministers: Party PeopleThe Economist - Nov 18th 2013, 3:24 by M.I. | HANOI
Nguyen Tan Dung, Truong Tan Sang, Nguyen Phu Trong (left to right)
SOME Western advocacy groups imply, in their regular harangues of Vietnam's human-rights record, that the country is run by an all-powerful and well-oiled authoritarian regime. The truth, however, appears to be more complicated.
It is clear to analysts that the Ministry of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-1602267573251359752013-11-12T09:54:00.001+07:002013-11-12T09:56:24.512+07:00U.N. Court Rules for Cambodia in Temple Dispute With ThailandBy THOMAS FULLER
Published: November 11, 2013
BANGKOK — The International Court of Justice on Monday handed Cambodia a partial victory in its territorial dispute with Thailand over the land surrounding an ancient temple along the country’s border.
The court, the top judicial body of the United Nations, said in its judgment that Cambodia had sovereignty over the immediate area around Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-71190415404621413752013-11-08T11:16:00.002+07:002013-11-08T11:16:29.870+07:00VOA Exclusive: US Official Says Vietnam Must Progress on Rights to Deepen US TiesMichael Lipin, VOA News
November 06, 2013
A senior U.S. diplomat says Vietnam must make "demonstrable progress" on human rights in the coming months, if it wants to deepen its relationship with the United States, a former wartime foe.
In an exclusive interview with VOA, acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Scott Busby said he stressed the importanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-34798094110405293322013-11-08T11:02:00.001+07:002013-11-08T11:02:40.847+07:00Electing the New UN Human Rights CouncilBy Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations
November 6, 2013
Next week, on November 12, new members of the UN Human Rights Council will be elected. Among the candidates are nations that should never be allowed on the Council, and indeed whose presence will make the Council a mockery: Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Vietnam.
Perhaps the United States cannot prevent countries withUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-80587814376178502332013-09-24T10:14:00.002+07:002013-09-24T10:14:26.966+07:00Vietnam's Talk/Fight Strategy in play on Human Rights NegotiationsBy Michael Benge, The AmericanThinker
For decades, the Vietnamese communists' negotiating strategy has been "Talk/Fight" -- first in dealing with the French, then with the U.S. during the Vietnam War, and now in the current U.S.-Vietnam Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The "Talk/Fight" strategy is to engage their opponent in negotiations, stalling for time, all the while Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-40385798140039026702013-09-19T10:24:00.000+07:002013-09-19T10:24:04.248+07:00Cambodian Tweets Lead the NewsBy Luke Hunt, September 18, 2013, The Diplomat
Following the protests in Cambodia from abroad this week was astonishing. On Twitter, Facebook and email, the coverage had immediacy, clarity and a ubiquitous presence that even live television could not compete with, even when seen from Kabul.
From the outset, when protesters began arriving at Freedom Park, the scuffles, tear gas and water Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-19916746615411238392013-09-13T09:45:00.002+07:002013-09-13T09:45:59.280+07:00Stifled Southeast Asian Voices: NGOs Unite Against Criminalization of Free Expression on the Internet11 September 2013 (FIDH)
As concerns grow in Southeast Asia over the use of national security, anti-terrorist and defamation laws to limit freedom of expression on the Internet, a coalition of international and local NGOs and activists from Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia urged governments to stop using vague legislation based on ill-defined concepts such as “national security”, “sovereignty” Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-72072552871168258932013-09-06T10:12:00.003+07:002013-09-06T10:12:59.355+07:00Vietnam's social media censorship takes effectCBC News Posted: Sep 1, 2013
A controversial internet law prohibiting Vietnamese citizens from posting any content online that harms national security or opposes the state took effect Sunday.
The new law, dubbed Decree 72, limits what Vietnamese citizens can post on their online personal pages, including Facebook, Twitter and blogs.
Decree 72 does not elaborate on what constitutes a breach.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-18314094011944217062013-08-28T10:05:00.001+07:002013-08-28T10:05:42.953+07:00Freedom Online Coalition Joint Statement on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Decree 72Press Statement
Marie Harf
Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
August 26, 2013
The Freedom Online Coalition is deeply concerned by the announcement of Vietnam’s new Decree 72, which will impose further restrictions on the way the Internet is accessed and used in Vietnam when it comes into effect September 1. For example, Decree 72 restricts online information flow Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-25434883828618280082013-08-28T09:07:00.003+07:002013-08-28T09:07:58.525+07:00Anthropologist Offers Insight Into Plight of Khmer KromBy Michelle Vachon - Cambodia Daily August 26,2013
Cambodia Police beating Khmer Krom Monks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2007
During their ongoing war against Vietnam in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge attacked the Vietnamese province of An Giang along the border and brought back to Cambodia about 20,000 people from Vietnam’s Khmer minority known as Khmer Krom.
This mass migration, which mainly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-82918403884077580902013-08-25T22:35:00.000+07:002013-08-25T22:35:28.057+07:00Cambodia’s Top Court Says Key Election Records Open for ReviewRFA - August 22,2013
Cambodia’s election authorities may be ordered to check key voting data to investigate opposition claims of widespread election irregularities in recent national polls, the country’s highest court ruled Thursday.
The Constitutional Council also said that it could hold public hearings on the hotly-contested July 28 election that has resulted in a political deadlock and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-5986481300848432662013-08-25T09:07:00.000+07:002013-08-25T09:07:01.142+07:00New Vietnamese Party Vows to Challenge Dominant Communist RuleRFA August 19,2013
A veteran member of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam is spearheading efforts to form a new party to challenge the government by attracting support from members disgruntled by a slowing economy and concerned over Chinese territorial encroachment.
The Social Democratic Party founded last week by Le Hieu Dang, a leading dissident and 45-year Communist Party member, aimsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-2588156321462044692013-08-22T10:40:00.002+07:002013-08-22T10:41:14.698+07:00Pakistan: Musharraf Charged In Bhutto DeathBy SkyNews August 20,2013
Dictator Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been charged over the 2007 murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
"He was charged with murder, criminal conspiracy for murder and facilitation for murder," said public prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar.
Musharraf appeared briefly at the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, whereUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-27136230513391215122013-08-22T10:27:00.000+07:002013-08-22T10:27:09.900+07:00CPP Threatens Legal Action Against CNRPCambodia Daily - By Matt Blomberg and Neou Vannarin - August 21, 2013
Left: Mr. Sam Rainsy--Leader of CNRPRight: Dictator Hun Sen--Loser of CPP and Hanoi-puppet
The CPP on Tuesday threatened legal action against the CNRP if it did not cease its “defamatory rhetoric” regarding the ruling party’s relationship with the National Election Committee (NEC), which the opposition accuses of rigging Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5321071411175566489.post-36352277568513877592013-08-13T08:19:00.001+07:002013-08-13T08:19:46.621+07:00Vietnam caught between a rock and a hard placeYaleGlobal August 9, 2013 by David Brown
Is disappointment with China the reason behind Vietnam president's recent hurried visit to Washington?
Early in June, US State Department officials told a Congressional sub-committee that closer ties with Vietnam, in particular weapons sales, are on hold until there is "continued, demonstrable, sustained improvement in the human rights situation". The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0