An Indonesian woman has given birth to an 8.7-kilogramme (19.2-pound) baby boy, the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country, a doctor said. The baby boy is pictured here next to a baby of average size at a hospital in Medan, North Sumatra
25 September, 2009
24 September, 2009
Frenhman arrested for sex with homeless boy
Police arrested 61-year-old French national Jean Marie Beranger on Tuesday for the alleged sexual abuse of a 14-year-old by in Preah Sihanouk province, Provincial anti-human trafficking deputy police chief Soun Sopan said. “I detained him since yesterday” Mr. Sophan said Wednesday, adding that a child protection organization had brought the teenager to file a complaint with police, leading to the suspect’s arrest...
Samleang Seila, country director at anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants, said that APLEs’s invetigator spotted the suspect engaging in a sex act with the homeless boy on Ekkareach Street in Sihanoiuk Ville town on Monday night.
He paid the youth $2, Mr Seila said, “He is a tourist having arrived only a few days. Once he arrived, he looked for sex right away,” he said, adding that the suspect had approached multiple children seeking sex, but only one had agreed.
Samleang Seila, country director at anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants, said that APLEs’s invetigator spotted the suspect engaging in a sex act with the homeless boy on Ekkareach Street in Sihanoiuk Ville town on Monday night.
He paid the youth $2, Mr Seila said, “He is a tourist having arrived only a few days. Once he arrived, he looked for sex right away,” he said, adding that the suspect had approached multiple children seeking sex, but only one had agreed.
German community organizes Cambodia’s First Oktaberfests
In an effort to raise awareness of German businesses in Cambodia, the local German business community is organizing its first ever Oktberfests in Phnom Penh next month.
Thought the traditional German beer-drinking festival, which is being held at the Cambodian Hotel o Oct 9 and 10, will server mainly Asian-brewed larger, it will present a German-style beer garden authentic bratwurst, arm wrestling contest and schnapps, as well as a band from Munich, according to Tassilo Brizer, vice president of the German business group Arbeiskreis Deutsche Wirtschaft...
“German businesses came a bit late,” Mr Brinzer said, attributing part of that delay to strict rules for foreign investment imposed by the German government.
While a number of German companies have already opened offices in Cambodia including Bayer AG, DHL, Flow Forwarding and Siemends AG Mr Brinzer said that Bangkok’s more-established ADW chapter keeps an eye on Cambodia, waiting for a good time to invest.
We think we have a good market for that, he said. “There is a positive expectation for Cambodia’s economy in the future”. He said that German products are common in Cambodia, though consumers are not always of that.
German Ambassador Frank Mann said that technology companies are a particular strength of the German economy and will expand in Cambodia as its economy diversifies.
Mr. Brinzer said he hoped that the event will become an annual affair and that it will draw Cambodians as well as foreigners, noting that the appeal for the traditional festival is international.
“There are Oktobeststs everywhere: there’s on in Vietnam, there’s one in China. There Oktoberfests worldwide, and we are adding one more.”
Thought the traditional German beer-drinking festival, which is being held at the Cambodian Hotel o Oct 9 and 10, will server mainly Asian-brewed larger, it will present a German-style beer garden authentic bratwurst, arm wrestling contest and schnapps, as well as a band from Munich, according to Tassilo Brizer, vice president of the German business group Arbeiskreis Deutsche Wirtschaft...
“German businesses came a bit late,” Mr Brinzer said, attributing part of that delay to strict rules for foreign investment imposed by the German government.
While a number of German companies have already opened offices in Cambodia including Bayer AG, DHL, Flow Forwarding and Siemends AG Mr Brinzer said that Bangkok’s more-established ADW chapter keeps an eye on Cambodia, waiting for a good time to invest.
We think we have a good market for that, he said. “There is a positive expectation for Cambodia’s economy in the future”. He said that German products are common in Cambodia, though consumers are not always of that.
German Ambassador Frank Mann said that technology companies are a particular strength of the German economy and will expand in Cambodia as its economy diversifies.
Mr. Brinzer said he hoped that the event will become an annual affair and that it will draw Cambodians as well as foreigners, noting that the appeal for the traditional festival is international.
“There are Oktobeststs everywhere: there’s on in Vietnam, there’s one in China. There Oktoberfests worldwide, and we are adding one more.”
23 September, 2009
KRT ends evidence phase in Duch trial
THE Khmer Rouge tribunal concluded its hearing of evidence in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, commandant of the infamous Tuol Sleng prison where thousands were tortured and consigned to execution.
“I would like to declare the adjournment to this morning’s proceedings now,” chief Judge Nil Nonn told the court, officially ending testimony.
Since the substantive portion of the trial began March 30, the tribunal has heard testimony from seven character witnesses, nine expert witnesses, 17 fact...
witnesses and 22 civil parties, with 23,742 visitors having observed the tribunal from the public gallery, a statement from the tribunal said.
With testimony and evidence presentation having come to an end, any further hearings prior to the start of the tribunal’s closing arguments on November 23 “will be only related to the evidence submitted [Wednesday] and [Thursday]”, UN court spokesman Lars Olsen said Thursday.
Sitting calmly in the dock, Duch has largely cooperated with the court, offering his comments as officials traced how he took part in the Khmer Rouge’s rise to power and then oversaw Tuol Sleng with brutal efficiency.
“I think the fact that you had a very articulate defendant made this a very meaningful case for the people of Cambodia,” said Heather Ryan, who monitors the court for the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Also Thursday, the National Audit Authority chairman officially became independent counsellor at the tribunal, a role created in part to field corruption complaints, Olsen said.
The government and the UN announced the appointment of Uth Chhorn last month, more than two years after allegations first surfaced that tribunal employees had been forced to turn over a percentage of their salaries to their superiors.
A joint press release dated August 11 hailed the appointment as “a further step to help strengthen the human resources management in the entire [tribunal] administration, including anti-corruption measures, to ensure the requirements of due process of law”.
But the release did not describe the specific ways in which Uth Chhorn would be empowered to resolve complaints.
Uth Chhorn declined to comment Thursday in advance of a press conference scheduled for Wednesday.
Also Thursday, Civil Parties Group 3 filed an additional reparations brief to go along with the joint submission from all four civil party groups.
Lawyer Moch Sovannary told the Post: “My group fully associates itself to the important joint submission filed today by all the civil party lawyers. In addition, my group is also filing today a separate additional brief requesting the [Trial Chamber] to preserve the memory of the victims who disappeared at S-21 and aimed at making sure that these tragedies and sufferings do not occur again in my country”.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AFP
Extracted from: The Phnom Penh Post, Friday, 18 September 2009.
source by: www.krtrial.info
“I would like to declare the adjournment to this morning’s proceedings now,” chief Judge Nil Nonn told the court, officially ending testimony.
Since the substantive portion of the trial began March 30, the tribunal has heard testimony from seven character witnesses, nine expert witnesses, 17 fact...
witnesses and 22 civil parties, with 23,742 visitors having observed the tribunal from the public gallery, a statement from the tribunal said.
With testimony and evidence presentation having come to an end, any further hearings prior to the start of the tribunal’s closing arguments on November 23 “will be only related to the evidence submitted [Wednesday] and [Thursday]”, UN court spokesman Lars Olsen said Thursday.
Sitting calmly in the dock, Duch has largely cooperated with the court, offering his comments as officials traced how he took part in the Khmer Rouge’s rise to power and then oversaw Tuol Sleng with brutal efficiency.
“I think the fact that you had a very articulate defendant made this a very meaningful case for the people of Cambodia,” said Heather Ryan, who monitors the court for the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Also Thursday, the National Audit Authority chairman officially became independent counsellor at the tribunal, a role created in part to field corruption complaints, Olsen said.
The government and the UN announced the appointment of Uth Chhorn last month, more than two years after allegations first surfaced that tribunal employees had been forced to turn over a percentage of their salaries to their superiors.
A joint press release dated August 11 hailed the appointment as “a further step to help strengthen the human resources management in the entire [tribunal] administration, including anti-corruption measures, to ensure the requirements of due process of law”.
But the release did not describe the specific ways in which Uth Chhorn would be empowered to resolve complaints.
Uth Chhorn declined to comment Thursday in advance of a press conference scheduled for Wednesday.
Also Thursday, Civil Parties Group 3 filed an additional reparations brief to go along with the joint submission from all four civil party groups.
Lawyer Moch Sovannary told the Post: “My group fully associates itself to the important joint submission filed today by all the civil party lawyers. In addition, my group is also filing today a separate additional brief requesting the [Trial Chamber] to preserve the memory of the victims who disappeared at S-21 and aimed at making sure that these tragedies and sufferings do not occur again in my country”.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AFP
Extracted from: The Phnom Penh Post, Friday, 18 September 2009.
source by: www.krtrial.info
22 September, 2009
Battling the blaze
A fire fighter struggles to control the flames consuming a garage on Street 163, close to Tuol Tompong 1 commune in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district. Neth Vantha, director of the Phnom Penh Fire Department, told the Post that 13 firetrucks were needed to quell the blaze, which spread out of control after igniting fuel at the garage. No one was injured in the blaze, Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth told reporters at the scene.
