A delegation from the Brunei Finance Ministry met with Cambodian Finance
Minister Keat Chhon to discuss importing Cambodian rice and seed, local media
reported Wednesday. The delegation, headed by Brunei Finance Ministry Permanent
Secretary Dato Paduka Haj Ali Apong, had not reached any firm agreements on the
amount of rice and seed Brunei would require or how soon, but that discussions
went well, according to Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper. The
delegation is also scheduled to meet the Cambodian commerce and agriculture
ministers as well as the Rural Development Bank and the Rice Millers
Association of Cambodia, the paper said. It did not state a scheduled duration
for the visit. Cambodia has said it aims to be a major rice exporter in the
region, matching the current leader Thailand by 2015, and in recent months has
negotiated with African nations, including Guinea, as well as Gulf states
Kuwait and Qatar. Brunei is a fellow of Cambodia in
the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations and has already provided
advice on tapping potential offshore oil reserves. Sultan of Brunei Haji
Hassanal Bolkiah visited Cambodia in April last year and the two countries have
strong bilateral ties.
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Beijing Olympics held firmly on China's terms
Hiroyuki Matsumoto and Wakako Yuki / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
BEIJING--The Beijing Olympics, which ended Sunday with the host nation grabbing
a list-topping 51 gold medals, proved to be "run by China for the benefit of
China," while the International Olympic Committee lauded the Beijing Olympic
Organizing Committee for its management of the Games.
The Opening Ceremony held on Aug. 8 was attended by heads of state and leaders
from an unprecedented 80-plus countries to make it a gala occasion for Olympic
diplomacy. At the center stage of this diplomacy was Chinese President Hu
Jintao, who declared the Games open while giving the impression that the
dignitaries had gathered in Beijing to congratulate the host nation.
The way the Games were managed received high praise. A member of the Japanese
gymnastics team said everything was perfect, and that athletes were provided
with a far more favorable environment than previous Olympics.
Organizers touted the motto "Volunteers' smiles are the best advertisement for
Beijing." Indeed, an abundance of unpaid workers offered services at the Games.
Special car and bus lanes for Olympic participants and others enabled smooth
transportation between venues.
The food served at the Olympic Village proved popular among athletes. Kosuke
Kitajima, who took gold for the second time in a row in the men's 100-meter and
200-meter breaststroke races, said, "Compared with the two other Olympics I've
taken part in, the food [at the Beijing Games] was the tastiest."
On the security front, although there were frequent small-scale terrorist
attacks in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, security in the capital was
untroubled. In Beijing, luggage inspections were held at subway ticket gates
and more than 10,000 knives were confiscated, while Beijing-bound trains were
routinely inspected. A small missile base was built at a site adjacent to the
Olympic venues, in case of emergency.
There were no instances of large-scale trouble because potentially disturbing
elements were removed by making maximum use of public authority. There was,
however, a succession of incidents in which human rights activists and foreign
reporters were detained and treated violently by the Chinese authorities.
Further, two Beijing residents were ordered to serve one year of labor
education for "disrupting public order" after they protested against an order
to move out of their homes for an Olympic-related development project.
The Beijing Olympics also were characterized by what some people labeled
"unprecedented egotism on the part of the host city."
Symbolic of this was an event for a traditional Chinese martial arts held from
Thursday to Sunday at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. The venue hosted an
international meet for Chinese martial artists that was not part of the
official Olympics. Preliminary rounds of Olympic handball games were held at
the same gymnasium until Wednesday.
Medals handed out at the martial arts event were engraved with logos minus
Olympic emblems, but which when seen from a distance, were indistinguishable
from genuine Olympic medals.
A 20-year-old Russian woman who won one of the martial arts events said
emotionally, "It feels like I'm taking part in a real Olympic event." But the
martial art meet could be seen as nothing more than a "fake Olympic event."
China repeatedly asked the IOC to approve the traditional martial art as an
official Olympic event, but this request was never granted.
The IOC therefore initially took a dim view of the martial art meet being held
at the same time as the Olympics. But the Chinese organizers paid little heed
to the IOC's opinion, going so far as allowing participants to stay in the
Olympic Village alongside Olympic athletes. Eventually, the IOC approved the
meet as a "cultural program." IOC President Jacques Rogge himself visited the
venue for the event and served as a presenter at a medal ceremony.
The Chinese organizers were keen to hold the event as China otherwise might
have lost face given the fact judo was admitted as an official Olympic event
when Tokyo hosted the Games in 1964, while South Korea's taekwondo was
introduced as an unofficial Olympic event when Seoul hosted the Games in 1988.
President Hu himself reportedly urged the IOC to allow the martial art meet to
be held, indicating that hosting the event was the state will of China.
After all, the Beijing Olympics were held to bolster the pride of the host
nation.
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----- Original Message ----
From: เดช <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:23:19 AM
Subject: where's bozo chau bury? is he here? it seems u r the only a neo-Nazis
of vietnamese network. stop fooling pple, bozo peter wong kampuchun
camdisc sucks. too many under develop mind pple.
On Aug 27, 9:54 am, Neak kampuchea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 11:00 am, Neak kampuchea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
> > Chau Bury or Chan Bury or Chanta Bury is the same guy from KK group
> > that carries Vietnamese toilet at all time. When he pronounces some
> > thing, he starts with "Vietnam occupation".
>
> > Yes occupation on KK heads in South Vietnam, but it’s not in Cambodia.
> > She is free to spend dollars on any street, but in Vietnam foreign
> > currency circulating is prohibited. We get freedom to move and to
> > choose inter-racial marriage with Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and
> > others. We are in here accepting integration among ethnicities in
> > which million and million new face of Cambodia have been coming up
> > everyday.
>
> > This main stream Cambodian is reaching majority in which every
> > Cambodian must be cooperated with each other to loudly speak out
> > together for educationally bringing “Chunkampuchea” into the public
> > mind set. This is our sole duty for psychologically unifying all
> > Cambodia's inhabitant without discriminating of origin of birth of
> > anyone if we want Cambodia to get strong with diversity.
>
> > Remember, pronouncing person race is an insult, from which would be a
> > big push for Cambodia social disintegration and devastated disaster.
>
> > Cambodian democracy needs to have courage for changing the old way of
> > thinking for adjusting to the continued changing Cambodian social
> > fabric. We must defuse racism time bomb and have a strong political
> > support from a novel policy of non discrimination of origin of birth
> > to start with as a win-win strategy by using a new speaking term for
> > winning hearts and souls of every diverse Cambodia’s inhabitants. We
> > need one Cambodian society as a one big Cambodian nation in a one
> > strong Cambodia. This is a unique way for forging all Cambodia’s
> > inhabitants into a one solid Cambodian national UNITY.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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