SIEM REAP, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived here on Sunday on an official visit to Cambodia, the last leg of his four-Asian nation tour.
In a written statement, Xi said China and Cambodia have enjoyed long-term friendship that further expanded since the two countries forged diplomatic ties over half a century ago.
The two countries have maintained fruitful cooperation in the fields of politics, economy, trade, culture and people-to-people exchanges, and close coordination on international and regional affairs, he said.
"The good-neighborly relations between China and Cambodia are in the interests of the two peoples and benefit the peace, stability and prosperity in the region," he said.
Chinese vice president arrives in Siem Reap for official visit to Cambodia
Sunday, December 20, 2009
China's vice-president arrives in Myanmar for talks
YANGON-(AFP) — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Myanmar Saturday, an official told AFP, for an overnight visit as part of a regional tour as his country's likely next leader.
Xi landed at 2.15pm (0745 GMT) in Myanmar's economic hub and former capital Yangon and was expected to travel to a gem emporium and later pay homage at the sacred Shwe Dagon pagoda, the official said.
Security was very tight around the city and no media were allowed at the airport or at the Sedona hotel where he is staying.
Many Chinese nationals wearing suits and holding the Myanmar state flag gathered by the airport to greet their vice-president, an AFP correspondent said.
Xi is expected to fly to Myanmar's remote capital Naypyidaw on Saturday evening before meeting the government's military leadership including junta chief Than Shwe on Sunday.
The two leaders are expected to sign various agreements, according to another official, before Xi departs for Cambodia in the afternoon.
Xi is expected to take over as party leader in 2012, and president in 2013. His current trip started in Japan and ends in Cambodia on Tuesday.
Xi landed at 2.15pm (0745 GMT) in Myanmar's economic hub and former capital Yangon and was expected to travel to a gem emporium and later pay homage at the sacred Shwe Dagon pagoda, the official said.
Security was very tight around the city and no media were allowed at the airport or at the Sedona hotel where he is staying.
Many Chinese nationals wearing suits and holding the Myanmar state flag gathered by the airport to greet their vice-president, an AFP correspondent said.
Xi is expected to fly to Myanmar's remote capital Naypyidaw on Saturday evening before meeting the government's military leadership including junta chief Than Shwe on Sunday.
The two leaders are expected to sign various agreements, according to another official, before Xi departs for Cambodia in the afternoon.
Xi is expected to take over as party leader in 2012, and president in 2013. His current trip started in Japan and ends in Cambodia on Tuesday.
Five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami ravaged six southern coastal provinces and swept more than 5,000 to their deaths, 60-year-old Phang Nga resident Yupa Srisiri cannot forget the day her six-year-old nephew was snatched from her embrace.
"I still remember that day and I want to forget it, but I can't," she said with a trembling voice and teary eyes.
Now she's afraid to walk on the beach and stay alone at home.
In the early morning of December 26, 2004, The tsunami struck the Andaman coast without warning, causing massive damage in Ranong, Trang, Phang Nga, Krabi, Phuket and Satun.
The killer wave crashed into her while she was riding a pickup with her husband on their way back home to Ban Nam Khem village - the community hardest hit by the tsunami, with about 800 lives lost.
Her pickup rolled over and at that moment her nephew was ripped from her embrace. A month later, she found him, dead.
Democrats slam Jatuporn for distorting classified document
Abhisit says use of violence not govt policy, especially with neighbour.
The Democrat Party yesterday condemned opposition MP Jatuporn Promphan for distorting a classified Foreign Ministry document and called for an investigation into who leaked the document.
Democrat Party spokesman Buranat Samutaraks said the party had condemned Jatuporn, a Pheu Thai Party MP, for distorting facts and creating misunderstanding over three points:
n Giving misleading information that the classified document mentioned a time frame for assassinating former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Buranat said the document did not include any sentence that mentions any form of violence by the government.
Sivarak enters monkhood
Siwarak brought to court on 8th December, 2009.
Published: 20/12/2009
Bangkok Post
Freed convicted spy Sivarak Chutipong entered monkhood on Sunday morning.
Mr Sivarak, a 31-year-old engineer who was sentenced to seven years in jail and fined 10 million riels (about 80,000 baht) on Dec 8 after being arrested by Cambodian authorities last month on charges of stealing sensitive state information, fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's flight plan when he visited Phnom Pehn, and passing it to Thai diplomat Kamrob Palawatwichai.
Noppadon calls for House dissolution, election as conditions for talk
Noppadon Pattama (pictured), a legal advisor of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said Sunday that a political reconciliation could be reached only if all legal cases against Thaksin were undone and justice was returned to him and everything would reversed back to the time before the 2006 coup.
Noppadon said a talk between Thaksin's side and the government could be held only on three conditions.
"First, the 1997 charter or a draft with similar content must be enacted. Second, the House of Representatives must be dissolved. Third, a new election must be held and all sides and all colours must ratify a pact that they will accept the election results and will not make any move outside Parliament to undermine the country administration or disrupt the administration or else the same old circle will return," Noppadon said.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban Sunday dismissed conditions raised by a legal advisor of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra for holding a reconciliation talk.
Suthep said the conditions raised by Noppadon were too extreme to be accepted.
Noppadon demanded that the legal cases against Thaksin would have to be dismissed and the 1997 charter would have to reenacted for holding a new election.
Thaksin says 'reconciliation was long overdue"
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Sunday that it was too late for political reconciliation now.
"The reconciliation was long overdue" Thaksin said on his Twitter page, writing the words "reconciliation" and "long overdue" in English.
He compared the reconciliation to hand clapping saying he is only one hand and cannot make an applause alone.
The Nation
"The reconciliation was long overdue" Thaksin said on his Twitter page, writing the words "reconciliation" and "long overdue" in English.
He compared the reconciliation to hand clapping saying he is only one hand and cannot make an applause alone.
The Nation
The closing scene of Cambodia’s political circus against Thailand
| LEFT: Takki disembarking from his big private jet at Pochentong International Airport in Phnom Penh on Dec. 11 RIGHT: Mr. Sivarak while being brought to court in Phnom Penh Objective of the comedy: To show the world that Abhisit government has been insincere with Cambodia and carrying unfriendly acts against Cambodia in every way possible and that Takki is important to Cambodian economic development plan worthy of being appointed as Cambodian government’s adviser and Cambodian PM’s personal adviser.Original plot: Eavesdropping and telephone tapping on the Royal Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh to pick whatever conversation that could be built as a case to accuse Thailand in anything possible and expand the case to full extent with an intention to cause damages to PM Abhisit’s reputation as a clean prime minister of Thailand with behind the scene supportin role by PT party. |
N.Korea leader 'receives letter from Obama'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was given a letter from Barack Obama during a trip by the US president's envoy last week, state media said Friday.
This undated picture released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in late November shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il inspecting a fruit farm in suburban Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il was given a letter from Barack Obama during a trip by the US president's envoy last week, state media said.Climate talks reach deal
COPENHAGEN: World leaders have reached a "meaningful" climate accord but it is not sufficient to combat the threat of global warming, President Barack Obama said on Friday.
An official said that President Obama reached a deal after talks with the leaders of emerging economies China, India and South Africa. It was expected to be presented to other delegations at a 194-nation summit.
PM: Govt not meddling with EC
The government has not intervened in the Election Commission's deliberation on the Democrat Party's alleged 258 million baht donation case, Prime Minister and Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Sunday.
The Democrat Party is accused of violating the constitution by receiving a 258 million baht donation, far in excess of the legal amount, from TPI Polene Plct, the country's third-largest cement maker founded by former Matchimathipataya Party leader Prachai Leophairatana. The charter prohibits political parties from receiving donations of more than 10 million baht a year.PM denies plot to kill Thaksin
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Saturday dismissed an opposition claim that an assassination plot had been hatched against Thaksin Shinawatra, insisting that the government would only use legal means to bring him back to serve his two-year jail sentence.
In his first comment on the leak of a classified document to the Puea Thai Party from a source at the Foreign Ministry, the prime minister, speaking from Copenhagen, said the government would strictly abide by the law in its efforts to bring back Thaksin.Time for monks to let go
Posted by Sanitsuda Ekachai -
When misconduct by clerics is rampant from top to bottom, isn't it sad that the Council of Elders insists on closing its eyes and ears, clinging tightly to its feudalistic system and powers?
We can go on and on about how our feudal clergy has become an oppressive system. Or how patriarchy, when nourished by an unhealthy approach to celibacy, has turned into misogyny within the clergy.
We can complain to no end about how the clergy have gone wrong. But is it only because the problems are real? Are there also other reasons at play, like our desire to have someone to blame for the moral abyss that is also of our own making?
Iraq to sign contracts with oil firms
Iraq will sign preliminary contracts, from Sunday, with oil companies that bid successfully last week for seven fields, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP.
The contracts will then be submitted to the cabinet for final approval.On Sunday, the consortium comprised of Anglo-Dutch firm Shell (60 percent) and Malaysia's Petronas (40 percent), will sign a pre-contract for the development of Majnoon, with estimated reserves of 12.58 billion barrels.
Dubai's bubble burst won't hurt region's property sector
Labourers work on the Dubai Tower, a skyscraper under construction in the emirate. Many markets were spooked and investor confidence was severely shaken when Dubai World, the state-owned realestate and ports giant, sought a debt moratorium.
Dubai's property crash is unlikely to have a major impact on the region's market, although foreign buying could slow.''We are currently focusing on markets in the region and are undertaking roadshows to tap the robust growth being seen in the Asian markets,'' said James Duan, the chief executive of Fragrant Property Group.
Mr Duan, whose company has developed projects such as Prime 11 and The Circle on Phetchaburi Road, said the shift towards a growing upscale client base in this part of the region is essential for real-estate developers looking to sell their 49% foreign quota.
The economic crisis saw the appetite for residential units from the traditional
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