Monday, 22 March 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


Australian man charged with purchasing child prostitution against 2 VN girls


via CAAI News Media

Monday, 22 March 2010 15:04 Chrann Chamroeun

Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged a 53-year-old Australian man with purchasing child prostitution from two underage Vietnamese girls aged 16 and 17, whose a 16-year-old girl was engaged, according to anti-human trafficking police and court officials told the post Sunday. Police on Wednesday night raided into a guest house in Preah Sihanouk province where the 53-year-old Australian man, Michael John Lines stayed, founding 3 girls including his four-year-old adopted daughter along with other two foreigner nationals of American and New Zealand.

Memorial: Stupa to honour war journalists

Monday, 22 March 2010 15:05 Khouth Sophakchakrya

The city is set to build a monument to dozens of local and foreign journalists killed covering the country’s 1970-75 civil war, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said Sunday. In a letter to Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema, he said a ceremony will be held next month in advance of its construction, coinciding with an April 20-23 reunion of foreign correspondents who covered the war. At least 37 journalists – from Japan, France, the United States, Sweden, Germany, India, Laos, Australia and Cambodia – were killed or disappeared during the conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and the Khmer Rouge, which captured Phnom Penh in April 1975.

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