Thursday, 28 October 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


via CAAI

SRP writes to Hun Sen

Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:01 Meas Sokchea

MEMBERS of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party yesterday handed National Assembly President Heng Samrin a letter requesting that Prime Minister Hun Sen respond to criticisms from the European Parliament concerning the recent prosecution of party president Sam Rainsy and comments on a “worrying authoritarian trend” in Cambodian politics. The letter, signed by 17 SRP members, asks: “How will the government maintain its stance to keep aid from the European Union, and to keep the honour of Cambodia?”

Two dead, one injured in bomb explosion

Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:01 Sen David

A 45-YEAR-OLD man and his 6-year-old son were killed, and a woman was seriously injured, in a bomb explosion in Kampong Chhnang’s Rolea Bier district, officials said yesterday. Nou Tearo, deputy district police chief, said the man and his son died on Tuesday after one of three pieces of unexploded ordinance that they planned to recycle detonated in their home. “In the village, the residents are so panicked because the two men died from the bomb explosion with so much blood,” he said. He added that a 52-year-old woman, who had been 20 metres from the explosion, was hit with shrapnel and sent to hospital with serious injuries.

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