Monday, 26 July 2010

DAP News. Breaking News in Cambodia

via Khmer NZ

Singapore Invests about 507 million US Dollars in Cambodia

Monday, 26 July 2010 06:49 DAP-NEWS/ Vibol

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, JULY 26, 2010-Singapore has invested in Cambodia about 507 million US dollars from 1994-2010, a report from Cambodian side obtained on Monday said.

Singapore has invested different fields from education training to technology system in Cambodia, it added.

It continued that in 2009, bilateral trade volume was worth about 690 million US dollars, while Cambodia exported to Singapore about 481 million US dollars against 208 million US dollars from Singapore to Cambodia.

It added that for five months of this year, 16, 144 Singaporean tourists arrived Cambodia and last year about 41,273 Singaporean tourists visited here. On Sunday, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife left here to pay a three day visit in Singapore to strengthen bilateral ties between two countries according to invitation of his Singaporean counterpart.

Duch, former head of S-21 sentences 35 years in Jail

Monday, 26 July 2010 04:25 DAP-NEWS/ Vibol

CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, JULY 26, 2010-The UN-Cambodian court on Monday announced that Duch jailed 35 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity that committed during his role as former head of notorious S-21 prison in Pol Pot regime (1975-1979).

Non Nin, head of trial Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal announced the public verdict for Duch, 68, with 35 years in jail because Duch seriously violated international laws. But his term will deduce because he already served about 10 years in jail already after he has been arrested in 1999. He will serve his term about 25 years from now.

Original name, Kaing Guek Eav known as Duch, revolutionary name joined 1967 of Communits party of Kampuchea. About 12,000 people died of torture, execution, and starvation in the prison.

My client will file the appeal complaint for the case,” Ka Savuth,co- lawyer of Duch said previously.

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