Khoeng Te Tov Songsa Min Chol Borus Mneak Chongkor Samlam Khloun
SOURCE, http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
North Korea reflagging ships to evade sanctions - UN
A North Korea shipping company has been renaming and reflagging its vessels so it can evade an arms embargo, a UN report has said.
North Korea is subject to strict sanctions because of its nuclear weapons programme.
The sanctions were extended to Ocean Maritime Management (OMM) last year after one of its ships was found to be importing weapons from Cuba.
The UN Security Council is to discuss the report on Thursday.
The report, from a panel of experts monitoring the sanctions, said OMM had renamed 13 of its 14 ships, and transferred their ownership to shell companies, which meant they were effectively erased from the blacklist database.
"These changes are likely a strategy to evade assets freezes by member states," said the report, quoted by AFP news agency. The company has operations in at least 10 countries.
The report also said that despite the sanctions, North Korea was continuing to "attempt to procure or transfer items relating to its nuclear and missile programmes".
Under United Nations sanctions, North Korea is banned from weapons exports and the import of all but small arms.
But in July 2013, the North Korea vessel Chong Chon Gang was stopped in Panama on suspicion of carrying drugs.
Police found undeclared Cuban military cargo hidden on board, hidden under bags of sugar in its hold.
The authorities in Havana admitted being behind the stash, saying they were Soviet-era arms from Cuba headed for repair in North Korea.
The UN's North Korea sanctions committee said at the time that OMM had "played a key role in arranging the shipment of the concealed cargo of arms".
Source,http://www.bbc.com/
India unveils new railway budget
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said the budget would set the "direction of [a] long and difficult road of reform".
India's state-run railway runs more than 12,000 trains, carrying some 23 million passengers daily.
But decades of neglect, low investment and subsidised fares have left the network in a shambles.
Reports say the network is expected to receive at least a 25% rise in investment taking it to over $9bn (£5.79bn), helped mainly by falling fuel costs.
"The fall in diesel prices and a pick-up in freight earnings have given us a golden chance to raise investments," a government official was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
India's railway is also one of the world's largest employers, with 1.3 million workers. This makes any radical reform politically sensitive.
Successive governments have backed away from modernising the network and instead used the system to provide cheap transport and jobs. The lack of investment has meant slower services and more accidents.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that revamping the railways is a priority for his government and that he wants the "railway stations to have better facilities than airports".
Source,http://www.bbc.com/
China's Xi Jinping unveils new 'four comprehensives' slogans
Among other things they call for a more prosperous China and deeper reforms.
State media celebrated the launch with a front-page editorial in the People's Daily that said it had "great weight".
Similar slogans have been put forward by his predecessors, including Hu Jintao's Three Supremes and Jiang Zemin's Three Represents.
Mr Xi denounced political jargon as "empty words" during a speech five years ago.
However, he launched his leadership in 2013 with the idea of the "Chinese dream", a concept many say is still ill-defined.
Critics say the Communist elite's obsession with jargon alienates them from plain-speaking Chinese citizens.
Anti-corruption campaign
The People's Daily summed up the Four Comprehensives as:
Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society
Comprehensively deepen reform
Comprehensively govern the nation according to law
Comprehensively strictly govern the Party.
The first three "comprehensives" are familiar territory for Chinese leaders, but the fourth seems a specific reference to the current anti-corruption campaign being prosecuted by Mr Xi.
Some of the party's most senior leaders have been snared in anti-corruption investigations.
Analysts say it is often difficult to establish whether the campaign is more concerned with corruption or simply with the elimination of Mr Xi's political rivals.
Numbered slogans have been a mainstay of the Communists since the 1950s.
The Cultural Revolution begun by Mao Zedong included phrases such as "smash the four olds".
Other leaders have opted for less number-orientated slogans, such as Deng Xiaoping's "reform and opening up".
Source,http://www.bbc.com/
Krou Bhuos Slab Doy Sar Bhous Reay Ksae Plerng Chak Daldor Pleat Sneat Chak Khloun Eng
Pek Sra Chol Rom Chean Cherng Kab Slab Mneak
Source, http://www.rasmeinews.com/
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Luch Lio Mae Sleak Der Leng Mak Vinh Mae Vay
Source,http://lookingtoday.com/
Licadho asked to show its datad
Licadho reported last week that it recorded about three times as many new land complaints last year than in 2013, affecting more than 10,000 families across 13 provinces.
“Urgent action is required to avert this continuing trend,” the group said at the time. But the government dismissed the findings, labelling them “fabricated”.
“They have a hidden agenda . . . they are making it up to get more funds,” Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said of Licadho.
On Friday, the Cadastral Commission at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction wrote to Licadho to request detailed information about the disputes in question.
Am Sam Ath, senior investigator for Licadho, said the group was preparing to provide the information to the ministry as requested in the hope that it could help solve the seemingly intractable disputes.
“The cases compiled by the Cadastral Commission are based only on complaints filed to the commission,” he said.
“It does not include cases where the complainants are in conflict with economic land concessions, or vulnerable people who are seeking solutions through the courts, the judicial system and with the help of NGOs,” he added.
The Ministry of Land Management noted that its own figures suggest that land disputes have significantly declined over the past few years, from 990 cases in 2013 to 750 cases last year, after the ministry “resolved” 240 cases.
Data released by Licadho last April showed that Cambodia had passed what it called a “shameful milestone”, with land conflicts having affected more than half a million people since 2000.
Last week, the group said that it had recorded more than 90 new land disputes last year, involving 10,625 households, or slightly fewer than 50,000 people.
Latt Ky, head of the land section at local rights group Adhoc, said that despite the two groups’ findings on land conflicts differing – largely due to having different remits and receiving different reports – the figures provided by Licadho are “appropriate”.
The Cadastral Commission offers little confidence to those affected by land disputes as it fails to provide a focal point for complaints, he added.
“If we look at the Cadastral Commission, they do not work at all [to solve land disputes]. The commission seems to have abandoned its role,” he said.
“It has not resolved the complaints of the victims, and that’s the reason so many land dispute victims came to Phnom Penh and marched . . . because they have zero faith in the commission.”
E Bunthoeun, vice president of the Cadastral Commission, declined to comment as he had not yet received a response from Licadho to his request.
“I have no obligation to respond to journalists,” he sai
Source,http://www.phnompenhpost.com/
Monday, February 23, 2015
Chorng Pkeab Chet Mit Srey Bom Rong Ning Som Neang Reabkar Ber Tver Ouy Neang Khrom Chet
