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The first Chinese warships have docked at a newly expanded Cambodian naval base. Should the US be worried?

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The first Chinese warships have docked at a newly expanded Cambodian naval base. Should the US be worried?

Chinese warships have docked for the first time at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, which is undergoing a Chinese-funded upgrade that has drawn concerns from the United States over its potential role in expanding China’s overseas military footprint.

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Cambodia’s Defense Minister Tea Seiha visited the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy warships docked at the Ream port on Sunday along with his father – and predecessor – Tea Banh, according to a post on the official’s Facebook page.

While the post did not specifically mention the Chinese military, the accompanying photos showed two PLA Navy corvettes docked side by side. On board one of the corvettes, identified as the “Wenshan” on the vessel’s gangplank, Tea Banh reviewed a row of Chinese naval officers.

In full: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/07/asia/cambodia-ream-naval-base-chinese-warships-us-analysis/index.html

Cambodian woman, son charged over ‘lazy Malays’ video

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Cambodian woman, son charged over ‘lazy Malays’ video

A Cambodian businesswoman and her son pleaded not guilty in the Melaka sessions court today to separate charges of making inflammatory statements and improper use of network facilities.

The charges stemmed from a viral video in which the woman allegedly described Malays as “lazy”.

In the video, the woman is also alleged to have said that Cambodians are more intelligent and hardworking than Malays.

In full: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2023/12/07/cambodian-woman-son-charged-over-lazy-malays-video/

Chinese gold miners ‘illegally’ tearing up Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Mongabay
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Chinese gold miners ‘illegally’ tearing up Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

“The company operates as they please. We’ve asked the authorities for help, but they won’t do anything for us,” said Bunnarith*, a lifelong resident of Snang An village in the densely forested province of Kampong Thom. “The people living in Snang An live here in misery.”

Nestled inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) inside the boundaries of the protected area, is a Chinese-owned gold mine to which Bunnarith can trace his misery.

On March 23, 2020, Late Cheng Mining Development was awarded an exploratory license spanning 15,100 hectares (37,300 acres) across Kampong Thom’s Sandan district, engulfing Snang An village.

In full: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/chinese-gold-miners-illegally-tearing-up-cambodian-wildlife-sanctuary/

Cambodian woman, son to be charged in Melaka court tomorrow over offensive ‘lazy Malays’ remarks

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Cambodian woman, son to be charged in Melaka court tomorrow over offensive ‘lazy Malays’ remarks

A Cambodian woman and her son will be charged at the Ayer Keroh Magistrates’ Court here tomorrow for allegedly saying “Melayu malas” (Malays are lazy) in a video which has gone viral on social media recently.

Melaka police contingent headquarters, in a statement today, said the 47-year-old woman, who owns a business in Johor Baru, will be charged under Section 505(c) of the Penal Code for uttering the words with intent to incite a class or community of persons.

In full: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2023/12/06/cambodian-woman-son-to-be-charged-in-melaka-court-tomorrow-over-offensive-lazy-malays-remarks/106115

Chinese warships visit controversial Cambodian naval base for joint exercise

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Chinese warships visit controversial Cambodian naval base for joint exercise

Chinese naval ships have arrived for a military exercise at a Cambodian naval port where the United States has previously expressed concern about the possible involvement of the People’s Liberation Army.

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It is the first time ships from a foreign navy are known to have used the new pier at Ream naval base, which Chinese companies helped build.

The ships, including the Wenshan, a Type 056A corvette, were seen moored at the base on Sunday in photos posted on Facebook by General Tea Seiha, the Cambodian deputy prime minister and defence minister.

In full: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3244083/chinese-warships-visit-controversial-cambodian-naval-base-joint-exercise

In Southeast Asia, the horror of Kissinger’s explosive legacy goes on

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In Southeast Asia, the horror of Kissinger’s explosive legacy goes on

Fifty years after Henry Kissinger drove American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, the region continues to live with the fallout from the bombing and military campaigns backed by the former secretary of state, who died last week.

In Cambodia, unexploded ordnance left over from Vietnam War-era carpet bombings, orchestrated by Kissinger and President Richard Nixon, are among the remnants of war that continue to kill and maim adults and children, year after year.

The country of roughly 17 million is also still recovering from the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, the brutal, ousted government that experts say gained recruits buoyed by desperation in the country after the relentless American assaults.

In full: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/05/asia/kissinger-legacy-bombing-cambodia-southeast-asia-intl-hnk/index.html

New Chinese Naval Base in Cambodia Receives First PLA Navy Warships

Maritime Executive
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New Chinese Naval Base in Cambodia Receives First PLA Navy Warships

The newly-built Chinese naval base at Ream, Cambodia, has welcomed its first PLA Navy warships, the Cambodian ministry of defense has confirmed. Satellite imagery shows several ships alongside the brand new finger pier that Chinese contractors have installed at Ream, where the Cambodian military has leased the north half of an existing naval base to Chinese forces. It appears to be the first time that the pier has received ships (other than construction barges and dredgers related to the project).

In full: https://maritime-executive.com/article/new-chinese-naval-base-in-cambodia-receives-first-pla-navy-warships

Rising-star author Anthony Veasna So died at 28. Now you can read his unfinished novel

Los Angeles Times
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Rising-star author Anthony Veasna So died at 28. Now you can read his unfinished novel

“Comedy and its epistemological relation to trauma theory” is the proposed dissertation topic of one of the characters in Anthony Veasna So’s new collection of essays and fiction, “Songs on Endless Repeat.” More precisely, the character — a gay Cambodian American languishing in a philosophy PhD program at Stanford — proposes writing about how both comedy and trauma “revel in the fragmentary, broken nature of reality.”

The statement could double as an oblique description of So’s own work. His debut collection, “Afterparties,” published after his death in 2020 from an accidental drug overdose, showcased his considerable talent for vivifying members of the Cambodian community in Stockton.

In full: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-12-04/rising-star-author-anthony-veasna-so-died-at-28-now-you-can-read-his-unfinished-novel

How Mounting Demand for Rubber Is Driving Tropical Forest Loss

Yale Environment 360
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How Mounting Demand for Rubber Is Driving Tropical Forest Loss

The elephants are gone. The trees are logged out. The Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in central Cambodia is largely destroyed, after being handed over by the government to a politically well-connected local plantation company to grow rubber.

In West Africa, the Luxembourg-based plantations giant Socfin has been accused in recent weeks of deforestation and displacing Indigenous people around its rubber plantations in Nigeria and Ghana.

In full: https://e360.yale.edu/features/rubber-plantations-deforestation-tires-electric-vehicles

From Hun Sen to Hun Manet: The worrying state of free speech in Cambodia

Global Voices
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From Hun Sen to Hun Manet: The worrying state of free speech in Cambodia

Despite a change in government in August, Cambodia’s state of freedom of expression remains dim.

After almost four decades in power, Prime Minister Hun Sen stepped down from his position, replaced by his son Hun Manet, who vowed to prioritize peace and stability in the country.

The election’s credibility was questionable since authorities cancelled the registration of the major opposition party on a mere issue of technicality. Attacks against independent media, opposition activists, and human rights defenders also intensified ahead of the July election.

The decline of media freedom and free speech in general was highlighted in the latest report of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) which pointed out that the government “continued its worrying trend of over-policing free speech and silencing critical voices, a repression that was exacerbated ahead of the July 2023 general election.” It monitored how state officials filed legal actions against 16 journalists and 100 human rights defenders. It also documented the license revocation of five independent media outlets, including Global Voices’ partner, Voice of Democracy.

In full: https://globalvoices.org/2023/12/04/from-hun-sen-to-hun-manet-the-worrying-state-of-free-speech-in-cambodia/

Military engineers of Korea, Cambodia hold 1st joint exercise

Korea Times
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Military engineers of Korea, Cambodia hold 1st joint exercise

Korea and Cambodia have held their first joint exercise aimed at enhancing Cambodian peacekeepers’ capacity in engineering under a United Nations partnership program, the defense ministry said Monday.

A team of 10 Korean military engineers trained 32 Cambodian counterparts in the area of facilitating logistics support for U.N. peacekeeping missions from Nov. 6 to Dec. 1 near the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the ministry said. Japan and Australia participated in the exercise as observers.

In full: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/12/113_364411.html

Battambang: Know All About UNESCO’s Newest City Of Gastronomy

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Battambang: Know All About UNESCO’s Newest City Of Gastronomy

Battambang just became the first-ever Cambodian city to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, a collection of 55 destinations renowned for various creative fields such as crafts and folk art, design, film, gastronomy, literature, media arts, and music. 

To mark World Cities Day, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay designated 55 new cities, including Battambang in Cambodia, to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). The recent additions bring the total number of cities in the network to 350, spanning over a hundred countries and encompassing seven creative fields in total.

In full: https://www.slurrp.com/article/battambang-know-all-about-unescos-newest-city-of-gastronomy-1701612550667

Dwindling fish stocks hit incomes in Cambodia, prey to climate change

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Dwindling fish stocks hit incomes in Cambodia, prey to climate change

Fisherman Siem Huat has seen fish stocks dwindle in recent years in Cambodia’s majestic Tonle Sap Lake, and with them, his family’s sole source of income.

Experts say extreme weather brought by climate change, ecological disruption from dam-building, wetland conversions, and overfishing threaten food supplies and livelihoods for the millions who depend on Southeast Asia’s largest lake.

In full: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/dwindling-fish-stocks-hit-incomes-cambodia-prey-climate-change-2023-12-04/

Henry Kissinger leaves behind a poisonous legacy of callous geopolitical calculus

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Henry Kissinger leaves behind a poisonous legacy of callous geopolitical calculus

The 1969 illegal bombing of neutral Cambodia was one of Henry Kissinger’s first major policy recommendations as national security adviser to U.S. president Richard M. Nixon. It was also his most catastrophic, having led to the expansion of the American war into Cambodia and opened the door to the Cambodian communists known as the Khmer Rouge.

I witnessed the results firsthand. In 1973, I was a reporter living in Cambodia, and I witnessed the end of the years-long U.S. bombing campaign, which wrought blunt, needless destruction and heartbreaking devastation on the stunning country. I later returned to the country when the Khmer Rouge was in power, interviewed prime minister Pol Pot and his lieutenants, who prided themselves for surviving the bombing, and then spent years writing a history of the ensuing war and genocide – a tragedy in which Dr. Kissinger had a leading role.

In full: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-henry-kissinger-leaves-behind-a-poisonous-legacy-of-callous/

Henry Kissinger’s Cambodia legacy of bombs and chaos

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Henry Kissinger’s Cambodia legacy of bombs and chaos

When news of Henry Kissinger’s death spread this week, many former world leaders lined up to pay tribute.

Former US President George W Bush said the US had “lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs”.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair described the ex-US secretary of state as an artist of diplomacy, who was motivated by “a genuine love of the free world and the need to protect it”. Boris Johnson called Kissinger “a giant of diplomacy and strategy – and peace-making”.

In full: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67582813

Performing artists celebrate 70 years of Japan-Cambodia diplomatic ties

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Performing artists celebrate 70 years of Japan-Cambodia diplomatic ties

Artists from Japan and Cambodia have showcased traditional performances at an event in Angkor to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties. The Angkor area is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The cultural exchange event was held on Sunday by a Cambodia-based Japanese group in front of the Bayon Temple in Siem Reap. The affair was organized in cooperation with the Cambodian government and other entities.

Japanese entertainers played Gagaku music and performed a Noh play, while gorgeously clad Cambodian women executed a graceful dance.

In full: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20231204_01/

Cambodia’s PM hosts Thai defence minister for talks on demining border

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Cambodia’s PM hosts Thai defence minister for talks on demining border

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet hosted Thai Defence Minister Sutin Klungsang for talks on border trade and demining on the border on Saturday.

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Other issues discussed were investment and tourism between the two neighbours.

Official press releases after the meeting said both governments were committed to fostering peace in their border region through a joint effort to eliminate all active mines along the border.

In full: https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40033450

Ask Brutalized Cambodians What They Think of Kissinger

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Ask Brutalized Cambodians What They Think of Kissinger

Forty years after the American military attacked them, the people of Tropeang Phlong village in Cambodia were still traumatized.

Beginning around 1969, U.S. helicopters regularly strafed the village, according to survivors. The American choppers used the wind off their blades to blow the thatch roofs off homes, turned their machine guns on those who fled and on men and women working in the rice paddies and fired incendiary rockets that set houses ablaze. Aircraft dropped bombs and gleaming napalm canisters that tumbled end over end and bloomed into fiery explosions.

“My nephew was killed — his stomach was blown out — and my older brother was wounded by an airstrike,” Oun Hean, the village chief, told me when I visited in 2010. “During the attack, they fled to the pagoda, but the Americans dropped a bomb on it.”

In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/international-world/kissinger-cambodia-war-legacy.html

Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base: New Chinese Trojan Horse?

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Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base: New Chinese Trojan Horse?

China’s latest foray into building up its presence in the South China Sea, a dual-use enlargement of Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, part of its “String of Pearls” strategy to establish itself as a blue-water maritime power capable of challenging the US, is adding to concerns about Beijing’s expanding naval aggressiveness. Previous examples include the ports of Gwadar in Pakistan and Hambantota in Sri Lanka, both on the Indian Ocean which are either largely funded by, and/or controlled by Chinese state-owned companies.

On the ground, Cambodian locals have remarked on the increasing Chinese presence around the base as construction has intensified over the past year. Vietnamese officials have also described a sudden increase in Chinese movement of personnel and equipment into Ream since April, reflecting the overall growing influence of China in Cambodia as well. That has not only raised the eyebrows of the US but also of Cambodia’s neighbors such as Thailand and Vietnam.

In full: https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/cambodia-ream-naval-base-chinese-trojan-horse

Cambodian PM Hun Manet Poised for Bureaucratic Shake-up

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Cambodian PM Hun Manet Poised for Bureaucratic Shake-up

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet capped his first 100 days in office with a highly successful Water Festival, which marked the return of dragon boat racing for the first time since 2019 and – as many said privately – hopefully better days ahead.

The importance of the boat races should not be underestimated after their recent cancellations due to drought, the COVID-19 pandemic, and security concerns amid last year’s ASEAN summits and the Southeast Asian Games.

In 2019, the festival was shrouded with concerns after opposition leader in exile Sam Rainsy made a failed bid to return on November 9 and oust then prime minister, Hun Manet’s father, Hun Sen. And officials were also mindful after a bridge stampede during the Water Festival in 2010 that left 347 people dead.

In full: https://thediplomat.com/2023/12/cambodian-pm-hun-manet-poised-for-bureaucratic-shake-up/

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