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| By Duong Sokha | | | 07-01-2009 | Phnom Penh (Cambodia).07/01/2009. Olympic Stadium. Crowd celebrating 30th anniversary of what the CPP presents as the country's “liberation”
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On Wednesday, Cambodia marked the 30th anniversary of January 7th with festivities organised by the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) at the height of its power and gathering some 50,000 visitors at the Olympic stadium in Phnom Penh. The crowd, composed of a variety of civil servants, monks, students and officials representing the different districts of the capital and the country's 24 towns and provinces, chanted in unison slogans uttered by the organisers, glorifying January 7th and the CPP. The celebrations of that particular date are still fuelling debates and controversy among politicians and mark, for some, the liberation of the country from the yoke of the Khmer Rouge when for others it is rather synonymous with the start of the occupation of the Kingdom by the Vietnamese.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 06-01-2009 | 
Ream (Cambodia, Kampong Som), 17/11/2007. Rithy Panh, director of "The Sea Wall", an adaptation of Marguerite Duras' novel © John Vink / Magnum After a first film adaptation of the famous novel entitled The Sea Wall (Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique) by French film director René Clément, the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh decided to take over by adapting it to the big screen too. The piece is one of the French author Marguerite Duras' first novels and contributed to bring her to fame some 58 years ago. And the film, starring French actress Isabelle Huppert, recently appointed president of the jury for the next Cannes cinema festival (held in France from May 13th to May 24th 2009) and young actors Gaspard Ulliel and Astrid Berges-Fisbey, is out in French cinemas on January 7th.
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| By John Vink / Magnum | | | 06-01-2009 | "The Sea Wall"  Multimedia slideshow about the shooting of Rithy Panh's film entitled "The Sea Wall", in Cambodia. Images and sound by John Vink/ Magnum
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| By Duong Sokha | | | 05-01-2009 | Battambang (Cambodia). 11/12/2006: an internet café.
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Since the Internet officially appeared in Cambodia in 1997 when the first Network Operating Centre (NOC) offered its services, this communication means for the broadcasting of information has become popular throughout country, together with the development of cable and satellite television and radio. But after more than a decade, the development of this communications medium is becoming a source of worry for the Ministry of Information, concerned about the potential impact of new technologies on the Cambodian society. The Ministry aims at putting down in writing a few regulations concerning “broadcasting services used via electronic systems” in a law which is currently in the process of being drafted. According to the Ministry of Information, the new legal document will not apply to news websites (such as Ka-set), since the main goal here would be to control the broadcasting of audiovisual data, games, entertainment and online advertisements, in order to make sure that rules – of a rather moral nature – are respected by all.
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| By Ka-set | | | 02-01-2009 | Prasat Preah Vihear (Preah Vihear, Cambodia), 21/07/2008. Member of the military police on site
© John Vink / Magnum From the listing of the Preah Vihear temple as a World heritage site to Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun's provisional release, let us take a look back at the second semester of 2008 in Cambodia. Those six months were mainly marked by the legislative elections and the confirmation of the ruling Cambodian People's Party's electoral supremacy, but also by the border dispute with Thailand.
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Analyses
| Dr. Raoul Marc Jennar reviews the list of agreements, treaties and other conventions signed in the last century. According to him, they confirm the sovereignty of Cambodia over the area of Preah Vihear which is now disputed by Thailand. |
Spotted on the web
| Short, poor, ill and corrupt, or, in other words, the new potential composite of the average Cambodian person elaborated on the basis of statistical figures circulated here and there by various international and national organisations intervening in Cambodia. |
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