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| By Anne-Laure Porée | | | 09-03-2009 |  Phnom Penh (Cambodia), 08/03/2009. Fundraising lamp auction organised in support of education and living conditions of children and their mothers in Cambodian prisons.
All donations will go to LICADHO’s Adopt-a Prison project. ©Vandy Rattana
For NGOs working in Cambodia and functioning with institutional funds, funding applications are a recurring pain and invariably a source of stress. “Of course there are advantages in relying on institutional funding, especially when your activities do not make people cry”, a NGO director explains, anonymously. The drawbacks are all the procedures we have to respect – and they are quite heavy: accountancy, the need to follow actions which give some visibility to institutional partners. And then, we have to adapt to the particular way they speak and follow their line of argument, which varies depending on the trend: defending democracy and the rule of law, gender equality... Sometimes I think that if did all things perfectly, as I should, I wouldn’t have any time to establish the missions for which I tried to raise funds.” Parallel to this chameleon method, initiatives appear and generate modest funds and act as a safety valve for Cambodian NGOs. Here is a non-exhaustive review of some of them.[edited on 12-03-2009]
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| By Duong Sokha | | | 06-03-2009 |  Phnom Penh (Cambodia), 10/01/2009. A Cambodian Buddhist monk standing for alms not far from a future branch of Canadia Bank, a skyscraper like many others in Phnom Penh
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Building sites suddenly brought to a standstill or extremely slowed down and stricken by the global financial tornado-crisis, desperate plummeting of land prices … The incredible property frenzy that hit the little Khmer Kingdom and rampant prices now belong to the past. In order to try and reflate the sector, the Cambodian government got out of its drawers an idea they already mentioned earlier: opening the private property market to foreign residents. A Draft law, currently under preparation, will indeed allow them to buy a flat or a condominium in their own name. Real estate agencies had been hoping for such a measure to come up.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 05-03-2009 |  Battambang (Cambodia). 13/01/2004: Phare Ponleu Selpak circus school. ©JohnVink
The circus school ran by the Cambodian organisation Phare Ponleu Selpak (PPS) really is into acrobatics: there, artists reach nirvana through light and agile aerobatics, air circus, intermingling humour, tricks, wit and poetry while walking on a very tight rope… when it comes to finances. March 27th will mark the kick-off in Phnom Penh of the 6th edition of the Tini Tinou Circus Festival, organised by PPS, which will then reach Battambang in North-West Cambodia, where the organisation has its stronghold as tradition has it, but this time, they will have to do with only half the amount of funds they usually have available. It does not matter: the cheerful and committed acrobats have decided that their show had to go on...
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| By Duong Sokha, with Stéphanie Gée | | | 04-03-2009 | 
Ta Lorng, (Kompong Speu, Cambodia), 24/02/2009. Norng Chanphal, one of the four children who survived S-21.
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Norng Chanphal is the last victim who submitted an application to become a civil party before the Khmer Rouge court as part of Case 1, the trial of Khmer Rouge torturer Duch. He did so on February 4th exactly, i.e. two days after the official deadline for applications and 13 days before the opening of the technical preparation hearing of the trial of S-21 director at the Trial Chamber. Introducing himself as a key-witness on the basis that he survived, as a child, the hell of the detention and torture centre, Chanphal caused a stir with his sudden show-up. Ka-set went to meet Norng Chanphal in the province of Kampong Speu.
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| By Stéphanie Gée | | | 04-03-2009 | | Co-investigating judges at the Khmer Rouge court have issued on Tuesday March 3rd an Order on Breach of Confidentiality of the Judicial Investigation following the publication by a Defence team of official documents on their website. The accused are the Defence lawyers for top Khmer Rouge diplomat Ieng Sary: Michael Karnavas, registered with the American Alaska State Bar, and his Cambodian colleague Ang Udom, who did not respect a decision of the judges and violated the court’s Internal Rules “by failing to act in accordance with the standards and ethics of the legal profession”. This judicial decision occurs after other leaks were revealed concerning confidential requests made by the co-lawyers for Nuon Chea.
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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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