Khmer Intelligence News - 14 November 2009

KHMER INTELLIGENCE NEWS
14 November 2009

4.6 square kilometers with Thailand versus thousands of square kilometers with Vietnam (2)

The escalating border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand is related to a portion of Khmer territory surrounding Preah Vihear temple of 4.6 square kilometers whose status is being challenged by Thailand . But such a portion of disputed territory is relatively small in size compared to the thousands of square kilometers that Vietnam has already seized from Cambodia since 1979.

Over the last thirty years the Vietnamese authorities have openly moved border markers inside Khmer territory all along the approximately 1,200 kilometer-long borderline. The depth of the Vietnamese penetration varies from a few hundreds meters in very densely populated areas to tens of kilometers in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri provinces, the average infringement being between two to three kilometer-deep.

Vietnam 's expansionist policies are facilitated by a continuous flow of Vietnamese settlers and a subservient regime installed in Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese army in 1979.

The ongoing and escalating tension with Thailand is designed to divert the public attention from Vietnam 's more subtle and more harmful maneuvers on the Eastern part of our country. See Sam Rainsy's letter published in today's Cambodia Daily, "Cambodia Should Look East In Defense of Territorial Integrity" at http://tinyurl.com/yd69z8l

Tragedy of an American family in Cambodia (2)

An American family who have come to help Cambodia and made big sacrifices to run a medical clinic providing basic health care to the poor, are victims of corruption and violence, which characterize the prevailing political system.. The e-mail we publish here has been circulating among their countless known and unknown friends who are deeply moved by their tragedy and revolted by the Kafkaesque situation they are facing. You can read their story by clicking at http://tinyurl.com/y8duql9

A Cambodian student member of an American secret society (1)

On November 13, 2009, CNN broadcast a report titled "SECRET SOCIETIES - Skull and Bones: Revealed." It is a special investigation by Campbell Brown into Yale University 's secret society whose members include several former US presidents and other prominent people who have made history since the founding of "Skull and Bones" 177 years ago. A Cambodian female citizen currently studying at Yale, Rachel Sam, 21, is reportedly a member of "Skull and Bones." Watch the report at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HFw9l1WeY

Hun Sen among possible Nobel Prize nominees (4)

There are rumors about three possible but odd Nobel Prize nominees who would be proposed for their very singular achievements or visions.

• Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa, nominee for the Nobel Price in Medicine (and Public Health), for his denial of the scientific consensus that Aids was caused by a viral infection and for his belief that the epidemic was attributable instead to a collapse of the immune system due simply to poverty and malnutrition. The Aids policies of the Thabo Mbeki government in the early and mid 2000's were directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of more than a third of a million people in South Africa , according to research by Harvard university.
• Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe , nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics (and Mathematics) for his denial of the conceptual value of the zero number as shown by the recent inflation rate in Zimbabwe . As a matter of fact, Mugabe couldn't care less about inflation rate whether it be one thousand percent, one million percent, one billion percent or one trillion percent. He therefore implicitly denies any value to the zero number. Whereas the whole scientific community recognizes the importance of the creation of the zero mark, "No single mathematical creation has been more potent for the general on-go of intelligence and power" (George B. Halsted), Mugabe brilliantly revives the Middle Ages view of zero as "a meaningless nothing."
• Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia, nominee for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, for his straightforward denial of the utility of economic and financial statistics. Because all international financial institutions (World Bank, ADB, IMF) have been continuously revising downwards estimates for Cambodia's GDP growth for 2009, from a positive 4 percent to a negative 3 percent, Hun Sen said in a recent speech broadcast nationwide, "Those figures are meaningless and useless; we need not pay any attention to them as long as we have enough to eat every day." Hun Sen's "zero" conception of economics and the systemic corruption of his regime have maintained millions of Cambodians in dire poverty even before Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe .

Fake French "Evian" in Cambodia (2)

Many stores and restaurants in Cambodia are selling and serving fake "Evian", the famous mineral water supposedly imported from France . The "Evian" bottles in question are actually filled in Cambodia with a locally- produced water whose composition is not the same as the French natural mineral water from the Alps mountains. While a large number of poor Cambodians are starving and most children in the countryside are underfed, it's very fashionable for the privileged few in this country to drink costly bottled mineral water imported from as far as Europe .

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