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| Mark Gooding, appointed this week British Ambassador to Cambodia. (Photo courtesy Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London) |
LONDON, March 25, 2011 (UK Gay News) – Mark Gooding has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, it was announced yesterday.
Currently Mr. Gooding is Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives in Colombo and is due to take up his new appointment in September.
He is openly gay and has a civil partner, Dr Christopher McCormick.
“I am honoured and delighted to be appointed HM Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia,” he said in a press statement.
“The UK and Cambodia have strong shared interests in a variety of fields, including trade, development, tourism, climate change, security, and human rights. I look forward to developing further the strong ties that already exist between our two countries and to creating new partnerships in the years ahead.”
Generally speaking, Cambodia – a predominantly Buddhist country – accepts homosexuality.
The highly-regarded King Sihanouk famously said in 2004 that he supported gay marriage. But Cambodia is not an ‘absolute monarchy’ and the King has no executive powers.
And three years later Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly announced at a graduation ceremony attended by almost 3,000 people, that his youngest, and adopted, daughter Malis was a lesbian – and that had disowned her. However, in the same speech he asked Cambodians to accept homosexuals.
A Gay Pride has been staged in the capital Phnom Penh every year since 2004, and is usually held to coincide with International Day Against Homophobia. This year, Phnom Penh Pride is between May 10 and 17.
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Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
BRAVO!!!
A GAY AMBASSADOR TO A COUNTRY WITH
A GAY KING. UNFORTUNATELY THE KING
DOESN'T HAVE CIVIL PARTNER. YET.
What a jerk don't they've anybody else beside this gay motherfucker or what? I suggest to all the gays people in Cambodian and also the King too, you have to watch out for this gay white men caming to our country.
1:22 PM, you are the fucker who spread so many children sucking your balls, nipple, cock, every part of your body. You produced millions of own children until you have no food to feed them and then your hungry children suck you from toes to head until you disappear like Youn/Viet motherfuckers who producing too many children in Vietnam and Vietnam is overcrowd and then Youn motherfuckers have no place and food to eat, but Youn/Viet motherfuckers eat dogs and cats. Then Youn/Viet motherfuckers come to Cambodia to rob the land and resources from Cambodia, overfish in Mekong, and almost no fish, animals, rice. Youn motherfuckers are earth destroyers....Youn/Viet motherfuckers....Youn/Viet motherfuckers make people around the world very angry!!!
Shame on the cock sucking country UK.
3:37 PM, you are Youn/Viet gook!!! Go back to Vietgook/Youn Hanoi Communist where you enjoy your freedom of communist's hell!!!
Why you don't just marry our king and become our Queen ?
Our king is not gay OK, he just nice to everybody, he much smarter than you guy can imagine, he just miss opportunity to get marry because of war. If he marry with young lady now he will be criticised and all his subject do not respect him, if he marry to old lady who is the same his age he will be more embarrased and he does not have time to take care old lady therefore he prepare to live alone for the rest of his life and to serve his people and nation, and hopefully next life he will make up of his loss (women).
Other reason he might has Karma from his father because his father had many wives so he has to serve his father sin. He shave his hair for his father sin and he became monk without yellow robe.
Anyway I like and respect our king than crown prince of Thailand who was/is womaniser and playboy.
If you guy can fuck women ass why can't you fuck guy ass, it is the same hole the same smell and the same shit.
I am not gay but I did/do not discriminate against someone difference. Let gay be because god created them to be and more women for us not gay ok!
Why care about girl or guy if someone take care of you go ahead for them, if women do not care about you then go for guy. Sometime guy much more better than women in term of caring and understanding. Guy have big heart and easy going and sometime women has narrow mind and very hard to please and money hungry.
The world is not full of gays and lesbians.They have their rights to do so.
The china govt controls birth control,but Vietnam does not because she needs more Vietnam race to spread
in Lao,Cambodia,and other countries.
Queer thing happen to this world?
They love lies more than truth.
Nobody is born queer, it's the unrestrained desire that make one queer.
All the poor young boys in Cambodia better watch out! I mean cover your ass hole!!!.
Why don't the queerdoe learn from Islam. They multiply awhile queerdoe diminishes.
Why the British Government don't have a better one or they only have gays and lesbians in their Cabinet.
If Cambodia can appoint gay King, why cam other country appoint gay ambassador? Cambodia is asking for this.
Why are you talking about gay king or gay people? Do you have the problem or are you against gay people?
What wrong with you people? Everyone lives in life to fullest and enjoy the freedom, the rights under the constitution.
Why do you want to live in perfect world?
2:14 AM, 1:56 AM, 12:26 AM, 11:13 PM, and the rest of you just shut the fuck-up and have a life and do good others. If you don't feel comfortable to be around gay, bi-sexual, lesbians, tran, then move or go to somewhere else, maybe like China, Vietnam, North Korea, other planet, etc where you enjoy your freedom of sperms for producing more millions of your children and make the world over-crowded and lack of land and food. Then you die in hell.
I am not against anyone as human beings around the world. You are a bunch of uneducated idiots and some of you bastards from Youn/Viet communist coming from the over-crowed Viet/Youn communist country where there is not enough land and food to eat. I hate you guys talking to insults the king of Cambodia, gay or lesbian people from UK and even from around the world.
You need to leave those people alone. We live in 21st Century and we have to live together and help each others. If you have brother or sister who are gay or lesbian, you need to support them because they are your brother or sister or maybe you should support your people just the way they are.
Cambodia is not a place for discriminating against anyone, not like Vietnam as for example, no freedom for them.
Cambodia should be better without Communist Vietnam Hanoi.
Whatever you say Queer!!!
9:56 PM is an idiot because he thinks we are as idiot as him..
3:55Am Your (dick's) head is full of
shit, man!!!!
2+2=4 2x2=4 3+3=6 2x3=6 Normal
2+3=7 2x3=7 8+8=15 Queer
Male+Male=0 Female+Female=0
This is scary math. And they say I need an education?
This world is becoming a mess. Nothing adds up like it used to!
5:57 AM, enjoy your Vietgook math and you produce YounVietgook ugliest babies in the world. Vietgook females wants Khmer sperms to make their babies have bigger eyes!!!
Youn/Vietgook want to mix with Khmer, Yuck!!!
Khmer people should not mix with Vietgook/MixedVietYoungook in Cambodia. They are ugly, dirty and evil like criminals!!!
Hetero-Youn/Viet in Cambodia are dog eaters!
You guys talk about gay and lesbian people are very ugly straight people.
2:14 AM, you are Youn/Viet ugliest gook eating homo dogs and cats or homo animals. You are Youn should not be on the planet and let Mongol cut your cock so that you could produce the ugly and evil baby until today.
Correction for 6:25 AM
2:14 AM, you are Youn/Viet ugliest gook eating homo dogs and cats or homo animals. You are Youn should not be on the planet and let Mongol cut your cock so that you could NOT produce the ugly and evil baby until today. Youn had no land but stealing land from China and then Cambodia. China will kick them out of the planet one of these days because Youn/Viet have very big mouth to lie everything about them, how great they are, but they are evil and dirty...
Who cares? You guys talk about gay and lesbian are so selfish, especially ugliest and hypocrite Youn/Viet gooks.
I love those big round eyes and lotus flower smile of my Cambodian gals.You Viets stop messing with our gene pool.
I haven't had a good look on Cambodian gals for 30 years. Now they are selling them to Korean men for almond eyes and kim cheese. Boy I'm I jealous for my Cambodian gals their big round eyes will be ruin forever.
the first for everything. but cambodia will welcome everyone including sexual orientation, etc.
don't forget that the world is now more open about sexual orientation, etc, you know!
cambodia only care about making money and doing business. we don't care about who people choose to marry or love, really!
10:48 AM, you are bullshit!
I hope Norodom Sihamoni keep a warm bed for the new British Ambassador at the palace Both bald and butch looking. lol Sihamoni will ask new British Ambassador are you Top, Bottom or Versatile?
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