Cambodian police official forces youths to cut hair

Wed, 03 Jun 2009
DPA

Phnom Penh - A high-ranking Cambodian police official detained a group of teenage boys for having long hair and forcibly cut their stylish locks to a "more appropriate length," national media reported Wednesday. Thol Yuthear, chief of anti-trafficking police in the north-western town of Battambang, said he detained the three high school students aged 15 to 18 outside after spotting them outside the local police station, The Cambodia Daily reported.

He said he cut a section of hair from each students' head, forcing them to head to a barbershop to have their new haircuts evened out.

"Morals in society nowadays are becoming difficult because school standards and parental care is limited, and that has caused students to act like this," Thol Yuthear said.

He said the boys' long locks and coloured highlights were inappropriate and school students should be forced to wear their hair closely-cropped.

Sacrava's April Fool Cartoon: The Toilet

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PM orders toilet use privilege in all ministries

Phnom Penh, April 01 (MeeXua) – Cambodian Prime Minister issued an order for toilet use privilege by all government employees in all ministries in the country, Chinese-language daily newspaper the Mi Chiu said on Wednesday.

Starting on April 01, 2009, male and female government employees will be assigned days on which they will have toilet use privilege. According to a sub-decree issued by the Council of Ministers bearing the prime minister’s signature and the king’s approval, male government employees will be allowed to use toilet at their department on even days only, and female employees will have toilet use privilege on odd days only.

An anonymous source from the Council of Ministers said that the idea for toilet use privilege came from Lok Chumteav Thom Bun Rany Hun Sen, the eminent wife of the prime minister. Using this system, men and women will no longer have to cross each others along the corridors when they have to go relieve themselves at the toilet, and thus removing all unnecessary embarrassments between the two genders.

When asked about what a government employee should do, if he or she needs to use the toilet on a day he or she does not have toilet use privilege, the government spokesman said: “Why do you think we grow bushes all around these ministries? In this manner, we no longer have to water them anymore, this is a significant saving during this tough economic time… Besides, it's always nice for them to be outdoor for a short while, especially when it's hot and muggy in April."

Former Khmer Rouge unit liberated Cambodia one more time, KR Trial canceled forever

A rebel soldier showed this photo of themselves being trained in parachute dropping. Due to plane shortage, the soldiers had to jump up in the air, as high as they can, and pretend to drop to the ground. (Photo provided)

Wednesday, April 01, 2009
By April Jeanius
Special report
Al Zameera

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Pissed off while peeing

25 Feb 2009
By Ung Chamroeun
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Tola Ek
Click here to read the article in French

According to a report by Rasmei Kampuchea, a Khmer-language newspaper, a 30-year-old married man with children and in love with a young neighbor, was arrested for kissing a young damsel’s hair … while she was relieving herself.

Oddly enough, it was when the young woman came out to pee behind her aunt’s house in Chrong Sdav, Takeo province, that the man decided to reveal his flame for her. Angered by the woman’s refusal, the man was able to steal a kiss on a lock of her hair. But, the young’s woman aunt, who must be in cahoots, came out just in time to catch the action.

Arrested because he refused to pay the $500 compensation asked by the outraged victim (on the advice of her aunt, an emulator of the Vespasian [French word play: Vespasien also means public urinal]), the man recognized his fault while trying to minimize the facts. At the police office, the man’s mother offered to pay $200 in compensation, but it was refused. With the impossibility of any negotiation, the police office will have to send the case to the provincial court to decide.