ABC News
24/8/07
Vietnam's economy could be showing signs of overheating as official figures show inflation on the rise. Consumer prices rose by more than eight per cent in August compared to the same time last year. And that's despite government policies aimed at cutting import tariffs and fuel prices.
18 August 2007
By Mayarith - Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
More than 100 Khmer Krom people, including Khmer Krom monks, coming from 24 different states in the US have gathered in front of the Cambodian embassy in Washington DC to demand that the Cambodian government and supreme patriarch Tep Vong take responsibility on the fate of former Khmer Krom Monk Tim Sakhorn who is currently jailed in Vietnam.
17 August 2007
By Kim Pov Sottan - Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Numerous Khmer Krom monks along with representatives of about 10 Khmer Krom organizations demanded, on Friday, that the Cambodian authority bring back Monk Tim Sakhorn, the former abbot of the Phnom Den North pagoda, from Vietnam.
An article by Phnom Penh Post
By Lachlan Forsyth and Vong Sokheng
Takeo seems like any other small town - dogs sleeping in dusty forecourts, chickens scratching in the dirt, brightly clothed children laughing in the street.
Over sixty seven Buddhist monks and fifty followers have conducted a peaceful demonstration at Samakirangsey temple in Phnom Penh, early Friday 17th August 2007.
The protestors demanded that the Vietnam release defrocked monk, Tim Sakhorn to Cambodia after being arrested by border officials.
Mony Mony
Phnom Penh
16 August 2007
Three Australian lawmakers have said they will work to return to Cambodia an imprisoned monk in Vietnam, an advocate said Thursday.
Members of the Khmer Krom Monks Association met with the Australian lawmakers Wednesday, said Venerable Chey Samnang, vice president of the organization.
16 August 2007
Chiep Mony, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
Three Australian lawmakers have said they will work to return to Cambodia an imprisoned monk in Vietnam, an advocate said Thursday.
Members of the Khmer Krom Monks Association met with the Australian lawmakers Wednesday, said Venerable Chey Samnang, vice president of the organization.
15 August 2007
By Moeung Tum - Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
With the ongoing protest demanding that the Vietnamese government release Monk Tim Sakhorn from jail, a report indicated that a Khmer Kampuchea Krom pagoda was ravaged by fire today.
15 August 2007
By Moeung Tum - Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A meeting held by members of Committee No. 4 of the Cambodian National Assembly to discuss on a plan to visit former Monk Tim Sakhorn in his jail cell in Vietnam, took place one day after numerous Khmer Krom people have agreed with the Khmer Kampuchea facilitating committee to issue an official joint statement, on 13 August, addressed to the Royal Cambodian Government, the Cambodian supreme patriarch (Tep Vong), Cambodian government ministers involved with local and international civil society affairs, asking them to help intervene to find legal justice for Monk Tim Sakhorn.
14 August 2007
By San Suwith - Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata of KI Media
The Cambodia-based Khmer Kampuchea Krom facilitating committee issued a statement, yesterday, demanding that Monk-King Tep Vong and the Ministry of Cult bring back Monk Tim Sakhorn to Cambodia urgently and without any pre-condition.
