Cambodians living in Ottawa say Wednesday’s shooting at parliament there has created fear throughout the city.
The accords ended decades of violence in the country and paved the way for a constitutional democracy.
Sen. Don Benton, from Washington state, told VOA Khmer that Cambodia has many business opportunities, compared to other Asean countries.
Mao Monivann, a parliamentarian for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, told VOA Khmer that Vietnam had built 50 kilometers of road pushing into Cambodia.
Police say the suspects were part of an illegal armed movement that sought to incite violence in the capital.
The accords were signed in 1991 and brought liberal democracy and a constitution to a country that had been shattered by war.
Forestry activists say at least 55,000 tons of luxury wood were sent from Cambodia to China this year alone.
Japanese Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji told reporters Japan is willing to help Cambodia restore its voter registries to ensure free and fair elections in the future.
Recently, the 78-year-old smiled as he sang to welcome a VOA Khmer reporter for an interview.
Cambodians in Washington raised more than $15,000 for the Kantha Bopha Hospital on Saturday, at an event sponsored by the Cambodian Embassy.
A Japanese delegation investigating election reform will meet with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party Wednesday.
The agreement could bring in refugees currently held on the Micronesian island of Nauru to Cambodia.
Rights workers fear for the safety of Cambodia’s vulnerable children once Asean joins in an economic community next year.
Police say that on Oct. 9, Willemijn Vermaat, 40, spent the night in the Bayon Temple illegally and subsequently knocked over a 12th-century statue there.
More meetings are to be held this week, leading up to another hearing session on Oct. 27.
It remains unclear what will happen next with the hearing, which was to begin a trial of atrocity crimes for the two men, including, for the first time, genocide.
Many of the protesters were victims of land disputes who said Cambodia is not ready to take on refugees because it has yet to solve many of its own lingering development questions.
A communication filed on Oct. 7 claims that over the last 14 years, an estimated 770,000 Cambodians, or 6 percent of the population, have been hurt by land grabs, according to a statement from two groups.
There was no discussion of a lack of movement on two cases—Nos. 003 and 004—at the court, nor a discussion of at least one potential defendant’s refusal to answer a court summons.
Traing Try wrote stories for several small papers, mostly about illegal logging and the illicit transport of timber from Cambodia to Vietnam.
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