Sunday, April 24, 2011

Fighting at Ta Krabey temple still continue at 4:15 this afternoon and the tower of Ta Krabey temple had collapsed

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Cambodian villagers fleeing Thai artillery shells By KhmerizationSource: Kampuchea Thmey Kampuchea Thmey reported that the fighting between Cambodian and Thai troops at Ta Krabey temple that started at 6 a.m this morning is still continuing at 4:15 p.m this afternoon. The report said that the fighting in the area at the moment only involved small arms and light rockets like B-40s and the Thai side had stopped shelling the temple with heavy rockets like 155 milimetres rockets that they have used earlier in this morning. The newspaper reported that the fighting had restarted again after a group of Thai soldiers attempted to fight their way in to...


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U.S. starts war games near Thai-Cambodian clash.

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BANGKOK | Thousands of U.S. troops began military exercises with Bangkok’s military on Monday, while a bloody, four-day artillery duel between Thailand and Cambodia flared on their border and a decades-long Muslim insurgency smoldered out of control in the south. Cobra Gold, which is scheduled to conclude Feb. 18, is one of the world’s biggest multinational, land-based maneuvers. It involves 11,220 people, including 7,200 U.S. service members. U.S. and other foreign forces are using Thailand’s Vietnam War-era Utapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Chanthaburi province and other facilities, about 280 miles southwest of the fighting along the Thai-Cambodian...


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New fighting at border

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Thai military trucks with soldiers are driven to the Thai-Cambodia border for reinforcement in this still image taken from video April 22, 2011 (Reuters/Reuters TV) THAI and Cambodian soldiers fought with rocket-propelled grenades and guns on their contentious border on Friday in a dawn clash that left at least five troops dead in the first major flare-up since a shaky ceasefire in February. Both sides evacuated villagers and accused each other of firing first in the thick jungle around Ta Moan and Ta Krabey temples, about 150 kilometres southwest of the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, which saw a deadly stand-off in February. Council of...


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Thail leader Write Novel of real war

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Four Thai soldiers were killed and eight others wounded, one of them seriously, in a five-hour clash with Cambodian soldiers on the border in Phanom Dong Rak district of Surin province on Friday morning, deputy army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong said. Col Sirichan said the fighting began about 6.30am on the border between the Ta Kwai and Ta Muen Thom temple ruins in Phanom Dong Rak.Before the clash, a number of Cambodian soldiers were seen moving over a hill in violation of an earlier agreement that no armed troops either side would be allowed to trespass on the hill, she said. Cambodian tried to take the hill in violation of the agreement.Thai...


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PM's last TV show May 1(Siem Leader Kbal Khouch)

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The "Confidence in Thailand with PM Abhisit(Siem Leader Kbal Khouch)" television programme will be aired for the last time on May 1, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Sunday. Mr Abhisit has since taking office as prime minister hosted the programme on Sundays from 9am-10am on Channel 11 of the Public Relations Department to address the national on the government's work. Since the government plans to dissolve the House of Representatives in the first week of May to make way for a fresh election, he will appear on the programme for the last time on May 1. About 190 media representatives who joined him in the programme will be invited to get together on May 1 in the last broadcast to talk about the government's performance during the past two years, he sa...


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Lake protest turns bloody

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Police beat and arrested villagers including elderly women and children as young as 11 yesterday as they protested their impending eviction from land surrounding the capital’s Boeung Kak lake, an incident observers called a “new low” in the lakeside debacle.The violence came one day after a meeting with government officials in which donors flagged land rights and resettlement as among the Kingdom’s biggest development challenges.About 100 villagers gathered yesterday morning in front of City Hall, calling for a moratorium on the filling of the lake and new talks on resettlement and compensation plans. More than 100 local and military police...


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Kasit(Baby Politician): Thailand ready for talks

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Kasit(Baby Politician/World Cheater): Thailand ready for talksForeign Minister Kasit Piromya (Baby Politician/World Cheater)on Sunday he expected to hold talks with Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong in four to five days over the ongoing border conflict. Mr Kasit (Baby Politician/World Cheater) said this during a video conference on Sunday afternoon when Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke to PM's Office Minister Ong-art Klampaiboon, governors or Surin and Buri Ram, 2nd Army commander Lt-Gen Thawatchai Sudsakhon and other officials in Surin province to follow the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border. Present with Mr Abhisit in Bangkok at the conference included Mr Kasit, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, and national police chief Wichean Potephosree. Mr...


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