Source: France 24 | September 5, 2017 Kem Sokha was arrested on Sunday in an escalating crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen‘s government, which accused the opposition leader of plotting with the United States to undermine the Southeast Asian country. Kem Sokha had been charged with “colluding with foreigners” under Article 443 of Cambodia’s penal code, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court… Read more »
source: BBC News North Korea nuclear crisis: Putin calls sanctions useless Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is “useless”, saying “they’d rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme”. The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a… Read more »
(The Guardian)Police in the Philippines have killed 32 people in a series of raids near Manila, in the bloodiest night yet of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. Supt Romeo Caramat said 67 police operations in various parts of Bulacan, a province north of the capital, had left 32 “drug personalities” dead and more than 100 others in custody. “We… Read more »
(SCMP)The single mountain under which North Korea most likely conducted its five most recent nuclear bomb tests, including the latest and most powerful on Sunday, could be at risk of collapsing, a Chinese scientist said. By measuring and analyzing the shock waves caused by the blasts, and picked up by quake stations in China and neighboring countries, researchers at the… Read more »
By The Cambodia Daily BY ZSOMBOR PETER | SEPTEMBER 4, 2017 After hundreds of armed police raided Kem Sokha’s home in the predawn hours on Sunday morning and arrested the opposition leader for alleged treason over a years-old speech, Prime Minister Hun Sen wasted little time warning the only party with a chance of beating his long-ruling CPP in July’s general election of… Read more »
