Monday, 22 November 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


via CAAI

Military officer accused of killing villager

Monday, 22 November 2010 15:01 Chrann Chamroeun

A MILITARY police official has been accused of shooting a villager to death in Banteay Meanchey province’s Malay district on Friday. Ran La, 27, remains at large after a complaint – filed with the rights group Adhoc by the family of victim Phoun Phim, 18 – accuses the official of shooting his gun twice in the air because the victim’s home-made tractor failed to stop on its way to a local pagoda. One of the bullets ricocheted and hit the victim in the arm, and he died in hospital the next day. Provincial military police chief Or Borin said the suspect will be made “responsible before the law”. Adhoc provincial coordinator Soum Chankea said the rights group had concluded that “it was an intentional killing because it was not in self-defence.”

Charges laid after murder of wife

Monday, 22 November 2010 15:01 Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

KAMPONG Speu Provincial Court charged a man with the murder of his wife and daughter in Oral district. Phorn Poeurn, 29, allegedly used a sickle to slash the necks of his 22-year-old wife and 3-year-old daughter at their house in Trapaing Chor commune on Friday. Deputy district police chief Buth Bunthoeurn said that the suspect was sent to the provincial court on Saturday, where he was officially charged with murder. Commune police chief Ho Thy said the suspect was a firewood cutter and suffered from mental illness. “A week before the murder took place, he escaped to the forest because he thought someone wanted to arrest him,” Ho Thy said. “When he returned, he accused his wife of having a new husband and got very angry. He used the sickle to kill his wife and his daughter, who was nearby.” He added that the suspect had another child.

Cambodia’s chess pair bow out in Guangzhou

Monday, 22 November 2010 15:00 Dan Riley

Cambodia’s Lay Chhay beat Jackson Hong of the Philippines in the last round of the Chinese Chess competition on Friday to end up 13th out of 18 players. Compatriot Heng Chamnan managed a draw in his last match against Kazuharu Shoshi of Japan to claim 15th place. China’s Hong Zhi won gold in the event.

Sar Churpveasna’s best is only just not enough

Monday, 22 November 2010 15:00 Dan Riley

Despite shaving a hundredth of a second off his personal best, Cambodian sprinter Sar Churpveasna came home fifth in his men’s 100 metres heat at the Aoti Main Stadium in Guangzhou yesterday to see him agonisingly miss out on a place in the semifinals. Churpveasna’s time of 11.19 was also set by Bangladesh’s Azharul Islam, who took a photo finish for fourth and with it the last qualification spot from the heat.

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