Sacravatoons no 1601 :" Ky Tech "

Sacravatoons no 1600 : " Tick-Tack,Tick-Tack ......"

Sacravatoons no 1599 : " The Traitor "

Sacravatoons no 1598 : " Ruom Ritt "

Sacravatoons no 1597 : " A Jumping Svar Kim Hong "

Sacravatoons no 1596 : " The Red Shirt "

Sacravatoons no 1595 : " The Twin Brothers "

Sacravatoons no 1594 : " One Party's Club "

Politiktoons no 95 : " Fish & Chips "

Australian anti-migrant campaigner Pauline Hanson to emigrate

Former One Nation leader who said country was being swamped by Asians plans to seek 'peace' in UK

Former One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson at her home, west of Brisbane, in Australia. She is planning to emigrate. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA

The fish and chip shop owner who gained international notoriety and a seat in Australia's parliament after warning the country it was being swamped by Asians is packing her bags and leaving – and she's bound for Britain.

Pauline Hanson, the former leader of the One Nation party, who once draped herself in the Australian flag and railed against immigration to campaign for a seat in federal parliament, appears to have changed her mind about the rights and wrongs of migration.

She says she can no longer live in Australia. "Sadly, the land of opportunity is no more applicable. It's pretty much goodbye for ever. I've really had enough."

She said in an interview with the magazine Women's Day: "Our governments lack enough people with the fortitude to speak up without fear or favour. Over-regulation, increasing taxes and lack of true representation are affecting our way of life. I feel very much for the young ones. Once it was common for them to own their own home. Not now. It's a harder place."

After more than 10 years in the spotlight she seeks "peace" and "contentment" and hopes to find it in the UK.

Hanson shot to prominence in the 1996 federal election when she claimed that Aboriginal Australians received an abundance of welfare. Although she lasted just one term in parliament she continued courting attention with her extreme views and unusual behaviour. In a video testimony she once recorded with a television network she alleged there was a conspiracy to kill her.

Once, asked during a television interview if she was xenophobic, she replied "please explain" – a response that only bolstered her kudos among followers who viewed her as a maverick unfairly set upon by the political establishment.

Despite three more unsuccessful att­empts at returning to federal parliament and two unsuccessful bids to enter the New South Wales and Queensland parliaments, as well as a stint in jail for electoral fraud, a conviction eventually quashed, in 2006 she was named by current affairs magazine the Bulletin as one of the 100 most influential Australians of all time.

Even as her political fortune waned her popularity grew. She appeared in the primetime TV show Dancing with the Stars in 2004, and wrote an auto­biography, Untamed and Unashamed. Now she says: "I know I will never be given a chance to enter parliament again."

Some are sceptical that her departure from Australia will last.

Bob ­Vinnicombe, a longstanding member of One Nation, thinks she will change her mind. "I think it's a passing fad," he said.

"I don't really understand why she would want to go to the UK. She would realise that there's just as many migrants in England as there are in Australia."

Hanson has never been far from controversy and the attention of the Australian media. She once attempted to drive away at speed from the pack that accompanied her on her campaign in 1998, only to end up with a beeline of journalists following her dangerously in hot pursuit.

From the beginning Hanson positioned herself as an amateur, describing herself in her maiden speech to parliament "not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks". In that speech she also warned that "a truly multicultural country can never be strong or united".

Yet when asked about her decision to move to the UK she said: "Every country has something unique to offer. And I want to experience that, to live it, and not just for a brief time."

The 55-year-old is eligible for dual Australian-British citizenship because her father is English and her mother Irish. But before she makes the final move to Britain, she says she will spend a few months on the south island of New Zealand.
Courting controversy

I have done research on benefits available only to Aboriginals and challenge anyone to tell me how Aboriginals are disadvantaged when they can obtain 3% and 5% housing loans denied to non-Aboriginals …

I am fed up with being told, 'This is our land.' Well, where the hell do I go? I was born here, and so were my parents and children …

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop …

Immigration and multiculturalism are issues that this government is trying to address, but for far too long ordinary Australians have been kept out of any debate by the major parties. I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians …

Sacravatoons no 1593 : " Garuda's Land "

An old Sacravatoons no 262 :" One Party "

An old Sacravatoon was published on 23 June 2004


FEBRUARY 17, 2010
By BRENDAN BRADY
The Wall Street Journal
Phnom Penh

..........Cambodia is beginning to look more and more like its neighbors, which are mostly one-party states. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the country's nascent multi-party democracy was riven by intimidation and violence, but there was space for competing ideas and parties to have a voice. Today, the main opposition party finds itself repeatedly muzzled. As China's influence in Southeast Asia continues to expand, this pattern may only grow stronger.

Mr. Brady is a free-lance journalist based in Southeast Asia.

Sacravatoons no 1592 : " Hanoi's Ban "

Sacravatoons no 1591 : " Deminer "

Sacravatoons no 1590 :" Xmer Rapper "

Sacravatoons no 1589 : " My Kingdom "

Krom Preah praised Dek Cho

16 Feb 2010
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Prince Norodom Ranariddh wrote a letter to PM Hun Xen to praise and support the latter for his visit to the troops along the Cambodia-Thailand border. Prince Ranariddh sent a letter dated 11 February, saying: “The presence of Samdach PM in the battle field reflects your attention to the protection of the territories with your intelligent and alert mind and your determined action.” The prince added: “Samdach Dek Cho also took with you money, all kind of armaments, and food to provide to our RCAF troops so that they become more courageous and nationalist in their fight against the invasion from foreign countries on our beloved Kampuchea.”

Sacravatoons no 1588 : " Liar Liar "

The President of the France-Cambodia Friendship group at the French National Assembly questioned the French government on the condition of Cambodia’s opposition MPs.

At 10,045-km from Phnom Penh, the French government did not mince its words towards Cambodia. At the end of January, under questioning at the French National Assembly from Ms. Chantal Brunel, a MP from France’s UMP party, regarding the loss of their parliamentary immunity by three SRP MPs, Pierre Lellouche, the French State Secretary in charge of European Affairs, couldn’t be clearer.

Sacravatoons no 1587 : " Chun Cheat Kampuchea "

Sacravatoons no 1586 : " PEACE ? "

Sacravatoons 1585 : " Siem-Garuda "

Sacravatoons no 1584 :" Raoul Jennar "

Khmer Intelligence News - 13 February 2010

Raoul Jennar, the longest-serving foreign mercenary in Cambodia (1)

Belgian-born Raoul M. Jennar is one of the foreign experts described above. But he is also a specialist in disinformation who has been selling his services to the Hun Sen regime for more than twenty years. In order to hide the real nature of his mission, he has worn several hats, from NGO official to historian to political analyst to journalist to Tribunal (ECCC) expert to government adviser. He was the main contributor to The Vision, a lousy and ephemeral pro-CPP newspaper in the late 1990’s which was instrumental in the disinformation and manipulation of the Western, especially French-speaking, public opinion. His contract at the ECCC was not renewed because of his support for the Hun Sen government view that only five former Khmer Rouge leaders -- those who are currently in jail -- should be prosecuted so as to prevent other former Pol Pot colleagues -- who are now high-ranking CPP leaders -- from being investigated and possibly prosecuted. He finally ends up as an official adviser to the Hun Sen government while being a regular contributor, under several fictitious names, to the French-language newspaper Cambodge Soir Hebdo.

Sacravatoons no 1583 : " Mot Tram Nghin Nam "

Sacravatoons no 1582 : " The Debt "

Sacravatoons no 1581 : " I.R.Ight Direction "

Sacravatoons no 1580 :" Mad Hun Dechor "

Sacravatoons no 1578 : " We're going Home "

Sacravatoons no 1577 : " Sdech Kan "

Sacravatoons no 1576 :" Chumteav Thom-Thom "

Sacravatoons no 1575 : " Phnom Penh Post "

Sacravatoons no 1574 : " Hanoi's Trade Centre "

Sacravatoons no 1573 :" Learning Khmer "

Sacravatoons no 1572 : " The Silent Victory "

Sacravatoons no 1571 : " The Boxers "