Southeast Asia – Hours Before Premiere, Indonesia Bans Film About East Timor Conflict “Indonesia’s censors have banned (Arts Journal)
Hours Before Premiere, Indonesia Bans Film About East Timor Conflict “Indonesia’s censors have banned (Arts Journal)
Balibo , an Australian-made film about five foreign journalists who were killed by Indonesian troops during the 1975 invasion of East Timor.” (Bootleg DVDs of the movie are already available in Jakarta.)
Vietnam draws with Thailand in SEA Games opener (Thanh Nien Daily)
Vietnam s Under-23 squad fought to a 1-1 draw with Thailand in the opener of the men s football event at the 25th South East Asian Games in Vientiane on Wednesday.
Vietnamese fan overshadow Thailand s in first match (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge The color red covered nearly two stands of the national Laos stadium, which can contain 20,000 people. Vietnamese fans entirely overwhelmed Thai fans in the match between the two nations.
Thailand look to pick up points after opening slip (Bangkok Post – Thailand’s English news)
VIENTIANE : Thailand aim to bounce back by beating Cambodia in the SEA Games today after a disappointing 1-1 draw with Vietnam in their opening game.
Diver Ken Nee will be Malaysia s flag bearer in Laos (The Star)
KUALA LUMPUR: Diver Yeoh Ken Nee will be the flag bearer of the Malaysian contingent for the 25th SEA Games in Laos.
SEA Games: All Square Between Thailand And Vietnam (Goal.com)
In their opening game of the 2009 SEA Games in Laos, Vietnam held defending champions Thailand to a 1-1 draw. A large crowd saw the two rivals give as good as they got especially after the break following a goalless first half.
2 tons of snakes, tortoises seized in Cambodia (AP via Yahoo! News)
Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday.
Malaysia run riot in Laos (The New Straits Times)
IT was just the start the national Under-23 team needed but not much should be read into the 11-0 rout of Timor Leste in the Sea Games opening Group A match yesterday.
Handing Back Responsibility to Timor-Leste s Police (AlertNet)
Source: International Crisis Group The UN and its mission in Timor-Leste should hand over formal control of the Timor-Leste police as soon as possible in order not to undermine the long-term goal of professionalising the country s police.
Thailand’s Hmong, Laos Refugee Crisis: Abhisit Vejjajiva, Secretary Clinton Urged to End Repatriation (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON & BANGKOK—-Concerns have again been raised about the Lao Hmong refugee crisis in Thailand. The United Nations, European Parliament, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Center for Public Policy Analysis and Lao Hmong Human Rights Council have made recent appeals to end the forced repatriation of the refugees.
22 Uighurs who took part in July protests end up in Cambodia (Washington Post)
Twenty-two members of a Chinese ethnic group who participated in violent demonstrations against China last summer have surfaced in Cambodia, sparking concerns that Cambodia will ignore their requests for asylum and return them to China.
Indonesian journalists plan to screen East Timor war movie despite official ban (Kitchener – Waterloo Record)
JAKARTA, Indonesia – An Indonesian journalists’ group said Thursday that it will screen a movie portraying military atrocities during the 1975 invasion of East Timor despite a ban by censors.
Probe of Philippines Massacre Urged (International Herald Tribune)
Two human rights officials urged the government to pursue a thorough investigation of the massacre that killed 57 people.
Troops surround Philippines massacre targets: army (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Philippine army on Thursday sent hundreds of extra troops to contain a powerful Muslim clan whose members have been indicted for the political massacre of 57 people.
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