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...DISMISSED. CHEA SOPHARA, 51, governor of Phnom Penh credited with turning the Cambodian capital into a tourist destination, by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen; in Phnom Penh. The move comes after violent anti-Thai riots earlier this month, which sent relations between Cambodia and Thailand to their lowest level in decades. Sophara was reassigned to be ambassador to Burma...
...million is Thailand's estimate of damages done to its embassy and Thai-owned businesses during anti-Thai riots two weeks ago in Phnom Penh...
...from the very name of the Cambodian city adjacent to Angkor?Siem Riep, which literally means "flattened Thai soldiers." Recently a Thai beer company featured an advertisement with backdrops of well-known scenes of Thailand?that included Angkor Wat. The commercial had to be changed after protests from Phnom Penh...
...never uttered the incendiary remarks. That didn't placate Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Cambodian politicians have long played to Khmer nationalism, and on Jan. 27, Hun Sen, facing general elections this summer, legitimized the rumors by calling Suvanant "Thief Star" and declaring at a ceremony outside Phnom Penh that the "Thief Star is not even equal to a patch of grass around Angkor Wat." Two days later, fictitious rumors that Thais were killing Cambodians in Bangkok inflamed the Phnom Penh...
...Thai population living in Cambodia. He has also started rounding up "extremists," and his chief spokesman, Khieu Kanharith, has apologized for the government's inability to contain the riots. "We didn't think it would become anarchy," says Khieu. When the mob is unleashed, as it was in Phnom Penh last week, expecting anything less is deadly folly...