TODAY’S HEADLINES: MANILA- Minority rejects blue ribbon sugar report

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and Sen. Risa Hontiveros hand over copies of the Senate Minority Bloc report on the sugar importation fiasco to the Bills and Index staff, Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Pimentel and Hontiveros believed that the Committee Report prepared by the Blue Ribbon Committee fell short of making sense of the sugar importation fiasco. (Joseph Vidal / Senate PRIB)
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and Sen. Risa Hontiveros hand over copies of the Senate Minority Bloc report on the sugar importation fiasco to the Bills and Index staff, Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Pimentel and Hontiveros believed that the Committee Report prepared by the Blue Ribbon Committee fell short of making sense of the sugar importation fiasco. (Joseph Vidal / Senate PRIB)
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THE Senate minority bloc has rejected the Senate blue ribbon committee (BRC) report on its probe of the sugar import fiasco as it disagreed with the panel’s findings clearing Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez in the scandal.Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel 3rd and Sen. Ana Theresia “Risa” Hontiveros on Tuesday released their own report on the investigation of the allegedly questionable importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar under Sugar Order 4 (SO 4).In a press briefing, the two senators said Rodriguez “was not entirely blameless in the sugar importation mess.”The minority bloc report raised the “silence” of the blue ribbon panel, led by Sen. Francis Tolentino, on the accountability of Rodriguez.

“It was clear to us early on that all communications related to the issuance of SO 4 were timely and clearly communicated to the executive secretary. However, the executive secretary’s unilateral decision to sit on it contributed to the debacle,” Hontiveros said

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Bodies of lies: Ministry dismisses allegations about organ harvesting rings

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A woman speaks to Thai police about her ‘blood curling’ ordeal after arriving in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province from Cambodia in March. komkhaotuathai

A senior government official at the Interior Ministry in charge of combatting human trafficking yesterday dismissed the allegations made by a Hong Kong official and Taiwan journalist that some human trafficking organisations in Cambodia are committing organ harvesting and selling human body parts to the wealthy and on black markets.

READ MORE:  https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501145307/bodies-of-lies-ministry-dismisses-allegations-about-organ-harvesting-rings/

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School gardens a lifeline for hungry Cambodian children

This photo taken on July 8, 2022 shows a teacher serving up breakfast to students before classes with Cambodia's school meals programme at a school in Siem Reap province. - Among the spinach crops at a rural Cambodian school garden, children test their mathematics skills weighing produce -- but as food price rises rock struggling households, the veggie patch has become a critical safety net. (Photo by TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP) / To go with 'CAMBODIA-HEALTH-EDUCATION,FEATURE' by Suy SE and Lisa MARTIN in Bangkok
This photo taken on July 8, 2022 shows a teacher serving up breakfast to students before classes with Cambodia‘s school meals programme at a school in Siem Reap province. – Among the spinach crops at a rural Cambodian school garden, children test their mathematics skills weighing produce — but as food price rises rock struggling households, the veggie patch has become a critical safety net. (Photo by TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP) / To go with ‘CAMBODIA-HEALTH-EDUCATION,FEATURE’ by Suy SE and Lisa MARTIN in Bangkok
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SIEM REAP: Among the spinach crops at a rural Cambodian school garden, children test their maths skills while weighing produce — but as food prices rise, the vegetable patch has become a safety net for struggling families.

Long before Covid restrictions ravaged the economy, malnutrition and poverty stalked Cambodia’s youth — the legacy of decades of conflict and instability following the Khmer Rouge‘s genocidal rule in the 1970s.

Food insecurity has worsened since Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine stoked global shortages and inflation.

The World Food Programme (WFP) the prices of local staples have shot up in the past year: duck eggs by more than 20 percent and cooking oil by almost 40 percent.

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MYANMAR |

Putin meets Myanmar junta chief, hails ‘positive’ ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing on the sidelines of the 2022 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on September 7, 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed “positive” ties with Myanmar on Wednesday as he met with the country’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok. “Myanmar is our long-standing and reliable partner in Southeast Asia…Our relations are developing in a positive way,” Putin said during the meeting on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum. Min Aung Hlaing’s visit comes as both governments face diplomatic isolation — Moscow for its February military intervention in pro-Western Ukraine, and Naypyidaw for a military coup last year. As Moscow’s ties with the West unravel over Ukraine, the Kremlin is seeking to pivot the country towards the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. “I am very proud of you, because when you came to power in the country, Russia, so to say, became number one in the world,” Min Aung Hlaing told Putin, as quoted by a Kremlin statement that translated his remarks into Russian. “We would call you not just the leader of Russia but a leader of the world because you control and organise stability around the whole world,” he said.  The two leaders “friendly and openly” discussed cooperation and “exchanged views on relations and the international situation”, the Myanmar junta said in a statement.  Since the putsch that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in February last year, Myanmar has faced Western sanctions and a downgrade in relations. Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed as the military regime struggles to crush resistance. Russia and its ally China have been accused of arming Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since the coup. More than 2,200 people have been killed in the crackdown, according to a local monitor. During a trip to Naypyidaw in early August, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov backed the junta’s efforts to “stabilise” the country and hold a national poll next year. But US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned the international community to reject the junta’s “sham elections”.

Wed, September 7, 2022TOPICS : Vladimir-Putin Min-Aung-Hlaing Myanmar junta China politics

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SINGAPORE |

Passengers from S’pore and Malaysia unable to board after cruise is overbooked

More than a hundred passengers were unable to board the ship at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre on Sept 4. PHOTOS: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS

SINGAPORE – Some passengers from Singapore and Malaysia who were booked on cruise ship Genting Dream were unable to board after they were informed that the trip had been overbooked.

The cruise was due to depart Singapore on Sunday, call at Port Klang on Monday, Penang on Tuesday, back to Singapore on Wednesday, before returning to Port Klang on Thursday.

But more than a hundred passengers were unable to board the ship at the Marina Bay Cruise Centre here on Sunday.

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THAILAND |

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BANGKOK: Thai authorities rescued 51 Rohingya including two children in southern Satun province on Tuesday.

Local fishermen rescued 10 Rohingya from the sea in Satun’s La-ngu district and another 41 were found on an island in Thung Wa district.

Police are investigating whether both groups came from the same boat and are victims of human trafficking.

La-ngu district police superintendent, Pol Col Sitthipong Husrangsi said local fishermen found the 10 exhausted men clinging to a polystyrene foam.

“They have been placed at a temporary shelter pending further investigation,” he told reporters.

Meanwhile, Satun Provincial Administration said upon interrogation it was found the 10 men, whom were from Rakhine, had escaped from a shelter in Bangladesh.

“The men said their overloaded boat that was bound for Indonesia was hit by a storm forcing them to abandon the vessel. They were in the sea for four days before being rescued by local fishermen,” said the statement.

Meanwhile, authorities extended their search after receiving information that more Rohingya had been pulled onto a beach nearby.

“They found another 41 Rohingya including two young boys on an island off the coast of Thung Wa district. All of them were found in a hungry and dehydrated state,” the statement said.-Bernama

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