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Khmer Rouge Dictionary by Solomon Kane was published last week, reported the Khmer-language newspaper Somne Thmey in its 94th edition. The French-language dictionary contains 460 pages and explains the Khmer Regime and its organization using alphabetical order.

Information about the regime from the beginning of its movement until the death of Pol Pot in 1998 is well recorded. It tells readers of contemplate the important stages of the regime and its initiators as well as administrative divisions, policies, economy and relations with foreign countries, according to Somne Thmey.

The author told Somne Thmey that the dictionary allowed users to read and understand particular topics about the regime using the alphabetical order. He also intended to make it obtainable in Khmer but said that he had not sought enough funding to do so yet, continued the newspaper.

Solomon is currently a researcher for Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC). It took him some ten years to compile this publication, according to the newspaper.

The newspaper did not write how much the dictionary would cost and how it was obtained.

The news article is republished by Khmer Rouge Trial Web Portal, click HERE to read it in Khmer.

Vuthy Monirath, a PHD student at Tokyo’s Chiba University, has been elected as a new president of Cambodian Students Association in Japan (CSAJ) for year 2007. The election was held online on January 14. The mandate is one year.

The departing and 2007 presidents, together eight people, from four main regions including Chubu, Kansai, Kyushu and Kanto cast their votes. Seven of them voted in favor of the presidency, more than the majority needed to take the office. One voted against it.

The right to elect CSAJ president is, under the joint declaration and the statute signed by all the regional presidents, given to the presidents of the four regions, who are elected to represent the Cambodian students in their own regions.

The main goals of CSAJ include, but not limited to, bringing together Cambodian students as well as those working in Japan and communicating messages about any activity by the students from one region to another.

The work with the association is voluntary.