CAMBODIAN SOCIETY : While CAMBODIA is OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM 1979-2008.THE KHMER KINGS HAVE APPOINTED HOR NAM HONG, A VIETNAMESE AS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER & MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PUPPET KING SIHAMONI. WE SEE MME CHEA LEANG A VIETNAMESE WOMAN APPOINTED AS "CAMBODIAN" CO-PROSECUTOR HEREAS VIETNAMESE ,HOR NAM HONG HAS APPOINTED A VIETNAMESE WOMAN AS "CAMBODIAN " AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND . HOR NAM HONG , A VIETNAMESE ,APPOINTED AS FOREIGN MINISTER OF CAMBODIA TO NEGOTIATE AND TALK ON BEHALF OF THE KHMER PEOPLE HERE. THE LABEL "CAMBODIAN" MEANS A VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST HERE > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:39:10 -0800> Subject: Re: Judge holds president of > Long Beach Buddhist temple in contempt> From: [email protected]> To: > [email protected]> > > They can't have enough of their own society in > Cambodia.> Now they spill it into the American society.> Look at it happening > beofore your eyes.> This is called Cambodians.> > > On Jan 2, 5:47 am, Ta Boo > <[email protected]> wrote:> > ----- Original Message ----> > From: Sam Rainsy > Party-USA/Canada <[email protected]>> > To: SRP Sam Rainsy Party > <[email protected]>> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:59:43 > PM> > Subject: Judge holds president of Long Beach Buddhist temple in > contempt> >> > > > > > October 21, 2008> > Judge holds president of Long > Beach Buddhist temple in contempt> > Head monk Khoeun Pang lights candles for > evening prayers. Observers in the Cambodian community say the conflict is > part of a larger factionalism, including disputes over the designation of > Cambodia Town in central Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)> >> > > Siphann Tith, 44, was remanded to custody and held on $50,000 bail after > refusing to turn over the temple's financial records. Factions of Cambodian > temple have been wrangling over ownership.> >> > October 21, 2008> > By Joe > Mozingo> > Los Angeles Times> >> > The president of Long Beach's oldest > Cambodian Buddhist temple was held in contempt of court Monday and taken into > custody after he refused a court order to turn over financial documents in a > rancorous fight about who rightly runs the temple.> >> > Siphann Tith, 44, > ignored repeated demands by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Di > Loreto to hand over the temple's assets to a court-appointed receiver while > the judge presided over a dispute between two factions of the Cambodian > community vying for control of the venerable institution.> >> > The > contention erupted in December, when monks and lay people demanded an > election of the temple's board of directors, as required by bylaws that had > been ignored for years. Tith agreed to an election, but the effort got bogged > down in further controversy over who could cast votes. The monks' faction > went forward with an election in January, voted in a whole new board and > locked the old board out.> >> > The fight has sharpened divisions in the > nation's largest Cambodian community. Both sides claim the others are > interlopers in Wat Khmer Vipassanaram, the temple founded by survivors of the > Khmer Rouge genocide in 1985.> >> > The matter landed in court in February, > and after an agreement by both sides, Di Loreto appointed the receiver.> >> > > But when the receiver asked Tith for the temple's books, Tith said he didn't > have them anymore. He said the board dissolved the temple's nonprofit, the > Khmer Buddhist Assn., and transferred all the assets to a new organization -- > an offshoot of a one-man church run by Johnny Rhondo, a business consultant > in Orange County.> >> > Tith argued in court filings that the dissolution of > the 23-year-old nonprofit was inspired by Gautama Siddartha, the Buddha > himself -- "who gave all his wealth, property and even clothing, before he > began the life that ultimately led him to become Buddha." Tith claimed that > death was the only way to Nirvana, and so the nonprofit had to die for its > spirit to get there.> >> > Di Loreto did not buy it. "Wasn't the real reason > you did that was to subvert the settlement agreement you reached with the > defendants in this case?" he asked Tith earlier this month.> >> > Di Loreto > remanded him to custody and set bail at $50,000, but later revoked bail.> > > ------------------> > Tith Siphann taken into custody for contempt> > > President of LB Buddhist temple held in contempt> >> > 10/21/2008> > The > Associated Press> >> > LOS ANGELES—The president of a Cambodian Buddhist > temple in Long Beach has been held in contempt of court and taken into > custody for refusing to turn over financial documents in a fierce legal > battle over who controls the temple.> >> > Los Angeles County Superior Court > Judge Joseph Di Loreto had repeatedly demanded that 44-year-old Siphann Tith > turn over the temple's assets to a court-appointed receiver.> >> > Tith says > he no longer has the temple's books, and that the board has dissolved the > nonprofit that ran it.> >> > The judge didn't accept the argument and on > Monday declared Tith in contempt.> >> > Two factions of the Long Beach > Cambodian community have been fighting over the temple. A group of monks > elected its own board in January after Tith had agreed to an election but a > dispute arose over who would be able to vote.- Hide quoted text -> >> > - > Show quoted text -> > _________________________________________________________________ Send e-mail faster without improving your typing skills. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_speed_122008 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia.
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