Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia reinforce fight against drugs trafficking

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia agreed to intensify activities to combat cross-border drug trafficking at a ministerial level meeting on anti-drug co-operation in Ho Chi Minh City on November 4. “The fight against drug trafficking is the three countries’ joint struggle with each success being shared by all,” Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong, who is also Chairman of Vietnam’s National Committee for AIDs, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control, said while speaking at the opening session. The participants also agreed on the need to further improve the efficiency of coordinated activities, operations, and the exchange of information among drug watchdogs and liaison offices to enhance tripartite co-operation in the fight. Thanks to intensive exchange of information, last year investigative agencies from the three countries brought to light many big transnational drug trafficking rings.

The Screening of the amazing document

Phnom Penh: there is a screening of the amazing documentary KEEP THE RIVER TO YOUR RIGHT” (7PM) at Meta House.
In 1955, 34-year-old gay Jewish painter Tobias Schneebaum, who had grown up in Brooklyn, trekked into the Peruvian Amazon. Schneebaum formed an intimate bond with the members of one tribe whose males were physically intimate but also attacked another village, killed most of its inhabitants, and cooked and ate parts of them. His 1969 memoir “Keep the River On Your Right” became a cult classic. Filmmakers David and Laurie Gwen Shapiro convinced him to return to that momentous place in 1999, at the age of 78. (2000, 94 min). Our “screenDocs” double bill also features the Cambodian community media film “FOREST IS OUR FUTURE”.