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Gov’t silent after first day of border meeting

Var Kimhong, the CPP government’s minister in charge of border affairs, declined to speak with reporters Tuesday after hosting Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister for the first Joint Border Committee meeting since the opposition CNRP began a campaign to uncover Vietnamese territorial encroachments. ...

Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-silent-after-first-day-of-border-meeting-87520/

Japanese experts question thumbprint voting

The Japanese technical group helping the National Election Committee (NEC) with its new list of voters has suggested that the NEC not use thumbprints for registration.  ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12995/japanese-experts-question-thumbprint-voting/

KNLF ‘terrorists’ in court for ‘treason’

Ten members of the blacklisted Khmer National Liberation Front were tried yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on treason charges brought on by allegations they had distributed anti-Vietnamese propaganda ahead of a demonstration last year. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knlf-terrorists-court-treason

Monitors discuss elections

A group of electoral monitoring NGOs under the banner of the Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday gathered to express their concern over current regulations that govern Cambodia’s voter registration process. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monitors-discuss-elections

Death sparks new rabies warnings

The recent death from rabies of a French resident of Kampot has caused coastal vets and doctors to call for increased vigilance and improved preventative measures in Cambodia, which is still classed as a “red” zone for the lethal virus. ...

Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12994/death-sparks-new-rabies-warnings/

NEC’s leaders to meet a group of German Bundestag delegation

The National Election Committee (NEC)’s leaders including chairman, vice chairman will receive a group of German Bundestag delegation on Thursday, said NEC’s news alert. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/nec%E2%80%99s-leaders-to-meet-a-group-of-german-bundestag-delegation-8739

Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association seeks to expand role

In an effort to expand its role and promote friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia, the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association (VCFA) organised a meeting with the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region (SCSR) here on Monday, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. ...

Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v8/wn/newsworld.php?id=1150688

Cambodia, Vietnam began closed-door meeting on joint border

Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs and his Vietnam’s counterpart, Ho Xuan, began the close-door meeting on the Cambodia-Vietnam joint border committee this morning at the council of the cabinet ministers. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-vietnam-began-closed-door-meeting-on-joint-border-8738

Cambodia's tax revenue up 38.5 pct in first half of 2015

The Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) reported Monday that it collected 707 million U.S. dollars in taxes during the first six months of this year, up 38.5 percent over the same period last year. ...

Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12961/cambodia-s-tax-revenue-up-38-5-pct-in-first-half-of-2015/

Japan becomes China’s business rival in Cambodia

Prime Minister Hun Sen returned Monday from a weekend in Japan that included a day-trip 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo to Yamaguchi Prefecture, home base of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. ...

James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12948/japan-becomes-china---s-business-rival-in-cambodia/

CNRP activists arrested over Siem Reap protest

Two opposition activists in Siem Reap’s Bakong district were arrested yesterday on accusations of inciting villagers to protest a new committee to support boating tourism. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-activists-arrested-over-siem-reap-protest

Japan foundation office to open in Cambodia

The Japan Foundation, Japan’s cultural exchange institution, will open an office in Cambodia, according to Kao Kim Hourn, a minister attached to Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japan-foundation-office-to-open-in-cambodia-87451/

Cambodia's Hun Sen asks for UN map to help end domestic dispute over border with Vietnam

Hoping to settle internal arguments over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the U.N. on Monday for the loan of a map prepared decades ago by France to compare with maps currently used to demarcate the border. ...

Sek Bandith
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/map-07062015173648.html

NGO director arrested by Vietnamese authorities

A Cambodian NGO director who on Saturday took about 40 of his primary- and high-school students on a trip to a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province was beaten by Vietnamese civilians and imprisoned overnight, officials said Sunday. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-director-arrested-by-vietnamese-authorities-87341/

New mining law could herald gold rush

Meng Saktheara wants to take some of the risk out of one of the riskiest businesses in Cambodia – commercial gold mining. As Indian mining giant Mesco Gold seeks a permit to build and operate the country’s first commercial gold mine in Ratanakkiri province, Mr. ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12941/new-mining-law-could-herald-gold-rush/

Australia pushing to send more refugees: group

A month after the first four refugees arrived in Cambodia under a controversial resettlement scheme the government signed with Australia last year, immigration officers on the South Pacific island of Nauru are ratcheting up efforts to convince more refugees to join them, according to a ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australia-pushing-to-send-more-refugees-to-cambodia-group-87347/

Vietnam seizes ivory that passed through Cambodia

Police in southern Vietnam seized 387 kilograms of elephant tusks last week after the ivory passed through the Prek Chak international border checkpoint in Kampot province, the state-run Viet Nam News newspaper reported Friday. ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-seizes-ivory-that-passed-through-cambodia-87355/

Rainsy says VN border map shows intrusions

Ahead of a meeting between Cambodian and Vietnamese border officials in Phnom Penh on Monday, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Sunday that the CNRP’s digital copy of the border map had now been set up to work with GPS technology and had already revealed misplaced ...

Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-says-vn-border-map-shows-intrusions-87351/

Furious villagers respond with flames

Local officials apologized yesterday to the Vietnamese owners of a rubber plantation in this northwestern province, after a dispute with local residents spiraled out of control a day earlier with angry villagers setting a company building aflame.  ...

Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12952/furious-villagers-respond-with-flames/

Sam Rainsy: culture of dialogue will save Cambodia from bloodshed

At the Cambodia National Rescue Party Headquarters on Sunday, the party’s president declared that bloody clashes with the government like those of July 1997 will never happen again. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12919/sam-rainsy--culture-of-dialogue-will-save-cambodia-from-bloodshed/

CNRP commemorates 1997 factional fighting

The opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party yesterday held a religious ceremony to commemorate the lives lost in two days of factional fighting that saw then-second prime minister Hun Sen wrest power from then-first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in 1997. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-commemorates-1997-factional-fighting

Preah Vihear border checkpoint to go international

A delegation of Cambodian officials including Foreign Affairs Min­ister Hor Namhong will meet with Thai counterparts in Bangkok next week to sign off on an agreement that will open an international border checkpoint in Preah Vihear province, the ministry said Friday. ...

Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-border-checkpoint-to-go-international-87338/

Cambodia asks for original maps from UN to verify border line with Vietnam

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday requested all original maps deposited at the United Nations to verify the authenticity of maps the government is using to demarcate border line with its neighboring countries. ...

Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12922/cambodia-asks-for-original-maps-from-un-to-verify-border-line-with-vietnam/

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