Government
Border activists fall short of mark
Most of the more than 2,000 activists who traveled to a disputed area of the border with Vietnam in Svay Rieng province’s Kompong Ro district yesterday afternoon were not permitted to reach their ultimate goal – Border Post 203. ...
Ros Chanveasna and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13464/border-activists-fall-short-of-mark/
One-time ‘terrorists’ get political party
The Interior Ministry officially registered the Khmer Power Party on Friday, after years of insisting—despite a lack of evidence—that its parent group, the Khmer People Power Movement, was a terrorist organization. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-time-terrorists-get-political-party-88887/
Cambodian opposition lawmakers lead supporters to revisit disputed border with Vietnam
Cambodian opposition lawmakers Real Camerin and Um Sam An led over 1,000 supporters Sunday to revisit disputed Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province, where they had scuffled with Vietnamese villagers last month. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=293340
NEC: digital voter registry to reduce fraud
The new computerized registry of voters for the next election will catalog citizens’ real names, reduce fraud, and get rid of the double-name glitches that plagued the last election cycle, says NEC spokesman Hang Puthea. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13460/nec--digital-voter-registry-to-reduce-fraud/
Assembly members quarrel over border letter
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun again went on the attack Friday against CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An, who has been at the fore of the opposition’s recent campaign to highlight Vietnam’s alleged incursions into Cambodia. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-members-quarrel-over-border-letter-88864/
City governor pledges new staff at Prey Speu
On a walkthrough visit of Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu social affairs center on Friday, municipal governor Pa Socheatvong pledged to send 10 new caretakers to work at the center, which has been the subject of claims of serious abuse at the hands of staff. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-governor-pledges-new-staff-at-social-affairs-center-88855/
Lawmakers’ letter prompts ire in NA
The National Assembly’s legal council is considering action against opposition lawmaker Un Sam An after he accused Assembly President Heng Samrin of failing to respect the constitution, according to a ruling party lawmaker. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/lawmakers-letter-prompts-ire-na
VN fishermen arrested in Koh Kong, deported
In their continuing effort to stop illegal fishing in Cambodian waters, the Kingdom’s Immigration Police impounded 11 Vietnamese fishing boats last week caught in Cambodian territorial waters off Koh Kong province and ordered their 39 crew members deported. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13462/vn-fishermen-arrested-in-koh-kong--deported/
Cambodia grants work cards to 25,000 foreigners in six months
Cambodia’s Ministry of Labor granted about 25,000 work permits to foreigners in the first six months of 2015, about 5,000 more than the total of last year, a local newspaper reported Friday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6617771/2015/07/17/cambodia-grants-work-cards-25000-foreigners-six-months
UN responds to Hun Sen’s map request
The UN has responded to a request from Prime Minister Hun Sen for a pre-Khmer Rouge era map that he hopes will help resolve border disputes with Vietnam. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-responds-to-hun-sen-map-request/2866459.html
Vietnam, Cambodia conduct joint field inspection on border incident
A Vietnam-Cambodia joint working group on Thursday made a field inspection in the area between border marker 202 and 203 at Binh Bac village, Binh Hoa Tay commune, Moc Hoa district in Vietnam’s Long An province where a violent incident caused by some Cambodian extremists ...
Thanh Nien News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-cambodia-conduct-joint-field-inspection-on-border-incident-48083.html
PM calls constitution’s border map clause ‘mistake’
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday the framers of the 1993 Constitution made a mistake by specifying that the map developed by the French colonial authorities would be the only one legally valid for border demarcation. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-calls-constitutions-border-map-clause%E2%80%88mistake-88697/
Cambodia praises thailand for deporting Uighurs to China
Cambodian officials are praising Thailand’s decision to deport 109 Muslim Uighur immigrants back to China last week. ...
Brian Gruber
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13382/cambodia-praises-thailand-for-deporting-uighurs-to-china/
Governor holds meeting on helping homeless
Ahead of a visit to the Prey Speu social affairs center Friday, Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Wednesday urged NGOs to get homeless people off the streets and into safe environments where they can turn their lives around, according to a post on City ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governor-holds-meeting-on-helping-homeless-88711/
Gov’t grants funding for special olympic team
The Cambodian government has granted $20,000 to the national Special Olympics team, for travel and competition at this year’s games in Los Angeles later this month. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/govt-grants-funding-for-special-olympic-team/2865153.html
Hun Sen denies loss of land to border encroachment
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that neither he nor his government has caused any loss of territory to bordering countries. His statement comes amid a diplomatic row with Vietnam, which has been working on ponds, a road and a military outpost in contested ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-denies-loss-of-land-to-border-encroachment/2865171.html
Opposition VP calls for plurality in politics
Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, is currently in Paris. He did not attend a recent dinner with the families of Rescue Party President Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen. But speaking to opposition supporters in France, he ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/opposition-vp-calls-for-plurality-in-politics/2865140.html
Cambodia returns remains of 18 soldiers to VN
The remains of 18 Vietnamese military volunteers who were killed in Cambodia during the war were repatriated to Viet Nam in a ceremony held in Takeo Province, Cambodia, yesterday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/273160/cambodia-returns-remains-of-18-soldiers-to-vn.html
Vietnam, China trade ties seeing new momentum
Vietnam and China are gaining new impetus in economic relations, as evidenced by the continuous growth in bilateral trade revenue in the first half of 2015.Statistics from Vietnam’s General Statistics Office (GSO) released on Monday showed that China remained the largest trade partner of Vietnam ...
Want China Times News Staff
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150716000057&cid=1102
Cambodia keeps tabs on trade
Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism has awarded star-ratings to 26 hotels according to information reported in the ministry’s latest update on registration in the hospitality and travel sectors. ...
Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2015/07/cambodia-keeps-tabs-on-trade/
Multiplying map requests from PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday wrote to three world leaders to request “cooperation” to secure copies of maps of Cambodia’s borders, which he said are held by the governments of France, the UK and the US. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/multiplying-map-requests-pm
Gaming tax revenue up 20% in first 6 months
Gaming tax revenue reached $12 million in the first six months of the year, a 20 percent increase over the first half of 2014, due to a greater number of Thai nationals crossing into Cambodia to gamble, a Finance Ministry official said Wednesday. ...
Kang Sothear and Tsz-kwan Ho
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/gaming-tax-revenue-up-20-in-first-6-months-88562/
Drug rehabs offer more harm than help
When police brought Manly to his room in the Mundoul Orkas Knhom drug rehab center outside Phnom Penh, he saw blood on the wall. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13342//
Culture of dialogue still seen as trap by some
The so-called “culture of dialogue” has seen the Kingdom’s two major political parties cooperating on a number of longstanding political issues, but critics of the new detente continue to warn that it could end up being a trap for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party ...
Va Sonyka and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13341/culture-of-dialogue-still-seen-as-trap-by-some/