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Prime Minister Hun Sen calls for local televisions to increase sign languages broadcasting for deaf-and-mute persons
Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and his spouse, Samdach Bun Rany Hun Sen, this morning paid a visit to NGO Krousar Thmey in Phnom Penh, where he called for the public not discriminate people with disabilities. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-calls-for-local-televisions-to-increase-sign-languages-broadcasting-for-deaf-and-mute-persons-9116
Thailand, Cambodia strengthen ties
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to boost economic and business ties during an official visit to Thailand by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.The visit marks a major thawing in bilateral relations strained in recent years. The visit by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was the ...
Ron Corben
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/thailand-cambodia-strengthening-ties/3110946.html
Cambodia, Thailand agree to ambitious trade goals
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart, Prayuth Chan-ocha, agreed to boost bilateral trade by 300 percent—to $15 billion—by 2020 during meetings in which they also signed off on deals to open two new international border crossings and a railway line linking Phnom Penh ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-thailand-agree-to-ambitious-trade-goals-103523/
Thai-Cambodian retreat seals trade and labor deals
Thailand and Cambodia on Saturday signed five bilateral agreements to wrap up the two-day official visit by Cambodian leader Hun Sen, although no deal was reached on energy development and cooperation between the countries. According to Hun Sen, Gen Prayut has agreed in principle to ...
Patsara Jikkham
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/799968/thai-cambodian-retreat-seals-trade-and-labour-deals
Cambodian leader Hun Sen visits Thailand as tensions thaw
Hun Sen will spend two days in Bangkok and is scheduled to meet the leader of Thailand’s military government, Prayuth Chan-ocha, for talks on border issues, agriculture, trade and investment, and regional connectivity. ...
Liam Cochrane
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-18/cambodian-leader-visits-thailand-as-tensions-thaw/7039356
Hun Sen visits Thailand
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s first state visit to Thailand today and tomorrow will be a milestone in enhancing previously frayed diplomatic relations with Cambodia’s largest neighbor and will also pay off economically, diplomats, executives and analysts say. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18831/hun-sen-visits-thailand/
Border scrap off talks agenda
The territorial conflict between Thailand and Cambodia will not be discussed during Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Thailand this week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha says. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/796340/border-scrap-off-talks-agenda
Coup no obstacle to Hun Sen trade visit
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Thailand this week reaffirms brightening relations between the two countries after the Cambodian premier sent a delegation to extend his goodwill to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) in July last year. ...
Chananthorn Kamjan and Achara Ashayagachat
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/794780/coup-no-obstacle-to-hun-sen-trade-visit
PM calls for crackdown on armed gangs after crime wave
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities around the country to “crack down” on groups involved in armed robberies following a recent crime wave that has left a number of people killed and injured. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-calls-for-crackdown-on-armed-gangs-after-crime-wave-103022/
PM calls for tougher scrutiny on pardons
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday told the Ministry of Justice to re-check pardon applications from convicted robbers and drug dealers, saying that recidivism is a big problem in the Kingdom.The premier’s statement, made in a speech on Koh Pich, follows a turbulent weekend rife with ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-tougher-scrutiny-pardons
PM warns against trafficking
At an event marking National Anti-Human Trafficking Day in Phnom Penh on Saturday, Prime Minister Hun Sen warned that officials who collude with traffickers must be punished. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-warns-against-trafficking-102901/
PM vows to keep out Islamic State
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday cautioned against complacency in the global fight against the so-called Islamic State, pledging that Cambodia would not become a safe country for jihadists plotting to attack countries in the region. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-vows-keep-out-islamic-state
Give farmers a break: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) to suspend loan repayments by borrowers affected by this year’s drought, or either make the loans interest free or cut the rates. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18453/give-farmers-a-break--pm/
Cambodia: a generation gap divides a struggling nation
Surveys are rare in Cambodia and opinion polls indicating which way the electorate intends to vote are even rarer. That partially explains why so many other commentators failed to predict the hefty swing against Prime Minister Hun Sen at the last national poll. ...
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/cambodia-a-generation-gap-divides-a-struggling-nation/
Cambodia’s slide into repression
On Nov. 13, Cambodia’s dictatorial prime minister Hun Sen ousted opposition leader Sam Rainsy, stripping him of his seat in parliament and calling for his arrest. These latest actions against Rainsy are representative of Cambodia’s long muddle through a sort of unfree democracy. ...
Olivia Enos
http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/01/cambodias-slide-into-repression/
Loan discussed, deals inked with Medvedev
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace yesterday morning where the duo discussed an outstanding Soviet Union-era debt and signed off on deals ranging from cooperation in nuclear power to exchanging information on money laundering. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loan-discussed-deals-inked-medvedev
PM urges US to drop tariffs
Prime Minister Hun Sen urged policymakers in Washington to expand its preferential treatment of goods imported from least-developed countries (LDCs) including Cambodia by increasing the amount of goods permitted duty- and quota-free access to the US market.“Cambodia would like to request that the US provide ...
Cam McGrath and Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-urges-us-drop-tariffs
PM invited to US as Rainsy seeks support in Europe
As a grinning Prime Minister Hun Sen shook hands with U.S. President Barack Obama and received his first invite for an official trip to Washington over the weekend, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said he was headed to Europe seeking to place diplomatic pressure on the ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-invited-to-us-as-rainsy-seeks-support-in-europe-101143/
PM urges cooperation on climate problems
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday called for stronger cooperation in implementing the ASEAN-US Joint Statement on Climate Change, noting that the phenomenon is “obviously happening”. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-urges-cooperation-climate-problems
Prime Minister in Malaysia for series of summits
Prime Minister Hun Sen jetted off to Kuala Lumpur on Friday morning to attend the 27th Asean Summit and hold one-on-one meetings with several heads of state. ...
The Cambodia Daily team
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-in-malaysia-for-series-of-summits-101130/
PM puts fake Hun Sen FB accounts on notice
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday took to the unruly world of social media in an effort to impose some order, at least where his own name is concerned. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-puts-fake-hun-sen-fb-accounts-notice
New agreements to bolster intelligence, investment ties with Russia
Cambodia and Russia will sign a package of six agreements between the two countries, including on investment, and money laundering cooperation among political parties. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17960/new-agreements-to-bolster-intelligence--investment-ties-with-russia/
Directive calls for halt to leasing border land
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued a directive banning people from renting or selling border land to people from neigbouring countries in an effort to maintain Cambodia’s “national sovereignty and territorial integrity”. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/directive-calls-halt-leasing-border-land
Boat racing not banned during water festival: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that boat racing will be allowed during next week’s water festival, but that the races would not be officially overseen. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boat-racing-not-banned-during-water-festival-pm-100804/