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Cambodian government declares French maps match its own

Hours after French officials handed over a set of maps to Cambodia on Thursday, the government border committee announced that the documents matched its own, calling an end to an ongoing political dispute over the demarcation of the Southeast Asian nation’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ...

RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/government-declares-french-maps-match-its-own-09032015142404.html

French hand over the copies of maps to Cambodia

Chairman of the Ad-hoc Commission to Receive, Hand over, and Verify Cambodia’s Maps Hor Namhong who is also deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs received here this morning the copies of maps from French official. ...

The Cambodia Herald​ News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/french-hand-over-the-copies-of-maps-to-cambodia-8917

Two more arrested sending brides to China

A young couple has confessed to trafficking Cambodian women to be sold to men in China after they were arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport Tuesday night while preparing to board a flight to Shanghai with their two latest victims, police said. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-arrested-sending-brides-to-china-93260/

New group formed to help migrant workers

A group of Cambodians in Thailand have formed an association to provide legal aid to the country’s Cambodian factory workers, saying the workers risk abuse due to their lack of proper documentation and knowledge of labour laws. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-group-formed-help-migrant-workers

PM pledges pension funds

Amid struggles by the Cambodian Veterans Association to live up to its pension obligations, Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the minister of social affairs and the minister of finance to provide roughly $1.5 million to alleviate the issue ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pledges-pension-funds

French PM sends border maps for verification

Despite verifying that the current maps being used to demarcate the border with Vietnam and the maps loaned to the Kingdom from the UN last month were the same, the Cambodian government will hold another verification ceremony with a series of maps sent from France. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15264/french-pm-sends-border-maps-for-verification/

Grassroots party hopes to play kingmaker in National Assembly

Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP) secretary-general Sam Inn said Wednesday the new party is aiming to win enough National Assembly seats in the 2018 election to play kingmaker in a scenario in which neither the ruling CPP nor opposition CNRP win enough seats to form government. ...

Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/grassroots-party-hopes-to-play-kingmaker-in-national-assembly-93264/

Svay Rieng unionists appeal convictions for protest

A lawyer for four unionists who were handed suspended 18-month prison sentences for blocking a road last year filed an appeal with the Svay Rieng Provincial Court on Wednesday. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/svay-rieng-unionists-appeal-convictions-for-protest-93262/

ADB confirms receipt of latest request from railway families

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has received a complaint from 22 Cambodians who say the lender is falling short in its efforts to fix the mistakes it has made in planning and carrying out its ongoing rehabilitation of the country’s dilapidated railway tracks. ...

Zsombor Peter and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-confirms-receipt-of-latest-request-from-railway-families-93266/

China brides rescued; alleged brokers busted

Anti-human trafficking police arrested a man and a woman at Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday night, as they attempted to send two Cambodian women to be sold as brides in China. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/china-brides-rescued-alleged-brokers-busted

Forty-seven migrant workers to be deported

Nearly 60 illegal Vietnamese migrant workers were arrested by immigration police Wednesday during raids on six furniture workshops and a coffee shop in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district, an immigration official said. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/forty-seven-migrant-workers-to-be-deported-93255/

Mekong region gets satellite-data boost

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, USAID and a range of participating organizations have launched a five-year initiative they hope will transform the way in which the government, organizations, universities and citizens use data for research and decision-making. ...

James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15260/mekong-region-gets-satellite-data-boost/

Hun Sen calls Rainsy a liar over still-jailed activists

Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to some familiar themes in his latest verbal assault on opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday, once again describing him as the “leader of the thieves,” a habitual liar and a stingy hypocrite. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-calls-rainsy-a-liar-over-still-jailed-activists-93249/

Embassies warn of rise in coastal crime

Foreign diplomats this week have called for increased vigilance and caution on Cambodia’s coast, partcularly in places such as Sihanoukville, Koh Rong and Kampot, following a spike in serious crimes against foreigners. ...

Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15252/embassies-warn-of-rise-in-coastal-crime/

Police arrest 17 at protest in Koh Kong

Police in Koh Kong province on Wednesday arrested 17 people—including four rights workers—near the provincial courthouse as protesters continued to call for the release of three jailed environmental activists, according to officials. The group was released shortly after 6 p.m. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-17-at-protest-in-koh-kong-93241/

Thai company proposes parking lot plan

After Phnom Penh City Hall announced last month that bus stations must be moved outside the city by next year, a Thai company put forward a proposal on Tuesday to invest in bus parking lots on the city’s outskirts, according to the municipality. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/thai-company-proposes-parking-lot-plan-93275/

Too many unions: owners

In a strongly worded defence of the proposed trade union law, employer association CAMFEBA released a position paper yesterday claiming the law would curb instances of illegal strikes and a proliferation of minority unions, which it says is needed to harmonise the country’s troubled industrial ...

Charles Rollet and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/too-many-unions-owners

Ethnic minorities in Mondolkiri band together in new political party

Indigenous people in Mondolkiri province have joined together to form a new political party to give a voice to the country’s minority groups, a party official said Wednesday. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethnic-minorities-in-mondolkiri-band-together-in-new-political-party-93253/

Bid to dismiss treason charges fails

The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled to keep opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour in prison, rejecting a bid by his lawyers to have his charges dismissed and arrest ruled illegal. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bid-dismiss-treason-charges-fails

CNRP tells donors to retrieve their funds

A district official with the Cambodia National Rescue Party has offered a group of disgruntled donors in Kandal their money back after they lodged a complaint with local police over the opposition’s fundraising efforts for its Sun TV station. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-tells-donors-retrieve-their-funds

Gov’t increases funding for children’s hospitals

Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital will receive an additional $2 million this year from the government purse, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-increases-funding-childrens-hospitals

Dengue fever kills 8 more

At least eight more people have died from dengue fever in less than a month, prompting health officials to warn people to be vigilant in preventing the disease. The total number of dengue infections has risen to nearly 7,000, up from around 2,000 last year, ...

Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/dengue-fever-kills-8-more/2942374.html

No request for help investigating Thai bombing, Cambodian officials say

Cambodian authorities say they have received no request for aid in the Thai investigation of a bombing in Bangkok in August, following the detention of a second suspect near the Cambodian border on Tuesday. ...

Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/no-request-for-help-investigating-thai-bombing-cambodian-officials-say/2942230.html

Court orders continued detention of opposition senator

The Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to jail an opposition senator, who is accused of posting false border maps online, an offense Prime Minister Hun Sen has likened to “treason.” ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-orders-continued-detention-of-opposition-senator/2942351.html

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