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Vietnam, Cambodia advance border province cooperation
Vietnam and Cambodia Wednesday agreed on directions and measures to bolster cooperation between their border provinces and effectively settle arising and complex issues, the Vietnam News Agency reported.The eighth meeting on border province cooperation and development, held in Ho Chi Minh City October 27-28, was ...
Thanh Nien News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-cambodia-advance-border-province-cooperation-53025.html
Army joins call for Kem Sokha to step down
As observers accused the CPP of orchestrating Monday’s savage beating of two opposition lawmakers, images emerged Tuesday of a senior military commander rallying troops to support calls to oust Kem Sokha as the National Assembly’s vice president. ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/army-joins-call-for-kem-sokha-to-step-down-98515/
Work permit applications surge amid crackdown
Since the government began its crackdown nearly one year and a half ago on foreigners without work permits, it has seen applications for work permits skyrocket alongside revenues from fines. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17213/work-permit-applications-surge-amid-crackdown/
Raid reveals 1,800 smuggled smartphones
Customs authorities seized nearly 1,800 smuggled Huawei smartphones during a raid on Monday on a private residence in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, a customs official said yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/raid-reveals-1800-smuggled-smartphones
With little support, farmers at the mercy of the weather
Most years the rice fields outside Battambang are an unbroken sea of electric green, but this year they look more like a patchwork quilt. Some paddies are a healthy green, but others are a sickly yellow, while others are little more than empty, muddy fields ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17211/with-little-support--farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/
No fake license plates found at military police headquarters
The first two days of a new crackdown on the improper use of military license plates have focused on vehicles parked at the National Military Police Headquarters in Phnom Penh, a spokesman said Tuesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-fake-license-plates-found-at-military-police-headquarters-98521/
‘World watching’ inquiry
The Ministry of Interior yesterday said it would establish a special commission to investigate the brutal attacks against two opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly on Monday, a probe the party suggested should have no excuse for failure amid “clear video evidence” of the perpetrators’ ...
Meas Sokchea, Chhay Channyda and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-watching-inquiry
France signs off on $115m in loans and extradition treaty
About $115 million worth of concessional loans to Cambodia and a mutual extradition treaty were approved during a meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen and French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Monday, according to Mr. Hun Sen’s Facebook page. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/france-signs-off-on-115m-in-loans-and-extradition-treaty-98523/
Hun Sen, Rainsy battle on overseas voters
Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy have clashed over the issue of Cambodians living overseas being able to vote in elections. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17214/hun-sen--rainsy-battle-on-overseas-voters/
Grade 5 testing aims to cut learning gaps
Cambodia will join three other regional countries in carrying out standardized testing for grade five students as part of a pilot program that aims to improve primary school education in Asean, officials said this week. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/grade-5-testing-aims-to-cut-learning-gaps-98543/
Rights groups condemn ‘new wave of political violence’
Human Rights Watch and local rights groups condemned Monday’s attack on two opposition parliamentarians, who were dragged from their cars and beaten by an organized group of masked men. ...
Neou Vannarin, Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/rights-groups-condemn-new-wave-of-political-violence/3024815.html
France's Hollande vows support to Cambodia's progress
French President Francois Hollande on Monday pledged to help improve economic development and broaden democracy in Cambodia after meeting its Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=306788
Pair convicted for defamatory Facebook posts
The wife of an army general and an Information Ministry official were convicted of defamation by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday over Facebook posts accusing the general of having an affair with CPP Senator Keo Maly, a claim the lawmaker has denied. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pair-convicted-for-defamatory-facebook-posts-98381/
Minister details online business registration plans to parliament
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol told parliament Monday of plans to overhaul the current system of registering a business in Cambodia, an often slow and corrupt process, by moving the entire system online, where registration will open on December 7. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-details-online-business-registration-plans-to-parliament-98389/
Guns gathered, burned in Preah Vihear
Police in Preah Vihear yesterday burned nearly 1,600 homemade rifles confiscated from villagers around the province.Preah Vihear provincial authorities said that officers collected the 1,574 DIY illegal weapons from “everywhere” across the province. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/guns-gathered-burned-preah-vihear
Ministry to postpone TV broadcast regulations
The Information Ministry announced Monday that it would push back by two months a deadline for all 17 local television stations to broadcast only Cambodian-produced content during prime time. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-to-postpone-tv-broadcast-regulations-98398/
Hun Sen warns Rainsy of fresh legal trouble
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday warned CNRP President Sam Rainsy that he could be prosecuted over the same forgery and incitement case that led to the arrest of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour in August. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/98370-98370/
Lawmakers beaten at National Assembly
Opposition lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea were viciously beaten and left seriously injured yesterday morning as a protest outside the National Assembly against Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha descended into violence.The ruling Cambodian People’s Party denied any involvement in organising the ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya, Charles Parkinson and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmakers-beaten-national-assembly
A protest stages to oust Kem Sokha from position at the National Assembly
Dozen hundred protesters from across Phnom Penh Municipality staged a protest in front of the National Assembly this morning, demanding the NA’s current first deputy president Kem Sokha, to step down from his position. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/a-protest-stages-to-oust-kem-sokha-from-position-at-the-national-assembly-9049
Cambodia fully backs establishment of Lancang-Mekong mechanism: official
Advisor to the Cambodian government Sok Siphanna said Monday that Cambodia fully supported the establishment of the Lancang-Mekong River Dialogue and Cooperation Mechanism. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/26/c_134751979.htm
‘Digital library’ to help research on anti-corruption and social justice
Transparency International Cambodia has launched a digital library to help people research injustice, corruption, governance and social issues. ...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/digital-library-to-help-research-on-anti-corruption-and-social-justice/3023259.html
Hun Sen, opposition cause stir in France
Prime Minister Hun Sen has slammed the opposition for claiming the government forced a group of Cambodian exchange students studying in France to meet with him.A Cambodian radio station in France said the Cambodian embassy was forcing students to meet the prime minister at Maison ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17153/hun-sen--opposition-cause-stir-in-france/
Party leaders ‘sue Sonando’
The cracks in Mam Sonando’s recently revived Beehive Social Democratic Party are widening, with a lawsuit against the party president, alleging he embezzled funds, slated to be filed at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today on behalf of the party’s own leadership. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/party-leaders-sue-sonando
Hun Sen thinks we can win: Sokha
Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha on Saturday drew a positive message from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent warnings that an opposition election victory could lead to civil war, trumpeting it as acceptance from the premier that he could be defeated. Among the ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-thinks-we-can-win-sokha