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China Spring Issue: 01-28 September 2016 ព្រឹត្តិប័ព្ត្រ័ត្មាន Year: 9 No. 09

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PAGE 1 : Content Belarus’s Ambassador Creden-

tials PAGE 2 HRH Queen Mother Norodom

Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk attended the 20th Anniversary of oper-ation of “Pour un Sourire d’En-fant” .

PAGE 3 Senate President Receives Out-

going Japanese Ambassador Cambodian PM Meets UN

Secretary-General PAGE 4 Cambodian PM: ASEAN-China

Summit in Vientiane Ends with Fruitful Results

PAGE 5 PM Inaugurates First Ever

Japan’s Hospital in Phnom Penh

PM: No Political Crisis in Cam-bodia

PAGE 6 Cambodian Foreign Minister

Meets Canadian Counterpart Cambodian Foreign Minister

To Attend 71st UN General Assembly in New York

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Cambodian Foreign Minister Receives Russian Ambassador

Cambodia, Japan Sign Ex-change of Notes on US$9 Mil-lion Grant Aid

PAGE 8 Minimum Wages of Garment

Workers To Reach at least US$160 in 2018

Cambodia-Thailand Bilateral Trade Down in First 7 months

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Belarus’s Ambassador Credentials

At 11:00am of 5th September 2016, at the Throne Hall, His Majesty the King re-

ceived Credentials from H.E. Mr. Vladimir A. Goshin, accredited Ambassador

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus, to the Kingdom of

Cambodia.

By Khan Sophirom

AKP Phnom Penh, September 05, 2016

Royal Embassy of Cambodia to Switzerland

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Her Royal Highness Queen Mother Norodom Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk

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Her Royal Highness Queen Mother Norodom Queen

Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk attended the

20th Anniversary of operation of “Pour un Sourire

d’Enfant” in Cambodia, at Caktumuk Hall, on 09

September 2016.


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Senate President Receives Outgoing Japanese Ambassador

Outgoing Ambassador of Japan to Cambodia H.E. Kumamaru Yuji (R, pic. 1) pays a farewell visit to Cambo-

dian Senate President Samdech Vibol Sena Pheakdei Say Chhum, at the Senate Palace on Sept. 19.

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Cambodian PM Meets UN Secretary-General

AKP Vientiane, September 07, 2016

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen (3rd R, pic. 1) holds talks with H.E. Ban Ki-moon,

UN Secretary-General, in Vientiane, Lao PDR on Sept. 6 afternoon, on the sidelines of the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and Re-

lated Summits.



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Cambodian PM: ASEAN-China Summit in Vientiane Ends with Fruitful Results

The 19th ASEAN-China Summit held yesterday in Vientiane, Lao PDR was wrapped with fruitful and friendly results, said Cambo-

dia’s Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen in a Facebook post.

The ASEAN-China leaders welcomed the commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations and reaf-

firmed their commitment to enhancing cooperation in the field of nontraditional security issues such as combating terrorism and

extremism; illicit drug trafficking; illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; trafficking in persons and cybercrime.

The ASEAN-China leaders took note that ASEAN-China economic relations have maintained their strong momentum. China con-

tinued to be the ASEAN’s largest trading partner, with total bilateral trade at US$346.4 billion in 2015. Foreign Direct Investment

(FDI) flows from China to ASEAN amounted to US$8.2 billion in 2015, positioning China as ASEAN’s fourth largest source of

FDI and looked forward to the concrete outcomes of the negotiations on the Future Work Programme of the Protocol to contribute to

the efforts in achieving the twin goals of two-way trade and investment of US$1 trillion and US$150 billion respectively by 2020.

The ASEAN leaders appreciated China’s continued support for enhancing connectivity within ASEAN and the region, through sup-

porting the implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025. They looked forward to the active involvement and

contribution of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in promoting enhanced ASEAN and regional connectivity.

The ASEAN leaders also acknowledged the role of the ASEAN-China Centre in facilitating trade, investment, tourism, education

and cultural exchange between ASEAN and China. In this connection, they looked forward to the conclusion of the revised MOU on

the establishment of the ASEAN-China Centre.

The ASEAN-China leaders underlined the importance of maintaining peace, stability, security and freedom of navigation in, and

overflight above, the South China Sea and welcomed the recent adoption of the Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN

Member States and China on the Full and Effective Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China

Sea (DOC), they stressed the importance of the full and effective implementation of the DOC in its entirety.

They also adopted the Joint Statement on the Application of the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) in the South China

Sea, and the Guidelines for Hotline Communications among Senior Officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of ASEAN Mem-

ber States and China in Response to Maritime Emergencies in the Implementation of the DOC and welcomed the elements of com-

pleting the implementation of Early Harvest Measures by the end of 2016, finishing the consultation on the COC outline in the first

half 2017 under circumstances without disturbances and fast tracking COC consultations as contained in China’s proposed Four

Visions on the Code of Conduct (COC) consultations.

The ASEAN-China leaders welcomed the designation of 2017 as the ASEAN-China Year of Tourism Cooperation and looked for-

ward to enhance cooperation and activities with a view to boosting two-way tourist visits and promoting greater people-to-people

exchanges between ASEAN and China.



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Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen presided over

here this morning the official inauguration ceremony of the Sun-

rise Japan Hospital Phnom Penh, the first private Japanese hospital

in Cambodia ………*****…….

PM Inaugurates First Ever Japan’s Hospital in Phnom Penh

PM: No Political Crisis in Cambodia


Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei

Techo Hun Sen underlined here yesterday that Cambo-

dia has currently no political crisis.

“There is no political crisis in Cambodia, everything

goes on normally. The students who have just got their

baccalaureate have been preparing for their university

studies, people do their work or business as usual,

while others continue to register on the voters’ list as

over 2 million eligible people have been reported to be

registered by the National Election Committee,” he

said at the graduation ceremony of Panha Chiet Univer-

sity.

“There are no such activities if Cambodia is in political

crisis,” stressed Samdech Techo Hun Sen.

Besides, the Cambodian premier reiterated that there is

no negotiation outside the National Assembly. An indi-

vidual’s wrongdoing cannot be settled by political solu-

tion or culture of dialogue, but only by the court.

“Don’t always depend on protests. You have your sup-

porters, the Royal Government also has its own sup-

porters,” he added, calling on foreign countries not to

interfere.

Regarding a recent military drill considered by the op-

position party as a political intimidation, Samdech Hun

Sen explained that the military exercise zone does not

belong to the opposition party, but to Cambodia.

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Cambodian Foreign Minister Meets Canadian Counterpart


Cambodia’s Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Af-

fairs and International Cooperation H.E. Prak Sokhonn

(pic.1) holds official talks with visiting Minister for For-

eign Affairs of Canada, Honourable Stephane Dion (pic.

2), at the ministry office in Phnom Penh this morning “

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Cambodian Foreign Minister To Attend 71st UN

General Assembly in New York AKP Phnom Penh, September 15, 2016

Cambodia’s Senior Minister H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Minister of

Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will lead a dele-

gation to attend the 71st Session of the United Nations General

Assembly (UNGA) from Sept. 20 to 25, 2016 in New York, said

the ministry’s press release made public this afternoon.

On the sidelines of the 71th Session of the UNGA, it pointed out,

H.E. Senior Minister will attend the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’

Meeting with the President of the 71st UNGA and United Na-

tions Secretary-General (AUMM); the Informal ASEAN-U.S.

Ministers’ Meeting; the Informal ASEAN Foreign Ministerial

Meeting (IAMM); the Special Session of the ASEAN Foreign

Ministers’ Meeting Focusing on Sustainable Development; and

the 3rd ASEAN-Pacific Alliance Ministerial Meeting.

H.E. Senior Minister Prak Sokhonn will deliver his statement at

the 71st Session of the UNGA under the theme “The Sustainable

Development Goals: a Universal Push to Transform our World”

that the world has been trying to translate into reality in order to

achieve better living standard for all people around the globe, it

added.

In addition, H.E. Prak Sokhonn will also have several bilateral

meetings with foreign ministers and heads of delegation of some

countries, concluded the press release.

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Cambodian Senior Minister H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Japa-

nese Ambassador of Cambodia H.E. Yuji Kumamaru signed here yesterday afternoon the Exchange of Notes and Rec-

ord of Discussions on the extension of Grant Aid up to the amount of 893 million Yen (almost US$9 million).

This grant aid will be for the implementation of the Project for Expansion of Distribution Lines in Southern Economic

Corridor.Under this grant aid programme, the distribution lines of 93.2 circuit kilometres will be built at three different

locations, including Bavet city, Svay Rieng province (37.2 circuit kilometres of 22 kilovolts); Poipet city, Banteay

Meanchey province (39.4 circuit kilometres of 22 kilovolts); and Khemarak Phoumin city, Koh Kong province (14.6

circuit kilometres of 22 kilovolts), said H.E. Prak Sokhonn.

The new distribution lines will contribute with the existing ones in supplying enough energy to local communities and

in reducing the country’s dependence on energy supply from neighboring countries, underlined the Cambodian top dip-

lomat.

By Khan Sophirom

Cambodian Foreign Minister Receives Russian Ambassador


Cambodian Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

and International Cooperation H.E. Prak Sokhonn has met here

last Friday with H.E. Dmitry Tsvetkov, Ambassador of the

Russian Federation to Cambodia. During the meeting, H.E.

Prak Sokhonn highly valued the Russian diplomat for his ef-

forts in contribution to promoting the bilateral relations, friend-

ship, solidarity and cooperation in all sectors between the two

countries.

H.E. Senior Minister recalled the high-level exchange of visit

between both countries’ legislative and executive bodies for the

last two years, including the visit by H.E. Dmitry Medvedev,

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation to Cambodia, and that

by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena

Padei Techo Hun Sen to Moscow, Russia.

In the past two years, Cambodia and Russia have reached 20

cooperation agreements and MoUs in the fields of investment,

nuclear energy, culture, health, media, tourism, fight against

money laundering, justice, law, commerce, national defense,

telecommunications, and so on, H.E. Prak Sokhonn empha-

sised.

H.E. Prak Sokhonn also conferred a honorary decoration on

H.E. Dmitry Tsvetkov.

Cambodia, Japan Sign Exchange of Notes on US$9 Million Grant Aid


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Minimum Wages of Garment Workers To Reach at least US$160 in 2018


Garment, textile and footwear workers will get at least US$160

by 2018 per month, reaffirmed Minister of Labor and Vocation-

al Training H.E. Ith Samheng while receiving the Cambodian

delegation for the 43th Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Pro-

gramme (SSEAYP) last week.

Their current monthly minimum wage is US$140, and that of

2017 is under negotiation, but the amount will increase to

US$160 in 2018, he said.

While the Royal Government of Cambodia has been seeking

job opportunities abroad, around 800,000 Cambodians are

working overseas, mainly in Thailand, added H.E. Ith Sam-

heng, underlining that the unemployment rate in Cambodia is

about 0.7 percent.

By So Sophavy

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