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China Spring Issue: 21-28 September 2014 ព្រឹត្តិប័ព្ត្រ័ត្មាន Year: 7 No. 75

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CONTENT:

King and Queen-Mother Re-

turn Home from China PAGE 1

Filipino Ambassador Bids

Cambodian PM Farewell

PAGE 2

VOA Khmer interview with

Cambodian Foreign Minister

Hor Namhong

Cambodia, Australia Reach a

MoU Relating to Settlement of

Refugees in Cambodia

PAGE 3

Cambodia Committed to

Eliminate Blindness by 2020 Cambodia’s Information Min-

istry and China’s Yunnan

Province Reach a MoU on

Media Cooperation and Ex-

change

PAGE 4

Case 002/02 Trial To Com-

mence in Mid-October

Cambodia Attracts US$1.7

Billion Investment Projects

Through ASEAN-China Expo Vietnamese Visitors Stay on

the Top List of Foreign Arri-

vals in Cambodia

PAGE 5

Nearly 70,000 National and

International Tourists Visit

Preah Sihanouk Province

During Pchum Ben Festival PAGE 6 & PAGE 7

……….

to Switzerland

King and Queen-Mother Return Home from China

His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King

of Cambodia, and Her Majesty Queen-

Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk

arrive home this afternoon after spending

about a month for a routine medical

checkup and a visit in China.

The Cambodian monarchs were warmly

welcomed at Phnom Penh International

Airport by National Assembly President

Samdech Akka Moha Ponhea Chakrei

Heng Samrin, Prime Minister Samdech

Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen,

First Vice President of the Senate H.E.

Say Chhum, and many other high-

ranking officials as well as royal family

members.

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To be continued in page 3

Filipino Ambassador Bids Cambodian PM Farewell

Outgoing Ambassador of the Philippines to Cambodia H.E. Noe A. Wong (L, pic. 1) pays here this morning a

farewell visit to Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, at the end of his

diplomatic mission in the Kingdom.

Cambodia, Australia Reach a MoU Relating to Settlement of Refugees in Cambodia

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Cambodia’ Deputy Prime Minister

and Minister of Interior H.E. Sar

Kheng (R) and visiting the Hon.

Scott Morrison MP, Minister of

Immigration and Border Protection

of Australia, sign this afternoon in

Phnom Penh a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) between the

Royal Government of Cambodia

and the Government of Australia

Relating to the Settlement of Refu-

gees in Cambodia.

……………..

VOA Khmer interview with Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong

Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minis-

ter Hor Namhong just gave an interview with VOA

Khmer's Sok Khemra in New York, before addressing

the UN General Assembly on Monday, September 29.

The interview was conducted at Cambodia's permanent

mission to the UN.

In the interview, the Foreign Minister discussed his up-

coming speech to the UN General Assembly; Cambo-

dia's concerns that the ISIS problem could become a

new “Cold War” if not properly resolved; the latest in

the South China Sea dispute; US President's recent

honoring of two Cambodian rights activists; and this

week's controversial refugee deal between Cambodia

and Australia.

H.E. Buth Bovuth (R, pic.1), Director-General of the General Department of Information and Broadcasting

of the Ministry of Information of Cambodia, and visiting Ms. Wu Jingbo, Deputy Chief of the Publicity

Department of China’s Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, sign a Memoran-

dum of Understanding on Media Cooperation and Exchange between the Yunnan Provincial Department of

Information and the General Department of Information and Broadcasting, on Sept. 22 in Phnom Penh un-

der the presidency of H.E. Khieu Kanharith, Minister of Information of Cambodia, and visiting Mr. Ge

Guangzhi, Deputy Director of Department No. 6 of the Information Office of China’s State Council.

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Cambodia’s Information Ministry and China’s Yunnan Province Reach a MoU on Media

Cooperation and Exchange

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Cambodia has been preparing a national strategy to

eliminate the blindness by 2020 in line with the World

Health Organization’s strategy, Dr. Ngy Meng, Direc-

tor of National Program for Eye Health, Ministry of

Health, told local media recently.

“We are preparing a national strategy for 2016-2020 in

order to reduce the blindness rate to the lowest level,”

he said.

Until now, we have human resources and we have es-

tablished eye treatment centers in almost all provinces

and cities, added Dr. Ngy Meng, also Director of

Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.

Cambodia Committed to Eliminate Blindness by 2020

Royal Embassy of Cambodia to Switzerland Issue: 8-14 August 2014

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The Trial Chamber has announced

that evidentariary hearings in Case

002/02 against Khieu Samphan and

Nuon Chea, two surviving senior

Khmer Rouge leaders, will com-

mence on Oct. 17, 2014 at 09:00,

according to the newsletter of the

Extraordinary Chambers in the

Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).

The Co-Prosecutors will be allowed

to make a brief opening statement

and the Accused will be given an

opportunity to respond, before the

first witness will be called to testify

on Monday Oct. 20, it said.

Unless otherwise specified, the

Chamber will sit three days each

week following the same daily

schedule as in Case 002/01, begin-

ning each day at 9:00 am and end-

ing at 4:00 pm with a lunch break

from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm and a

morning and afternoon break as de-

termined by the President, it added.

The schedule will be revisited after

the parties have filed their appeal

brief in Case 002/01, underlined the

newsletter.

The case 002/01, also against Nuon

Chea, 88, former Chairman of the

National Assembly of Democratic

Kampuchea (1975-1979) and Depu-

ty Secretary of the Communist Party

of Kampuchea; and Khieu Sam-

phan, 83, former Head of State of

Democratic Kampuchea, was ended

on Oct. 31, 2013, and on Aug. 7,

2014, the ECCC’s Trial Chamber

indicted Nuon Chea and Khieu

Samphan to life imprisonment.

Two other co-accused, Ieng Sary,

former Minister of Foreign Affairs

of Democratic Kampuchea and his

wife Ieng Thirith, former Minister

of Social Affairs, were also part of

the same case (002/01), but the pro-

ceedings against Ieng Sary were ter-

minated on Mar. 14, 2013, follow-

ing his death the same day.

For her part, Ieng Thirith was re-

leased from provisional detention

on Sept. 16, 2012, and she is cur-

rently under judicial supervision

after being found unfit to stand trial

due to her dementia.

Case 002/02 Trial To Commence in Mid-October

Cambodia Attracts US$1.7 Billion Investment Projects Through ASEAN-China Expo Cambodia attracted over US$1.7 billion investment

deals through the ASEAN-China Expo in the past six

years, from 2008 to 2013, Mr. Ou Prum Vireak, a Cam-

bodian coordinator at the ASEAN-China Expo, told

reporters recently.

“We are now collecting the information for this year as

some business deals have been reached elsewhere,” he

added.

Cambodia’s annual participati0n in the ASEAN-China

Expo is a golden opportunity for Cambodian producers,

traders, businessmen to show and promote their prod-

ucts and services, he underlined.

Vietnamese Visitors Stay on the Top List of Foreign Arrivals in Cambodia

The number of Vietnamese tourists to Cambodia is

still on the lead despite the decrease, followed by the

Chinese and South Korean visitors.

According to a recent report of the Ministry of Tour-

ism, in the first seven months of this year, Cambodia

has attracted some 493,000 Vietnamese, down 3 per-

cent; 318,250 Chinese, up 19 percent; and 267,900

South Koreans, down 0.1 percent if compared to the

same period of 2013.

In total, around 2.54 million foreign tourists have vis-

ited Cambodia during the January-July 2014 period,

an increase by 4.5 percent over the same period last

year, pointed out the report.

Tourism is one of the main drive for Cambodia’s

GDP. In 2013, the country received 4.2 million foreign

tourists, generating a revenue of US$2.5 billion.

Royal Embassy of Cambodia to Switzerland Issue: 21-27 August 2014

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Nearly 70,000 National and International Tourists Visit Preah Sihanouk Province

During Pchum Ben Festival

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National and international tourists visit beaches in Sihanoukville, Preah Sihanouk province. According to the

Provincial Tourism Department, during the three-day Pchum Ben Festival (Sept. 22-24), there were nearly

70,000 national and international tourists visiting Preah Sihanouk province.