The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 530
“Phnom Penh: According to a press release of the US Embassy in Cambodia, Mr. Joseph A. Mussomeli, the US Ambassador to Cambodia, will go to check the polling offices in Tonle Bassak Subdistrict today in order to see the process of voter registration there in his role as an international observer for the parliamentary elections in 2008, approved by the National Election Committee [NEC]. The ambassador will check the registration by the subdistrict clerks, the subdistrict chiefs, and the subdistrict council members, while they are receiving the registration forms from new voters. In his role as an international observer, the US ambassador will join with other observers from the NEC and with party agents to check the registration process.
“Besides stating the importance of the responsibility to participate in the elections, which is open for monitoring by outsiders, it is the goal of the ambassador’s action to stress the chance for all Cambodian citizens who reach the legal age [of voting] to use their democratic right to participate in the national elections, which will be held in 2008. The registration for the elections in July next year will end on 20 October 2007. The US Embassy would like to ask all Cambodian citizens who support any party to register for the elections.
“The US Ambassador said, ‘All Cambodian citizens should be proud to use their right to vote. Cambodia had a high percentage of voters in the three national elections so far. Now it is time to vote again in order to show the world that all Cambodian citizens want to select their leaders.’
“Tonle Bassak Subdistrict has garment factories, and with may people resettling, where the NEC assesses that the number of new voters who have the right to register for the elections is approximately 4,168. According to the subdistrict clerks, up to 9 October, the number of voters who registered at the subdistrict office was only 1,320. For the entire country, the NEC stated on 5 October that only 55% of approximately 680,000 new voters, who have the right to vote, have registered for the elections.” Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #6167, 16.10.2007
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Chakraval, Vol.15, #2723, 16.10.2007
- Kien Svay [Kandal]: Man Rapes His Friend’s Wife Twice; He Is Arrested and Brought to Jail by Police
Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #6167, 16.10.2007
- US Ambassador Asks All Cambodian Citizens to Register for Elections
- Woman, Whose Husband Was Drunken, Burns Herself [to death – Chamker Leu, Kompong Cham]
- If the Cambodian People’s Party Wins Elections, the Royal Government Will Increase Salaries by 20% [says Hun Sen meeting with teachers and students in Phnom Kravanh district, Pursat]
- Taiwanese Man Arrested for Trafficking Heroine from Cambodia [Phnom Penh]
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.14, #3286, 16.10.2007
- US Ambassador Becomes Election Observers, He Calls on Khmer Citizens to Register for Elections in Order to Select Their Leaders
- Khiev Samphan Affirms that Yuon [Vietnam] Wanted to Govern Cambodia and Planned to Put Cambodia into an Indochina Federation
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4411, 16.10.2007
- Samdech Krom Preah [Norodom Ranariddh] Asks Samdech Euv [Father King] to Help Him after He Has Lost at the Appeals Court
- [More than 100] Trapeang Krasang Villagers Ask Samdech Hun Sen to Help to Find Justice [over land dispute – Angk Snuol, Kandal]
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