Millions more new ID cards required

The General Department of Identification issued some 2.8 million identification cards between January and October as part of an effort to bring a new generation of cards to some 10.9 million Cambodians by 2017.

Khean Sokunthear, the department’s director general, said at a conference on Tuesday that 2,824,532 cards were issued in the first 10 months of the year.

The rollout of the new cards is in three phases: the first saw some 2.2 million cards issued, while the next two are still under way, according to Sokunthear.

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