The Interior Ministry has issued more than six million new electronic identity cards throughout the country and plans to issue a total of 10 million by March, officials said on Monday.

 “We will provide new identity cards only to people from 15-years-old and above,” said Kheang Sokunthea, director of the Identification Cards Department at the Ministry of the Interior. He said citizens would still be able to use the old cards to vote in the 2017 commune elections and the 2018 national election.

But some elderly residents of Kampong Cham province refused to comply with the provincial authorities’ move to hand out the new cards, according the National Police website on Monday.

Major General Ben Roth, Kampong Cham provincial police chief, said about 5 percent of 842,000 eligible people di not want a new ID card because of their age.

From Khmer Times