Vietnamese here since French era, says PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday stressed that ethnic Vietnamese have been living in Cambodia since the French colonial period and did not arrive only during his premiership. Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new road in Tbong Khmum province, the prime minister said it was the French who had first encouraged Vietnamese laborers to come to Cambodia to work on the rubber plantations, eventually accounting for 70 percent of all workers in the industry. …
May Titthara
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