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PM calls on US to revise law
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended himself from critics who claim the massive flow of workers leaving the country is indicative of a lack of development at home, and sought to clarify any misunderstanding on Cambodia’s recent request to amend a repatriation agreement with the ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-calls-us-revise-law
Hun Sen endorses ‘One China’
Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to supporting Beijing’s One China policy during a meeting with a Chinese official, a stance one expert called “obsequious”. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-endorses-one-china
PM: new road could be a runway
Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Defense Minister General Tea Banh to study whether Phnom Penh’s biggest boulevard could be used for emergency plane landings. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37189/pm--new-road-could-be-a-runway/
PM christens school with warnings of war
With crucial local elections around the corner and a national contest set for next year, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday returned to warning Cambodians that a vote for anyone but the long-ruling CPP was a vote for plunging the country back into the bloody ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-christens-school-with-warnings-of-war-125951/
PM warns of media anarchy
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned the media yesterday that he was determined to maintain social order, citing US President Donald Trump’s exclusion of some news outlets from a White House briefing. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35929/pm-warns-of-media-anarchy/
Among world leaders, PM’s Facebook 2nd for engagement
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s time spent posting selfies and broadcasting speeches live on Facebook appears to be paying off, according to a new study that ranks world leaders’ Facebook pages by level of engagement. ...
Matt Surrusco
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/among-world-leaders-pms-facebook-2nd-for-engagement-125590/
Post-Obama, Hun Sen faces uncertain US policy
If it wasn’t already clear, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday let an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos know how he really felt about former U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration’s “pivot” to Asia. ...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/post-obama-hun-sen-faces-uncertain-us-policy-123860/
A budding friendship
A more than hour-long meeting between Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, making his first-ever visit to Cambodia, and Prime Minister Hun Sen ended yesterday afternoon with an aide to the premier offering reporters the typical avowals of “cooperation”. But while the state visit – which included ...
Jack Davies and Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budding-friendship
PM warns workers over protests
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned potential protesters during a speech in front of hundreds of garment workers yesterday, telling the crowd that while it was his duty to make sure investors came and stayed in the country, they had to stop protesting to keep the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32956/pm-warns-workers-over-protests/
Rail link to Thailand on schedule
Cambodia and Thailand will be linked by a railway by the end of 2016 as planned, according to senior official, but some sections of track from Phnom Penh to Banteay Meanchey province remain unrestored. Minister of Public Works and Transportation Sun Chanthol said this week that ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32895/rail-link-to-thailand-on-schedule/
US-Cambodia relations to stay strong
As business mogul and reality television personality Donald Trump was announced as the next president of the United States yesterday, Cambodian political figures called for continued good relations. Shortly after president-elect Trump gave his victory speech in New York yesterday afternoon, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31900/us-cambodia-relations-to--stay-strong/
Two arrested for felling spirit tree
Two Apsara Authority officials were arrested yesterday morning after it was discovered they were in charge of felling a centuries-old spirit tree in Siem Reap province’s Kauk Chak commune on Saturday, enraging residents who had worshipped it for years, according to the provincial governor. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31894/two-arrested-for-felling-spirit-tree/
Hun Sen plays his Trump card
US presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are now on barnstorming tours across the country, making their final appeals to swing voters ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Democratic candidate Ms. Clinton has received an overwhelming number of endorsements from a variety of places, including French ...
Taing Vida and Jonathan Greig
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31678/hun-sen-plays-his-trump-card/
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 ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31627/vietnamese-here-since-french-era--says-pm/
PM: Cambodia on track for high-income status
Extolling forecasts that Cambodia’s economy will maintain its 7 percent growth rate this year, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday reiterated a past prediction that the country would reach upper-middle income status by 2030 and become a high-income country in 2050 – though one expert said ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-cambodia-track-high-income-status
PM: stop renting out border land
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday again ordered Kandal provincial authorities to stop residents from leasing land to Vietnamese farmers, repeating a similar demand from in August. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31542/pm--stop-renting-out-border-land/
US envoy’s appeal won’t spur negotiations: CPP
Prime Minister Hun Sen has no plans to negotiate with his Cambodia National Rescue Party counterparts, a ruling party spokesman reiterated yesterday, following calls for intra-party talks last week by a senior US diplomat. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-envoys-appeal-wont-spur-negotiations-cpp
PM pushes for land dispute resolution
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday pushed officials, relevant ministries and institutions to pay attention and expedite solutions for people in land disputes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31155/pm-pushes-for-land-dispute-resolution/
Government salaries to rise
Prime Minister Hun Sen, ministers, secretaries of state and 2,500 other civil servants and political figures will receive substantial pay rises after the Council of Ministers approved a draft of the 2017 Draft Law on Financial Management on Friday. During the cabinet meeting, Mr. Hun Sen ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31167/government-salaries-to-rise/
Despite the lofty goals of the Paris Peace Agreement, 25 years on, Prime Minister Hun Sen has achieved his own
Amid the winding-down of the Cold War in early December 1987, Prime Minister Hun Sen and Prince Norodom Sihanouk met in the quiet northern French village of Fère-en-Tardenois for their first talks on ending Cambodia’s intractable civil war. It was an overture that opened the ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-always-have-paris-peace-accords-25-years-later
China’s president Xi arrives bearing gifts
Chinese President Xi Jinping is not one to arrive without a gift. On his first visit to Cambodia as head of state on Thursday, he pledged some $237 million in aid, erased almost $90 million in state debt, offered nearly $15 million in military support and ...
Khy Sovuthy, Ben Paviour and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinas-president-xi-arrives-bearing-gifts-119274/
Ministry and PM warn of rain, flooding
Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to people throughout the country, especially those living in lowland and highland areas, to be careful as heavy rain and flooding is expected from Wednesday to Sunday. Mr. Hun Sen issued the warning in a post on his Facebook page yesterday, ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30617/ministry-and-pm-warn-of-rain--flooding/
Loans trickle out to rice millers
Three weeks since Prime Minister Hun Sen approved $27 million in emergency loans to prop up the struggling rice sector, the state-owned bank charged with disbursing the funds said yesterday that it has only granted $1 million in loans, claiming that the number of eligible ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/loans-trickle-out-rice-millers
PM: we can govern alone
Although many jailed political opponents and civil society workers may disagree, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said he has “mercy, compassion, and sympathy” for those who oppose him, telling a crowd of students that the political situation was up to interpretation: those who believe there ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30519/pm--we-can-govern-alone/