(1) On February 1, 2021 – Cambodia launched the construction of a water treatment plant, while in Myanmar there was a coup d’etat On February 1, 2021 […] a memorable event was the news of the coup in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. From here, I declared that we would not comment on it, considering that…
(1) No Pressure to Come Meet Prime Minister; Whoever Joins the CPP Blamed to Be Puppets or Vietnamese; Huge Rice Field, Use Lot of Seeds, Harvest Big Yield; Individual with Cambodia’s National Identity This is not a coincidence, but an arrangement, and there is an agreement between those who have to come, i.e. I have…
(1) Win the battles of Delta, Alpha and Omicron in the Covid-19 War Today, we come together to celebrate the graduation ceremony for the closing courses of 2020 and 2021 of 1733 graduates, and the opening of new training courses for 665 students. We canceled such events for 2021, but we now can organize it…
In addition to the prepared text, Samdech Techo Hun Sen made the following comments: Before I finish this speech, let me take this opportunity to say a little more. Today I want to speak again after my voicemail yesterday to my Cambodian compatriots. The key thing here is I would like to appeal to my…
• […] Ego leads to devastation for officials […] ego and lack of moral on people, would lead to people’s detests of leaders […] there is this saying “the standing up rice panicle shows no graining, bowing panicle certifies graining.” Once you are polite and friendly to people, you will have their loves as there is a saying “staying to make people like, and leaving to make people miss” […]
• […] in any circumstances that factories production suspended because of interrupted supply of raw materials due to spread of Covid-19, (workers of factories suspended productions) would receive in all 60% of their salaries – 40% comes from the factories and 20% comes for the Royal Government. In case the factories closed down, workers would receive 120 USD per month for six months […]
• […] While pursuing the task of dealing with force majeure, there comes two types of officials. Firstly, those who report to senior levels and blame those junior level officials. We must send them to school or put them in certain jobs that requires no high-level responsibilities […] there is this other type of officials who tried to fulfil their tasks and shared bad and good time with those junior level officials […] this kind of officials must reward with higher appointments […]
• […] In leadership and working methodology, it is primarily to organize a good and workable plan ratifying every aspects around. You may refrain from organizing plans that are too ambitious to implement. With a good plan, you needed to set for implementation. As I said earlier, the two steps are not yet suffice. We must be preparing to respond to what might happen besides what we planned […]
Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Diploma Presenting Ceremony of the Royal School of Administration, 25 February 2020
• […] I do not intend to use this forum to criticize Europe. I wanted countries in ASEAN, Cambodia is one of them, to learn lesson from principles of consensus and non-interference in each other’s internal affairs. It was the principle of consensus that unites ASEAN, though it was sometimes difficult to get to a decision. However, it keeps ASEAN away from division since they do not seek to resolve problems through voting […]
• […] ASEAN also has its own initiative on Indo-Pacific concept. We are seeking to synthesize regional initiatives, the belt and road also included […] under the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, India raised its “Look East” view. Now, the government of Prime Minister Norendra Modi talked about its “Act East” policy. We must reach out to this decision. South Korea initiated its Look South policy too. We must in this case synthesize those initiatives in the interest of ASEAN and serve as the center of solidarity between and among states […]
• In the region, there are countries that create Ministry of Science and Technology. I decided to readjust focus of the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft to become the Ministry of Industry, Technology and Innovation. The Minister, HE Cham Prasidh, will lead this work, and seek to amend related laws and by laws at the National Assembly, while redrafting a sub-decree of law on organization and functioning of the Ministry. It will create units that conducts scientific and technological studies and researches […] to cope up with the industry 4.0 era […]
• […] I continue to stand firm on my position to allow no one to lead our nose around and we will not trade national sovereignty with favor or assistance of any form. (That would be lack of value and cheap) should we not be able to implement our laws and act according to what is required by others. Would we be still a country of independence and sovereignty? In the past, we could survive under economic embargo around us, though we had relations only with the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries’ bloc or CMEA, plus supports from Vietnam, Laos, and India. At present, we have many trade and business partners […]
Samdech Techo Hun Sen,
Closing Annual Meeting of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation, 31 January 2020.
Cambodia Forwards, No Backtracking I would take this opportune moment to express my thanks to the speech of Mr. Bretton G. Sciaroni, which illustrates my role throughout the development of the Kingdom of Cambodia. I doubt how many of our foreign friends here would have similar understanding as Mr. Bretton S. Sciaroni. He has been…
Upon arriving at Paris, Samdech Techo shared with over 1,000 people and students who reside and study in France various national issues, which CNV unofficially selected and translated as followed: Cambodian Tradition Uplifts Female Value