The newly elected Senate President Hun Sen, in a virtual meeting with Vuong Dinh Hue, Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), said that he has set two priorities for the fifth term of the Senate. Senate President Hun Sen also met newly appointed Ambassador of Myanmar to the Kingdom Kyaw Soe Min and his delegation during a courtesy call to the Senate during which the former Prime Minister said he would like to meet with State Administration Council Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
Senate President Hun Sen dismissed the idea that the Techo Funan Canal will facilitate Chinese Naval activity closer to the Vietnamese border in a Facebook post following an article from Singapore’s Straits Times citing concerns from two researchers at a Vietnam state-backed institute.
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Cambodia will deport 700 Chinese nationals suspected of running illegal online gambling and scam operations amid a crackdown on cyber criminals operating out of Sihanoukville, a notorious den for organized crime on the south coast.
The governments of Vietnam and the United States are calling for greater transparency over a $1.7-billion canal project that is being built by a Chinese state-owned firm in southern Cambodia.
