Prime Minister Hun Sen blasted unnamed analysts for statements indicating
their desire to bring the Paris Peace Agreements back into force somehow. He
said that calling for a reversion to that agreement was tantamount to
calling for foreigners to take control of the country again.
To one side is state land Prime Minister Hun Sen recently transferred to
his daughters. To the other is land given to a three-star general in Hun
Sen’s bodyguard unit recently promoted to be his assistant, as well as to a
notorious tycoon, the late Suy Sophan.
Prime Minister Hun Sen took serious umbrage to criticism his government has
faced for filling lakes throughout the country and justified the moving
around of ministries, even as recent sub-decrees show the government
privatizing a large swath of Koh Kong’s forests and two pieces of Boeng
Tamok lake. He said people who criticised the authorities’ response to flash
flooding in Phnom Penh were jealous of the government’s development, saying
it was not due to the fill-in of lakes but torrential rain that prevents the
timely release of water
The Kingdom’s National Assembly (NA) and Senate will host the 11th
Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting (ASEP11) virtually on November
16 with the theme of Strengthening Parliamentary Partnership for Peace and
Sustainable Development in the Era of Covid-19 and Beyond.
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Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has set up a committee to investigate how
seven male inmates escaped from Stung Treng Provincial Prison in Preah Bat
commune’s Bachong village of Stung Treng province’s Stung Treng town at
about 3am on November 8.
