Thursday, December 28, 2006

Another $12.5 mln in debt for you (and me) and our children to pay, courtesy of China

December 28, 2006
China to offer 12.5 mln USD interest-free loan to Cambodia

The Chinese government on Wednesday in Phnom Penh signed an agreement with the Cambodian government to provide an interest-free loan of 100 million RMB yuan (about 12.5 million U.S. dollars) in the next five years to implement the projects already agreed upon by both sides.

Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy Duan Jinzhu and Cambodian Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhun signed the agreement on behalf of their respective governments.

Details of the projects have not been disclosed yet.

The Chinese government has kept providing aids and help to Cambodia without any conditions attached, as both sides are brothers, friends as well as partners, said Duan.

Keat Chhun expressed appreciation for the consistent help from the Chinese government which aims at improving the social and economic development of the kingdom.

The latest loan shows that cooperation between the two countries has made new progress, he added.

According to official statistics, the Chinese and Cambodian governments have signed 10 agreements on economic and technical cooperation since 1994.

Source: Xinhua

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This one loan maybe for the bribe for halting the Khmer Rouge trial. That is why it is not transparency.

Anonymous said...

The Red Chinese are helping themselves by helping AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government!