Cambodian PM refuses report of revenue loss over beer smuggling
The government can't accept a recent report saying it lost over 20 million U.S. dollars annually for tax revenues over beer smuggling from Thailand and Singapore, said Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday.
"The study is a waste of money. It is an unacceptable report," said Hun Sen, while referring to the Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC), an independent economic think tank, who said that Cambodia lost 22 million U.S. dollars for tax revenues over beer smuggling last year.
"Their report aims at blaming the government," he said.
With the lost money, Cambodia can buy enough beer for its people to drink and even have shower with it, he quipped.
The report has been widely published on local media, saying that the smuggled brew accounted for 29 percent of the country's total beer market, far outstripping the legal imports at six percent.
It blamed the boom of contraband beer on weak government and law enforcement.
Source: Xinhua
"The study is a waste of money. It is an unacceptable report," said Hun Sen, while referring to the Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC), an independent economic think tank, who said that Cambodia lost 22 million U.S. dollars for tax revenues over beer smuggling last year.
"Their report aims at blaming the government," he said.
With the lost money, Cambodia can buy enough beer for its people to drink and even have shower with it, he quipped.
The report has been widely published on local media, saying that the smuggled brew accounted for 29 percent of the country's total beer market, far outstripping the legal imports at six percent.
It blamed the boom of contraband beer on weak government and law enforcement.
Source: Xinhua
Ignorant leader has never accepted any mistakes or said thank to other's advice, but replied with raged and illogical responding...
ReplyDeleteHe just said the research aimed to blame government, but he has not showed why it is blamed and why government has not wrong?....he has no ground of intellectual leadership and resolution in handling with all issues especially corruption issue.
So ignorant!
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ReplyDeleteCPP, FUNCINPECK, RANARITH, VIETNAME, CHINA, EVEN AMERICA!
That right, if we lose that much
ReplyDeletemoney on beer, Khmer People will all be drunk half of the time
every year, that is not the case.
12:44AM
ReplyDeleteYou are not different from Hun Sen who is good in sarcasm, but have never looked serviously the sufferings of the innocent Cambodian people...
YOu don't know how much your ministers and colleagues drink a day?
At least, it is almost no national income that make from beer/alcohol import...
Be an intellectual judge MAN!
1:01, thanks for your complement.
ReplyDeleteAs they've said, "great men think
alike." And yes, we know about
millions who is suffering from lack
of jobs. We'll never forgot them
for any moment, which is why we
must eliminate the Oppositions
who abused their tax dollars and
resources for their own benefits.
The resourses saved could be better
channel to fight corruptions and
created jobs for people instead
of nonesense.
And yes, a few of us are a beer
fans but not the entire nation.
2:45AM
ReplyDeleteThere are huge jobs created by opposition party existence especially quota of garment factories aided by USA and EU....so I don't see any reliable excuse from your words to eliminate opposition in order to create job.
You are just another ignorant individual who cannot see the real thing to help Cambodians, but just try to injail them in poverty and your dictatorship regime...
LOL, garment factories was created
ReplyDeleteby oppositions, hahaha, LOL,
hahaha, No bussiness person that
I know off would go to any country
that love to strike every other
month, hahaha, You kill me mate,
hahaha, ROFLMAO, ... . Wake up,
stupid! Keep in mind that
Ah Sam Nazi clearly stated that
they will only created high paying
job; thus, factories jobs is out
of the picture, and we are still
waiting for the high paying jobs.
garment factories wa created by Ah
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Well! If AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave kept denying and how about check his house for those beer can! ahah
ReplyDeleteLOL.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I don't drink much beer. I
say on the average, 10 bottle a
year. I prefered our lightly sweet
and fermented palm nut vine. There
are plenty around my area. We don't
have much beer here because it is
a hassle to keep it cold. Many
people don't the frig.
Before reaction you should find out wether it is tru or not, then you'll you can react or accept.
ReplyDeleteWell, if you know your math and
ReplyDeletereality, you can find out the truth
right on your desk effortlessly.
This guy lost touch with reality. He made decisions based on his mood not reasons.
ReplyDeleteThere is no vision under his leadership. Cambodia is drifting like log. Cambodian children are paying the price. Does he care?