Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
On Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen told a crowd in Takeo province that if there were to be a new leader who will replace him, the price of lands will tumble from $2 million per hectare to $500 per hectare, this means that if there will not be Hun Sen to lead Cambodia, instability will happen and the price of real estate will tumble. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy called Hun Sen’s declaration as an election scare tactics. Sam Rainsy said economic improvement in Cambodia has more to do with regional development and not from Hun Sen’s leadership. Sam Rainsy told The Cambodia Daily that even if there is a new prime minister, the Cambodian economy will still be good. Mar Sophal, Comfrel monitoring chief, also said that Hun Sen wants to pressure voters by threatening instability. He said that Cambodia has many able figures who can lead the country. However, a foreign business expert said that Hun Sen’s leadership is an important factor in raising the confidence of the business sector.
16 comments:
"...foreign business expert said that Hun Sen’s leadership is an important factor in raising the confidence of the business sector."
Need I say anything more, losers?
High land prices should not be equated with our leadership’s good performance. The opposite is truer. For those who have land for sale are indeed fortunate. They could sell some of their land and become rich. Those who just own enough land for their housing or for cultivation to earn a living but cannot sell it may feel richer. If they borrow money, their credit worthiness is higher. Apart from high land price does not mean much for them. Those who don’t have any land, high land price is a problem when they may not be able to own any house or land.
Casual observations can give some ideas that in some provinces such as Kandal, Takeo, Svay Rieng, Prey Veng, parts of Kampot and Kampong Cham, there is little left for the next generations. Human settlements are the smaller when the powerful and the rich continue to grab land. There are now a small group of people who own hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousand hectares of land. In the 1960s the biggest landholding is 132 hectares in Battambang province. (Each family owned then just less than 2 hectares. Jean Delvert, a French scholar, because of this small land holding, said that there was rural democracy in Cambodia. But yet the Khmer Rouge destroyed that kind of more equal society. Some years ago a Khmer Rouge leader and a more junior Khmer Rouge official told me that the society they had destroyed was better than the present day’s society. I was boiling inside myself when I heard their assessment: “Why did you destroy that society and make so many suffer?” )
Where are the landless, the poor and the next generations going to live? Wise leadership would lower or stabilise land price so the poor can afford to own a house or land. How to lower or stabilize land price? The government should open up new human settlement areas for those less well off to settle and work to earn a living to increase land available for settlement (increase the supply of land). It should tax more heavily any land transaction. It should also tax capital gains from such transactions. It should allow each individual only one land transaction per year to restrict land speculation that has driven land price up. It should restrict bank lending for purchase of land through taxing more heavily the interests on this type of loan.
All the measures above require a clean and effective administration, especially a clean and effective tax administration, which is very much a utopia in Cambodia for some time to come.
Let’s not crow over high land price when such crows mean less chance for the poor and the next generations to own houses and land.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Dr. Lao, one way to stabilize the
land price will be to make more
land. What that mean is the forest
must go. There is no other way,
except for destroying the economy.
Secondly, the only chance that
those few landless people have is
jobs that pay good salary, and the
only way for that to happen is for
us to have lot of jobs. And to have
lot of jobs we need lands;
therefore, again the forest must
go.
Hence, if a lot of people want
fast relief, the government must
concede more lands for development.
Unfortunately, Cambodia is not
hitech ready, which is the only
mean to boost up income and GDP
with the least amount of land.
Thus, we must not thing that
this is the UK, France, ... or
whatever and try to do the
impossible without lands.
Hun Sen statement showed his lack of leadership and his complete ignorance of the economic law.
Noope, that is not what foreign
business experts said.
SECURITY PLAY A VITAL ROLE OF BUILDING ECONOMIC. LOOK AT IRAQ.
INVESTORS WILL NOT PUT MONEY INTO CAMBODIA IF THEY ARE NOT SURE THE OUTCOMES. PEOPLE ARE SCAR TO TRAVEL OR CONDUCT BUSINESSES BECAUSE OF THE SECURITY.
TAKE HUN SEN'S WORDS AS HIS STERN WARNING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAVE TO HAPPEN IF HE DIDN'T WIN.
BE PREPARED TO HAVE EXIT STRATEGY OR TO DEAL WITH HIM THAN SORRY.
I don’t get it. Couple of months ago, Hun Sen mentioned that being a prime minister is not difficult, any one can do it. Now he implied that if he is not in powers in the next term(s) everything will plung into the toilet. This is just an ugly rhetoric by Hun Sen.
Being a CPP for sometime, I wonder when can other CPP replace Hun Sen or give chance to other CPP elite that I support. I like Hun Sen fine, but again looking at the big picture, this country and CPP is being run by one BIG FAMILY and will continue for generations to come. When will it be my son’s turn? I am supporting CPP for a purpose- security today and peace tomorrow and chance for other Khmer youth to lead this country. Old axe is not sharp after long used.
Stop dreaming, 3:42, Hun Sen never
said it is easy to be PM. He wanted
to quit many time, but no one
qualified to do the job.
So Cambodia's life relies only on this man? A Big desater for Cambodia!
Yep, and so far so good, and no
problem is seen on the horizon
either. Thus, we should be okay
for the next 30 to 40 years or so.
Mr. 4:28PM
Let's abandon our obscanturism. Let's follow our ancesters. They embraced what was indian and afterwards built great wonders in the world. Let's explore new ways, new solutions to the problems our society is facing. Samdech Hun Sen is promoting "one viallge, one product." He is trying something new, even if it is imported from Japan.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Okay, but let's stick to Asia,
shall we?
We like to know what other candidates are going to do to convince us that this tactic of scary so created by " Mr. God " in Cambodia is dead wrong?
We strongly believe that a nasty war or confrontation will create by this crazy God also, one he knows is falling off the PM's chair. He'll create hell for Cambodia. Since when, should we take threat lightly?
You should not ignore the warning; however, if you will, please take this as a peaceful (and friendly) gesture to forestall a potential embroiled conflagration yet inevitability, while our beloved country is not impregnable. Therefore, you should pay close attention to various premonitory warnings.
Do you really want a leadership or regime change? Congratulations! You are now with the company of the Nazi Rainsy party.
What does leadership or regime change mean to the kingdom of Cambodia, while everyone is propitiously enjoying the country’s economic prosperity (please don’t pollute the prosperity, or it will traumatize and stigmatize our country)? Will there be a cataclysmic repercussion, if the leadership, in fact, changed? Or will this be a tantamount to (yet another) ‘civil’ war, should Samdech Hun Sen compel by the external force to abnegate from his position?
With all due respect, it is my belief that our country already has enough political civil war, and, of course, we are certainly not looking forward to another (civil) war in the country.
I am unflinchingly underpinned the prime minister’s direction and current policy in the kingdom of Cambodia, and categorically repudiated to have you people [aggressor (s)] or external force repugnantly to have my prime minister abnegated power.
Kounkhmerchheamkhmer@yahoo.com (only CCP hardliner may reply)
Those big words from 11:12p.m are for the birds. I cann't understand any! No wonder there is a confusion everywhere. Plan and simple English is what you should use to morn your sorrow, poop man!
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