Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Time for begging again: Phnom Penh put up a show by cancelling land concession projects with 5 private companies

June 12, 2007
Cambodia cancels land concession projects with 5 private companies

The Cambodian government has canceled the land concession projects with five private companies because they didn't respect the contracts, said Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday.

"Yesterday, I decided to sign a government degree for stopping economic land concession projects with five private companies according to the requests from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries," he said while launching the World Bank's report on "Sharing Growth: Equity and Development in Cambodia."

He didn't elaborate on decision.

"From now on, if any private company receives economic land concession from the government but doesn't respect the agreement, I will order to stop it immediately and withdraw the land," he said.

"We can't prolong the land development project agreements anymore. And we observe other companies one by one and check subsequently," he added.

In the past years, the Cambodian government handed over land concession projects to private companies in order to develop the economy, provide jobs for the people and help reduce poverty.

However, some companies are just unable to finish the projects and leave their lands deserted, thus triggering off wide-spread criticism against the government's decision.

Source: Xinhua

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Vividly so familiar promises, but the barking do no good for many Khmers. Always a promise to change when the changes is short.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen in case you will still with the job for another 5 or forever.

Do you know how to work as a modern management?

You have subbordinate, if your subbordinate do no know how to handle their job (do the same thing wrong more than once) fired them.

You do not to do all the jobs yourself.

Or fired yourself if you so stupid never change, give Cambodian abreak of breaking you stinky head.