Cambodia's Strongman: All talk no action?Hun Sen Wants Trade Balance With Neighbors
By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
05 February 2010
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday urged a balance of imports and exports to countries like China, Thailand and Vietnam.
In 2009, imports from Vietnam and Thailand reached $2 billion each, and $1 billion from China. However, exports to those countries were far lower, creating a wide deficit, Hun Sen said at the inauguration of a new building for the Ministry of Commerce in Phnom Penh.
“At this point, we must push our efforts to encourage investment for export to Asean markets and other important markets like the US, Europe, China, Korea and Japan,” he said.
Cambodia has the capacity to export $4 billion in goods on the world market, Hun Sen said. Cambodia’s economy is led by the garment industry, which accounts for nearly half its exports, followed by agricultural goods such as rubber and corn. The garment industry has been hard hit by the economic downturn, with fewer orders coming in from lucrative markets like the US and Europe.
According to government figures, Cambodia exported $3.6 billion in goods in 2009, down $807 million from the previous year. Its imports reached of total of $5.2 billion in 2009, down $1 billion from the year before.
Nov Sieha, a researcher for the Economic Institute of Cambodia, said Cambodia’s export problems were due to “weak” productivity.
“We lack competitiveness,” he said.
In 2009, imports from Vietnam and Thailand reached $2 billion each, and $1 billion from China. However, exports to those countries were far lower, creating a wide deficit, Hun Sen said at the inauguration of a new building for the Ministry of Commerce in Phnom Penh.
“At this point, we must push our efforts to encourage investment for export to Asean markets and other important markets like the US, Europe, China, Korea and Japan,” he said.
Cambodia has the capacity to export $4 billion in goods on the world market, Hun Sen said. Cambodia’s economy is led by the garment industry, which accounts for nearly half its exports, followed by agricultural goods such as rubber and corn. The garment industry has been hard hit by the economic downturn, with fewer orders coming in from lucrative markets like the US and Europe.
According to government figures, Cambodia exported $3.6 billion in goods in 2009, down $807 million from the previous year. Its imports reached of total of $5.2 billion in 2009, down $1 billion from the year before.
Nov Sieha, a researcher for the Economic Institute of Cambodia, said Cambodia’s export problems were due to “weak” productivity.
“We lack competitiveness,” he said.
30 comments:
This shit head had no clued what he talking about.
What the fuck are you talking about, 4:32?
Do you even know what he was talking about? It is something important that Cambodia must overcome. Stupid people don't know shit but still keep talking. Come on, people.
He will closes the gap by continuing to kill khmer and starves khmer like he did for over 25 years.
This man Hun yuon sen is an angler.
He gets thing done with his anger and dictation from Hanoi.
He is like Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussien.
I just Googled and 95% of Khmer men has small brains. That's why they ran away like rabbits hiding in the USA and France while their country is plundered and raped by the Viets and Siems. All they do is curse and grunt "fuck this, fuck that".
That is how small-brain Khmer men speak. They are truly the most pathetic group of men on the planet.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
To produced more quality product for export, we need to focus to develop on ministry of education, vocational, industry, agriculture on the research to do better performance on their duties.
New Phally
Secretary of State for Ministry of Interior, Advisor for First Vice president National Assembly, CPP Representative in Long Beach, Ca
Well Hun Sen?
Tell us what specific steps is your government going to take to improve the trade gap?
What goods and services is Cambodian going to produce to bring export to $4 billion?
Xen needed to buy more PhD degrees in order to show the world that YUON farmers, rubber plantations, businesses, food products, and etc. in Cambodia can be self sufficient and meet an international standard in order to be exports to the world markets. Currently Khmer people are very poor and homeless how come he is not focusing to improve Khmer standard of living. He is always looking at the sky and wishes at nonsense trading capability to it neighboring country that 50 years in advance technology while Cambodia is still at ground zero.
5:14AM! aH KWACKMAY JUST GIVE OUT PHD TO ALL CAMBODOA STARTE FROM HIS CHILDREN AND BODY GUARDS!
Anonymous said...
What the fuck are you talking about, 4:32?
Do you even know what he was talking about? It is something important that Cambodia must overcome. Stupid people don't know shit but still keep talking. Come on, people.
4:36 AM
4:36AM DID YOU LISRTEN TO HIS SPEACH? IF YOU SAY AH KWACK KNOW A THING YOU MUST BE STUPID OR YOU GET YOUR PhD FROM HANOI TOO!
Can't stand all these hater comments always have something negative to say even though this may be a good policy for cambodia.
I heard people want to organize an organization represent the Khmerrouge Victimes!
One small purpose that sound so loud is about getting compansation as a group or and small token to organize a religion ceremony!
That sound so sad and scary to me!
Today Cambodia people kind of thinking that money can solve anything from get away from raping to muder, to accid attack!
Do we want to send a maasage that what Khmerrouge Victimes want is not justice and thruth but money? Money is more iportant than justice and life?
Mr. Chom Mey the Self called KhmerRouge Victime Who Only Dared to Loook At Duch in Eyes to Eyes, preferes some money and 50% justice!
What is 50% justice ?
Justice for the Camodian now (Since we all victimes) is the thruth of what happening! Since real thruth could never be found or not only just one thruth! we want to hear the lawyers crose exame of who saw or involve with the crime!Specially the higher
rank!
We want this process of justice to teach the next generation of how not to let the crime to be happening against from the point of view of the King down to a poor hadicape citizen!
We want notthing more thant gathering as many thruth as posible. NO money nor imprison any body! But what was wrong who did wrong, and how was wrong!
So the whole country or may be the whole world can create a system that prevent the crime of genocide to happen again any time any where else!
No MONEY for the wrong reason please! our country is corrupted to the core! They are selling justice for money and thing that for peace and forgiveness!
My relative lives can not be replaced by any money! But the thruths that help prevent the evil to strike again any where on earth!!
I heard people want to organize an organization represent the Khmerrouge Victimes!
One small purpose that sound so loud is about getting compansation as a group or and small token to organize a religion ceremony!
That sound so sad and scary to me!
Today Cambodia people kind of thinking that money can solve anything from get away from raping to muder, to accid attack!
Do we want to send a maasage that what Khmerrouge Victimes want is not justice and thruth but money? Money is more iportant than justice and life?
Mr. Chom Mey the Self called KhmerRouge Victime Who Only Dared to Loook At Duch in Eyes to Eyes, preferes some money and 50% justice!
What is 50% justice ?
Justice for the Camodian now (Since we all victimes) is the thruth of what happening! Since real thruth could never be found or not only just one thruth! we want to hear the lawyers crose exame of who saw or involve with the crime!Specially the higher
rank!
We want this process of justice to teach the next generation of how not to let the crime to be happening against from the point of view of the King down to a poor hadicape citizen!
We want notthing more thant gathering as many thruth as posible. NO money nor imprison any body! But what was wrong who did wrong, and how was wrong!
So the whole country or may be the whole world can create a system that prevent the crime of genocide to happen again any time any where else!
No MONEY for the wrong reason please! our country is corrupted to the core! They are selling justice for money and thing that for peace and forgiveness!
My relative lives can not be replaced by any money! But the thruths that help prevent the evil to strike again any where on earth!!
Can't stand all these hater comments always have something negative to say even though this may be a good policy for cambodia.
5:27 AM
HOW GOOD IT CAN BE IF YOU KEEP DRINKING AND GO TO CASINO BEATUP YOUR KID USE THEM TO SEVRVE YOUR DRINKING AFTER MIDNIGHT, GIVE NO MONEY TO BUY BOOKS AND CLOTH AND THAN SAIS LOUDLY TO YOUR KID ' GO TO SCHOOL AND STUDY HARD!"
THAT WHAT AH KWACK DO CAN YOU USE YOUR BRAIN?
4:45AM !
You just Googled and 95% of Khmer men....
You said..Fuck this,Fuck that...
Now Fuck you again and MotherFucker.
Khmer U.S.A.
I just google and notice that 95% of Cambodian males is gay, 60% of them has a small dick and tiny asshole, so they chose to work as whores for the White farang to bang their ass to get a life. If you are a Cambodian and has a bad time with your tiny dick, please consider us at:
www.SamRainsySmallDick.com.us
There are many things that put Cambodia in competitiveness disadvantage.
Starting from the government's weak judicial system, corruption, poor infrastructure, high cost of energy to the private sector lacking of investment capital, short run cut and run business point of view to low human capital.
I have been to Cambodia many times and it is still very difficult for me to work with our own people to get things done the right way. As a Cambodian I already having a hard time, imagine you are a foreigner trying to do business in Cambodia?
Trust is another issue piling against Cambodia economic competitiveness. Remember we can't build anything without TRUST. Without TRUST we will fail. This is one importance thing the government must learn to build. Best wish!!!
Cambodia must continue to work hard to strengthen all key points if they want sounding economic growths and capacity to export.
Like father like son (SKAIR SIEM=SIEM'S DOG):
The Sam Sary Affair
Sam Sary was a Cambodian politician who participated in the so-called Bangkok Plot against Prince Norodom Sihanouk[1]. He was a son of Sam Nhean, a prominent politician in the 1940s and father of Sam Rainsy, presently a leader of the main Cambodia's opposition party. He was a close confidant of the then Prince Norodom Sihanouk but had a fall-out with the Prince when he was exposed in corruption, selling import licenses and a second time during his tenure as a Cambodian ambassador to London in 1958, for beating his impregnated female housemate. He was alleged to have beaten her so badly that she escaped to the protection of the London police. The scandal made headlines in the London tabloids and he was recalled to Cambodia and stripped of all of his duties. [2]He disappeared mysteriously in 1962, presumably killed by the government or CIA agents, whom he was working for.
He was involved in election fraud and intimidations
In January 1958 Sam Sary was appointed by Norodom Sihanouk as Cambodia's ambassador to London, thus extricating him from a scandal involving smuggling of large quantities of high grade Cambodian pepper.[2] According to Time Magazine he brought an entourage of four woman who were his official wife, with their five children, including Sam Rainsy and three mistresses. Six months later Sam Sary was involved in another scandal when one of his female servants--Iv Eng Seng, who bore him a child went to the London police accusing him of severely beating her for "minor mistakes".[2] By other accounts her name was Soeung Son Maly and she used to date Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) later dumping him for more prosperous Sam Sary.[3] Sam Sary was recalled back to Phnom Penh, but not before he had put his side of the story to the British press. He admitted beating his servant,saying:
I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs—-a common sort of punishment in my country.
He argued his right to do so because
the embassy is "Cambodia in London."
After coming back to Cambodia Sam Sary became more and more anti-Sihanouk. Despite the risk of incurring Sihanouk's displeasure Sam Sary started a newspaper, openly critical of the Prince's policies. He tried to start his own political party but without success. His anti-Sihanouk activities were dubbed the Sam Sary Affairs.
Some commentators agree that Sam Sary worked with US Intelligence services, which he might have contacted in 1956 while visiting the US. On 13 January 1959 in speech delivered in Kampong Cham Sihanouk told his listeners that he knew about US intelligence plots to overthrow him. While this speech had not clearly implicated Sam Sary, a week after the speech was delivered he fled to Thailand. After a shadowy existence in exile he disappeared in 1962, probably put to death by his foreign paymasters. 1[1]
5:47PM thank you very much for your honest comment and truthful experience to share with us.
I look at thug/s who are trying to manipulate the forum by posting trashes to confuse people and I laugh my head off. Such incompetence and manipulation skills of the person/s display the dirty and cheap tactics. This shows that Hun Sen Government and Hanoi strategy to infiltrate and manipulate into Khmer forum discussion with full intention of deterrent is finally NOT WORKING and wasting of their budget.
Hey 6:42AM,
You choose the wrong topic to put your comment here. And who care about Sam Sary at this present?
If you want to try to discredit Sam Rainsy, you must try harder to find current facts and faults involving him, not taking his father's dirty laundry of 40 years to brag that you have great manipulation technique.
Please stick to the subject rather side tracking with something does not counted.
5:43Am
He's small but your mom said much
better than your dad and she
alway say thank to him after she
has it.
your uncle
5:47AM, You sound like some1 with sound wisdom. Thank you for posting a professional, intelectual comment in the forum. I Wish more of the members here can do the same.
KI you guys are doing a great job at posting new informative materials...bias at time, but informative. Thanks K-I Team.
4:37 AM
Anonymous said...
I just Googled and 95% of Khmer men has small brains. That's why they ran away like rabbits hiding
I can confirm this!
Most of the men has a big mouth but when it come to results there is nothing they can show.
Just see how the people are working. In the Factory you need 3.000 people to produce and for the same production you need only 1.500 Chinese workers in China. They are not productive, same shit with the houses they build in Cambodia. Most if it is crap, poorly build.
This is a "Wake-Up" call!
Cowards who run away to another country, lazy people with low production at home.
Of course the result is that foreigners do the Business now in Cambodia and the Cambodian People are loosing more day for day.
Its not only the poor people, same story with the rich Cambodian people. With wrong Business decisions the loose money and Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese Business men take over.
How many Aid they got since 1993 from Foreigners? What happened with this money?
I still hear Cambodian who say:
I do not understand why People from other countries are looking down on us.
Its a waste of taxpayers money.
So Cambodians understand that the US Government will from this year do not allow tax exempt from products in Cambodia to the USA.
Cambodian will be equal to China which pay this tax since a long time.
I wait now and see who still will produce in Cambodia!!!
The only argument to produce in Cambodian was the tax exempt in the USA and Europe.
Bye, bye Cambodia
Cambodian People do not need an enemy. There worst enemy are them-selfs!
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What a foolest joke by this stupid jerk!
To increase Cambodia's trade. My suggestion to PM Sen
1. to boost Cambodian hookers for tourists.
2. To increase pot and heroin export.
3. To send more Cambodian slave to work overseas.
4. To cut more trees for export.
5. To sale invite more Youn and Siem to buy land.
6. One more. Stop driving luxurous cars. Damn it you understand!!!
When we learn how to run a rubbish collection service we will then be qualified to run the country.
Hun Sen is a prime minister who clever in economic and he got a lot of certificate without learning. Hahaha Mr. Doctor of economic how about your adviser ThakSin. Did he help you ....may be he think about his power first
export $4 billion 1/3 goes to CPP.
Cambodia gets 25% the rest are CPP.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
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