(Photo: Reuters)Cambodia Considered A Successful Post-conflict Country - PM
PHNOM PENH, Sept 4 (Bernama) -- Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said Saturday that his country is considered as a "successful post-conflict country", reports China's Xinhua news agency.
Giving speech at the forum on 2010 Asialink Conversations- Cambodia, Hun Sen said that Cambodia can be considered as a successful post-conflict country, as the reforms and economic growth plus other development schemes and plans are on right track.
He said, after the post conflict that only ended in late 1990s, and with the support from development partners and the private sector, Cambodia has made giant strides in development in the last decade.
With the return of full peace in 1998, a sense of confidence and pride pervades the country, a feeling that bodes well for birth prospects for economic growth and job creation and a concrete vision of a promising future.
"Since then, the Cambodian economy has undergone a dramatic and rapid transformation. Economic growth during 1999-2003 averaged 8. 8 percent, and although official development assistance(ODA) continued to finance growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) particularly investments in garment and tourism, was key to promoting growth," he said.
Hun Sen said that with the implementation during the last 5 years of the public financial management reform program, government revenue more than doubled from 2,220 billion riels (US$553 million) in 2004 to 4,928 billion riels (US$1.2 billion) in 2009.
In 2009, the gross domestic product experienced a positive growth, though very small, as agriculture and services sector maintained robust growth, he added.
On the per capita income, Hun Sen said since 1993, Cambodia's gross domestic product (GDP) increased fourfold from US$2.4 billion in 1993 to US$10.3 billion in 2008, and during this period, per capita income has more than tripled from US$229 to US$739.
The prime minister also expressed his optimism over the Asia's growth despite global economic recovery remains fragile.
"Although the global recovery remains fragile, we can see the positive signs of the recovery of the world economy," he said.
"We expect growth in Asia excluding Japan in 2010 to be around 7 percent."
Giving speech at the forum on 2010 Asialink Conversations- Cambodia, Hun Sen said that Cambodia can be considered as a successful post-conflict country, as the reforms and economic growth plus other development schemes and plans are on right track.
He said, after the post conflict that only ended in late 1990s, and with the support from development partners and the private sector, Cambodia has made giant strides in development in the last decade.
With the return of full peace in 1998, a sense of confidence and pride pervades the country, a feeling that bodes well for birth prospects for economic growth and job creation and a concrete vision of a promising future.
"Since then, the Cambodian economy has undergone a dramatic and rapid transformation. Economic growth during 1999-2003 averaged 8. 8 percent, and although official development assistance(ODA) continued to finance growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) particularly investments in garment and tourism, was key to promoting growth," he said.
Hun Sen said that with the implementation during the last 5 years of the public financial management reform program, government revenue more than doubled from 2,220 billion riels (US$553 million) in 2004 to 4,928 billion riels (US$1.2 billion) in 2009.
In 2009, the gross domestic product experienced a positive growth, though very small, as agriculture and services sector maintained robust growth, he added.
On the per capita income, Hun Sen said since 1993, Cambodia's gross domestic product (GDP) increased fourfold from US$2.4 billion in 1993 to US$10.3 billion in 2008, and during this period, per capita income has more than tripled from US$229 to US$739.
The prime minister also expressed his optimism over the Asia's growth despite global economic recovery remains fragile.
"Although the global recovery remains fragile, we can see the positive signs of the recovery of the world economy," he said.
"We expect growth in Asia excluding Japan in 2010 to be around 7 percent."
52 comments:
it is ignorant to say cambodia depend on foreign aid. you ever heard of diplomacy. in diplomacy, nations help other nations in the world. so, stupid KR destroyed cambodia, so the world is now helping cambodia to get back up, that's all! study international law, diplomacy, etc and you will understand why foreigners are helping a country like cambodia. and for cambodians, we must call for reforms in social field, education, changes, etc. and stop that useless blaming others for the country's problem. i blame it on ignorance and isolation of the past. now cambodia is doing much better, but could be better still, really! wake up, people! if you are coward, step aside and don't interfere with those who are brave, take risks, intelligent, educated, smart, etc..., ok! god bless cambodia.
Hun Sen is nothing more but a mafia boss and Cambodia is his neighborhood that he rules and calls his own. Perhaps when Hun Sen builds the tallest skyscraper in Phnom Penh, many Cambodians will take the elevators to get to the observation deck on the highest floor. There, Cambodians can look out at a 360 degrees panoramic view of such a tiny nation and see massive deforestation, people living on landfills, beggars everywhere, police beating up their own people and fat CPP politicians picking up 12 year old girls in their SUV, and hundreds of Vietnamese crossing into Cambodia at a Cambodia-Vietnam border that appears soooo close than ever.
Then, most Cambodians will realize the misery and jump off from the top floor to their death.
hey skyscrapers are not invented or made for that purpose, ok! don't be so cynical in life, ok! go see a psychiatrist or psychologist for a life changing experience, ok!
i want cambodia to be a successful post-war country like japan after world war II. cambodia can do this too. god bless cambodia.
successful you mother fucker . people got no jobs, no place to live and no land to farm because you took it away and gave it to the developing companies and thats what you call successful ? thousands of people have to go find jobs in other countries because your government can't create jobs for the people . you and your clowns need to step down and let others lead the way because you guys have no ability to lead.
1:26 AM
If cambodian don't depend on foriegn aid , who do they depend on right now ? Who give them hundreds of millions dollars every year ? Stop blaming Khmer Rouge because Khmer Rouge regime has been gone for years now . Blaming the guy who dont know how to run the country but want to be the leader.
1:35 AM I CAN FLY HIGHER THAN EAGLE!
I wouldn't be so bold to say that Cambodia is a "successful post-conflict country". I consider Cambodia to be more of a STRUGGLING THIRD WORLD, SUB-FRONTIER-MARKET BASED POST-CONFLICT COUNTRY.
Listening to Hun Sen speak and boast makes me want to vomit.
Hun Sen is a strong leader in sucking Khmer blood and selling Cambodia. Country hasn't has war last 30yrs+. It doesn't mean Sen has good vision for the country or he has a good leadership but because the thief has had what they want and also they have a good DOG whom willing to do anything for the position. Remember there is always the different and fight in the family but when they has the outsider get involve then the killing will happen.
people are pessimistic; when they are pessimistic, it is easy to control them. wake up, people; don't be too serious in life, have some fun sometimes; travel the world and you will learn from the world, really!
history has shown us that we are better when we have this giant shift. get out of your comfort zone in order to make a real difference in cambodia!
Khmer people called Hun Sen to sign from the post of prime minister as soon as posible or the country will fall into poorer and poorer every day... Hun Sen is not the man to fits the country leader!
but, more likely to fits as the gangster, mobster and mafia... look at him....
You can call or label me what ever you want but to the time to chose who to control me, I am rather have under Khmer than under SAMERE. Don't get me wrong, I rather to have Khmer be free to chose their own destination.
Cambodia is a "successful post-conflict country"
=Well just look around Cambodia and tell me what do you see? There are too little change to make a comment! Cambodia is just another third world country that governs by the same third world leaders for the past 30 years! To me Cambodia is just the same old third world country and it has yet to catch up with rest of the world!
For all the progress and it should be translate into higher standard of living, good education, good healthcare system...
The only way to change Cambodia from the third world country to the first world country is to change the mentality of the Cambodian leaders and Cambodian people!
Don't be so stupid. Even Israel still receiving foreign aid from the US and EU. What's wrong for Cambodia to be successful and still receive foreign aid. I say keep on receiving as long as they continue to give, nothing is wrong with that!
I am Hun Sen. I am entitle to my opinion. The rest of you opinionated KI Media bloggers can say what you want. If you think you can do better come, roll up your sleeves and rebuild Cambodia together.
Well 7:44AM,
What you are saying is that nothing's wrong to be a sucker, isn't it? Are you a sucker 7:44 AM?
In America tere is a saying that goes - a sucker is born every minute. Obviously, you are one of them, again, aren't you?
Somnawk
there is a saying*
OK 7:31 AM,
How would one propose to do it when the leaders are controlled by foreigners specifically the Viet and Khmer People are being oppressed by the Viet controlled regime???
Entertain us please - Thanks.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
In the next 10 to 20 years, the progress on social life, education, job, infrastructure will comsiderably improve, as we must united to rebuilt our motherland together.
New Phally
We must united to rebuilt, New Phally???
What's the heck do you mean by that - grammatically and/or otherwise???
Elaborate that for us - even in Khmer if you can, please???
New Phally, if you let CPP lead the way for the next 20 years , Cambodia will be just like Kampuchea Krom right now.
7:44 AM
You are so stupid to compare Israel to Cambodia. Cambodia is begging for foriegn aid . Does Israel beg for foriegn aid too ? The United States sends military aid to every democratic country in the world , not just Israel.
If you look at the pictures in the next news article , does it fit what Hun Sen said about Cambodia ? Cambodia has been successful for the poor to find the dump , that's what he meant .
New Phally , In the next 10 to 20 years, the progress on social life, education, job, infrastructure will comsiderably improve ? Hun Sen and CPP have been in charge in the last 17 years and thousdands of families have lost their land to the rich and the powerful people . Can you imagine what it will be like in the next 20 years under the controle of Hun Sen and CPP ?
Look! behind Hun Sen are all Vietcong.
Yes the country might be improving but The money in the corrupt govenment official's pocket even improved alot more then the country itself.The law getting no where.
Cambodia Town
Long Beach, Ca
The ordinary Cambodian life will be better in futur, except Sam Rainsy Party member, MP will be worse, reduce to minimum capacity.
New Phally
Most of the development and construction you see in Phnom Penh today only benefits the foreign companies that invested their money and the CPP tycoons & their families that either leased the land for these companies or have shared holdings in the investments. You might see some lower level jobs being positioned out to the ordinary Cambodian university graduate but not so many. If one goes throughout Phnom Penh today, you will see many poor families resorting to begging & scavenging the rubbish bins, university graduates without jobs, and lawlessness amongst the kids of Cambodia's elites. As for the city itself, it lacks many of the simplest modern infrastructure like a proper sewage system and storm water drainage is non-existant. Aside from the waterfront area, Monivong Blvd and the other major roads, Phnom Penh is pretty much in shitty condition. Urban planning in Phnom Penh is TERRIBLE....there's no consideration of the environment and no consideration of the future population and its needs.
If Phnom Penh is this bad....can you even begin to imagine the rest of the country?
my god some people just find everything to complain about cambodia. get a life for a change already! they complain about cambodia wanting to have skyscrapers, they complain about cambodia hire the best foreign firm to build one, they complain about everything! what the hell is wrong with these individuals always bitching and whining about everything cambodia does or want to doing. haven't they get educated about the world co-dependent on one another. nothing wrong with hiring the best foreign firms to build skyscrapers, airports, highways, railways, etc in cambodia! every country on earth hired foreign firm to build their skyscrapers; take malaysia for example, they hired the best american engineer firms to build the patronas towers, etc; and ignorant khmer frog in the well mentality complain already without study and understand how the world operate and so on! wake up, people. watch the discovery channel, the history channel, the national geographic channel, the learning channel, the health channel, etc to learn about the world, ok! for your information, nothing wrong with cambodia seeking the best foreign firms such as korean, japanese, american, british, german, australian, chinese, etc, to help cambodia design and build our skyscrapers, highways, railways, bridges, gov't buildings, etc, ok! be smart! there are more to cambodia than you and i, really!
11:01 AM,
you "really" make people sick of your "really" word there, really. People don't give a shit about your comment there, really!!!
people who bitched and complained here failed to realize that life in cambodia still goes on with or without you, the whiners! i, too, don't think anything is wrong with rich countries on earth given financial assitance, technological assistance, education, etc to cambodia. if you think otherwise, maybe you're too ignorant to understand the world, and perhaps too arrogant and too outdated in your frog in the well mentality and so forth. cambodia today, unlike the past, embraces all reforms, changes, assistance, education, freedom, rule of law, national construction, paradigm shift, etc... if you disagree, you're too ignorant and probably not well educated, really! wake up, people. nothing is wrong with receiving aid from america, the eu, australia, japan, korea, china, israel, iran, or the opec nations out there, etc, ok!
hahaha...11:13 AM is "A SUCKER" ...Bravo!!!
I like 1:35am. It looks that way. Srok chkout keu srok Khmer. Many Cambodian hate or dislike their own country because of the hun sen government. He opens great opportunity to his family, friends and foreigners who had money to give to him only. The very own people he represents, got zero. This attitude came down the latter. A white guy who married Cambodian woman and went to the restaurant , but only him got V.I.P treatment. Surprise! and his wife was treated like a nobody. All because the ignorant didn't know that she was his wife. This is the attitude that All khmer should know about Cambodia and business people inside Cambodia and how they treat Cambodian. It's Cambodia under Hun Sen for you and beware when visiting the country. Buy food to cook at home and enjoy them with your family. Leave leave the restaurant alone and save your $$$ for something else. Let them sell it to the bird.
you shouldn't trust their food anyway. they are mostly cooked by youn.
Beggar at any levels is still beggar no matter how it is called, and our current society in Cambodia has become a beggar society. From our homeless to our ordinary citizens to our politicians, the people in Cambodia beg… no matter how rich they are. A beggar society will always be frown upon, and will always be treated liked second class. For the pass several hundred years, all of our so called friends treated us liked subordinate than friend because they give us gifts or donations. As a proud Cambodian, I wish more of our people in Cambodia would live by Thomas Jefferson quote “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees”. This is about taking pride in our achievements based on our efforts rather than others.
11:01 AM...
Try again, because you FAILED.
There's a syndrome amongst people like you who perceive themselves to be very open-minded and culturally inclined, but yet are only fooling themselves and making a mockery of their own selves. You ABSOLUTELY don't understand anything below the tip of the iceberg concerning Cambodia and perhaps the world itself.
It's people like you that in 1975 don't know shit and actually walked outside of your house to bring flowers and cheer alongside the Khmer Rouge with smiles as they marched into Phnom Penh.
What is my failure here? Every times I visit Cambodia I encountered this situation. People at all levels begging for money. You can call it asking or corruption. I called it begging. As for the Khmer Rouge, they begged from the Chineses and, at one point, the Viet. From Sihanouke to Lon Nol to Pol Pot to Hun Sen to Sam Rainsey, they are all beggers
Among 193 countries richest and poorest in the world,Cambodia is# 130 .The GDP is 29,240,000,000.If the State of Cambodia is free,Khmer people is so happy;Khmer is under Vietnam that make a lot of blog writers here very upset with Hun Sen and his clans.I would support the ones who are not supporting Hun Sen as well as his clans,and condenming Vietnam govt that is taking advantages at this time.Vietnam must get out of Cambodia,no Vietnamese soldiers hiding in rubber plant fields seven provinces in Khmer land,specially six million Vietnamese illegal immigrants must move out as soon as possible.All Khmer tell Yuons so.
"Cambodia can be considered a successful post-conflict country?"
Based on what factors that make Cambodia economically strong and successful? Is it the funding from donor nations that enables Cambodia to survive since the end of the conflict? If so, how could the prime minister make such a shameless statement when Cambodia has been living off foreign aid? Another issue is the KR tribunal funding from world nations has been lacking, and so the Khmer government threatens to dissolve the KR trial many times. Besides foreign aid, the poor gets evacuated from their homes to make way for developing businesses; and they have been sent to live in tent city where disease and sanitation continue to ruin their life. The Phnom Penh streets are swamped with thousand of beggars. Is Cambodia a successful post-conflict nation? Only the dumb as a rock prime minister would say yes to this question.
12:40 PM
It's a pity you cannot see your failure. All you can do is promoting your trade marks: "enough already, really, OK, wake up people! blah...blah...blah.
I love reading your comments when you are stumbling with collusion ideas of yours. Keep trying to please who ever you want to please but don't confuse readers with your style to turn to GOD when you are stumble.
Yes there are plenty of whiners in this blog. They complain just about everything, Hun Sen, the Yuon, the Seim, and the Khmers. And yes they love to curse.
Sometimes I try to picture what these whiners look like, male or female, young or old, educated or ignorant.
STOP WHINING! People are sick of hearing it.
I wish I can blame everything wrong in America on Obama, or Bush, or Clinton before him. But that would be stupid of me because not every problem in America can be solved by the government.
And that is true in Cambodia. Hun Sen cannot solve every problem facing Cambodians. The deeper issue is Cambodia is facing moral, and social upheaval. Cambodia problem is Cambodian mentality.
Every time you accuse Hun Sen, you are giving him more power than he really has because you're looking up to him for resolution to problems that are much bigger Hun Sen himself. So stop assigning too much power to Hun Sen.
good point, 1:35pm, we can say the same with calling cambodia youn colony which is not true! cambodia is not youn colony. that thinking is so frog in the well mentality because the individual who claimed so is under-educated to keep up with the world and cambodia, really! it is not giving power or credit to youn. again, you don't promote youn in cambodia; so, by keep repeating that cambodia is youn colony, etc, you are giving power to youn; then you wonder why? that is not smart! if you hate youn, say so, but don't try to paint picture of cambodia as youn colony, then you ironically given youn more power to steal from cambodia. hey, this is not the dark ages era, ok! be smarter than that, ok!
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Hey, I would STOP COMPLAINING when the day comes that Hun Sen and the CPP are wiped off the face of the Cambodian landscape. Until then, I will keep on complaining. Also, I just want to say that I DO NOT LOOK UP TO HUN SEN AND I DO NOT EXPECT HUN SEN TO SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM FACING CAMBODIA. Hun Sen to me is a worthless waste of space and he is so incompetent and corrupt that I would not even want him to dare touch and try to resolve any of Cambodia's problems. It's better that he vanishes from sight and allow other more capable people to take over the position of prime minister.
Sir Really, really?
3:22PM,
Rightly or wrongly you just have utter contempt for Hun Sen. Hun Sen will not vanish by people's complaining.
Hun Sen is in charge of the country now and there is no credible power on the horizon to remove him by force whether you like it or not.
On the other hand Cambodia could be worst than she is now, like North Korea, or Burma. People are starving in North Korea and Burma is ruled by the military iron fist.
In Cambodia right now there is enough room for freedom in many areas, and free market economy. If someone want to make a difference in Cambodia socially, or economically there is opportunity for that, albeit under a corrupt government. You cannot do that in Burma or North Korea.
The fact is we are more comfortable complaining behind computer monitor rather than put our hands to do something that is positive.
5:36 PM
Stop showing your ignorance and stupidity . You better wake up to reality .
Some people are so dumb , they can't even tell the difference between whining and criticising . People who criticize Hun Sen are making at least 100 dollars a day, they got nothing to whine about but the criticize Hun Sen for his leadership. The man who got very little education but wants to be a Prime Minister .
While Sadam Husein was in power he thought he was on top of the world and no one could get him, look at where he is now. Hun Sen is thinking the samething right now .
6:01PM,
Speak for yourself!
6:51 PM
Everyone is speaking for themselves according to how they feel about the story they have been reading . If you dont speak for yourself , who do you speak for ? Hun Sen ?
I am wondering if you know what you are trying to say.
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