By Joyce Pañares
Manila Standard Today
Jakarta—Cambodia has offered to sell rice to the Philippines at lower prices if the country will pour in investments in their agriculture sector as well as allow direct flights from Phnom Penh to Manila.
Cambodia made the offer during the bilateral meeting betweenPresident Aquino and Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday, Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office head Ramon Carandang said.
“Cambodia said some of the rice we are buying from Vietnam also comes from them. Their problem is they do not have enough storage facilities and we do not have direct flights between our countries,” he said. “We will be studying their proposal. This will certainly result in lower rice prices because we remove the middleman, so to speak.”
Mr. Aquino also had bilateral meetings with Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Mr. Aquino raised the issue of South China Sea cooperation and maritime security in his meeting with Dung.
He earlier called on other Asean leaders to transform the “potential flashpoint” in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea into an area of cooperation and freedom.
Of the 10 Asean member-states, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines have claims over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.China and Taiwan are also claiming the mineral-rich archipelago, and all claimant-countries except Brunei have military presence in the area.
Thammavong, on the other hand, has asked Mr. Aquino to make a state visit to Laos soon, Carandang said.
Mr. Aquino’s next foreign trip will be to Thailand and Brunei for separate state visits by the end of the month.
10 comments:
Stupid Hun Sen government...dont know shit about business just know how to do corrupted and take bribery business. same shit go with woods..take from Cambodia and sell it back to Khmer people by vietnams.
This trade or direct fly will allow alot Khmer girl work as go go dancer there in Manila. Hun government dont know how to do businesss as international...just it own country and killing it people.
Khmer farmers are dirt poor because of a stupid PM. They are not recognised by their hardwork by their government. That's ashme.
I don't whether you guys who know bushiness can help Cambodian more than Samdach Hun Sen.. talk without action is useless...
i love cambodian rice, it is better than siem rice or youn rice, really!
1:28AM! let kick ah Kwack hun xen out and see what action other Cambodian cand help the country in real free world democracy!
Why do we have to ship our rice through Vietnam? Let's sale it directly to the consumers.
Why do we even do this? Please let our farmers get rich by selling the same price as it is on the market. Don't drop the price!!
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer every day.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Koh Tral was a Cambodian island, and technically and legally, remained a Cambodian island until today.
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
The new policy of Hun Sen regime today is to kill all Ex Khmer Rouge because they are the true Khmer patriot that can be harmful to Hun Sen regime as Vietnam slave.
Hun Sen regime sends all Ex Khmer rouge soldiers to frontline fighting with Thai army without enough weapons and foods. Hun Sen ordered the front line army do not fire back to Thai Army while they bomb Ex Khmer Rouge over 50 000 shells. These actions are representing very clear that Hun Sen is trying to clear or kill all Ex Khmer Rouge army by using Thai hands.
The true and real Khmer patriots are the enemy of Hun Sen regime. Vietnam is scare of Ex Khmer Rouge Soldiers as they have been defeat Vietnam army (Over 100 000 Vietnam soldiers have been killed by EX Khmer Rouge Army in Cambodia. That is lead to Vietnam withdraw out of Cambodia) before 1993.
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