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| The site where the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk will be cremated in February begins to take shape in front of the National Museum in Phnom Penh yesterday. (Siv Channa) |
Late King Sihanouk’s Cremation Site Will Cost $5 Million
December 17, 2012
By Colin Meyn and Mech Dara
The Cambodia Daily
Construction of the site for the cremation of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk will cost a whopping $5 million, a member of the Royal Cabinet said yesterday.
“The Royal Cabinet has not been involved in planning the cremation, but I have been told that it will cost about $5 million just for the building,” said Prince Sisowath Thomico, the spokesman for the Royal Cabinet and former assistant to the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
Phnom Penh municipal spokesman Long Dimanche said that the Ministry of the Royal Palace had taken charge of the cremation site construction.
However, Ieng Panhaka, a senior minister at the Ministry of the Royal Palace, said he knew nothing about the construction of the cremation site, or how the events around the late King Father’s cremation would be organized.
Vispan Co. Ltd., which is owned by Kong Panya, the daughter of Kong Sam Ol, Minister of the Royal Palace, is one of the companies involved in the project.
“Our company is providing the workers to build the cremation site for King Father Norodom Sihanouk,” said Vispan architect Kim Eng.
Hundreds of laborers, many wearing Vispan T-shirts and lanyards, were working at the site yesterday, where metal supports have begun to form a skeleton of the buildings that will form the center of the late King’s cremation ceremony.
Architectural plans for the site seen yesterday show a central spire in which the late King Father is to be cremated in February.
The spire will be surrounded by a 10-meter-deep sheltered viewing area stretching about 100 meters by 100 meters inside Veal Mean, the park in front of the National Museum. The plans also show a number of smaller buildings to be constructed inside the temporary complex, and a new fence will be built around the park.
The late King Father’s cremation site is not the first government building project in which Vispan has cooperated.
In a keynote address to mark the inauguration of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Peace Palace building in October 2010, Mr. Hun Sen thanked Mr. Sam Ol for overseeing the construction of the building and noted that Vispan was among the two Cambodian companies that had worked on its construction.
8 comments:
My beloved Khmers' blood, please be very careful during our King cremation. Hun Sen may use a trick to kill you with the dead King. Remember 2010, the Diamond's Brig when people killed... MC Hammer
Add another $5 million for retractable roof in case there is raining.
Wonder when Hun Sen's father dead will he use this site too? Can someone tell me?
The site actually cost only 500 reil.
The rest of the cash will go to karaoke bar, land cruiser, villas.
Where will holy fire come from?
Throw that mother fffff gook's king in the river for fish to eats his corpse! Don't wastes money for useless gook's king....What's a dumb fuck cpp gook's waste money for nothing...mummabal already took his stupid soul chain up in hell why waste too much money?
There thousands of hungry and sick children in the country right now. Feed and care for them, don't waste the money.
It is true ! this is the corruption
tictac that the current government has been done all along. They own and associate with all companies in and out of cambodia so they should
have shares of those benefits absolutely.
Every businesses in Cambodia all are belonging to the CPP party members including law firms and courts. Some of law firms and judges should also share their own benefits that they earned to that evil party members as well.
Any company or firm is unable to comply with this corrupted rule
it should be unable to doing business in Cambodia, it is get rid of eventually.
That is a shame that our country is led by the evil, demon party people; it must be eleminated soon.
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