Cambodian PM: China, India play major roles in world economy [-Hun Xen butter up China?]

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that China and India have played major roles in global economy.

Delivering a speech to students in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen said while the global economic crisis has occurred since 2008 and continued to date, China and India have helped in recovery.

"At this present, Euro currency is in trouble, however, it is fortunate that the economic growth in China and India have helped the world economy," he said.

The premier added that the two giant populated countries which combine about 2.5 billion populations are working hard on their economic growth.

Hun Sen Revealed An Unnamed Lady Who Wanted To Gouge Out His Eye

Rasmei Kampuchea Daily
Translated by Khmerization
To read the article in Khmer click here

Samdech Decho Hun Sen (pictured) has publicly said that an unnamed lady, who stole someone’s husband, has insulted him by saying that she will gouge out his other eye, if her husband wins an election and she has a chance to return back to Cambodia. Despite this, Samdech Hun Sen said that he is trying to eliminate a culture of “when the tide swells, the fish eat the ants, and when the tide recedes the ants eat the fish” (revenge) - meaning that he does not wish to harbour any revenge against anyone.

Speaking at an inauguration ceremony of an Islamic mosque in Russei Keo district near Phnom Penh on the 15th of May, Mr. Hun Sen said that, according to his intelligence, “there is a lady who stole someone’s husband who said that if her husband wins the election and when she returns to back to Cambodia, she will gouge out another eye of Ah Sen (the contemptible Sen)”.

Samdech Hun Sen did not name the lady in question. However, many political observers believe that he was referring to Mrs. Ouk Phalla, second wife of Prince Ranariddh, who is now living in exile with the prince in a foreign country.

Samdech Hun Sen said that he is sad to hear that someone has insulted him in this manner and, as he is also a human being, he regrets to see such a lady (a husband stealer) insulting him in such a manner. He said that in his entire life he has painfully endured and has survived many vicious attempts on his life and sometimes someone spread vicious rumours around that he was already dead. And there was an attempt on my life with rocket attacks in Siem Reap (1998), and now someone wanted to gouge out his other eye, he said. Samdech Hun Sen added that these sort of language means that the person wanted to take his life even before she takes power.

However, Samdech Hun Sen said that he is trying to rid of a culture of “when the tide swells, the fish eat the ants, and when the tide recedes the ants eat the fish” (revenge) and he does not want to take any revenge against anyone. He said that in the past, when Lon Nol (the Khmer Rouge?) took power, they eliminated all Lon Nol’s supporters. He said that he wanted to rid of this culture for the sake of territorial unity with his win-win policy, so that no one will take revenge against anyone, but trying to compete against each other through election.

Hun Sen warns about “case of a colonel husband with a wife as a general”

Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Koh Santepheap newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia, strongly reacted by warning that if the ministry of culture and fine arts does not amend its own constitution, this ministry will still remain under the rule of a mistress. Hun Sen issued this reaction in the morning of 31 July during a ceremony where he presided over the distribution of diplomas to bachelor degree students from the University of Fine Arts (URBA) at the Chaktokmouk theater.

Hun Sen added that, as a prime minister, he needed help from people to carry gifts for his child’s wedding … he then asked for help from the University of Fine Arts because it has students who can help carry the gifts, when he made the request to the minister, a woman who is the mistress (of the minister) ordered whatever she wanted to the ministry of culture and fine arts. Hun Sen said that this is a reason to amend the constitution. If there is no amendment, the government will be a government under the influence of a mistress of a former leader whom Hun Sen declined to name. Hun Sen said that, after a while, the university professors will be under the influence of a fox, but that now, this misdeed has been freed already.

Hun Sen revealed that: “I know the feelings of a number of professors and students who are not happy about this issue, but if they did not follow the order (of the mistress), they are afraid they would be removed. They want to gather the artists (from the university of fine arts) and send them to the Olympic stadium, and not until they (artists) were sent to the SEA Game, at the royal palace, the minister (of culture) did not know about this, and if the minister does not known, the prime minister also does not know. In the past, Funcinpec officials, from the ministerial level down to the under-secretary level, they have been nailed down already.”

Regarding this issue, Hun Sen reminded to all institutions that only the husband is the minister, and his wife is not the minister, this is nothing to be confused about … there should not be any case where the husband is a captain and the wife a major. Hun Sen said that he is not just reminding this to the ministry of culture only, but past experience has shown that a leader’s mistress can shake up the ministry of culture, and in particular, the university of fine arts itself and the art department also.

Hun Sen is also reminding all provinces and municipalities that for all soldiers and government officials, if the husband is the district governor, the wife is not the district governor also, she is the wife of the district governor only, and this should not be confused. Hun Sen warned that proper attitude should be adopted, because it look extremely bad for Cambodians, the legal wives are OK, but the mistresses are extremely bad, and this is the reason he is forced to amend the constitution from 2/3 to 50+1 instead, because otherwise, he will still remain a victim, even the various ministers will be victims, and the deputy prime ministers and the ministers can be threatened with removal as they (mistresses) want. Provincial governors, deputy provincial governors, district governors are being threatened with removal by these mistresses, and they (mistresses) can nominate other (replacement officials) in large number.

Hun Sen said this experience should be considered as a general experience, and the husband cannot be a captain while his wife is a major. Cambodia has this saying since long ago, the husbands are OK, but, the wives, they can order (whatever they want). Hun Sen indicated that in various ministries, such cases are encountered.

Hun Sen said that people should read the newspapers sometimes, because these problems are real, and their publications are not wrong, and sometime people don’t look at it and they do not accept their own responsibility for such cases which are occurring. Officials who have a taste for a high-ranking position, should not become too arrogant … they must not, this is Cambodia, and Cambodians hold the power, they do not allow such misdeeds.