Hun Sen's regime supports Viet's mineral exploitation and hydroelectric power plants building in Cambodia so that it can buy back electricity from VN?

CPP Suy Sem shaking hand with Nguyen Tan Dung, the CPP's master

Vietnam and Cambodia boost relationship through electricity agreements

May 27, 2009
VNA (Hanoi)

“These electricity agreements have a strategic and long-term significance, indicating a special friendship between our neighbouring countries”, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting Cambodian Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Suy Sem.

Speaking at a reception in the capital city of Hanoi on May 26, PM Dung was delighted at the result of the meeting between the Cambodian minister and the Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang.

The Prime Minister said that the two ministries needed to implement and expand agreements made in their meeting in order to boost relations in trade, investment and economic co-operation.

Minister Sem informed PM Dung that Cambodia planned to buy electricity from Vietnam through a 220KW transmission line between the two countries.

He said Cambodia would support and accelerate the implementation of projects signed with the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group to exploit minerals, and with the Electricity of Vietnam to build hydroelectric power plants in Cambodia.

Cambodia's increasing dependence on Vietnamese electricity: 400,000 kwh purchased daily

Cambodia Signs New Deal To Buy Electricity From Vietnam

05-27-09

HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Cambodia signed a new contract Tuesday to buy electricity from neighboring Vietnam, Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade said Wednesday.

Under the contract signed between the Vietnam Electricity Group and the Electricite du Cambodge, Vietnam will sell electricity to Cambodia via a 220- kilovolt line from southern Vietnam to Phnom Penh, the ministry said.

The power line has been transmitting 400,000 kilowatt-hours to Phnom Penh daily since May 8, the ministry said, adding power transmission via the line will be raised to 1 billion kilowatt-hours a year in the near future.

Vietnam has been selling electricity to Cambodia via the same power line since 2002, but only to its border province of Takeo.

The new contract signed Tuesday comes after the line was extended to Cambodia's capital city earlier this year.

-By Vu Trong Khanh, Dow Jones Newswires