Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cambodia says Bangladesh keen on annual rice deals

PHNOM PENH Jan 10 (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that Bangladesh had offered to buy 200,000 tonnes of rice a year and that talks were resuming on exporting grain to Guinea.

Speaking at a university graduation ceremony in the capital, Phnom Penh, Hun Sen said talks were also continuing with the Philippines and Malaysia over rice exports.

"I agreed to sell rice and send experts to Guinea but it was stopped by the coup d'etat there," Hun Sen said. "Now we want to resume."

The West African state held elections in November after almost two years of military rule and a government is being put in place.


Cambodia has offered to sell 100,000 tonnes of rice a year to the Philippines, the world's biggest rice buyer, but no deal has been reached yet.

Thon Virak, director general of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade, told Reuters the government had asked him to prepare for further talks with Bangladesh.

"I've been told to prepare paperwork for further discussion," Thon Virak said, adding that Guinea was looking for about 20,000 tonnes a year from Cambodia.

Cambodia introduced a policy last year to boost rice exports, including the development of a credit guarantee scheme.

It is targeting annual exports of 1 million tonnes within five years, a dramatic increase from the current volume of about 20,000 tonnes of milled rice. Much of its output goes over the border to Vietnam to be milled and then re-exported.

(Reporting by Prak Chan Thul; Editing by Alan Raybould)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Open letter to UN and the world community!
It is about Hun Sen of Cambodia.
You all have ambassador or representative in Cambodia! Most of your ambassadors and representative do not understand Cambodian but you have Khmer translators in your disposal. Please using them to translate what Hun Sen had spoke in this few months!
From his speech, I am a Cambodian cannot force myself to call him PM or event Mr.
Hun Sen not only a dictator but an oppressor criminal by what he personally said in the national public media!
1) “ Whether or not you have parliamentary immunity, the father of parliamentary immunity will still arrest [you]. You can say whatever, or curse January 7, but don’t curse as a national traitor,” Hun Sen said” (SIC!)
What is that mean! The stupid or oppressor threat people of his action above national constitution laws!

2) Once, he said that he (Hun Sen) spy on other legal party of Cambodia and the one who curse him most are his spy!
Either, Hun Sen is so stupid to be count as human or the guy (Hun Sen) using Pol Pot tactic to suppress the freedom of speech for Cambodian, to make Cambodian not to trust each-others, and living in fear!
The spy 9spook) on your own citizen is a criminal act and how can we Cambodian call this low life stupid beast as PM or even Mr.!

Please help us re-apply Paris Accord and reform the Cambodian justice and arm forces!
Please help us get the stupid criminal out of our back!
There a lot more the stupid beast Hun Sen said that make us don’t know to laugh or to cry!
This less than animal is CRAZY!!!!And STUPID!