Indian Envoy Pledges to Urge Direct Flights to Cambodia

2012-07-24
Xinhua

Newly designated ambassador of India to Cambodia Dinesh K. Patnaik pledged on Tuesday to urge Indian airlines to operate direct flights to Cambodia in order to boost bilateral relations in trade, investment and tourism.

The ambassador made the remarks during a meeting with Cambodian deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister Hor Namhong.

Besides, he said, in his diplomatic term, he would do all his best to encourage Indian investors to do business here in rice mills, tourism and mining.

Hor Namhong said Cambodia and India have had a good and long- standing diplomatic relation and expressed hope that the ambassador's mission would deepen the bilateral ties.

Qatar PM to visit Cambodia for direct flight, investment co-op

March 27, 2008

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, the Prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, will pay an official visit to Cambodia on April 1-2, a Cambodian official said on Thursday.

The Qatar Prime Minister's visit will focus on investment in Cambodia and direct flight plan between the two countries, said Sin Bun Thoeun, the director of Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia.

The Qatar Premier will be accompanied by businessmen to find investment opportunities in Cambodia, Sin Bun Thoeun said.

He added that the Premier is also the chairman of the Qatar investment group and the chairman of a major Qatar airline which owns a large number of planes.

The visit is expected to bring about more investment from Qatar and the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region in Cambodia, the official said.

Source: Xinhua

Direct flight between Cambodia and Japan

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Direct flight between Cambodia and Japan is part of the cooperation agreement between the two countries. Kim Sophorn, undersecretary of state at the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, told The Cambodia Daily that direct flights from Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to Japan will start in the near future, and that this is part of the agreement signed in Tokyo last week between Hun Sen and Shinzo Abe, his Japanese counterpart, Kim Sophorn said Japanese Civil Aviation informed him that the two sides will coordinate to the flights together, however, Kim Sophorn said that he does not know when the direct fights will start.

Cambodia, Myanmar agree on direct flights

May 23, 2007
DPA

Phnom Penh - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen returned from a three-day official visit to Myanmar Wednesday, with the country declaring it had successfully negotiated for direct flights between the two nations.

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, who accompanied Hun Sen, told a press conference that the two nations had agreed to the flights in an effort to boost tourism between the two culturally rich nations.

'There will be direct flights from Bagan and Mandalay ... to Siem Reap,' he told reporters without naming a date on which the first flights will be available.

Bagan and Mandalay are two cultural hubs of Myanmar, also known as Burma. Siem Reap is the gateway to the 800-year-old Angkor Wat temple and a world famous collection of surrounding temples which form the keystone of Cambodia's booming tourism industry.

Hor Namhong said the two nations shared a similar Buddhist culture and the direct flights were a natural extension to both country's tourism sectors.

He said direct flights between Myanmar and the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh were also planned in the near future.

Although opponents to Myanmar's harsh ruling military junta have tried to discourage tourism, saying it only supports a government notorious for human rights abuses, Cambodia has taken the traditional Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) line that Myanmar's politics are an internal issue for the Myanmar government.

Both Myanmar and Cambodia are members of the 10-nation ASEAN bloc and Cambodia has actively sought to increase inter-ASEAN tourism in recent years and has maintained cordial bilateral ties to Myanmar.

Hun Sen was also accompanied by Tourism Minister Thong Kong and Commerce Minister Cham Prasith on his visit, which Hor Namhong said had also further strengthened bilateral trade ties.

ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.