Clarification from The Royal Palace [... by Samdach Chaufa Veang Kong Sam Oy]

A motorbike passes by a roadblock set up in front of the Royal Palace. The roadblock has been in place since June. Photograph: William Kelly

Thursday, 02 August 2012
Kong Sam Ol
The Phnom Penh Post


Royal Palace
Phnom Penh, July 31, 2012

To the publisher, The Phnom Penh Post

Clarification of article: “No plan to end Palace road block”, published in The Phnom Penh Post.

Please be informed that based on the article in The Phnom Penh Post in both the Khmer and English newspapers issued respectively on July 26 and July 30, I would like to make a clarification to the publisher that due to the traffic congestion and the high speed caused by all types of vehicles, the Ministry of Royal Palace made a proposal to the Phnom Penh City Hall to take the prohibition of traffic along the stretch of road in front of the Royal Palace into consideration.

Those speeding vehicles caused disturbances for guests visiting the King and both domestic and international tourists being entertained at the garden and visiting the Royal Palace, which is the prestigious heritage of Cambodians.

Sometimes the speeding motorcycle and car drivers use that stretch as a race track, causing traffic accidents, injuries and death as well.

Kong Sam Ol elected chairman of the Day of the Sun preparation committee to honor Great Leader Kim Il Sing & Dear Leader Kim Jong Il

Great Leader Kim Il Sung with Great King Norodom Sihanouk in April 1994

Korean People's Greatest Holidays to Be Observed in Cambodia

KCNA (North Korea)

Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- A Cambodian preparatory committee to commemorate the Day of the Sun and February 16 was inaugurated in Phnom Penh on Jan. 18.

Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Royal Palace Kong Sam Ol was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.

The preparatory committee set the periods from March 20 to April 20 and from Jan. 20 to Feb. 20 as commemoration periods and decided to widely introduce through media the immortal feats performed by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the human cause of independence and organize diverse events.