
Hun Sen Commits $40M to Buying Chinese Weapons
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia would allocate an extra $40 million to the Defense Ministry to buy “a few hundred thousand more guns” from China.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia would allocate an extra $40 million to the Defense Ministry to buy “a few hundred thousand more guns” from China.
An American newspaper on Thursday stood by its reporting of U.S. claims that Cambodia had agreed to give China’s military exclusive access to a Cambodian
China’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday again skirted claims it had struck a deal to gain exclusive military access to a Cambodian naval base, instead denying
Senior Cambodian officials said they had no intention of suing an American newspaper over what they claimed were unsubstantiated accusations of a military base deal with China, instead saying the problem was unregulated digital news circulating around Cambodia.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday denied reported U.S. claims that Cambodia had signed an agreement with China to give the Chinese military exclusive access
There are no official documents that specify the exact projects being implemented under the Belt and Road Initiative in Cambodia.
A leaked U.S. letter to Defense Minister Tea Banh said speculation was mounting in the U.S. government of Cambodian plans to host Chinese military assets
In the wake of Saturday’s fatal collapse of a Chinese-owned building in Sihanoukville, Prime Minister Hun Sen warned against using the tragedy to single out and attack the recent influx of investment from China as causing new problems in Cambodia.
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court charged four Chinese people over the deaths of 28 after a building collapsed in Sihanoukville over the weekend.
UPDATE (5 p.m.) — Rescue teams discovered two more survivors and two dead bodies in the wreckage of a collapsed building in Sihanoukville this afternoon.
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