Prime Minister Hun Sen warned on Thursday that the country could face electricity shortages over more than six months, with blackouts similar to those that afflicted the country earlier this year.
Cambodia is set to significantly expand its current power capacity in a $5 billion, 30-year deal to tap into coal-fired generators in Laos.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities to cut off the electricity supply over the coming Khmer New Year period of anyone who claims recent power outages are due to a government plan to build support for new hydropower dams.
A Cambodian delegation will travel to Turkey to attempt to obtain a 200-megawatt “powership” to ease electricity shortages, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Saturday that Cambodia was facing a power shortage due to drought, after recurrent outages last week sparked widespread complaints on social media.
A new U.S.-funded fact-checking outlet for Cambodia has been challenged over methodology and an apparent email mishap in its first published assessment: that an international rights organization’s claims of concern over the government’s Covid-19 QR-code tracking system were “false.”
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