Chinese Embassy Denies Debt Trap for Cambodia
12 April 2021
VOA Khmer
FILE: Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen shakes hands with China s President Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China April 29, 2019. Madoka Ikegami/Pool via REUTERS
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh said Beijing was neither creating a debt trap for Cambodia nor seeking a military presence in the country, in its response to a recent media article.
The embassy said accusations that China was intentionally attempting to saddle Cambodia with high levels of debt where it would then be beholden to the Asian superpower were “pure slander.”
THE country’s strongman premier Hun Sen has threatened quarantine-breakers with jail time and warned civil servants that they could lose their jobs if they go unvaccinated, as the country grapples with a growing coronavirus caseload.
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2021-04-12 10:05:29 GMT2021-04-12 18:05:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
PHNOM PENH, April 12 (Xinhua) Cambodia has vaccinated 1 million out of its 16 million population against the COVID-19 so far, Health Ministry s secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said here on Monday.
Panh Savannarith, a 36-year-old Phnom Penh resident, was the 1,000,000th person to be vaccinated, she said, adding that Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen provided the grant of 5 million riels (1,250 U.S. dollars) to Sovannrith for being the 1,000,000th vaccine recipient.
Speaking to reporters after delivering the cash grant to Savannarith, Vandine urged people to go for vaccination when their turns come in order to protect themselves from severe illness and hospitalization.