PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): The Project for Flood Prevention and Drainage Improvement in the capital’s Daun Penh and Tuol Kork districts was inaugurated on Wednesday (April 20).
Prime Minister Hun Sen compared the recent joyous celebrations of Khmer New Year – the first following a two-year Covid-19 hiatus – to January 7, 1979, when the Khmer Rouge was toppled from power, as well as the day when Cambodia achieved comprehensive peace in 1998 with the official end of the civil war.
The Project for Flood Prevention and Drainage Improvement in the capital’s Daun Penh and Tuol Kork districts was inaugurated on April 20. The project aims to tackle the emerging issues of rain water flooding in the northern Wat Phnom in Daun Penh district and in Tuol Kork district’s Boeung Kak I and Boeung Kak II communes.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on all sides to make sure the upcoming commune council election campaigns go smoothly, urging calm and the preservation of public order – without threats and violence.
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on April 20 that he will pay a three-day visit to Japan from April 22-24 to attend the Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF), where he also plans to meet with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.