On May 25, the President of the Senate of Cambodia, Hun Sen, clarified the schedule for the launch of the Funan Techo Canal project, stressing that it is the Prime Minister's right.
Deputy PM Chanthol assured his Vietnamese counterpart that the future canal would help relieve floods in five Cambodian provinces and thereby prevent floodwaters from moving into Vietnam
VNExpress International quoted the Vietnamese foreign ministry on May 23 as saying that Vietnam does not support the provocative and divisive comments supposedly made by certain Vietnamese on the social media accounts of Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen.