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Cambodia set to foot cadets US tuition fees
Sun, 4 July 2021
Following a decision by the US government to cut off scholarships for six Cambodian cadets halfway through their undergraduate study programmes in the US, the Cambodian government has announced that it will cover the remaining tuition costs for them totalling $1.1 million.
Political analysts in Cambodia saw the US government decision to end the scholarships as being “unreasonable” and praised the Cambodian government’s intervention as exemplifying the traditional Khmer value of compatriotic love.
The Ministry of National Defence released a press statement on July 2 stating that the government will cover all expenses for the six cadets until they complete their undergraduate programmes at the four US military academies they are variously attending.
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The Kampong Trach district administration in Kampot province has decided to temporarily ban the production, import and export, and distribution of rice wine, while two winery owners were arrested on suspicion of making and selling wine containing high levels of a toxic chemical that have killed nine villagers.
China’s Aid Emboldens Cambodia
Attendees to the 20th Summit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, held in Phnom Penh, could not miss the warm welcome for another visitor – billboards and flags honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao. The visit was no coincidence, argues journalist Sebastian Strangio, based in Phnom Penh. A steady flow of loans and investment in Cambodian projects signals rising Chinese influence and possible cracks in regional solidarity among the 10 member states of ASEAN, particularly over territorial disputes with China over the resource-rich South China Sea. Of course, Cambodia was not always close to China, with its history of funding the Khmer Rouge, the communist guerrilla group that began in 1960, presided over genocide of 1.7 million from 1975 to 1979, and continued its insurgency into the 1990s. Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen insists China does not control his country of 15 million. But China’s support undoubtedly emboldens Cambodia to ignore