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Op-ed: To Grow a Better World, Cambodia’s Peace and Development-friendly Policies are a Must

AKP Phnom Penh, September 23, 2020 -- As a nation, we have no choice but to maintain our hard-earned peace, and the development that followed. This kingdom enjoys a friendly foreign policy with countries from different parts of the world, regardless of their political tendencies. She has adhered to her position of peaceful co-existence, neutrali...

Op-ed: The Author’s & Publisher’s Statement on the Book “Long Love, Short Live”

AKP Phnom Penh, August 31, 2020 -- By Ek Tha First of all, I’d like to make it clear that all statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are mine alone and do not reflect in any way the official position or views of any Royal Government of Cambodia’s institutions with which I am affiliated. Nothing in the contents should be read as as...

News Analysis: Actions Speak Louder Than Words in the Fight against COVID-19

AKP Phnom Penh, August 10, 2020 -- Until now, I see world leaders have yet to reach a real joint practical effort to combat COVID-19 although there have been repeated diplomatic calls by them that the world needs to fight the virus. Action speaks louder than words, not the racism and blame games that some continue to indulge in. In a global w...

News Analysis: Benefits of CCFTA Need Concerted Effort To Bear Fruit

AKP Phnom Penh, August 02, 2020-- The Cambodia-China FreeTrade Agreement (CCFTA) expected to be inked later this month will send a powerful message to friends near and far that Cambodia has expanded its greater market to the more than 1.3 billion strong Chinese market. It...

Op-ed: Without PM Hun Sen’s Leadership, Covid-19 Has Greater Impact on Cambodia

AKP Phnom Penh, July 09, 2020 -- Everywhere I go, every meeting I attend and every news report I read there is one issue that continues to dominate: PM Hun Sen’s effective leadership during the Covid-19 crisis. The view is that without the PM’s guidance and instructions, the country would have suffered a much greater, and more severe, impact...

Op-Ed: Cambodia’s Developments Continue to Shine Despite Dark Cloud from Covid-19

AKP Phnom Penh, June 23, 2020 -- Leadership plays the most important element in every country’s welfare regardless of whether it is a big or small nation. For instance, when it comes to handling the hardship of Covid-19 around the globe, some small countries like Cambodia are considered as one of the best models in terms of taking preventive mea...

Op-Ed: ASEAN’s Response to Covid-19 Pandemic

AKP Phnom Penh, June 16, 2020 -- The Covid-19 pandemic is the defining crisis of the century. It is testing the strength and resilience of humanity as well as the national and international governance systems. The world is grappling with the devastating effects of the crisis. Whether nation-states survive, thrive or collapse will pretty much...

Op-ed: Cambodia’s National Day of Anger: The Killing Fields Continue To Haunt Survivors

AKP Phnom Penh, May 20, 2020 -- It is 47 years ago today since the Khmer Rouge began to impose its extremist ideology of the communist revolution against on its own people. Forced collectivisation was followed by mass killings in 1973 in southern Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, came to power on April 17, 1975. No one knows fo...

Op-ed: Congratulation Cambodia! All 122 Cases of Covid-19 Recovered, No Deaths Reported

AKP Phnom Penh, May 16, 2020 -- I cannot wait to tell the world that, as of today, my Southeast Asian nation has no Covid-19 disease - the last patient of the disease in the country was discharged from the hospital today, Saturday, May 16. No deaths from the disease have been reported since the Coronavirus hit Cambodia early this year, one of...

COMMENTARY: Holistic Response to Covid-19 Pandemic

AKP Phnom Penh, May 07, 2020 -- The combat against the Covid-19 pandemic is a long-term fight which requires strategic thinking and planning. Huge resources need to be injected. Constant policy adaptation and adjustment and a crisis leadership with foresight are required. Dynamic policy debates at the national level are mounting with re...

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