Opinion

OPINION: How Cambodia’s Capital Market Can Support Sustainable Investments

AKP Phnom Pen, December 21, 2021 -- Cambodia’s capital market has developed fast in recent years, presenting participants and regulators with an important question: How can they harness the market’s power to promote environmental protection and socioeconomic development? One way to accomplish this is through financial instruments that t...

OPINION: The World Watches, Sees Cambodia Differently from Us, but the Facts Remain

AKP Phnom Penh, December 16, 2021 -- Cambodia’s flag—under the great leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen—has to keep flying high regardless whether it’s a pleasant sunny day or a stormy one with thunder and lightening. We have no choice: As a nation of full independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, we have to do what we think is best...

OPINION: More Joint Efforts Needed for Cambodia’s Social Development to Advance Post-Covid-19

AKP Phnom Penh, November 23, 2021 -- Covid-19 has hurt us tremendously for two years in a variety of ways, including mental health and social development, but Cambodia’s Royal Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has seen the country overcome such hardships and now many fields have returned to normal. That’s required peopl...

Op-ed: PM’s “Critical Thinking” Makes Cambodia Stands Strong as Today

AKP Phnom Penh, July 02, 2021 -- The outside world, especially the younger generation, may not understand much about Cambodia in many ways because of their perception of this Southeast Asian nation. But, as a son of this country, I have a number of reasons to stand behind my leader since he had invested his time and efforts to save and develop t...

Op-ed: Cambodia’s Well-adjusted Budgetary Plan 2022 amid COVID-19

AKP Phnom Penh, June 17, 2021 -- Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen’s move, on the budgetary plan for next year by prioritising the social sector, shows that the government’s commitment remains unchanged with regard to its economic development that best suits the interest of the people. This sector alone gets more than 8 percent of Gross Domestic...

OPINION: Cambodia and the US: Ties to be Mended, Trust to be Restored

AKP Phnom Penh, May 31, 2021 -- The first direct official diplomatic relations between Cambodia and the US were established in July 1950. The diplomatic relations between the two countries have lasted for more than 70 years. However, these relations seem not to be matured enough for their age. These relations have been complicated and unpr...

OPINION: Myanmar’s Political Crisis Should Be Viewed in an Objective, Impartial Way

AKP Phnom Penh, May 14, 2021 -- Myanmar has been in a very sharp political crisis since February this year, stemming from the discontent of the military-backed opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) over the November 2020 election results which the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party led by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi sec...

A Cambodian Scholar Shares His Comments on 100 Years of the Communist Party of China

AKP Phnom Penh, May 13, 2021 -- Mr. Lim Menghour, Deputy Director of Mekong Centre for Strategic Studies (MCSS) at the Asian Vision Institute (AVI) has recently shared with AKP his comments on the 100 Years of the Communist Party of China. His full commentary reads as follows: “This year marks the centenary of the founding of t...

OPNION: UN Human Rights Experts Are Confused between Human Rights and Saving Lives in the Fight against Covid-19 in Cambodia

AKP Phnom Penh, April 23, 2021 -- The so-called UN human rights experts from Geneva, which is 10,000 km away, urged Cambodia to review her approach to Covid-19 on April 12, citing "harsh legal and administrative measures" while saying the on-going community transmission in Cambodia is limited. Their statement does not help Cambodian people but c...

OPINION: How Much Longer will COVID-19 Hurt Us, What Else Can We Do to Fight It?

AKP Phnom Penh, February 25, 2021 -- Nobody can tell when COVID-19 will fly away from this world, but what we know for sure is that it will hurt and kill more of us. We must objectively assess the situation without panic. Although every state actor, World Health Organisation (WHO), and other stakeholders have sought different approaches to fight...

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