ASEAN HEADLINE: CAMBODIA: Resetting the clock: Hun Sen urges US to restart dialogue and military cooperation
CAMBODIA: Resetting the clock: Hun Sen urges US to restart dialogue and military cooperation
Senate President Hun Sen has urged the United States (US) not to include Cambodia in its geopolitical rivalry in the region and sought to restore military cooperation.
Mr Hun Sen said that “The US should not place Cambodia in its strategic rivalry, and should not use Cambodia as a place to compete geopolitically with other superpowers, which Cambodia has pursued diplomatic policies with, based on international law.”
His remarks were made yesterday, during a courtesy call on him at the Senate by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin Ill who was on a one-day visit to Cambodia.
“The US has provided assistance to Cambodia in the areas of economy and defence in the past, and in order to improve our relationship, the two countries must address obstacles as soon as possible and continue to expand cooperation more effectively,” Mr Hun Sen noted.
“We have been cooperating with each other in the past through dialogue between the two countries’ Ministries of Defence, including on mutual agreement and joint military exercises and that is what we must continue to work together on,” he said.
Memento Maxima Digital MarketingMYANMAR: In Rakhine State, travel restrictions that kill
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As conflict rages on in the state, many are dying of treatable health conditions due to the regime’s bid for complete control of residents’ movements
For the past seven years, Khin Hla* has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, a condition worsened by her diabetes and heart disease. But in recent months, the 33-year-old tailor’s health problems have been further complicated by where she lives—in a village on Rakhine State’s Ramree Island.
Due to the ongoing conflict in the state and travel restrictions imposed by Myanmar’s military junta, she was long prevented from making the 17-mile trip from her village to Kyaukphyu, the largest town on the island, to get the medical attention she needed.
Even as the symptoms of her poor health, which included severe headaches and low blood pressure, grew steadily worse, leaving the village remained an impossibility.
“I took some medicine from a local clinic, just to ease the pain, but my blood pressure kept deteriorating,” she told Myanmar Now.
Eventually, she began to lose the. . .
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SINGAPORE: Singapore plans to build two more hydrogen-ready natural gas power plants by 2030
SINGAPORE – By 2030, the Republic will have two more natural gas power plants that are also hydrogen-compatible, to meet the nation’s growing electricity needs and ensure energy security.
On June 4, the Energy Market Authority (EMA) invited the private sector to build, own and operate two new power plants to be up and running in 2029 and 2030.
Each plant is expected to have a capacity of at least 600MW, which can power about 864,000 four-room flats for a year. This means that by 2030, there will be at least nine such hydrogen-compatible power plants in Singapore.
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