Excerpts from Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet’s impromptu speech during the meeting with some 18,000 workers from factories/enterprises in Bati district, Takeo province [Unofficial excerpts and translation]

(1) Consider demographic planning to ensure a full workforce towards 2050 The day before, there was a meeting of the Pentagonal Policy Planning – Phase 1, we have discussed on demographic issue […] the Ministry of Planning reported that Cambodia is projected to become an aging country by 2050. I asked concerned officials to look…