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(1) Learn throughout your life because everything evolves non-stop
To say that learning and continue to learn, learning constantly is not a wrong thing to do. Learning anytime, anywhere, from everyone, not just learning professional skills, but also living skills, (because one need to) coordinate and work together. The Khmer word for that is learning forever, learning for life. Being single, one learns from school. When one has children, one learns to be a mother/father, learns to be responsible for raising them, and at your graduation, one learns to work, and becoming responsible, fulfilling duties as part of an institution, a cell of a national society that evolves non-stop. Not only technology, even the society we live in is different […] before, we didn’t think about cafes with internet access and with air conditioning […] now, due to living conditions and changes in people’s mindsets, cafes without internet and air conditioning system may not sell out […]
(2) People are civilized, accepting and using technology to ensure competitiveness
This is a change in the national society that requires learning to live. Our people are civilized and not only accept technology quickly, but can use it and have a modern mindset […] to ensure competitiveness, we must constantly update (our professional and living skills). Otherwise, we will become outdated […] people need to keep up with technology, otherwise we cannot use modern technology to compete with others. I met a guest who wanted to invest in the production of electric cars (in Cambodia). He needed workers. (As you can understand then) the jobs we created were not completely low-skilled jobs anymore. We promoted increasing efficiency and types of work […] I went to the Honda factory, where I saw that human and robot activities were intertwined […] this would require a constant training […]
(3) USD 20 million allocated to modernize and equip surgical equipment at 61 district referral hospitals
I have agreed to allocate nearly 20 million USD to modernize and equip some equipment for ICU surgery at 61 level 2 district referral hospitals […] local doctors do not have equipment or safe surgical buildings, so patients have to be sent to the provinces […] year after year, we build infrastructure, we install echography machines and scanners. However, if we do not have enough trained doctors/physicians and send them to the districts to use those machines, they will become a demonstration tool […] the benefit of training here is not only for those who learnt, but the real result is when you will use (knowledge and practice) to create productivity in all fields of work […]
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(4) MLVT and MEYS to consider an evaluation system and provide certificates for self-taught professionals
In the past, the Ministry of Labor (and Vocational Training – MLVT) has considered a system for evaluating and providing certificates of skills. I don’t know if the Ministry of Education (Youth and Sports) has thought about it […] some people don’t go to school or TVET programs, but they learnt skills on their own […] some have skills but lack official recognition that they can use to find work. In this term, MLVT has an evaluation committee to make sure that all of them could have certificates […] and so that we wo not lose (human resources) […] some people finished high school (and opted to learn skills without going to secondary education). (Therefore) this (evaluation and certificates provision to certify skills) is an effort to expand the employment potential of citizens. It means (opening) opportunities for them to get good jobs […]
(5) Drawing human resources trained in the informal system into the formal system
Let them enter (the formal system) to reap the benefits (as others). And the other point is the fact that Cambodia has human resources with knowhow and knowledge available is a good thing […] this consideration will help us draw in human resources that are trained in the informal system to come into the formal system. There are two types of training – one in the formal system and the other one is the informal system. The formal system, people are taught in schools and formal institutions, and the informal system (people are taught and practicing in informal places schools and/or workshops). There are many such informal system training workshops […]
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(6) Teachers are the guides, the second parents, who strengthen national intellectual resources
Teachers are the first to lead. The teachers lead by example. Don’t allow what people say to become real – just follow what the teacher tells, and don’t imitate what the teacher does […] teachers lead, meaning they are being an example. Leading by example. Being a role model both in ethics and in conducts […] this does not mean to compare you students or intellectuals to being children […] teachers must lead research leadership directly […] teachers are the guides. I would like to thank you again for the efforts of professors, teachers at universities, as well as throughout the country, because they play a very important role, being the second parents, and participating in strengthening intellectual resources in human resources for the nation […]
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(7) Hundreds of millions spent on national, provincial, and rural roads, but the need for roads is growing rapidly
Every year, the Royal Government spends hundreds of millions of dollars on building roads, both national, provincial, and rural roads. Now we have built tens of thousands of kilometers in the country, and there are more to do but we cannot do everything at once […] the need for roads is constantly growing, and additional roads are needed. We cannot build them all grow at the same time […] in Poipet, for instance, in some places, people’s housing is growing faster than the sewage system, and the road system […] there has been an explanation of the conflict in arranging sewage, but I will take the time to explain a little […] villages and communes are growing a lot and the people’s needs for concrete roads are on the rise too. They wanted them built quickly? Our national budget is just a few hundred million (Riel) a year, and to be used for repairing, maintaining, and building new ones. In this regard, in some places, people ask for it to be done by cooperation […]
I would suggest that the company that is implementing the contract not (to leave it uncovered) after they dug the ditch for drainage […] they must immediately find a way for the people to get in and out of the house (at that particular point) […] we must think about the method to reduce the impact on the livelihood of the people. If we left an excavator in front of his house, how could s/he get in or out of the house […] please improve the procedures, especially those who won the contracts with ministries and state institutions […] it would be best, before doing so, to ask the local authorities to invite the people living on that street to meet with the company and talk about the relevant framework and conditions […] talk and understand first, and do it with their agreement […] do not create a problem […]
(8) New history textbook complements previous ones for grades 4, 5, and 6
On issue of the book (to learn history) […] it is said that the Ministry of Education (Youth and Sports – MEYS) is trying to change history by preparing a new textbook that will make Cambodia appreciating its neighboring countries […] while in fact, this book is a complement to the previous history textbook for grades 4, 5, and 6 of the primary school level […] may our professors, students, and intellectuals who have this much knowledge, be independent in their thinking before making decisions. I wish you do not just believe what someone says. Please research clearly so that you can make the right decisions. Learning is for possessing the ability to think independently […] regarding those criticisms – firstly, it is the content of the history text, and secondly, the book cover (that they claimed to have copied from the monument built in memory of the Vietnamese volunteer army) […]
This could be something that confuse people and, in the end, we Cambodians are fighting each other, as history has shown. While pointing to other countries as a risk factor, in the end, Khmer people fight each other, thus weakening themselves […] regarding the first point, which is that the content shows gratitude to Vietnam […] I urge that MEYS upload a digital copy on the internet so that people abroad can download it and read what is wrong with it […] the historical content in Chapter 4 is about the People’s Republic of Kampuchea and the State of Cambodia from 1979-1993, the establishment of a new regime after the overthrow of the genocidal Pol Pot regime, and the restoration of the country. They are historical facts […]
That some claimed this book is written about gratitude to Vietnam, (I have already checked) the book does not say much, except for one line on page 41 and one line on page 42, which talk about the National United Front for Salvation of Kampuchea cooperating with the Vietnamese volunteer army to overthrow the genocidal regime of Pol Pot, to provide protection, and work on restoration of the country […] apart from that, it talks about the achievements of the Khmer ancestors – Samdech Preah Sihanouk’s generation, and later the fact that the Khmer people came together to find peace, […] MEYS does not try to talk about history with any country […] all the content is about the Khmer people, the Khmer leaders, doing everything for their children in the future, and to understand their own history clearly […]
(9) The win-win monument is a symbol of national unification but also of the post-unification development and peace
The win-win monument is not only a symbol of the national unification phase, but also of the post-unification development and peace time […] the win-win monument is the result of the combination of factors that we have these days, where our young people are not at the fight or dying in battle, and having the opportunity to learn […] the fact that the country ended the war, we have been able to mobilize capital to invest in the education sector […] you may have seen/heard about what had happened at Ta Moan Temple lately […] the prominent figure that has appeared (on social media) is His Excellency Nak Vong, the current commander of Division 42 […] if there was no win-win policy, His Excellency Nak Vong, one of the former Khmer Rouge commanders, would not have become the commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces […] this is a tangible achievement […]
(10) The win-win monument is the symbol of keeping peace, protecting the territory and independence, and not to be divided internally
The real factor that we are united as one Cambodia, one army, and together protect the territory is because we have had the political factor of win-win politics, the ending of war, and all Cambodian factions come together […] the opposition politicians have tried to distort the political fact about the win-win monument to be grateful to others. It is absolutely not. The win-win monument is Cambodia’s. It is the symbol of keeping peace, protecting the territory and independence, and not to be divided internally […] it is demanded that the Cambodian younger generations understand historical factors because without it the country had been divided internally because of the wars since after the Angkor period, and left the country in gradually weaker position […] once disunited, the war will return, and there stands no chance to compete with anyone. We need to understand clearly the meaning of the win-win monument, the peace, the meaning of the textbook and the concept that the government has put in it […]
(11) The government protect every inch of the border
The foundation that we are wishing for building a human resource through education and training is to make our country strong, capable of thinking together to maintain national development […] recently, there have been movements of (the opposition) politicians to promote nationalism in both Thailand and Cambodia aimed at aggravating the situation related to the two countries’ border areas at Ta Moan Temple, Koh Kut, after they had caused misunderstandings about CLV-DTA […] the border is an issue that everyone thinks about it, not only (those who claimed themselves) nationalists. The whole government, the border officials, are also nationalists and they may be the ardent nationalists because they are the ones who negotiate, sometimes without food or water, to protect each centimeter of the border. The border issue is not an easy matter that can be resolved in just one day […] we all love the nation, but the government has a heavier responsibility than others before/in the history […]
(12) Cambodia wishes to resolve the issue peacefully, but reserves the right to defend itself by all means
Regarding this issue, it is the Cambodian position to resolve it through negotiations based on technical grounds, the border map from the French era in 1908, and various other legal tools, such as the MOU 2000 and/or other agreements […] taking this opportunity, please allow me to send a message to both the Cambodian and Thai politicians – “don’t bring politics into technical matters because politicians are no more knowledgeable about technical matters than geographers. Let the technicians work on technical matters.” The border issue is related to technical matters and international law […] on the basis of maintaining sovereignty, Cambodia will find a way to resolve the issues through the mechanism we have officially agreed upon, which is the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Border Committee […] Cambodia wants to resolve the issue peacefully, but reserves the right to defend itself by all means, including the use of armed force, if any country dares to use armed force to invade Cambodia […]
(13) Leading soldiers to fight and die, countries to look at each other not in the eyes is not patriotic
I am calling on some who claimed themselves nationalists not to bring politics to the forefront to cause problems and do not claim yourselves the patriotic alone. Leading soldiers to fight and die and leading countries to have the impossibility to look at each other straight in the eyes is not patriotic. The government, government officials, myself, my father, my family – we are also patriotic, and we have worked a lot to serve this nation as well […] Samdech Techo led the defense of the territory, such as lately in 2008, when we clashed at Preah Vihear until 2011, […] the Hun family is the one who had been to be in charge of the defense of the O’ Alai and O’ Tangao areas (in the border war) […] the Hun family also joined in combat against Covid-19 […] my clan, my family, my father, and I are patriotic too. If formulating and launching the win-win policy that ended the 500-year war that affected the lives of the people is not patriotism, what is? Samdech Techo with all the leaders of the Royal Government has been building and strengthening every sector, including the education sector […]
(14) You not accuse everyone else treasonous just because they use different method from yours
Let me affirm to the armies of both sides that, in the phase where the border has not been resolved by the Joint Border Committee, the armies have no responsibility to resolve the border issue. The armies support the two governments in resolving the border through technical mechanisms without the use the army or the use of force to resolve it […] I may ask those in France, who sit and curse every day, (have they not thought at all,) when this army commander from the Hun family, whom they accuse of treason, that he went to every part of the country to strengthen the army and help the army to defend our country? This is what I have participated in, and my family has done too. You may keep saying what patriotic you were but you may not accuse everyone else treasonous just because they use method that is different from what you yourself demand […]
(15) “Boosting the Facebook page is necessary or not is none of your business”
I may one more thing […] they say that (that I have spent money on) boosting a Facebook page is unnecessary. Well, it is or it is not is none of your business. It is my private Facebook page […] and secondly, they say that boosting is okay, but (it should not be) using national funds. Let me tell you that I have not used a single dime of national funds for decades to boost my business. They may ask where the money comes from […] what if I ask them who keep following and cursing me, and people around him, who don’t even have work and therefore proper salary, but who fly to/from America, Europe, Australia all the time – for which the cost of airfares, accommodations, and all that comes to hundreds of thousands of dollars, where did you get the money from? […]
(They do not have to advise me on how I spend the money since I have provided assistance to various humanitarian programs) – it is not that I will help (but) I helped and have been helping and will continue to help all these targets […] where the money comes from? Part of it comes from the help of philanthropists, and parts from my family’s and my money. Most of them are contributions like the TYDA Foundation […] the Prime Minister, as a figure that people have entrusted with the leadership, I must protect the cleanliness and be transparent […]./.
