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PM Hun Sen Visits Siem Reap
Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:15 DAP-NEWS / Sreng Vibol
PHNOM PENH, April 22- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday arrived at in Siem Reap Province to attend the opening ceremony of the new achievement of the flood protection and sewage system in Siem Reap Provincial town, which cost around 10 million US dollars.
This fund supported from the Asia Development Bank.
PM Hun Sen appeals local people to be cautions of lighting strikes
Thursday, 22 April 2010 05:56 DAP-NEWS
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday appealed local people to be careful with the cruel lighting strikes that recently killed numbers of people in storms.
We have to stay away from iron materials, and turn off mobile phone, radio and even golf players did not hit the golf ball during lighting, and have to seek appropriate places to avoid lightning strikes,” he told the opening ceremony of 14 million US -dollar sewage filtering system in Siem Reap Provincial Town .
We have to be cautions with the lighting strikes,” he said. Earlier Monday, it killed six people in Pursat province in a storm. At least 140 people were killed by lightning last year in Cambodia .
Cambodia Receives $10.93 Million for Facility of Wastewater in Siem Reap
Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:03 DAP-NEWS/ Ek Madra
PHNOM PENH, April 23 – Asian Development Bank provided nearly $11 million for Cambodian new wastewater and sewerage treatment facility in Siem Reap, the home of Angkor, to help ending bouts of serious flood in the country’s biggest tourist destination there, said the Bank release on Thursday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated the project in the provincial town of Siem Reap, where about 41,000 has been subjected to frequent floods in the central commercial and tourist accommodation areas, with an old and defective drainage and sewerage system unable to cope, said the release.
Putu Kamayana, Country Director in ADB's Cambodia Resident Mission office, said "it is very important that infrastructure improvements be made in the Mekong countries to attract more tourists,” according to the release.
The project includes the construction and installation of thousand of meters of sewer lines as well as the rehabilitation of more than 2,100 meters of drainage pipes, it said.
A pumping station with capacity of 14,000 cubic meters per day has been constructed and 193 new service connections have been established.
It also said that the defective manholes in the city's center have been replaced and irrigation canals upgraded.
The facility is a component of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Tourism Development Project, which aims to reduce poverty, boost economic growth, increase employment, and promote natural and cultural heritage conservation in participating GMS countries.
Tourism is a high priority sector of the GMS Program launched in 1992 by Cambodia.
This Southeast Asia nation received more than 2 million tourists last year and is expected to increase 15 percent a year. Tourism sector contributes more than 10 percent of the country’s GDP.
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