More military muscle

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Cambodia is looking to expand it's existing fleet of tanks and armoured personnel carriers.

via CAAI

Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:25 Cheang Sokha

THE Cambodian government is expecting nearly 100 tanks and armoured personnel carriers purchased from an unconfirmed eastern European country to arrive in the Kingdom next week.

Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said yesterday that Cambodia bought more vehicles on top of that shipment – which is expected to arrive at the Sihanoukville port some time next week – but that the additional order would arrive later.

“As far as I know, the numbers will be higher than that, and will arrive soon,” he said, without elaborating on the actual size of the shipment.

He also declined to disclose the country Cambodia purchased them from.

“I think this is a normal procedure for a country to buy such weaponry to protect its territory from any intentional encroachment from foreign countries,” he said...read the full story in tomorrow’s Phnom Penh Post or see the updated story online from 3PM UTC/GMT +7 hours (New York 4AM, Los Angeles 1AM, Chicago 3AM, Paris 10AM, Vancouver 1AM, Sydney 6PM, Bejing 4PM, Tokyo 5PM, London 9AM, Johannesburg 10AM, Riyadh 11AM, Mumbai 1:30 PM)