In Commemoration of the 158^th Anniversary of the May-8 World Red Cross and Red Crescent

… On behalf of the Royal Government and people of Cambodia, I would take this time to express my sincere thanks for participation of Excellencies, Ladies and compatriots for making this annual event a real and symbolic solidarity between those who needs help and those who can help. Our meeting today is not only for a few thousand people here but also for the whole country to seek funding from generous people to provide to those who need it. It is a chance for a meeting between those who need and those who can help with those needs …

Samdech Techo Hun Sen,
The Celebration of the 153^rd Anniversary Day, 08 May 2016

[…] , I beg all landlords to understand the plight of our workers at a time when we are all experiencing hardships. In the past, some landlords have decided not to take the rooms' rents from the workers for a while or reduce the rents. Some of them allowed lessees to stay rent-free for a long period and I have already written them thank-you notes […]

[…] For the water/electricity fees, we also ask Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) as well as the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) to focus on workers’ rented houses in advance, which they can give them favor in charging for water/electricity as a contribution to the landlords to solve the common problems of our workers […]

[…] We have not yet gotten to a point where vaccination is the basis for travel, to reduce the need for quarantine and to enter workplaces, yet. We are at the initial phase of vaccination, in which, in some places, some people got their first doses, while in other places the first doses have not even started yet. Therefore, the resistance to the disease is not yet effective […]

[…] I hope those who can afford it do not fight to get help among those who are in need […] Now is not the time to take on the issue of equality and equity and make it a condition to address employment. Wait until Phnom Penh and Kandal Province or the whole country to be vaccinated and those who refuse to be vaccinated are clearly unemployed or unable to find work due to unfortunate propaganda of some people […]

[…] . I hope everybody could go through this hardship together. Although we cannot end the February 20 community event, we will be able to get it under control and reduce the number of infections and deaths […]

Samdech Techo HUN SEN ,
Fabebook page, 08 May 2021.

• […] I find that in some provinces, bans have been imposed up to the level of Cambodians themselves entering their provinces needed to be placed in quarantines for 14 days. This is not different from the fact that we create state within state […]

• […] We must continue to impose quarantines for those suspected with high-risk Covid-19 in order to get their samples for tests and to decide if they needed quarantines, but not all people passing through their provinces […]

• […] I am asking His Excellency Lok Chumteav, the provincial governors, who have already issued a decision (on unnecessary quarantines on travelers) to amend that decision or facilitate people’s movement. I say this (is) not to prevent those who have suspicions to take sample and to have inevitable quarantines, but to amend the decision to allow people to travel […]

• If not (amend the decision), we will then control only the people in each own province. People from other provinces who go to work in any respective province must do quarantines and vice versa. If so, (we will do) quarantines all over the country. It is no different than we shut down the country, shut down the city some time ago and crash the engine of the socio-economic process of the people […]

• […] This matter needs to be corrected and reported back to me at the (online) group between the Prime Minister and the Governors/Mayors as to which provinces did and which provinces did not … by this time, the people had to farm, to travel here and there for their businesses […]

Samdech Techo Hun Sen,
Facebook page, 06 May 2021.

[…] I would like to inform the Cambodian people that Cambodia never accepts anyone's advice. I have been working with China for almost 30 years and China has never said to me, “Please do not contact this country, please do not contact that country, or please do not accept help from this or that source.” […]

[…] One of the unique features of the Asia-Pacific region is that Cambodia is the first country to receive the vaccine (AstraZeneca from the COVAX center). According to my study, when Cambodia received the vaccine on the evening of March 2, the only five countries in the world received the vaccine, broadcast by Channel News Asia, were Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Angola, Congo and Cambodia […]

[…] I have discussed with the Ministry of Health, this injection is not just for officials. I would like to request the Ministry of Health to provide emergency injections to people and local officials over the age of 60. According to my estimates, we can provide the jabs to around 100,000 to 130,000 people in Phnom Penh and some around Phnom Penh, Kandal and some in Sihanoukville, but only select people over 60 years old and above […]

[…] we need to give priority to a number of officials, including diplomats, UN officials, financial institutions, as well as foreign NGOs currently in Cambodia […] who are unable to return for vaccination in their home countries are to receive AstraZeneca vaccine. Please inform the UN representative and make a plan for this vaccination without any age limit […] For the general Cambodian population, age must be determined. Those under 60 meaning 59 years and below, in the Royal Government and the Senate, the National Assembly [...] are to receive Sinopharm (and) those at 60 and above to receive AstraZeneca […] Let me confirm that we provide the jabs free of charge. I will announce the policy today. It is not just for diplomats, foreigners living and working in Cambodia are vaccinated like Cambodians free of charge […]

[…] I have already said that vaccines are not the only golden solution, but vaccines are the first strategic solution, along with the implementation of the health measures we have put in place, such as three preventative measures and three things not to do measures, strengthening the control of border crossings, testing, quarantine and treatment in the fight against COVID-19 to achieve success in the fight against the disease […]

[…] if nothing changes in the first half of this year, both what we have now and the amount that we expect will come, we will have about 4.2 million doses of the vaccine, which we vaccinated more than two million people. By the second half, the supply situation could ease (depending on) the production chain. In addition to these two vaccines, Sinopharm and AstraZeneca, we are also looking at other vaccines, such as the Russian vaccine, Johnson & Johnson of the United States, Novavax of the United States, and especially the Johnson & Johnson that I heard would require only a single dose. If so, we should dare (buy) […] because it is not a problem from who it is but importantly to have vaccine for inoculation […]

[…] (I) call on people not to travel to Sihanoukville if unnecessary, while those in Sihanoukville, please do not leave to other places, because leaving would transmit (the disease) along National Road 4 or to Kep and Kampot provinces. So please keep calm there […]

Samdech Techo Hun Sen,
Press Conference after Receiving First Dose
of AstraZeneca Vaccine, at Calmette Hospital, 4 March 2021.