Published: 27-Feb-12PHNOM PENH (Cambodia Herald) - Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) kicked off a clean city contest Monday in an attempt to transform Cambodia into a more attractive country for foreign tourists.
"We have to develop the Kingdom of Cambodia as a beautiful country which is more attractive and environmentally-protective as well as a country that helps reduce the source of global warming," he told a ceremony at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh.
Hun Sen sad the world had paid great attention to urban management and conservation based on sustainable principles, noting that two-thirds of the population will reside in cities by 2050, consuming 60 percent of energy resources and releasing 80 percent of the world's CO2.
"Therefore, we have to take sound management into high consideration to realize the concept of 'More with Less'. The world also has to pay great attention to Eco-Cities for the purpose of highly effective use of natural resources," he said.
The prime minister said the contest was being organized to foster a responsible spirit among relevant partners including public organizations, tourism agencies, tourists and all Cambodians.
Hun Sen also also said that the government had decided to establish a National Committee for Clean City Evaluation to monitor, implement, advise and consult with cities and urban quarters to promote and sustain their charms, hygiene and the environment.
The aim is to create "warm living areas" with socio-economic development based on a common standard in accordance with sustainable and responsible development principles, he said.
Tourism is still booming in Cambodia with visitor arrivals reaching 2.88 million in 2011, up 15 percent from a year earlier.
“It is expected that the visitors will increase to up to 3.2 million in 2012, 4.5 million in 2015, and 7 million in 2020,” Tourism Minister Thong Khon told Monday's ceremony.
Twenty-six cities and nine quarters in Phnom Penh are obliged to take part in the contest with the winner being awarded a clean city logo valid for three years.
6 comments:
I praised PM Hun Sen for bringing up this issues, Plastic bags, trashes are big concern in our country today, you can see tons and tons pile and pile of trashes are being dump along the river bank, if people visit Battambang Province-Sangker River, Phsar Duntiev, Wat Keo, Nurea- commune...You can see ton of trash all over river bank...there?
Cambodian govt should consider build a factory to turn trashes into other surce of enery usage...like gas cooking or some other energy usage, this way reduce all trashes problem.
Govt can't solve everything alone, people themselves must clean afterward, and must help protecting our cleans enviromental...People are the problem!!!!I think authority should punish people with fine$ to teach them a lesson for throwing trah along the stream, river...etc..
Some people just don't care and ignore authority and don't give a damn about It?
28 February 2012 1:10 AM, So Dictator Hun Sen uses his ironfist to rule the country causing chaos, corruption, murders, crimes, and human right abuse, but you praise him on cleaner city??
Where did you get your education from? You do realised that means, he will force more low income families to die outside of the cities, using force eviction and violence because that allows the city to be cleaner.
Get it, CPP dog?
Thanks PM Hun Sen for continue to develope our belove country, thank you!
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