Cambodia’s Hun Manet to make first visit to Singapore as PM

SINGAPORE – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet will be in Singapore from June 18 on a two-day official visit, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 17.

The visit will be his first here since

taking office in August 2023,

and comes ahead of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between both countries in 2025.

The Cambodian leader will receive an official welcome at the Istana, where he will call on President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

He will also meet Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, and will receive a call by Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

In the evening, Mr Hun Manet will be hosted to an official dinner by PM Wong.

While in Singapore, Mr Hun Manet is also scheduled to attend the Cambodia-Singapore Business Forum, organised by the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, the Singapore Business Federation, the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia and the Singapore Alumni Association of Cambodia, and visit Nanyang Polytechnic and Keppel Infrastructure@Changi.

He will be accompanied by a delegation that includes Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sok Chenda Sophea, ministerial delegates, senior government officials and representatives from the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Hun Manet, who took over from his father, former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen, had

previously visited Singapore in June 2019

in his capacity as deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and commander of the Royal Cambodian Army. He also visited Singapore as the 64th Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellow in June 2018.

Correction note: The story has been updated to include the other organisers of the Cambodia-Singapore Business Forum.