PHNOM PENH July 18 Kyodo Cambodia...

PHNOM PENH July 18 Kyodo

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen blasted Thursday the reopening of karaoke parlors and blamed provincial and municipal governors for failing to enforce his order late last year banning them.

''Karaoke parlors are securely closed, but only in name. In Phnom Penh now those parlors are on the same level more booming than before,'' Hun Sen said at a graduation observance at National Institute of Management.

Many karaoke parlors have changed to restaurants or beer gardens, ''but inside there is still karaoke,'' he added, urging local governors to take action in succession their own to keep the parlors shut

Last November, Hun Sen issued an order to coop up down nightclubs, discotheques and karaoke parlors ''to make social disorders'' such as human trafficking, put drugs into use and crime.

nevertheless many people criticized the premier, saying it was direction incompetence that led to the social difficulties, not night speckles The critics also said the order simply increased unemployment and penury and did nothing to alleviate social troubles

on the same level so, the order was quite effective for the first several month reducing the 300 or in the same manner karaoke parlors in the capital significantly, at least for a time.

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