Saturday, October 31, 2009
Source: Al Jazeera
In some parts of rural Cambodia, public transport is virtually non-existent, so for years villagers have had their own innovative way of getting around - by what is known as a Bamboo Train, or locally, as a lorry.
Villagers rely on them to go to work, to the market, to travel to the hospital, and back home.
Now the government wants to introduce a modern rail system, but as Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports from Pursat in Cambodia, the locals wonder whether the new trains will be as reliable as what they are used to.
Villagers rely on them to go to work, to the market, to travel to the hospital, and back home.
Now the government wants to introduce a modern rail system, but as Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports from Pursat in Cambodia, the locals wonder whether the new trains will be as reliable as what they are used to.
6 comments:
Sound great but first gov't needs to find ways to meet peoples' need before taking on such a plan. e.g giving them a proper home where they can easily access to school, shop, hospital and other necessity of live and just think of them, if they are your children, what would you do before remove them?, we can not just push them a side or it will go into another choas,like they will be exposed to another unwant way of life, like sleeping on the street and then they could get sick and died, and then the question of human right approaches will come in as to the effect of the gov't's operation and how will the gov't response to such scrutiny etc. Therefore whatever the gov't wants to do just do it but do it wisely and do it with a plan before taking such extreme job. As a matter of fact i can not wait to see such improvment for our people and for the benefit of our future generation to come and I can not wait to come back home once everything is done. Aust
I agee to the above comment. The government should take good care of its own people regardless of their political party affiliate.
By the way, I was the railraod maintenance worker during K.rouge regime. We repaired the broken line from PP to Pursat and PoiPet.Our group were re-educated in Phnom Baseth about 3 ms then were recruited to join our brothers, former railroad workers. Are there any people from this group who worked as rail road worker during 1976-1978?
Should read: political party affiliation
of course, but don't let squatters deter cambodia's development in all fields, though! even in america, if the gov't needs the land to build highway, etc..., of course, the people who are living in the way will be asked to relocate at fair market price compensation, though. don't tell me, these squatters are living on the railroad track! it's illegal for them to live on railroad tract or too close to it and so forth, really! common, it's common sense, too, you know! what do you expect? don't give excuses that cambodia shouldn't renovate the national railway system, ok! because it will happen for national development and benefit, of course!
11:34PM how old were you during that period. It must have been really hard for you but regardless I think you are very lucky to have survived through this KR regime. During that time almost all of our khmer intellectuals being eliminated from being existence. I was only 7 years old at the time and went to join with Koc Ma komprea doing hard labours as to growing rice and maintaining it throughout the those years. I almost died many times during that time from starvation and also from other sicknesses. In the end (1979) we found out that our family name was on the list waiting to be executed, so when we think aboutit,we are very lucky indeed to have survived up until today and I call this the medieval period in which should never be forgotten. by the way I have abit of memories about the location, like Battambong, Ta Mor Kol all the way to Svay See Sa Pon and then to the boarder of Thailand, Jom roum chas, Jom rum ta Mai, cha ka kor, Nong Chan and then KD (cow E dang camp. Now I'm in Aust for good.
Cambodia do need to rebuild on rail roads throughout cambodia, tourists love or can travel by train to see Temples, preah vihear, Angkor Wat...
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