James O'Toole
The Phnom Penh Post
“We just got out from civil war (sic!)” - Phay Siphan, Council of Ministers mouthpieceCAMBODIA has placed last among 46 Asian countries surveyed in a new poll on “global wellbeing” conducted by the US-based Gallup polling organisation.
Released on Thursday in Washington, the survey used data collected since 2005 to analyse the welfare of people in 155 countries and areas. In 1,000 telephone and face-to-face interviews with Cambodians aged 15 and older, respondents were asked to rate their current well-being, as well as their life prospects for five years in the future, and were assigned to one of three categories based on their responses: “Thriving”, “Struggling” or “Suffering”.
Gallup concluded that just 3 percent of Cambodians are thriving, compared with 75 percent who are struggling and 22 percent who are suffering. A margin of error for the data was not given.
Regional neighbours fared better: in Laos, Gallup said, 7 percent of people are thriving while 89 percent are struggling and just 4 percent are suffering.
In Thailand, 20 percent are thriving, 75 percent are struggling and 5 percent are suffering, while in Vietnam, 14 percent are thriving, 76 percent are struggling and 10 percent are suffering.
Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan dismissed Gallup’s Cambodia data as “just a number”, emphasising the Kingdom’s economic progress and its status as a developing country.
“They have to take measurements from the culture, take measurements from historical events,” Phay Siphan said. “We just got out from civil war.”
In February, the International Republican Institute released a survey which found that 79 percent of Cambodians feel that the country is going in the “right direction”, with respondents touting the construction of roads and schools as positive indicators for the Kingdom.
he is right to some degree, howeve, do not use it as an excuse to do wrong thing, though! i mean most people are resilient when being compensated for their losses, etc, however, i wouldn't be surprised that some will always be haunted by what happened in cambodia, their experience that is!
ReplyDeleteMr Phay Siphan,
ReplyDeleteI believe that you are old enough to have lived through from Sangkum reas niyum.Cambodia declared independence in1955, and how cambodia was in 1965?
You tell me,if you ever noticed any socio-economic standard in cambodia!!!.
Tell cambodian that we CPP just stop stealing!!!.
good point, it can happen under any administration, reall, one exception is under the ultra- stupid KR regime, which too way too extreme and way too stupid when you start starving your people and killing your own people which is the manpower, the engine that drives a nation, etc... now, let's don't be that stupid like the stupid KR regime, strike a balance is better, not too extreme or radical, not to strict,not too lenient either, not too hot, not too cold, just right all the time; it's called check and balance of gov't, ok! wake up and be smart by learning from history, the world, and so forth, ok! learning and knowledge knows no boundary, you know! and nothing is set in stone, meaning there's no such thing as absoluteness anymore, only in the attitude, really! please help to make a real difference in cambodia for all life will be better and good for all. as a human being, we all can make a difference, really! that's what distinguished us human from the animals, please wake up already! always use the law is better than abuse and killing. don't be like the stupid KR regime that killed and starved people for nothing, really! god bless cambodia.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with Phay Siphan's statment because things have to be done before we go to work such as below:
ReplyDelete1. after we get up in the morning, we have to spend an hour to smoke to get energy, then we take about 30 minutes to stretch muscles, then we read a morning newspaper to brief ourselves some interested news, then we talk with our belove wives what have happened last night and what we are gonig to have for breakfast. over all time take about 3 hours.
2. We go to bathroom, turn on radio, then turn on shower tub, and brush teeth, and on and on... the whole things take about 1 hour.
3.Then we dress up and eat breaksfast and read newspaper again while we are eating. Then kiss wives and put things in carried on bag, then warm up the transportation modes (bicyles, motobikle or car,..) the whole things take about 1 hour and half.
4. then on the way to work, we stop by at a street stall to get somethings for afternoon snack., then the whole trip to worktake about an hour...
These are our culture values of getting work done and plus since we just recovered from a long illness, we are not in the mood to jump in right away to get things done, That's another scope of our belief... Take it slow man and enjoy your life on this planet...
what happened in cambodia was shocking!
ReplyDeleteHay 12:07 am,
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean that "what happen in Cambodia stay in Cambodia" Being a lazy civil servant does not pay...cause the govt. wouldn'nt pay...most of them stay for power to have some connection to the govt. so that their wife or relative can own pitty business in the markets (this is not talking about multi-million dollars business and major connecttion - or blood connection among an untouchable elite - OK). So you matter understand the working condition in the civil servant in Cambodia. Well this is the old culture or harbite is hard to break.
To those who are really working to help develop the country...you better build a critical mass that support your ideas of nation building...otherwise, you would not have enough energy to carry on the mission to return Cambodia back into the civil Nation and being respect by internatioal community...
Peace to all Khmer that want to help rebuild the nation...
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Since the margin of error are not provided then it is hard to say whether or not the survey is accurated.
ReplyDeleteWe just got out from civil war Phay Siphan ? How long are you going to keep saying it just to make an excuse ? It has been long enough now .
ReplyDeleteyes, 30 plus years have passed since KR era, no more excuses whatsoever!
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