Thursday, October 28, 2010

Cambodia's poverty crisis

(Photo: Betsy Baehr, DesMoines Registers)
October 28, 2010
ABC Radio Australia

Rapid urban development in Cambodia has resulted in changes in Phnom Penh - many Cambodians are missing out on new found economic growth 13 years after the end of civil conflict. Pou Sothirak, a former Cambodian industry minister and ambassador to Japan, has written extensively about poverty in Cambodia and is in Melbourne to address Monash University's Cambodia Roundtable 2010.

Presenter: Sen Lam
Speaker: Pou Sothirak, former Cambodian industry and mines minister, and current senior visiting fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian studies, Singapore

23 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:42 PM

    People! Vote for Hun Sen again so there won't be any Cambodia and Cambodian left to worry about.

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  2. Anonymous10:10 PM

    Khmer people DONT subscripts to CTN! they only support CCP and Hun Sen Government. They dont show or tell the Truth.

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  3. Anonymous10:21 PM

    Khmer people DON’T subscribe to CTN! They only support CPP and Hun Sen’s Government. They don’t show or tell the Truth about Cambodia.

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  4. Anonymous10:22 PM

    Ban Ki Moon should look at this picture too. So he will know exactly who Hun Sin is?

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  5. Anonymous10:38 PM

    10:22PM, oh... Ban and everyone else know how Ah Kwak is! The truth always prevail in matter of time. Hun Xen time is now!His days is counting and he knew it too.

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  6. Anonymous11:00 PM

    Khmer people start killing all Youn in Kandal provience

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  7. Anonymous11:21 PM

    Cambodia is a fucked off country, so many young girls wanna sell their pussy, the other ones suck tourists cock on the street in PP to earn few bucks, Fuck

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  8. Anonymous11:21 PM

    Khmer are stupid dogs love to eat shit for my ass

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  9. Anonymous11:38 PM

    don't blame it on development, cambodia needs developments in all fields. instead, seek to see judicial independence and justice from abuse, impunity, immunity and other human flaws and bad characters, etc... as a nation, cambodia must develop in all like infrastructure, education, economy, tourism, society, etc... so, it is the lack of that created all of this in the beginning, not developments, you know!

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  10. Anonymous11:41 PM

    11:38PM, as long as the tryrant Hun Sen is alive Cambodia and Cambodian will never have the opportunity to improve, you know!

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  11. Anonymous11:53 PM

    ទោះបីជាមានជីវភាពក្រីក្រក្តី ! សំខាន់បំផុតត្រូវរស់នៅ​អោយសប្បាយចិត្ត ។មានពេលខ្លះ មានតែអាវខោមួយចង្កេះ តែពួកគេរស់នៅសប្បាយជាអ្នកដែលមានវិឡាស្កឹមស្កៃទៀតផង ។ កម្មសិទ្ធច្រើន គឺតំណាង់អោយភាពត្រេកត្រអាលខាង សំភារះនិយម តែទាំងអស់នេះ នឹងមិនធ្វើអោយ គេមានការពេញចិត្តជារាងរហូតឡើយ ។

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  12. Anonymous11:55 PM

    let's be fair, scene like this poverty existed in cambodia even one hundred years ago, so, don't be so biased, people! instead seek for better life and reforms, etc!

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  13. Anonymous12:00 AM

    Everyone on Earth looks down on Cambodia because we re stupid

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  14. Anonymous12:20 AM

    11:55PM! you stupid moron! scene like that existedin the world 1000 of years ago! but should not exist now! in to day time ! don't you motherfucker know?

    may lightning strike the stupid evil like you to put your mother out of shame!

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  15. Anonymous12:21 AM

    12AM the your problem dickhead!!!

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  16. Anonymous12:30 AM

    i don't believe in superstition; it's so stone age, so it wouldn't matter to me, you know!

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  17. Anonymous1:24 AM

    Sam loves to fuck his mother and daughter

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  18. Anonymous3:32 AM

    1:24am! THAT'S AGAINT THE LAWS!

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  19. Anonymous3:33 AM

    12:30am! BE A GOOD PERSON BOY!IT HAPPENED TO AH HOK LANDY AND AH KWACK LOST ONE EYE NOW! WHAT COME NEXT WE DO NOT KNOW!

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  20. Anonymous3:45 AM

    If you look down on your race, you are a truly moron. First of all, we're not the poorest country in the world. WE have come a long way and should celebrate that accomplishment. Look around you, even poor farmers have cell phone, and so on. Cambodian people are not stupid, we are smart smart and hard workers. I am blessed to be born as Khmer. Khmer rules! bastards don't welcome here.

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  21. Anonymous6:04 AM

    Anonymous said...

    Everyone on Earth looks down on Cambodia because we re stupid

    12:00 AM

    AM I RIGHT?

    We're stupid or we re-stupid

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  22. Anonymous11:25 AM

    shut up! youn and siem are stupid because they are so jealous of cambodia's successes, etc! i say they all can go hell for a change, really!

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  23. Anonymous11:51 PM

    i'm khmer and i proved you wrong, moron! remember if khmer were stupid like you claimed, would we have been existed for thousands of years already as a nation? now don't hate khmer because you are not khmer, ok! get lost and go to hell if you are khmer hater or cambodia hater! you're not welcome in cambodia! bye bye! no money no honey, ok!

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