Kahuna wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:03 pm Search Google for "Reuters Investigates - Khmer Riche" and there is a very good article on who in the ruling elite have second passports for foreign countries, multi million dollar real estate overseas etc. Even if HE was ever to lose power he won't be short of a dollar nor will his extended family. In the meantime they will just keep sending it overseas.
In the KOW meantime the poor will stay poor no matter how much foreign aid is provided by well meaning governments and ngo's but that's worthy of another topic altogether.

Brody wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 4:10 pm

angkorjohn2 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 3:47 pm
There is a great comment at the emd of the article i assume it is tongue in cheek.

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This is a real success story of a poor young girl from a poor country to become a rich among the richest of the world.Combodian people must thank Chantha Hun to make their country known in all over the world. Hurray, hurray for Chantha

The sad part is, is that it also wouldn't surprise me in the least if this was a genuine sentiment from some local.

Part of living in a "face" culture is the love and adoration of pretty things, expensive things, showy things etc. to the exclusion of any critical thought about the festering rot, eating away at this society's soul.

Some parking attendant helps a spit-shined Bentley sedan shoehorn its way in front of Brown's and he's probably thrilled and thinks the car is 'saart'. Never considering the underlying sickness that is evident when he's making $80 a month whilst incomprehensibly lavish possessions overflow all around him as Bong Thoms come and go....doing apparently very little with their day.

Certain echelons should be very weary of the hoi polloi becoming enlightened to the immense chasm of wealth disparity and asking serious questions about their station in life.