frank lee bent wrote:perhaps the young cambodians i meet are better educated than the proletariat by virtue of their eng lamg abilities, at least as a rough metric.

i have seen them repeatedly shame their fellows who kill wildlife for example on fb.

their attitude is quite vehement.

public shaming and criticism is a powerful modifier among de youf.

Sir_Quality_U_Feel wrote:

frank lee bent wrote:perhaps the young cambodians i meet are better educated than the proletariat by virtue of their eng lamg abilities, at least as a rough metric.

i have seen them repeatedly shame their fellows who kill wildlife for example on fb.

their attitude is quite vehement.

public shaming and criticism is a powerful modifier among de youf.

I saw a 16 year old(ish) school girl toss her plastic bottle down the back of the river @ Riverside, Phnom Penh. Her 2 school friends berated her to the point that she actually retrieved the bottle then threw it in the yellow bin that was a whole 3 meteres away. My wife said they were calling her stupid and saying she should have tossed it in the bin.

Prime Minister HE has jibed that he could deploy military hardware should anyone try and create an “autonomous zone” in the Areng Valley, where activists are bitterly fighting a proposed dam.

In a speech on Tuesday, the premier also took aim at Areng Valley activist Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, who was deported yesterday, condemning him for organising road blocks to stop companies from entering the area.

“If you want to make an autonomous zone [in Areng], please come, and we will put BM21 [multiple rocket launcher vehicles] in that area, but I don’t accuse them seriously like that,” HE said, before attacking Areng activists for obstructing company officials.

However, the premier also publicly confirmed for the first time that no decision on whether to dam the valley would be made until after the next election and even went as far as to say that such a project would be a “disaster” environmentally, squandering billions of potential tourism revenue....

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...San Mala, a co-founder of the grassroots conservation NGO Mother Nature, who was arrested along with Gonzalez-Davidson yesterday but later released, said HE's remarks were a direct threat to his organisation.

“When he said he will do anything if anyone tries to create autonomous zone, this is a heavy comment from him directly to our team, who have always tried to stop the Chinese company or any expert that wants to study [there],” Mala said.

If the government was serious about halting the Areng Valley dam, he added, they would stop surveying the area and start promoting it through the Ministry of Tourism.

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party chief whip Son Chhay, himself a longtime opponent of plans to dam the Areng Valley, questioned the sincerity of the prime minister's seemingly newfound love of nature.

“Because the population of this country starts to become involved in helping Alex [Gonzalez-Davidson] to protect this river, he has no choice but to say he loves the river,” Chhay said, adding that the premier had done nothing to halt mass illegal logging in the same area.

Gonzalez-Davidson was deported yesterday after refusing to leave the country despite overstaying his visa, which the government had refused to renew.

Joon wrote:VOD News (http://vodhotnews.com/27602) just reported that H.S. pledged that there will not be any development of the Cheay Areng Hydropower Dam during this 5th mandate, until a proper environment impact assessment study has been conducted.
He has blamed Alex and Mother Nature of blocking access to the site to officials to assess those impacts.

“When he said he will do anything if anyone tries to create autonomous zone, this is a heavy comment from him directly to our team, who have always tried to stop the Chinese company or any expert that wants to study [there],” Mala said.

The Add Jay wrote:I think we can all agree that utility cost are very high in this country compared to our fellow neighboring countries that provide more then half of Cambodia's power.

So why the FUCK would you not want to build this damn? This country needs it desperately. The population is exploding and more and more homes need juice. The short sight of some is out of control.

The Add Jay wrote:1 karma point more then you pissy pants.