This weeks cambodian talking points
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This weeks cambodian talking points
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The Weekly Dispatch
The Weekly Dispatch from The Cambodia Daily offers news, analysis and insight on events shaping Cambodia. Published every Friday at 11:30am.
always an eye opener....
Good morning, Cambodia. It's Friday, February 23, and this is your Weekly Dispatch.
PILING ON: The CPP is likely to win more than 90% of the Senate in Sunday’s vote. Its main opposition, meanwhile, has over 100 members in jail. That didn't stop the CPP from accusing its rival of “intimidation.”
HOME ALONE: Cambodia was named one of the world’s most repressive nations in tolerating criticism from abroad, using violence and intimidation to stifle detractors. A common tactic: threats to family back home.
PLUGGED IN: A giant rubbish-eating robot will soon be deployed to remove plastic waste from the Tonle Sap. The environment minister even declared that the great lake “is not a trash can.” Stay tuned for results.
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The Weekly Dispatch
The Weekly Dispatch from The Cambodia Daily offers news, analysis and insight on events shaping Cambodia. Published every Friday at 11:30am.
always an eye opener....
Good morning, Cambodia. It's Friday, February 23, and this is your Weekly Dispatch.
PILING ON: The CPP is likely to win more than 90% of the Senate in Sunday’s vote. Its main opposition, meanwhile, has over 100 members in jail. That didn't stop the CPP from accusing its rival of “intimidation.”
HOME ALONE: Cambodia was named one of the world’s most repressive nations in tolerating criticism from abroad, using violence and intimidation to stifle detractors. A common tactic: threats to family back home.
PLUGGED IN: A giant rubbish-eating robot will soon be deployed to remove plastic waste from the Tonle Sap. The environment minister even declared that the great lake “is not a trash can.” Stay tuned for results.
https://cambodiadaily.substack.com/p/se ... ts?r=6a6omFirst Class
The Strongman took a private jet to Bangkok for a 2-hour sitdown with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was released from prison on Sunday. The sister of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, the Thai activist who disappeared in Phnom Penh in 2020, made a surprise visit to demand answers to her brother’s whereabouts. She was blocked by police.
Vote Watch
The opposition party, with more than 100 members in prison, is being accused of intimidating the ruling party ahead of Sunday’s senate elections. The CPP is expected to win more than 90% of upper house seats after the government banned a leading opposition group and threatened to dissolve parties found violating election laws.
Pay Wall
A massive raise in government spending on health care and education has resulted in only minor improvements, The World Bank said. Cambodia more than doubled spending on social services between 2011 and 2021 in an effort to bring government salaries inline with the private sector. The Bank recommended tying future wage raises to increases in performance.
Dry Run
The Funan Techo Canal risks profoundly destabilizing the lower Mekong delta, experts warn, raising concerns over the mega-project to connect the Mekong River to the Gulf of Thailand with a 180-km waterway. One expert predicts the canal will block water flows eastward across the Mekong floodplain, transforming a fertile delta into parched land.
Sand Trap
Climate change threatens to upend the Kingdom’s billion-dollar investment in hydropower, experts say, pointing to rising global temperatures and warmer and drier wet seasons. One of China’s largest reservoirs filled to just 50% its average in 2023, and scientists say things will only get drier.
Garbage Tech
The Ministry of Environment is preparing to launch a floating rubbish-eating robot to remove tons of plastic pollution from the Tonle Sap. “The Tonle Sap,” the environment minister said, “is not a trash can.” The campaign begins March 1.
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In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: This weeks cambodian talking points
It's almost like Cambodia Daily bears some sort of grudge against the authorities here...
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Social commentary mixed with bite sized headlines.
Talk show lite.
Print version of MrB’s video commentary on the week’s news.
Because mostly for foreigner expats CEO consumption and not closely followed by Khmer locals, hopefully keeps flying under the radar.
Otherwise will have to keep reading about beautiful lady car wreck stories.
Talk show lite.
Print version of MrB’s video commentary on the week’s news.
Because mostly for foreigner expats CEO consumption and not closely followed by Khmer locals, hopefully keeps flying under the radar.
Otherwise will have to keep reading about beautiful lady car wreck stories.
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phuketrichard
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of course, easier/safer to report the truth from Outside CambodiaBluenose wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:09 amI take it you understand why it is now a US based website and not a Cambodian based newspaper
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Whether it's Vietnamese Americans, Russian émigrés, Salvadorians, Tibetans, whatever--One can always reliably count on America (and the UK) to weaponise their immigrant communities (many of whom, like the Cubans and Vietnamese, lost their privileges in the New Order and thus bear strong grudges) as a foreign policy cudgel in a completely reckless, exploitative way, without any regard for the pawns they use.
Funny how we never see the massive Israeli community in New Jersey and Miami have their grievances aired against America's Greatest Ally (meanwhile, Palestinians are just straight-up ignored)
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HaifongWangchuck
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Emphasis on "US grudges", since it's obvious that these articles are written at the behest of US benefactors: For example, how many Khmer citizens actually give a shit about Western-style transgenderism, which is viewed as a cultural-bound syndrome at best, greeted with ridicule and laughter at worst?Bluenose wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:09 amI take it you understand why it is now a US based website and not a Cambodian based newspaper
I can't think of a single average Cambodian (i.e, didn't graduate from some elite institution like American Intercon School followed by Western uni) who actually gives a shit about these issues, so Uncle Sam's pawprints are blatantly obvious on this publication.
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LamarFreddie
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May you find peace in this world, brother.HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:22 amWhether it's Vietnamese Americans, Russian émigrés, Salvadorians, Tibetans, whatever--One can always reliably count on America (and the UK) to weaponise their immigrant communities (many of whom, like the Cubans and Vietnamese, lost their privileges in the New Order and thus bear strong grudges) as a foreign policy cudgel in a completely reckless, exploitative way, without any regard for the pawns they use.
Funny how we never see the massive Israeli community in New Jersey and Miami have their grievances aired against America's Greatest Ally (meanwhile, Palestinians are just straight-up ignored)
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newkidontheblock
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So are you are saying that the Cambodia Daily is being funded by and told what to say by a US government overseas organization like the CIA or FBI?HaifongWangchuck wrote:Emphasis on "US grudges", since it's obvious that these articles are written at the behest of US benefactors: For example, how many Khmer citizens actually give a shit about Western-style transgenderism, which is viewed as a cultural-bound syndrome at best, greeted with ridicule and laughter at worst?Bluenose wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:09 amI take it you understand why it is now a US based website and not a Cambodian based newspaper
I can't think of a single average Cambodian (i.e, didn't graduate from some elite institution like American Intercon School followed by Western uni) who actually gives a shit about these issues, so Uncle Sam's pawprints are blatantly obvious on this publication.
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