Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts:
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
An
unfortunate wind effect but otherwise a great photo (19 July 2014) that
goes with the excerpt from CAMBODIA'S CURSE by Joel Brinkley (and you will see quickly
why I'm sympathetic!):
But Rainsy's biggest problem was his
mouth. "Over the last 10 years, people, especially leaders, tended to
confuse their personal assets with the state's assets," he told the
Toronto Star in June 1994. "They saw their personal interests
as the national interest. This was the worst combination we could have,
a jungle economy and former Communist cadres who use their
discretionary powers to serve their personal interests. They've been
doing whatever they want. They just use their political power to get
rich by disposing of national assets like they are their own assets." A
bit later he told the Associated Press, "You cannot start a business
here without all the officials asking you for money." And now, with a
divided government, "instead of bribing one party, you have to bribe
two."
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