What waste! Cambodia splash £30,000 on TOILET for just ONE NIGHT before bulldozers arrive [Idiotic leadership -- have some dignity! Stop persistently prostrating before foreigners while suppressing your own]

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Cambodia will splash at least £30,000 on a lakeside toilet for the visit of a Thai princess - before demolishing it nearly as soon she leaves.

What waste! Cambodia splash £30,000 on TOILET for just ONE NIGHT before bulldozers arrive

THE wildly expensive royal investment worth thousands of pounds is set to be the costliest time ever spent on a toilet.

 Express (UK) | 22 February 2016

The visit of Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn to one of Cambodia’s poorest provinces has sparked controversy after the extravagant expenditure on the air-conditioned outhouse.

Princess Sirindhorn’s bathroom will cost around 130 times more than a standard public toilet for the region and 66 times the average annual salary in Cambodia.

The toilet will be reserved exclusively for the use of the princess during her one-night visit to the protected Lake Yeak Laom in Ratanakkiri province.

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 The poverty-stricken region has long suffered under decades of logging and mining exploitation

 

The eight-metre toilet has taken 19 days to complete and is adorned with silver railings and an all-white tiled roof.

Critics have lambasted the "out of touch" move in a country where less than half of people have access to a toilet, according to AsiaLife magazine.

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Princess Sirindhorn’s bathroom will cost around 130 times more than a standard public toilet

A third of schools in the Cambodia have no toilet facilities, a figure which rises as high as 80% in rural areas.

Local officials from the Thai construction company SC said the £30,000 was a "low estimate" given the number of Thai workers involved and the fact that all the materials were imported from Bangkok.

Ven Churk, head of the local region's council, said local community leaders had been told to make sure the princess’s visit goes well or risk losing control of the nature reserve to the central government.

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A third of schools in the Cambodia have no toilet facilities, which rises as high as 80% in rural

Mr Pursat, an SCG manager, said: "If you have a king — well, just, normal people can’t use the king’s toilet."

The poverty-stricken region has long suffered under decades of logging and mining exploitation

The princess will use her visit to open a health centre in the province, visit a number of primary schools, inaugurate a new technology institute and meet with King Norodom Sihamoni.

The director of the Cambodian Rural Development Team, Channy Or, suggested Bangkok could have spent “$1,000 or $2,000 on a good bathroom and then give the rest to the communities and villages”.