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I was invited by my friends to join a group of tourists to visit Stueng Mean Chey, Phnom Penh city’s dump site. It was one of list item on the place to visit, so I joined them. The purpose of this visit is to deliver food, and basic medical care to people who live on the dump site. This is a routine trip for the organizer to the place. I’ve been told that the dump site has been closed, some how these people still live there.

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Too much of information, part of it useful part of it useless.

If you live in Phnom Penh, I am sure you experienced this, beggars on corner of the streets. A question of to give money to these beggars or not, is much of the personal preference. One can justify to give or not to give based on many reasons. For me, I do not give out money to these beggars for this reason: this little money cannot change anything, but to encourage more of them to beg.

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• Flooding forces school closure

Tags: Cambodia, Corruption, development, flood, phnom penh, Poor Planning.

If we are going to list 1 million things that Cambodia need, War is the 1,000,001st on the list. Which mean we don’t need war.