June 7 + 8

Did nothing much but drive around my beautiful city. Everything changed a lot since last year with the rise of skyscrapers. The development in Cambodia is amazing as according to CNN, we are the fastest growing economy, but marked by a little corruption.

Central Cambodia

We now have Burger King, Dairy Queen (WHY??), KFC, and Starbucks plus many more. In the city, everything seems well until the rain started. Funny enough, the sewers dates back to the 1860's so we were not in a car driving, but like a boat motoring.

Flooding in Palace

It was terrible. The government is planning to renew later this year, but doubt arise as this is election year and the plan was only to get ballots. This has happened before like planing road works than canceling because of lack of funding, which was funny because Cambodia gets a total of 2.8 billion dollars a year from foreign governments due to our reputation to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Ironically, during this "lack of funding," the Prime Minister, Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for 33 years, increasing the size of his house from 4 storeys to 8 storeys and Sok An, the Senior Minister, bought one more mansion along with expansion of personal wealth by other minister. Add to the fact that Cambodia is in fact socialist, so they and other ministers own everything.

The Big Three of Political Cambodia

The plan for me to visit orphanages are now cancelled as I am campaigning for the Cambodian People's Party, the ruling socialist party lead by the Prime Minister, President of the National Assembly, and the Leader of the Senate, which means they control everything as 98% of the National Assembly is the CPP plus 99% of the Senate is the CPP. There is little opposition as everyone is against you. I ask why campaign if you are going to win anyways? Waste of my time plus grateful for USA! Thanks, and Ciao