Nicolo @August 10, 2008, 08:38:27 AM,
Live-in caregiver course seems to be a promising training opportunity for many young Cambodians. In the future, with improving medical care and increasing number of middle class and aging Cambodians, mostly suffering from stroke, properly trained care givers will be very much seeked.
Regarding the future of the country, i'm not very optimistic. It will be a long long long time before some real justice can be found here in Cambodia. If you can turn blind eye on all the little but subtle injustice that little people are swallowing in with pain but pretend it is just a part of their lives, you'll find complete harmony with this country. BUT i can't. Anyone can see the acts and their consequences or results of corruption, cronyism, and bribery under the bright sunlight in Phnom Penh. But they are still, for me at my lowest standard of critic for a governing authority, slightly acceptable considering all the wars and political chaos that Cambodia has experienced. However, the lack of respect for others' lives by some of the riches and the powerfuls has saddened me considerably. Murderers can get away without any repercussion if they have strong connections. The lives of poor people are not worthy for compassion from the riches. If a rich person who violates traffic laws and at the same time kills another trafficker, who does not at all have any connection with powerful guys, it is very likely that the violator (murderer in this case) will get away by paying only 2000 US dollars to the victim family according to the new traffic LAWS.
There have been rumors that some traffick violators (car or truck drivers) who were involved in accidents once realized they hit somebody, they would back their vehicles and kill the injured traffickers, who laid blooding on the street so that they would have to pay only 2000 US dollars instead of having to pay for all the medical expenses for the victims and most likely it'd be much more than 2000 US dollars.
So be careful when you are your moto on the streets of PPenh. When you see nice and expensive cars roaring and approaching you, you'd better make big room for them. Just my advice because I would do the same. People who know that they won't get punished for violating laws will always violate laws although they don't have too.
The following link will take you to read an article that every much examplyfies what i just mentioned above:
http://www.modbee.com/1647/story/401363.html