Outlaw in your dreamland and reality
Indo-China Peninsula is an outlaw in ever man’s mind like a shot of arm with cash, the beauty, limo, casino and etc.
Tourists, millionaires, gold-diggers and criminals generate the special temperament of those five ancient civilizations.
Starting with Cambodia, I shall leverage you all the distinguished Indo-China Peninsula.
Cambodia also known as Kampuchea is a Buddhism-religion country with honest and natural residents. They earn 240$ per month with few ambition or desire just wishing to make a bread of their own.
The Tuk-Tuk owner who picks up tourist earning $400-600$ due to the amount of scattered tourists.
Meymey, a dealer in NAGA( one of the largest entertainment center with hotel, SPA lounge, duty-free mall and of course a set of legitimate casinos) who serves tourists earning $30,000 per year which is sort of a wad for Cambodians.
Chanbun is a driver and earns $400 per month, $100 more than the salary he got from the Canadia Bank as a clerk.
He is unmarried due to his poor wage.
Working hard and practicing English, Chanbun is always anticipating his future.
Normal beings, right?
It is just a part of Cambodia. So let’s get straight to see half-heaven and half-Avicinaraka.
Nicknamed as Guns, Gwenaël used to be an associate professor in Université de Strasbourg. He adopted two Vietnamese twins in 1999. After retirement in 2014, he bought home stay in Phnom Penh and lived a like an eremite. Cambodia authority doesn’t issue arm license, therefore Guns usually goes to shooting fields to fire with M16 spending approximately $10,000 per month.
Mr. Lee, a Chinese used-to-be gambler who lost over $0.3 billion in Vegas, went to Cambodia to start up a new business after bankruptcy via bribing many top-notch Cambodian officials. Focusing most on grey areas, say, shark loans, contraband, Mr. Lee became a millionaire again and got a medal from Cambodian royalty. The access to success of Lee reflects many Chinese businessmen’s anecdote. Many of them came to Cambodia with a case of crabs in China. While by bribery, they have aggregated their capital in a short time, then they made the laundry to step into sort of legitimate fields with bulks to harvest a cornucopia of cashes. Nepotism is rotten every nook and cranny in Cambodia or even the Indo-China
A customs officer working in the airport of Phnom Penh.
Tips are perverting everyone in Cambodia. Every officer working for government will extort tips by all means. Custom officers will withhold tourists’ passports when the latter refuse to pay, traffic polices will pull up tuk-tuks or vehicles to fine you without reason. When you encountered the chasm of wealth, you might have no other options.
Ma Nika, a female sex worker, keeps propagating herself via Facebook, Instagram and Wechat ( a Chinese social APP owned by one of China’s largest technology conglomerate ). Only 19 years old in 2018, Ma Nika has to feed a big family with 3 little brothers and her mother. At dusk in almost every day, she takes a tuk-tuk to NAGA or sky bar to work. Ma Nika said she’d become a sex worker since she was 16 and all her friends and family have known for 2 years.
“No shame on work category but on poverty.” as an ancient Chinese proverb says and I quote. Sex worker is the oldest job in the world. But confined by Buddhism and traditional view, sex worker is not prohibited in most Asian countries either morally or legally. To struggle forward alone, sex workers earn a scanty of money while shoulder a great responsibility.
Here, Sexual exploitation in and Feminism out.
As a mercenary and now a bodyguard, QD earns almost $4,000 per month. QD comes from Chinese rural area with $460 GDP per capita. Bodyguard is the safest job in his life without polishing M4A1 and ammos.
His wish is as simple as infant which is earning $65,000 to open a restaurant in his homeland.
The anonymous criminals are stealing into Cambodia.
Spending only $10,000, criminals can become a Cambodian or use Cambodia as a transit-stop to other countries by fake IDs, passports, cosmetic surgery and fingerprint erase. A lot of agencies would provide the service for those outlaws or vagrants.
Cambodia is attaching to China economically and politically. Sihanoukville is just a second Shenzhen with fast development. Large hot money is pouring into Cambodia via kinds of channels. Tourism and entertainment are blossoming.
However, the wealth gap is expanding faster and faster and the society is changing more and more. Lots of investors are intruding the Cambodian residents’ wealth. In the long term, how the authority using the Sword of Damocles dangling over the head remains the conundrum.