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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Expensive Car but so Cheap is the Driver (Cambodian Expression)

In English, "cheap" literally means something which could be affordable at a low cost. Normally, this adjective is not used to refer a person. However, in Cambodian's expression, when someone is referred as Cheap, it means that someone worth nothing in his/her characteristics. People wouldn't value such person. Recently, someone has made him or herself quite well-known in Cambodia's social media as he/she was trying to drive in a reverse traffic...

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Someting you can only see in Cambodia

In traffic, if someone asks you to name out the most bizarre country in traffic condition, what would you recommend? Well, people have their own perspective of how they view something which is either good or bad. Some image below are not bad things but some common condition you can only find in Cambodia. It may be funny, crazy, horrible, or anything up to the viewer's perspective and I, as a writer of this post, would not recommend anything but...

Cambodia lost 337 Million USD in 2013 alone for the traffic accident

Reports from the Ministry of Public Affairs and Transportation said that in 2013 alone, Cambodia suffer from a net lost of more than 300 million US dollars from its in-country traffic accident. "There is no day that Cambodia do not have a traffic accident and it would be the oddest thing that it has none", said a road traveler giving his concern over the daily rate of traffic accidents. Truly here in Cambodia, at least 20 cases per day of traffic...

Bike Lane

The Biking Lane! Has any Cambodian realize they are at a very low edge of sorting out traffics for bikes. Normally, at everyday driving, you will see that bikes are almost at every part of the street where they try to sneak out and compete to get their way up front. However, most of bike drivers fail to realize that there is already a set-aside lane for them at the very right end of each main road. What so funny about this is that no matter...