Hing Chantha, a 45-year-old farmer in Kandal province, has lived with corruption his whole life.
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
Friday, 23 April 2010
Hing Chantha, a 45-year-old farmer in Kandal province, has lived with corruption his whole life.
In 1996, he opened a business selling cabbage, cucumber and other vegetables at Takhmao market. Every year since then, he figures, he’s paid $300 a year in corruption, to protect his business and keep his children in school, and for various nagging fees that eat up a quarter of his annual gross.
“The amount of money is a small sum for the rich,” he said in a recent interview. “But it is very valuable for me as a farmer, working hard from morning to night.”
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