Cambodia

Southeast Asia Report 25: Pol Pot and Land Mine in Pailin

by Ippei Tsuruga Views: 132

November 21, 2007 Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
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The rank of TukTuk seems to be above Moto. “Several years ago, I was a moto driver but somebody stole my precious bike with my work one day. It wasn’t very cheap for us to buy new one, you know. Then, I started working for a taxi company as a car driver. I remember it was a Japanese car, really good. At the same time, I was studying English at night school so that now I can speak it. Even though a tuktuk was much more expensive, about 1000US$ , than a moto, it’s chosen for safe. Now, I earn 5 to 10 bucks a day and extra bonus like 30$ sometimes.”

Drinks 1000riel
Beer 6000riel
Internet 2000riel
Guest house 6US$
Telephone 600riel
Breakfast & Dinner 9500riel
Total 13$

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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