http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060905/kyodo/d8juifgg7.html

(Kyodo) _ Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that he will not permit a Miss Cambodia contest until the country's poverty rate drops to 15 percent from the current 35 percent.
"As long as I remain as prime minister, a Miss Cambodian contest will only be permitted until the poverty rate drops to 15 percent or GDP (gross domestic product) per capita reaches $1,000 a year from the current $448," he said.

Hun Sen earlier this year acknowledged his government's failure to reduce poverty, saying it will likely affect at least 28 percent of the population even in 2015. Cambodia's population currently stands at 14 million.

In July, Planet Communication Ltd., a local private events management company, and the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts announced that a Miss Cambodia beauty pageant would be held in mid-August.

But it was subsequently called off after Hun Sen opposed it in a Cabinet meeting.

On Tuesday, Hun Sen said a beauty contest would produce no benefit and adversely affect the government's budget.

"There is no need to show a Miss Cambodia at the international arena. The Angkor Wat temple should be a better choice," he told villagers while in Svay Rieng province, about 115 kilometers east of Phnom Penh.

Kem Tola, marketing manager at Planet Communication, confirmed the cancellation of the event, but said his company would seek permission again next year.

There were Miss Cambodia competitions in 1993 and 1995 but no contest has been held since then.

Ouch..

wait then how come cambodia sent a miss cambodia to miss world???
http://www.missworld.tv/bio/bio.sps?iBiographyID=91909

Man this guy is a fuc.king idiot.

THAT"S A GREAT MOVE!

IF YOU KNOW POLITIC AND MEDIAs COVERAGE, THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND why he is doing that..

yeh i can understand why he's doing that .. if cambodia has money to spend on events such as these beauty contests, why cant it use taht money to spend on things that will benefit society? such as, reducing poverty AND raising the GPD to $1000... these matters are more important than a beauty contest ... he's actually doing something smart

I wasn't referring to what he's doing now, I was talking about in general. Hun Sen has never wanted Cambodian people to benefit from anything unless it benefitted him and his regime. All this talk and chit chat about benefitting society and bull$hit doesn't fit with his politcal record. This guy is fuc.king around with paegents and $hit when he could be using that talk about raising the GDP to 1000$ with the Ministry of Finance. Its all talk and nonsense. Private organizations are supposed to handle beauty paegents anyways, not the government. Why the FU.CK would the PM of the country be interested in how much foundation a woman puts on her face?

How much money does he expect to save by canceling this event, it's not even going to factor in the poverty rate nor the GDP. His motives are to help his campaign by demostrating how he actually cares for his people. His new found interest on improving things are only manipulated by the next coming election.

I agreed,what a moron,what's that gotta do with poverty,the question should be: What's happen to all the money that were aided to Cambodia by different countries, and agencies ?

the represenatives of those foreign countries use those aid for their own benefits .. it's basically living off of free cash and their duties are to 'persuade the government'

it makes sense

i think priorities should be the key issue here , instead of screwing around with girls they need to be focused on fixing the countrys poverty rate.

So long he doesn't pocket the money, then all is good.

yeah totally man

hi

tell me who doesn't? Nothing in this world is FREE. There's always string attached !

That's a bit extreme......BASTARD!

hmm.. isnt cambodia trying to stop recieving foreign aid by 2010 anyway?

i think hun sen is good PM..

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Cambodia should not have Miss Pageant at all. It is a waste of time.

This is crazy. Vietnam also doesn't have much money but we have at least 20 beauty contests each year. You should have some fun. Beauty should be embraced.

man wtf
why do these khmer seems to go on and on abt their angkot wat

Nothing new?
they seem stucked in the past

20 beauty contests each year? lol no. Miss Vietnam pagent is once in two years.

I am talking about all the beauty contests including the local ones (such as miss mekong delta, miss SJC, miss thang long....). Not to mention at least a dozen for oversea Vietnamese around the world. We love beauty.

ummm....NO. We're actually moving forward. Check other threads in here and you'll get a glimpse at the changes/development currently in Cambodia. Angkor Wat is our pride and joy. We'll talk about it as much, and as many times as we want. None of your friggin' business.

beauty pageants of vietnamese in american don't count.

In vietnam, we only have Miss Vietnam, Miss Kinh Đô (capital), and a few others like Miss Hanoi, Miss Saigon, Miss Tây Đô (for southwestern provinces)...and Miss Hai Phong, Miss Hai Duong sometimes

How did you count them to 20?

Why don't you fu-k off you metrosexual gay fruity loving boys queer bot.

and you seem like you don't know $hit, so i suggest you stfu.

Dude just shut the fu-k up and p!ss off, this is Khmer chat go back to your Singapore chat.

to add you should find that chat listed under malaysian chat

Too bad there aren't one. hahahahahahahahahahahah

I've been reading all the expert comments about hun sen banning Miss Cambodia contest until poverty rate drops to 15% but none has no clue about Cambodian or it society. Let me point out that idiot hun sen may have a point in protecting young girl from end up rape buy some pigs who are drooling over the floor.
Event the thai wouldn't have clue what is going in Cambodian while they say this and that but bought out men and women for himself yeah one of thai owned television in cambodia is a rapper.

Sorry if thai didn't have Angkor but if Khmer talk so much about Angkor then there is no reason for the thai to build a replica and tell the world Angkor is belong to thai. So stop wanting what you can't build.



We are talking about hun sen here not Angkor. If the Khemr talk so much about Angkor I would have to say Thai should bragging about Angkor belong to them. And yeah get rid of that replica, it is illegal and you have no right to do it and tell you king that he is Khmer too fool.

You kun thai? i don't thing so, you are kun chinese



We are talking about hun sen here not Angkor. If the Khemr talk so much about Angkor I would have to say Thai should bragging about Angkor belong to them. And yeah get rid of that replica, it is illegal and you have no right to do it and tell you king that he is Khmer too fool.

You kun thai? i don't thing so, you are kun chinese