The Hummer
The Hummer crawls to a stop in a Phnom Penh street. The uniformed driver hops from the vehicle and crosses the road to buy a plastic bottle of petrol.
Motodops point and laugh as the driver tops up the empty tank. Inside the SUV, teenaged girls squirm in embarrassment.
...It's sometimes easy to forget that 35 percent of the population live on less than $0.45 per day, mainly because 92 percent of the poor live in rural areas- along rugged, poorly maintained roads where Hummers rarely go.
The laughter as the monstrous SUV ran out of petrol was a rare moment of equality in a country increasingly marked by the opposite.
Phnom Penh Post
(Allister Hayman)
Motodops point and laugh as the driver tops up the empty tank. Inside the SUV, teenaged girls squirm in embarrassment.
...It's sometimes easy to forget that 35 percent of the population live on less than $0.45 per day, mainly because 92 percent of the poor live in rural areas- along rugged, poorly maintained roads where Hummers rarely go.
The laughter as the monstrous SUV ran out of petrol was a rare moment of equality in a country increasingly marked by the opposite.
Phnom Penh Post
(Allister Hayman)
posted by pip @ 4:50 pm
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