The Shogun promises to build a wall along the Thai-Burmese boarder to keep illegal workers out of the country. According to Government spokesman, Mr Por Kee Pye, there may be up to a million illegal migrant laborers in Thailand. Most of these belong to the Karen and Shan minorities from Burma, who have been driven out of their homes by the Burmese army.
Mr Pye continued, to stop this we will be following Trumps ideas and building a wall to keep them out. The wall will be 21,000 kilometers long, 8 meters high and will have watchtowers every 500 meters. We have no idea how to build it, but we have asked our friends in the Chinese Government. They are experts in this sort of thing and they have promised to send us 1,800,000 coolies to build it. It is estimated that the wall should be completed within 200 years. Members of opposition parties have voiced concern. Karens and Shans make up the entire agricultural workforce, they claim. Without them to work in the paddies, we'll just have to stop growing rice. The idea is as absurd as growing oranges in California without Mexicans to pick them. CNBC talked about walls (9 Oct 2015) If Donald Trump were to build a wall along the United States' southern border, it would cost billions. The U.S. border with Mexico is roughly 2,000 miles long and underlines four states from California to Texas. It is a massive stretch of land — the Berlin Wall spanned just 96 miles comparatively, and it cost about $25 million to build in 1961, or around $200 million with inflation. Building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants is not a novel plan. About 670 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border was completed in accordance with the Bush administration's Secure Fence Act of 2006. That alone cost about $2.4 billion, for roughly one-third of the entire border and, according to migration experts, some of the easier and less costly areas to fence. The Secure Fence Act called for 700 miles of fencing, with a double layer throughout, but much of the barrier isn't reinforced this way. Even before the fence reached its first stage of completion, some argued it was not being constructed properly. "It's a lot more expensive than we expected when we started, and it was much more difficult," said Ronald Vitiello, deputy chief of border patrol for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at a Senate Committee hearing in May. Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in a January 2015 statement to right-leaning publication Daily Caller (founded by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and former Dick Cheney advisor Neil Patel) that "In our conversations with outside groups, experts and stakeholders, we learned that it would be an inefficient use of taxpayer money to complete the fence. … We are using that money to utilize other technology to create a secure border." "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words," Trump said in his presidential announcement speech. On his campaign website, Trump's immigration reform plan calls for impounding remittance payments derived from illegal wages and imposing increased visa and entry fees to the U.S. from Mexico unless the latter agrees to finance the wall. Mexico picking up the tab is unlikely, and so is doing it cheaply. "The cost of it is extraordinary; the terrain makes it impossible — it's a great sound bite, but it's not defensible in terms of a practical policy," said GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush at a town hall meeting in Denver. According to a Government Accountability Office 2009 report, the cost to build 1 mile of fencing at the border averaged between $2.8 million and $3.9 million. But that figure may be low relative to costs for future sections of the wall. It's based only on the first 220 miles fenced and does not include other factors, such as topography, transportation logistics in harder-to-reach areas (i.e. road-building and earth and drainage work), labor costs, land acquisition costs and surveillance equipment. One aspect of the wall debate more important than the cost is its worth. The migration expert Rosenblum said fencing in remote areas of the U.S. isn't likely to achieve the goal of a more secure border. "It's not necessary to have a pedestrian fence in places where the infrastructure doesn't support people walking toward the border," Vitiello said in his May Senate testimony. Border walls work in densely populated areas — such as Israel's wall in the West Bank — where slowing down a person trying to illegally enter by five or 10 minutes can make a difference to border patrol. But when the migrant trying to enter is traveling over remote mountains and deserts for three days, using a fence to slow them down by a few minutes doesn't have the same effect — it borders (pun intended) on the trivial, Rosenblum said. "There is a reason people don't build fences in the middle of nowhere; it doesn't change the enforcement profile in the middle of nowhere," the migration expert said. "The existing fence has worked because of where it is, near populated areas. Both Democrats and Republicans have testified that they have the fencing they need," Rosenblum said.
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Economists, industrialists and marketing experts have been struggling to explain the falling prices of Thai rice. A radical new theory has been proposed, it is suggested that Thai rice is not selling because it tastes vile. The discovery was made during a visit by an expert from the United Nations Organization for Chemical Spillage Disguised as HealthFood (UNOCH). Dr Sinikure was eating a bowl of rice soup, which contained bits of plastic bag, when she found that the bits of plastic tasted better than the bits of rice. A bag of Thai rice was immediately sent off for chemical analysis which showed that the Thai rice contained more petrochemicals than the plastic bag containing it. Thailand has long prided itself on its agriculture. For the last five years Thailand has won the annual UNOCH Saturation Award which is given to the country which uses the most chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides per acre of cultivated land. The Thai Trade Minister explained that he had not thought that the taste mattered. Normally Thai rice is bought by the Government to keep the farmers happy, its normally put in huge warehouses to rot. We do export some rice but we assumed that this was being used as animal feed, he said, we had no idea that some people abroad were actually eating the stuff. The Story from The Bangkok Post:
Academics have suggested the country's rice quality be improved to meet market demand. Somporn Isvilanonda, a senior academic from the Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand, said Thai rice has begun losing its fragrance, which some researchers believe is being caused by the use of chemical fertilisers and shoddy milling practices. "Only softness is left in Thai rice, something which less expensive Vietnamese rice is also known for." He was speaking at a seminar on sustainable solutions to tumbling rice prices, hosted by the Agricultural Mass Media Association at Kasetsart University yesterday. "The solution lies with improving rice quality, he said. Farmers need to consider organic farming and environmentally-friendly cultivation practices, as favoured by the global market." "The rice farming industry needs restructuring, done through the extension of loans to farmers who can invest the money to improve cultivation practices to produce quality rice, which can fetch high prices." "Innovation is needed to boost the quality of rice to meet market demand, the academic said." "The government's subsidies must be given to change the [farming] industry so it produces quality rice and lifts the standard of the yields," said Mr Somporn." This will boost consumer confidence as buyers can rest assured they are purchasing top quality rice at a good price." The academic said he was disappointed the government was not focusing on upgrading and producing quality rice varieties, which require research. "Value could also be added to Thai rice, including by processing the crop into drinks, to diversify the commercial supply to the market, Mr Somporn said. He said rice is a cash crop which has been the subject of political conflict for decades, hindering any efforts to tackle deep-seated problems affecting the crop. He added that the global supply of rice was high, pushing prices down." "The previous government's rice-pledging scheme also increased the rice stockpile." "When global demand fell, so did prices." "The problem is also exacerbated by other rice growing countries, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, which grow and market their rice at markedly lower prices than Thailand." Apichart Vanavichit, director of Kasetsart University's Rice Science Centre, said his unit has equipment to check the makeup of grains to determine their variety, which should help farmers. "The service can be provided to business operators to gauge the levels of fragrance and quality of the rice before exporting it." The centre also discovered ways to enhance the fragrance of rice, which increases commercial appeal, during the crop's flowering period, he said. Tests were successfully carried out in paddy fields in Chiang Rai and Roi Et. I am confident in the quality of Thai rice, said Mr Apichart said, adding the centre will host a rice quality contest next month to encourage farmers to produce high quality rice. He also supported the government's campaign to sort grains based on fragrance and starch content, adding various industries prefer different starch content. Harris Binotti, 25, has previous experience in teaching English as a foreign language at the Yangon International school. He moved to Thailand last weekend.
English Gentlemen, known as “Poodee Angrit”, have long been respected in Thai culture. It is common for young British gentlemen, on their Grand Tour of the world, to spend some time teaching English in Thailand. This enables them to become acquainted with the finer points of Thai culture such as classical music and dance. Private Tye is sure he will soon find a suitable position in a Thai school. The real story from The Independent: Harris Binotti: Burmese police name British teacher wanted over murder of colleague. Police say Mr Binotti and his colleague Peter Gary Ferguson had been out drinking on Friday night. An international manhunt is underway to find a British teacher who fled Burma after a colleague was found dead in his flat. Burmese police said Interpol would take over the search for 25-year-old Harris Binotti, who worked at an international school in the country’s largest city Yangon. Peter Gary Ferguson, a 47-year-old British teacher at the same school, was found dead on Sunday with wounds to his head and chest. Mr Ferguson’s wife reportedly discovered the body inside an apartment belonging to Mr Binotti. Police said the pair, who worked at Horizon International School, had been out drinking on Friday night. Burma's Ministry of Information said Mr Binotti had left the country but gave no further details on his whereabouts. “The defendant of the case left from Yangon International Airport by Thai Airways on the evening on 5 November,” it said in a statement. Police in Thailand were unwilling to comment on the possibility that he may have entered the kingdom or used it as a transit point, reported AFP. “Now it becomes a cross-border case and it is formally up to the Interpol to deal with the process,” said Captain Koe Myo, head of police in the area of Yangon where Mr Ferguson's body was found. Police have taken statements from Mr Ferguson's wife, a Thai woman with whom he has a young child, and Mr Binotti's partner. Mr Binotti is thought to be from Dumfries but also lived in Aberdeen. His Facebook page suggests he worked as a ski holiday representative in France, for a travel company in Greece and as an assistant manager at a rural Scottish hotel before moving to south east Asia to teach. The owner of the Balcary Bay Hotel in Dumfries and Galloway confirmed to The Independent that Mr Binotti had worked there for "a couple of weeks" in 2014, but "it hadn't worked out". He did not go into details about why Mr Binotti's employment had not been continued, but said the young man "had a few problems". At the weathered, three-block building in downtown Yangon where Mr Binotti lived, neighbours recalled hearing two men fighting early Saturday. “I heard their cries, saying: 'Go, go,' but I can't understand the rest as it was in English,” Myint Myint, an elderly woman who lives on the ground floor, told AFP. “I heard them throwing things. I think it happened around 4 am [on Saturday]. Then they became silent.” The victim had worked at Horizon International for a year while the suspect had been there for around three months, a school spokesman said. Shahriyor Turgunov, the school’s director of studies, said the news of Ferguson's death had caused him a “hard blow to his chest and his head”. Due to a general decline in Google+ numbers, the Private Tye feed will no longer be available at Google+. However, Private Tye is available at both the web page and facebook, where readership numbers continue to increase. Go here for the facebook feed The Chinese suggestion that Cambodian Soldiers should wear uniforms was greeted with skepticism by the Cambodian Defense Minister. The Khmer (Cambodian) Empire was established by warriors that fought in the nude. The sight of fifty thousand naked Khmer men so terrified the Thais and Chams that they instantly fled the battlefield. However, the Chinese sailor told the Minister that times have changed and that we were now living in a world of pornography on the internet. Anybody can see fifty thousand nude Cambodian men just by spending the afternoon surfing the world wide web, he explained. Its just not as scary as it used to be, he continued. It is unclear whether the Defense Minister was convinced and, therefore, uncertain what a Cambodian Army will look like the next time they go to war with Thailand. The other story from VOA (21 Oct)
China Increasing Military Aid to Cambodia, Jets Pledged The announcement came as Chinese and U.S. navy vessels docked in Cambodia in a symbolic gesture of support. PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s defense minister has said that the military plans to buy fighter jets from China to upgrade its aging air force. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Defense Minister Tea Banh said before the deal could go ahead the government would first seek to improve its air defense system with Chinese assistance. His remarks followed a meeting with Wang Hong Li, an officer in China’s naval task force, and just days after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first visit to Phnom Penh as head of state. Tea Banh, who recently returned from a security meeting in Beijing, said, “We will [first] defend aerospace, rather than expand the air force. The next step will be the air force.” He added that during his visit to Beijing he had signed several military aid agreements with China aimed at modernizing Cambodia’s armed forces, without providing details. The announcement came as Chinese and U.S. navy vessels docked in Cambodia in a symbolic gesture of support. Kung Phoak, president of the Cambodian Institute for Strategic Studies, said it was “not strange” that Cambodia was making moves to update its crumbling military sector, but cautioned against overspending. China is Cambodia’s largest donor and lender, providing about $15 billion over the past 20 years. During President Xi’s visit to Cambodia last week, it wrote off about $90 million in debt and pledged another $230 million in loans, as well as $15 million in military aid. Meas Ny, an analyst of Cambodian affairs, said Cambodia should strengthen its armed forces to protect the country in an increasingly unstable world. However, he said Cambodia’s small economy meant even donations of military hardware often led to more borrowing and rising debt. “Before we got planes but had to borrow money to buy gasoline [to fly them]. That’s something the government should be thinking about,” he said. The announcement came as Chinese and U.S. navy vessels docked in Cambodia in a symbolic gesture of support. Kung Phoak, president of the Cambodian Institute for Strategic Studies, said it was “not strange” that Cambodia was making moves to update its crumbling military sector, but cautioned against overspending. China is Cambodia’s largest donor and lender, providing about $15 billion over the past 20 years. During Xi’s visit last week, it wrote off about $90 million in debt and pledged another $230 million in loans, as well as $15 million in military aid. Meas Ny, an analyst, said Cambodia should strengthen its armed forces to protect the country in an increasingly unstable world. However, he said Cambodia’s small economy meant even donations of military hardware often led to more borrowing and rising debt. “Before we got planes but had to borrow money to buy gasoline [to fly them]. That’s something the government should be thinking about,” he said. The dismissal of Fiona MacGregor, formally a journalist with the Guardian, prompted a statement of dismay from the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. The statement included the following: Ms. MacGregor, who has worked for the Myanmar Times since 2013, says she was told by the paper's management that her reports had breached company policy, by damaging national reconciliation and the paper's reputation. She was sacked four days after the Myanmar government spokesman, Zaw Htay, accused her of bias on his Facebook page. The Ministry of Information is also reported to have complained about her articles directly to the Myanmar Times.
The photograph and caption above are taken from Aung San Suu Kyi's keynote address for UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day, held in Yangon May 2015. Private Tye has been skeptical about Suu Kyi's sincerity for a long time, especially with regard to the Rohingya and Muslims. Private Tye readers are invited to make up their own minds about whether this was biased reporting. MacGregor's report in the Mayanmar Times was as follows: Dozens of Muslim women have allegedly been raped by state security forces in northern Rakhine State during counter-insurgency operations there, according to rights groups citing “credible” sources. Tight military controls in the region, including shutting out international humanitarian organisations, means independent verification has not been possible. Around 30 women are reported to have been raped by security forces in a single village on October 19, according to Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, a Rohingya rights organisation. Ms Lewa said she had also received additional reports of five girls aged between 16 and 18 being raped in another village on October 25 and two women at another location on October 20. On October 25, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) released a statement saying it was “extremely concerned” over at least 10 alleged rape cases that had been documented by civilians in Maungdaw township since the military operation had begun there, including one woman who was three months pregnant and later suffered a miscarriage. “The Burmese government is deliberately violating international law and committing crimes that it promised the world they would refrain from,” said U Kyaw Win of the BHRN, referring to the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. The reports of widespread sexual assaults come as security forces in the area hunt for those behind three deadly attacks on border police posts on October 9, believed to have been carried out by Rohingya insurgents. Ms Lewa said, “[The security personnel] look down on women and Rohingya women in particular. These women are very vulnerable, especially when the men have fled the villages.” A large swathe of northern Rakhine State has been under military lockdown since the October 9 attacks, with local residents reporting extrajudicial killings, torture, large-scale evictions, and the burning and looting of property. Many villages are reported by sources on the ground to be lying entirely empty, with an estimated 10,000 Rohingya people believed to have been displaced. In other villages men have fled fearing they will be accused of being insurgents and shot or arrested by authorities, leaving women vulnerable to assault, those sources on the ground have added. I nternational groups including the UN and INGOs have demanded that the government allow an independent investigation into the series of alleged human rights violations emerging from northern Rakhine State. Authorities have denied that rights abuses are being perpetrated, and reports have remained impossible to independently verify as even humanitarian and aid organisations are being denied access to the area, where food and medical supplies are running low for tens of thousands of people. Following calls from UN human rights experts for access to the area, President’s Office spokesperson U Zaw Htay told The Irrawaddy on October 25, “We haven’t done anything lawless.” Women’s rights organisations have published numerous reports detailing incidents of sexual assault and rape by the Tatmadaw, particularly in ethnic minority areas. Under the 2008 constitution members of the military have impunity for such crimes, something rights organisations have long demanded should be changed. “The Tatmadaw have a long and well-documented history of sexually abusing women in areas where they operate, so it’s shocking but not at all surprising that these kinds of reports about multiple rapes are coming out of northern Rakhine State. The question is what is [State Counsellor Daw] Aung San Suu Kyi and the government of Burma prepared to do about it because this is a real test of their political commitment to respect rights,” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division. Initial reports of the October 19 mass rape incident in U Shey Kya village began appearing on social media on October 21. The Rohingya Blogger website alleged it had received the names of at least 10 women, including two girls aged 15, who had been raped in that incident. However, Ms Lewa said two separate sets of research conducted by her organisation since then had found the number of alleged victims to been around 30. The names of about two-thirds of the victims have been recorded. The two sets of reports had been consistent with one another, she said, though she added that accounts had differed as to whether the alleged rapes were carried out solely by members of the military or whether members of the Border Police Force had also been involved. Social media have also included reports of rapes in recent days. The increasing reports of rape have added to further demands for immediate action. “First, the government needs to order the Tatmadaw to let the humanitarian agencies and international observers into these areas where the military is running roughshod over the Rohingya. And the government needs to immediately launch an independent investigation of these abuses, leading to the criminal prosecution of any soldiers found to have engaged in such abuses and commanders who looked the other way as their troops committed these crimes,” said Mr Robertson. “It will not pass the laugh test if the government lets the Tatmadaw respond by itself to these serious charges, because the military have regularly sought to cover up these kinds of crimes by their troops in the past.” Thai elephants have remained loyal to the Republican cause and have voiced support for Trump. Our reporter visited the elephant camps near Chiang Mai and found that all the elephants were trumpeting - indisputable evidence that they support the Republican candidate.
The elephant has been the symbol of the Republican party since the nineteenth century (nobody knows why) so their support should not be surprising. However, Trump has been getting support from all sorts of creatures great and small. Hun Sen, Cambodia's lovable Prime Minister, has just come out on the Trump side. Hindus both in America and India have been staging events for the Trump cause. However, if you think it is strange that Indians are supporting a candidate that appears to be a racialist, what is really weird is the results that have already come in from Israel. Israeli-Americans have voted 49% in favor of Trump (only 44% for Clinton). We guess that hatred of Islam Trumps everything. Here is the report from the Jerusalem Post: The total number of votes coming from Israel, 30,000, is significantly lower than voter turnout in Israel in 2012, which some say is because of the candidates running. Republican nominee Donald Trump won the US presidential vote among American citizens voting from Israel, according to an iVoteIsrael exit poll taken this week, but in an election plagued with low favorability ratings for both candidates, he had a far less impressive showing than past Republicans have in Israel. As The Jerusalem Post exclusively reported on Wednesday, Trump received 49% of the Israeli-American vote, while Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton got 44%, according to the poll conducted by get-out-thevote organization iVoteIsrael and KEEVOON Global Research. The majority of voters in Israel viewed the candidates unfavorably, with Trump receiving a 65% unfavorable rating and 32% favorable, and Clinton seen as 64% unfavorable and 34% favorable. In fact, 49% of voters in Israel said the main reason they chose their candidate was because of the “danger of electing the other candidate.” More Trump voters (60%) chose this reason than Clinton voters (39%). Despite Trump winning among Americans in Israel, more of them are registered Democrats (33%) than Republicans (27%). Of Trump’s votes in Israel, 25% came from Democrats, and 10% of Clinton’s votes came from Republicans. iVoteIsrael’s poll found the states evenly split between the two major-party candidates, with New York, New Jersey, California, Maryland and swingstate Florida going to Trump, and Michigan, Massachusetts, Illinois and swing-state Pennsylvania choosing Clinton. The votes from Ohio, another swing state, were tied at 44%. Trump’s margin of victory was larger among men only, 59% of whom voted for the Republican, while 52% of female voters chose Clinton. Younger Israeli-Americans tended to vote for Clinton, who was the choice of 60% of voters aged 25 to 34. Trump peaked with voters aged 65 and older, with 60% of their votes coming from Israel. Participants in the exit poll were asked whether they consider themselves secular, traditional, religious or ultra-Orthodox. Trump won overwhelmingly, with 85%, in the last category, and got 63% of votes from religious people, who made up half of the sample. Clinton received 75% of the secular and 54% of the traditional vote. Two percent of those polled were not Jewish. The most important issue for American voters in Israel, by far, was foreign policy (43%), followed by influence on the Supreme Court (10%), jobs and the economy (7%), terrorism and national security (6%), healthcare (2%), and illegal immigration (1%). Another 31% chose “other.” The iVoteIsrael data came from 1,140 of the respondents to a poll of absentee ballot voters, who were invited to participate via e-mail, and has a 3% margin of error. The sample was half male, half female, more than half of the respondents were over 55, 90% were dual Israeli-American citizens, and most had lived in Israel for more than 15 years. Another 197 people who did not vote were polled. Half of them said the reason they did not vote was because they didn’t send in their ballots on time. Another 21% said it was because they did not like either candidate, and 4% said “both candidates were equally good/bad.” iVoteIsrael and the US Vote Foundation each reported 15,000 Americans in Israel using their services. The total number of votes coming from Israel is significantly lower than voter turnout in Israel in 2012, when 80,000 Americans in Israel used iVoteIsrael’s voter aid services alone. First, become rich. Second, buy a BMW. Third, have breast implants and lots of plastic surgery. Fourth, become an Internet idol on Facebook. Fifth, scream at the police. Sixth, pretend you want to commit suicide. Seventh, tell somebody to bring your cigarettes and start smoking next to a damaged car leaking petrol. Eighth, pretend to pray and act crazy.
Do all this, and the Thai police will let you go without even giving you a breathalyser or any other test for sobriety. This is exactly what a woman known as “Millionaire Pretty”, in the media, did on Tuesday. So far, she has not been charged with any crime. Private Tye says “well done Pretty”. What's the point in becoming rich if you can not have a bit of fun driving your car into people? After all, the only person sent to hospital was a taxi driver, and they don't count for anything do they? You can watch Pretty's antics at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8nPeuxkJ10 Readers will be surprised to learn that Pretty is not an actress, but with acting abilities like these we are sure she will soon be a star on the Thai soap operas. The full story from Khaosod English: BANGKOK — Police did not conduct a sobriety test on a businesswoman who caused traffic mayhem in downtown Bangkok during Tuesday’s rush hour because she was meditating and could not communicate with officers, a policeman said Thursday. Kritrada Tabtimphol, who’s known online as a successful internet idol, was allowed to go to hospital without any charges, prompting fresh allegations police shielded her from the full force of law, similar to other cases of high-profile car accidents involving the rich and the privileged. As of Thursday, she had not been charged with any crime. “She was meditating at the scene,” said Papinawit Senaplaeng, an officer at Huai Khwang Police Station who oversaw the case. “She was out of her wits. She couldn’t give any testimony.” On Tuesday afternoon, the 28-year-old woman called “Millionaire Pretty” in the media crashed her BMW into eight cars on the busy Ratchadapisek Road, causing three injuries. Kritrada, who rose to online fame for her beauty product and modeling business, was seen behaving erratically and talking incoherently in the aftermath of the crash. At one point she appeared to be praying. A new traffic law requires police to test motorists involved in accidents for alcohol or drug use, Cpt. Papinawit said. Any refusal automatically leads to a charge of DUI, but he said the protocol did not apply to Kritrada. “No, no, no, it isn’t considered a refusal,” Papinawit said by telephone. “She couldn’t communicate [with police].” It was all tears and anguish at the Democratic Campaign office when the news broke that the Cambodian Prime Minister has opted to support Trump. Democratic Spokesman Fib Conthemall told reporters that the Democrats might not be able to continue without Cambodian support. Its so unfair, he said, Hun Sen was all smiles when Harpy Clinton visited Cambodia in 2012. She went to visit the Genocide Museum to learn more about torture and everybody was very friendly, now they do this to us.
The full story from Reuters: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday he wanted U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to win next week's election because Trump would reduce tension with Russia and be good for world peace. Hun Sen is a self-styled strongman whose has ruled for three decades. He has at times reacted angrily to U.S. concerns about the state of human rights and corruption in Cambodia. Most recently, the United States, European Union and United Nations have expressed concern about rising tension between Hun Sen's government and the opposition ahead of a general election in 2018. "I really want Trump to win," Hun Sen said in a speech to thousands of police officers at police academy ceremony. "If Trump wins, the world will change and may be in a good situation because Trump is a businessman so he doesn't want war ... there can be friendship between Trump and Putin," he said, referring to Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Putin has praised Trump as "very talented", while the Republican candidate has said the Kremlin boss is a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama. Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has accused Trump of being too cozy with Putin and questioned his business interests in Russia. Hun Sen, who has met Clinton on several occasions including twice when she visited Cambodia as Secretary of State, criticized the Democrat candidate saying she had advised Obama to launch attacks in Syria. He said the relationship between the United States and Russia may worsen if Hillary won next Tuesday. The then Soviet Union supported Cambodia for a decade after the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge were driven from power by Vietnamese forces in early 1979. The two countries have recently improved their relationship as Russia has taken steps to re-build ties in Southeast Asia. It was in May that a Private Tye exclusive revealed that Donald Trump was the reincarnation of the Hindu monkey god “Hanuman”. At that time everybody laughed. Now, with massive Hindu support, Hanuman/Trump is close to election victory. From all over the world, including Thailand, Hindus have come out in support of Trump. Like the chariots of Puri, the Hanuman/Trump machine rolls inexorably onwards. Gala Hindu concerts, Bollyood film stars and dancers have all been organized in support of Trump. There have even been reports of devotees throwing themselves under the wheels of the Trump campaign bus. In an earlier report, Private Tye suggested that Hilary Clinton might be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Kali, this was a mistake. She is, of course, a medieval Harpy. Harpy Clinton has no connection to Hinduism. In other news, the health of both candidates remains in question. Private Tye has evidence that both Hanuman Trump and Harpy Clinton consulted Dr Harold Shipman who is Britain's foremost expert on psychopaths.
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