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Priscilla

Hello everyone,

Living in Cambodia means learning new ways of doing things and incorporating to your daily life unique practices.

We invite you to share unique practices, tools or methods that could also make a difference in other countries.
Here are a few examples of the best practices found throughout the world. In France, a health chipcard makes medical procedures easier and faster. In Japan's train stations people queue patiently and orderly. In most parts of North America drivers can turn right at a cross road, even if the traffic light is red. And many countries manage their waste with sorting techniques and colored bins.

What about you? have you found innovative and useful practices or services that make daily life simpler in Cambodia?

Thank you for your contribution.

Priscilla

pubarang

Hi, well yes in Cambodia sanitation engineers
have done away with the unsightly nuisance of garbage cans and replaced them with random littering.

pubarang

Now there is no longer any need to keep those smelly beer cans and plastic bags inside your car until you get home
  Just simply chuck them out the window along the roadside and let feral wildlife do your job for you.  Now there's no longer any need to place those smelly cans on the sidewalk near the curb and deprive the well-to-do of a parking space.  Yep, no doubt about it, the rest of the world can learn a thing or three from their progressive Khmer neighbors.

hotpeppers69

Here's another practice that shows how much Western medical science os lagging behind traditional Khmer medical treatment.  When Dengue Fever breaks out I'm our small village the locals quite astutely deal with it in the following way.  They build a scarecrow (ting mong) and place it at the entrance to their house to scare away"the evil spirit",of Dengue Fever.  This is a multipurpose scarecrow.  If a replica of a firearm is placed im its straw stuffed hands it will scare away potential thieves and robbers.  After a Water Festival in Phnom Penh when a bridge swayed causing many deaths the scarecrows were once again built to keep the departed souls from entering the bodies of the inhabitants in the house.

Now I ask you, has medical science ever produced such a multipurpose vaccine?  I think not.

ruvanes

look both ways at least 5 times before crossing the street. It's like the old video game "frogger"
Just because a khmer says "yes" to your question, does not really mean "yes"
it's quite possible they don't understand. Esp Tuk Tuk/Moto drivers

Whenever possible, break down big bills into smaller ones.

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