Cambodia's 'fake' orphans - 8 Nov 2008

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I'm ambivalent about this piece. It can't fully decide if it's more upset about the fact that poor kids are being falsely described as orphans in order to lighten the purses of wealthy tourists, or because these kids are clearly being exploited for profit, and possibly even sexually abused.Still, the actual story is much, much better than the short abstract which accompanies the piece. more about "Cambodia's 'fake' orphans - 8 Nov 2008", posted with vodpod
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I'm ambivalent about this piece. It can't fully decide if it's more upset about the fact that poor kids are being falsely described as orphans in order to lighten the purses of wealthy tourists, or because these kids are clearly being exploited for profit, and possibly even sexually abused.

Still, the actual story is much, much better than the short abstract which accompanies the piece.

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Al Jazeera discovered that many of the children in the streets of Cambodia have been pretending to be orphans in order to gain the sympathy and lose change of wealthy tourists. From Pnomh Penh, Al...
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