How Government Works in Asia; Vol. 1

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“This is a story that’s been whipped up by my political opponents,” Lim El Djurado told reporters from his office in the Ministry of Social Affairs in Phnom Penh, “and I see no need to resign. It’s true that I am the publisher of two of our leading pornographic magazines, as well as their chief writer, but so what? I only write them at weekends, and without them I could not continue as a senior government minister, because I cannot live on my salary from the Department of Planning and Statistics.”

Lim was speaking after government attempts to confiscate pornographic magazines from Cambodian newsstands had led to the revelation that he was the publisher of Teenage Stimulation and Rooster. “My government salary is tiny, so what else is there but the pen? I spend Saturdays and Sundays writing the stories, in order to earn income for my two daughters to go to university, and they help with the design and layout before we send it to the printer. What is the problem? I don’t like writing about politics, but I do like writing about sex, and I feel shocked and afraid when somebody says I am doing something wrong. And besides, I don’t know what else to do on Saturdays and Sundays.”

(The Cambodia Daily, 11/2/05.)