Kereta Untuk Wakil Rakyat

Isu kereta yang digunakan oleh wakil rakyat di Malaysia kerap menjadi bahan cerita terutama menjelang pilihanraya. Tujuan berkereta untuk sampai ke destinasi. Minyak kereta wakil rakyat ditanggung oleh rakyat, duit rakyat. Ekonomi makin meleset. Rakyat kena berjimat. Wakil rakyat juga kena berjimat. Dicadangkan semua wakil rakyat pakai kereta kecil macam di atas.

In a file picture taken on August 21, 2009 Cambodian mechanic Nhean Phaloek sits in his self-designed home-made Angkor 333-2010 car at his house in Phnom Penh. -- PHOTO: AFP

PHNOM PENH - THE gold-coloured convertible turns heads on impoverished Cambodia's roads - not least because of creator Nhean Phaloek's outlandish claim that it can be operated telepathically.

'I just snap my fingers and the car's door will open. Or I just think of opening the car's door, and the door opens immediately,' says the 51-year-old as he proudly shows off the homemade car, named the Angkor 333-2010.

Onlookers gasp as he demonstrates the trick, and with the fibre-glass vehicle having cost him 5,000 dollars and 19 months of labour he is in no mood to reveal the remote control system behind it.

But as with a handful of other Cambodians who make their own curious cars, he dreams the two-seater will help foster an automobile industry in the country, still poor after decades of conflict.

'I am very excited and proud of this car because many people admire me and keep asking me about how I can make it,' he says, adding that it reaches speeds of up to 100kmh.

Kong Pharith, a 48-year-old former maths and physics teacher who has also produced his own car, says an auto industry is about to blossom in Cambodia. 'Our works will be part of a motivating force for the next generation to access new inventions and show the world that Cambodia has an ability to do what you think we cannot.' -- AFP