Stand up Cambodia!

A disabled German volleyball player before his team's game against Slovakia during WOVD World Cup in Cambodia, Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh, 14.12.2009. Read more

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God child

Tep Sareth, 21, claims he woke up one day at the age of 13 with the power to predict the future. Now, in his home province Svay Rieng, Cambodia, he's reffered as a "god child". "I cannot make things happen, I can only say what will and won't happen offering advice on how to escape bad fortune", he explains. In the process he seems to have secured himself a lucrative business. He earns up to 300$ a week telling the futures of rich and poor alike, while his mother sells special packs of herbal brews for 1.20$ each. A monk at a local pagoda remains sceptical: "People believe what they will, but this is not Buddhism".

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