"Love for Auction": When art imitates real life's "Love for Sale" in Cambodia?
For auction in the TV show: Miss Nuon Neang Lom-orng, asking price starting from $1 million
Young Cambodian girls are routinely sold to the sex industry by their poor parents.Cambodian censors axe 'love for auction' TV series
Thursday, September 16, 2010
AFP
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia on Thursday cancelled a TV mini-series about a beautiful woman whose suitors have to bid for her hand in marriage at auction -- with a starting price of one million dollars.
The Ministry of Information ordered the Cambodian Television Network (CTN) to stop showing the popular film series "Strange Lovers" because it was "totally opposite to good Cambodian tradition."
It "seriously affects the reputation and dignity of Cambodian women as well as drawing a lot of reaction from the audience," a statement from the ministry read.
The Ministry of Information ordered the Cambodian Television Network (CTN) to stop showing the popular film series "Strange Lovers" because it was "totally opposite to good Cambodian tradition."
It "seriously affects the reputation and dignity of Cambodian women as well as drawing a lot of reaction from the audience," a statement from the ministry read.
