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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mizhan" data-source="post: 480443" data-attributes="member: 7942">a friend emailed me this100 TV Channels For Only RM16..In Cambodia they have satellite tv too. They only pay USD5.00per month (or approx RM16.00 per month) for 100 channels. I was really surprised. Over here we pay over RM100.00 for a package with Astro and get less than 30 channels. How come?   Cambodia has much, much less infrastructure than us. They need to spend more to provide satellite tv services and yet they are about six times cheaper. And considering that they get about four times as many channels, you can approximately ‘compound’ their ‘cost advantage’ and say that they get 24 times more “value for money” than us in terms of paying for satellite tv (6 times cheaper price x 4 times more channels = 24 times more “value for money”)   In Malaysia we are being ripped off. Not just in paying for satellite tv but in many other things. I do smoke cigars, panatelas and cigarillos (not exactly in the Cohiba league but I like the ‘bau sedap’ ones). In Cambodia and Vietnam, imported cigars are half to one third the price we pay here. And what I would buy from the duty free shops at the airport or from Langkawi is sold by street vendors in Saigon.   In Saigon, a city of 8.6 million people, there are about four million motorbikes. A Made In China 120+ cc bike sells for USD500.00. That is about RM1600.00. Japanese bikes sell for USD1000 (RM3200) upwards. This is almost half the price in Malaysia.   There is no AP to import cigars in Cambodia or Vietnam. Obviously they do not have an import duty or tax regime to import motocycles either.   In Malaysia, we have the AP regime, the monopolies and the oligopolies which are granted so that the low can live high. At our expense. We are paying through our noses for no good reason to keep the few wallowing in excess (and condemning them to be vegetables). Of course you can hisap rokok daun tapi sampai bila kawan? More importantly why? Interestingly a brand new Camry selling everywhere at overseas market for RM65,000 only, but in Malaysia it is going for RM185,000 only. So the extra RM120,000 goes to whose pockets? So is Proton Saga, every unit sold at overseas markets is just about 1/2 the price of its local market!    We have even passed laws in our country that make it a criminal offence to have satellite dishes of more than 36 inches diameter. Sampai bila kawan? Another 5 years? 10 years? 50 years?  So what's the wrong with our goverment ?</blockquote>

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