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After Building Collapse in Cambodia, Sadness and Relief for Workers

   Chhengpor Aun of the VOA Cambodian Service contributed to this report.
   SIHANOUKVILLE, CAMBODIA -- Nhor Sreyoun recruited her two younger
   brothers and sister-in-law to work with her on the construction site of
   a Chinese-owned building.
   That was in April.
   On Tuesday, seven people were charged in the fatal collapse of the
   building, hours after the three-day rescue operation to find survivors
   ended on Monday.

   Nhor Sreyoun told VOA Khmer that she was "full of regret" that her
   younger brother, Nhor Chanthorn,18, died six months before his planned
   wedding.
   Twenty-seven others died, and her other brother and a sister in-law are
   among at least 26 people seriously injured when the building collapsed
   Saturday morning, burying workers who lived on the worksite.

   "I should not have brought them here," said the 32-year-old Nhor
   Sreyoun from Tboung Khmum,apoor rural province in the Mekong River
   lowlands.

   Given the breakneck pace of Chinese-funded development in this once
   slow-moving coastal city that has become a boomtown filled with glitzy
   casinos catering to Chinese tourists, a building collapse seemed
   inevitable given lax permitting and more than a whiff of corruption.

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