Kompong Speu: Under the high temperature of the sun in a large paddy, the female child, Reaksmey, and her younger sister Somaly, with red kramas with white stripes around their heads, held sickles to bend down to harvest rice, sweating profusely, behind their house in Leak Anloung village, Rolaing Chek commune, Samraong Torng district, Kompong Speu province. But the two siblings did not complain about this hard work compared with the work they did when they were children.

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