Fatts,

you seem to have missed out the "million" from the Bangkok Post report (or at least the on-line version)!

While 223 million US$ makes up 20% of the Cambodian overall government expenditure, it is still a long way from the 4.5 billion US$ approved for this year by the Council for National Security (CNS) last year under the military government - a 24% increase (and usually 30% of the Thai government's overall expenditure).