Artist life under the Khmer Rouge regime

Dancers under the KR regime 06 March 2010 By Chan Lyda Radio France Internationale Translated from Khmer by Socheata The KR regime was a bitter historical regime for Cambodia. Some choose to remain silent to forget about their past, but for Mrs....

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Your Scene: Catch of the day in Cambodia

Source: Los Angeles Times (California, USA) As Paul Prewitt of Laguna Beach watched from the shores of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, a woman and her children floated by with this reptilian passenger. “I wasn’'t...

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Cambodia drug-resistant malaria stirs health fears

Sat Mar 6, 2010 Thin Lei Win PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available. Ravaged...

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Thai rice farmers fret about free trade 3/7/2010 Agence France-Presse For many farmers in Thailand's rice belt, agreements between Asian countries to reduce trade barriers have not brought all the benefits that national leaders promised. "We...

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Global Witness urges Cambodia’s donors to condemn sponsorship of military units by private businesses

Press Release – 05/03/2010 Source: Global Witness "Since the end of Cambodia's civil war, the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces has operated as a vast organised crime network" - Gavin Hayman, Campaigns Director at Global WitnessAid donors to Cambodia,...

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Third Year Maha Ghosananda Celebration

Click on the announcement in Khmer to zoom in WHEN: Saturday 20 March 2010 - Starting from 6PM Sunday 21 March 2010 - Starting from 9:30AM WHERE: Khmer Palelai Buddhist Monastery 240 Greenwich St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 ------The Biography of Samdech...

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Mu Sochua: anticipating jail

Mu Sochua in Geneva, Switzerland. (William Dowell/GlobalPost) The Cambodian activist and politician sees a jail sentence as the next step in her struggle. March 6, 2010 By William Dowell GlobalPost GENEVA, Switzerland — Mu Sochua, one of the more...

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Is the Foreigners’ Imposition on Cambodians to Stop Using the Word Yuon a Form of Colonialism of the Mind? By Kenneth T. So

Dear Readers, I assume by now most of you have read the article “Yuon: What’s in a Xenonym?” that was posted in the Phnom Penh Post (PPP) on February 8, 2010. Since then, there were some comments made on the article, specifically those made by Mr....

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Watchdog slams Cambodia's military funding plan

03/06/2010 Agence France-Presse PHNOM PENH – A corruption watchdog on Saturday condemned a Cambodian government plan to use private businesses to sponsor the country's military units. London-based Global Witness said the plan announced by Cambodian...

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Hope remains for ailing Cambodian toddler [-Let's hope Socheat will be able to get her much needed surgery!]

3-year-old Socheat at her arrival in the US (Photo: Long Beach Press Telegram) 03/05/2010 By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer Long Beach Press Telegram LONG BEACH - Unwilling to give up just yet on the future of a young patient, representatives from a...

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Angkor: How can a UNESCO site keep tourist temple raiders in check?

Image credit: Angkor Wat (Workbook Stock/Thomas Kokta/Getty Images) Fri Mar 5, 2010 By Sarah Dowdey Discovery News It only takes a quick Google image search to understand why Angkor, the Khmer empire's ancient seat, makes plenty of "must-see" travel...

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