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While the Spanish may lend one kind of support, other countries are also ponying up. The German government has donated 7.6 million Euro (about US... more

I would love someone to explain THIS to me? A story titled, "Cambodia, U.S. joining hands in migration, trafficking issues" talks about a meeting between the Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey where the Cambodians enjoyed no shortage of great praise for work well done. Toward... more

Continued from here ... On the up side, this article gives a look at some terrific people really helping.

A survivor of Cambodia's notorious Killing Fields era, Phaly Nuon is a woman that has woven the painful bits of her life into a successful retail silk business that has expanded from her home in Phnom Penh to Hawaii's... more

Continued from here ... Oh! Oh! Here's something that won't help, either"

The Cambodian government must do more to help more than 1.4 million of the country's children estimated to be working, many for 50 cents a day or less, the World Bank said in a report released Wednesday.

The... more

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KHMER ROUGE TRIALS:

The Washington Post has a good article on how victims of the Khmer Rouge are losing hope that justice may still come to pass.

Rather than providing a promised airing of truth, the proceedings have become mired in a debate over legal standards that... more

Here's a story I never thought I'd see coming out of Cambodia: the country is seeing a cold snap. Yep, according to their director of meteorology, Cambodia is experiencing the coldest weather in twenty-seven years with temps down to the mid-40s.

Krang Karath, a Phnong chief in the northeast province of Mondolkiri, which had some of the most extreme cold last week,... more

Reporters Without Borders has released their annual reports on press freedom in countries around the world, a clear indicator of what life is actually like in places from which we often only see glossy, sanitized and premasticated versions. This information gives a clue as to how accurate a picture we're getting of what's going on. Many countries and all regions have been looked at, but I'll concentrate here on those I know readers have adopted from ...

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Cambodia has already been plopped into the US Presidential race. An opinion piece in the LA Times is titled "Bill Richardson, Iraq withdrawl (sic), and the Cambodia factor" and is well worth a read. Who says people get smarter as they get older? ... more

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Landmines are always a factor in Cambodia. Here's a story about children injured, and here's another that reports seven deminers killed.

"Cambodia's Landmine... more

Because I caved to a pressing need to rant, last week's Cam news update didn't happen. My chickens have come home to roost ... minus the H5M1 virus, hopefully ... and I'm up to my beak in items of interest, and I'll feel totally derelict if I don't share immediately.

Surprisingly for the region, Cambodia is on the leading edge of technology ... at least when it comes to passports. The country is going to be... more