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...Undiscovered Country To witness this awakening up close, I recently borrowed a wreck of a bicycle for a slow ride through the sleepy Cambodian seaside town of Kep, near the Vietnamese border. After limping along the potholed coastal road past unkempt plots of oceanfront land with crumbling colonial-era manses, I stopped to look at a billboard - the only one in sight. On it was a picture of a home that would not have looked out of place in a Denver subdivision. A young man pulled up on a motorbike next to me. "You want to buy?" he asked...
...Stability has been slow to return to Kep and to the country as a whole. But today nearly every Asian nation has a stake in Cambodian industries, from hydroelectric dams to oil exploration to real estate development. In Kep, three Modernist homes have been restored into Knai Bang Chatt, a striking boutique hotel owned by two Belgians. At the other end of town, the early 20th century La Villa de Monsieur Thomas is being revamped into a five-star resort by a Khmer developer. And in February, Sokimex, a powerful Cambodian company that imports most of the nation's petroleum...
...killing fields" is how Cambodian-born photojournalist Dith Pran described the grim heaps of human remains strewn across his homeland by the Khmer Rouge--a name later given to the 1984 Academy Award--winning film that depicted his 4 1/2 year struggle to survive as a prisoner of the brutal communist regime. A photographer and an interpreter for New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose work was the basis for the film, Dith was captured after staying in Phnom Penh to help document the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. When he escaped in 1979, he moved to New York City...
...student, at the Children's Defense Fund, as First Lady of Arkansas, in the White House and the Senate. "She is the best candidate for President I've ever had a chance to support," Clinton says. A list follows: She supported Senegalese women victimized by genital multilation; she inspired Cambodian women to work for education for their daughters; she worked on health care programs for poor American kids; registered voters in dusty Texas towns; toiled for peace in Ireland... "All her life she has been an agent for change," Clinton says...
...Thirty years have passed. But what happened then remains alive for me.' SIN KHOR, Cambodian whose husband and two brothers were killed under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, speaking at the first public session of a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal to try the country's former leaders in Phnom Penh...