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Klong Ong Ang plan only offers a band-aid solution at best
News, Published on 18/03/2017
» As a resident living near Klong Ong Ang, Kriengkrai Thaithong is keen to see the neighbourhood thrive after stalls and structures at the long-running Saphan Lek Market on the canal's banks were cleared by officials last year to make way for a cultural tourism project.
Laser scans unveil a network of ancient cities in Cambodia
New York Times, Published on 20/09/2016
» SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA - For decades, archaeologists here kept their eyes on the ground as they tramped through thick jungle, rice paddies and buffalo-grazing fields, emerald green and soft with mud during the monsoon season.
Setting wheels in motion to cheer housebound children
Spectrum, Published on 03/07/2016
» Saw Beebe lies flat on his stomach on the wooden floor of his family home. For the last three years, it is how he has spent most of his time.
At casket of leader, KNU looks to an uncertain fate
Spectrum, Published on 21/10/2012
» David Taw's untimely death last Sunday in a military hospital in Yangon may have finally brought peace to the Karen leader, but it leaves the political organisation he spent decades working for grappling with a divisive split that threatens to weaken and derail its ongoing peace talks with the Myanmar government.
A mercenary's tale
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 06/05/2012
» Peter Slade was once in prison for five years on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit another murder and attempting to overthrow a foreign government _ partly a victim, he says, of a corrupt Australian judicial system. He fought in the Vietnam War, was a security contractor in 1973 Rhodesia, a debt collector at home in Melbourne and as far afield as Nigeria, and arrived in reconstruction-era Cambodia and Iraq without connections but a desire to start anew, in stints that would last some seven years each. He witnessed first-hand the Bangkok coup that killed journalists Neil Davis and Bill Latch in 1985 and was on the beach in Patong the morning the tsunami struck Phuket in 2004.