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  Pot heads of the surfing gods

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 29/12/2013

  » For some, it was the time of their lives. Chasing double overhead barrels along the exotic surf beaches of Bali, where a few dollars would buy an abundance of marijuana and a lifestyle that was the stuff of big wave legends.

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  Pol Pot's henchmen damned by evidence

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 27/10/2013

  » For more than two years, the latest instalment of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has provided a blow-by-blow account of Pol Pot's bloody reign of terror and the inner workings of the political machine blamed for the deaths of between 1.7 million and 2.2 million people.

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  Youthful daring challenges the status quo and dirty tricks

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 28/07/2013

  » Throughout Cambodia's election campaign the politically outgunned opposition has put in an astonishing performance. Fuelled by youthful exuberance, flash mobs of up to 3,000 form and trumpet the virtues of change as supporters ride in twos, threes and fours, through the capital on motorbikes.

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  Savvy former PM looks set to stir up the hornet's nest

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 25/08/2013

  » After decades in the political wilderness, former Cambodian prime minister Pen Sovann will make his political comeback in late September when the National Assembly sits. He'll be seated opposite politicians he once worked with and some who deserted and betrayed him.

• THAILAND

  The great Cambodia land grab

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 19/05/2013

  » Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company has it now."

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  Gambling with Kampot's colonial charm

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 05/05/2013

  » Hidden in the clouds on a mountain overlooking the provincial capital of Kampot in Cambodia's south sits a relic of a long-gone French colonial era. For decades a Catholic church, possibly the oldest in the country, remained abandoned here as wars were waged for decades on the flat lands below.

• THAILAND

  Ly Yong Phat, the King of Koh Kong

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 03/02/2013

  » Thai-Cambodian relations have been defined high in the Dangrek Mountains ever since troops from both sides began clashing over the 12th century ruins at Preah Vihear five years ago. Further south, where the Kaoh Pao meets the Gulf of Thailand, it's a very different story.

• THAILAND

  Truth seeking's terrible toll: Seventies war reporters remembered

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 17/02/2013

  » The thinning ranks of war correspondents who covered the Indochinese conflicts prior to the communist takeovers of 1975, have rounded out a rare pilgrimage to Cambodia through a series of reunions and twin dedications to the fallen.

• THAILAND

  Fracks in the system

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 24/02/2013

  » Impoverished countries hoping to strike it rich by developing their limited oil and gas reserves are being urged to move quickly or risk having their expectations clipped by fracking, which is depressing market prices while adding life to old fields once thought to be exhausted.

• THAILAND

  2012 - When Asean felt Beijing's bite

  Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 30/12/2012

  » Twenty-twelve should be remembered as the year in which China acted on its long-standing claims in the South China Sea, took off the gloves and arraigned its intimidating military and diplomatic arsenal against its neighbours to the south. Gone were the usual glib lines that China only gives foreign aid and soft loans to countries in need, with no strings attached. Cambodia _ for years a benefactor of Beijing's largesse _ was bullied onto China's political front lines, acting as a spoiler against fellow Asean countries attempting to forge a united front against Beijing's territorial and maritime ambitions.

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