Remnants of the Khmer Rouge
While S-21 is the most infamous of Khmer Rouge prisons, the KR maintained more than one hundred other prisons in Cambodia, of which there is only one survivor.
Read MoreAntonio Graceffo, PhD, China-MBA is the author of seven books about China and Southeast Asia. He has worked as a lecturer and as a program director of business education and research for joint venture universities in China. Antonio holds a PhD from Shanghai University of Sport, where he wrote his dissertation, in Chinese. In addition, Antonio received his China-MBA, from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and is currently completing a second PhD at School of Economics Shanghai University, specializing in China –US Trade, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and Trump-China economics. His China economic reports are published at The Foreign Policy Journal and The Shanghai Institute of American Studies, a China government think tank.
Posted by Antonio Graceffo | Mar 20, 2009 | Asia Pacific |
While S-21 is the most infamous of Khmer Rouge prisons, the KR maintained more than one hundred other prisons in Cambodia, of which there is only one survivor.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Mar 19, 2009 | Asia Pacific |
Van Nat was taken to S 21, where he was also tortured, and where he was still not informed of charged against him. One-day, guards took him from his cell and locked him in a workshop, where he was instructed to paint a portrait of Pol Pot.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Mar 1, 2009 | Asia Pacific |
The history of the archives was a fascinating tour through the history of political intrigue which plagues Cambodia’s past.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Feb 24, 2009 | Asia Pacific |
Toul Sleng Prison, also called S-21, is the name of the Cambodian Genocide Museum, and it is one of the largest tourist attractions, after Angkor Wat.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Feb 20, 2009 | Asia Pacific |
Aki Ra risks his life and freedom in the face of political pressure in order to help landmine victims. He dreams of a day when there will be no more mines in Cambodia.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Feb 12, 2009 | Culture |
No matter what your native tongue, no matter where you come from, or what rock in a remote cave you crawled out from under, you have been exposed to English your whole life.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Jan 19, 2009 | Asia Pacific, Culture |
Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, is a Mon Khmer language, which has roots in Sanskrit and Pali, two very ancient Indian languages. Said another way, it was completely different than any language I had ever studied.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Jan 19, 2009 | Culture |
Now that I am a teacher, I understand what the nuns were saying back in grade school. They were saying, “Children learn by listening, not by speaking.” But I couldn’t hear them, because I was too busy talking.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Jan 3, 2009 | Asia Pacific, Culture |
Eh Phou Thoung and Oed Phuo Thoung are Cambodia’s champion fighters but they live in squalor and obscurity.
Read MorePosted by Antonio Graceffo | Jan 2, 2009 | Culture |
There is no set recipe. Language is About Talking and Listening.
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