Tag: Cambodia
Cambodia Targeted by Globalists for “Color Revolution”?
Oct 2, 2017 | Essays, Asia Pacific, Politics
Prime Minister Hun Sen has acted to prevent Cambodia from becoming subservient to Washington, which makes his government a target for regime change.
Read MoreThe End of Nominal Democracy in Cambodia
Sep 15, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics
The CPP’s bullying of the press has set Cambodian democracy back decades and cemented the party as the dominant force of Cambodian politics.
Read MoreThe History of Economic Relations Between China and Cambodia
Mar 23, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business
Over the past two decades, as China has grown to become a global economic power, it has positioned itself as Cambodia’s most important economic partner.
Read MoreGreece: Sound and Fury Signifying Much
Jul 15, 2015 | Europe, Viewpoints
The austerity agreements serve as a cover for the looting of the Greek people.
Read MoreInternational Realities and Philippine Foreign Policy Under Ferdinand Marcos
Oct 28, 2013 | Africa, Asia Pacific, Essays, Palestine, US
President Ferdinand Marcos managed to effectively meet the primary goals of Philippine foreign policy during his presidency.
Read MoreA Visit to The Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng Museum
Sep 17, 2012 | Asia Pacific, Culture
My destination was The Killing Fields, a lasting legacy of the auto-genocide planned and executed by the Khmer Rouge and its psychotic leader Pol Pot.
Read MoreKhun Khmer: Cambodian Martial Art Diary by Antonio Graceffo
Jan 28, 2012 | Asia Pacific, Reviews
American author Antonio Graceffo traverses Cambodia to reveal Bokator in Khun Khmer: Cambodian Martial Arts Diary.
Read MoreConvicted Sex Offender Arrested After Fleeing Investigation Into Cambodian ‘Charity’
Jul 1, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis
A British man who ran an unregistered charity outside of Phnom Penh was arrested by Royal Thai Police in Bangkok on Sunday after the London Daily Mirror exposed his prior conviction for the statutory rape of a 15 year old girl....
Read MoreHas Vietnam Lost the Struggle for Freedom?
Jun 10, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Essays
A “no win” policy was pursued to allow the communists (nationalists) to take Vietnam in its entirety to form a unified state. The motive of “no-win” war policy was to force Vietnam seek credit and economic development via international finance.
Read MoreA beautiful Khmer baby named Ann Marie
Apr 30, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis
Twenty days after Ann Marie was born, her mother passed away from AIDS-related complications. There is a high probability that Ann Marie is HIV positive. It is hoped that she has relatives who may come to visit her one day, but this is not a certainty because none of her relatives know where she is.
Read MoreGetting My Butt Handed to Me
Apr 18, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Culture
Forget the black belt tests. How do you grade yourself? After all, the only grading that matters is the one you give yourself.
Read MoreALG Khmer Language Picture Story
Mar 30, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Culture
Linguist and author Antonio Graceffo uses ALG concepts to learn Khmer language through picture stories. The pictures and an English retelling of the story create a context to make the foreign language input comprehensible. There is no actual translation, but there is contextualization.
Read MoreLearning A Language Through Another Foreign Language
Mar 15, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Culture
Studying a foreign language through the medium of another foreign language appears to have a number of benefits.
Read MoreBook Review: Golden Leaf – A Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor
Feb 17, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Culture, Reviews
Golden Leaf wonderfully depicts the struggles and subsequent victories of a remarkable human being, and will inspire readers because it reaches deep into our souls.
Read MoreI Like My English Grilled: A Video Biography of Students in Rural Cambodia
Nov 30, 2009 | Asia Pacific
There were many things I really wanted to hear from the students. What did they love most about Cambodia? Where in the world did they want to visit? What were their ambitions?
Read MoreSmoky Mountain Estate – Returning to Steung Meanchey Waste Dump
Jul 29, 2009 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis
In the wet season of 2008, David Calleja presented A Garbage Diet. This provided an insight into Steung Meanchey, home to hundreds of residents living on a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For his second visit in January 2009 during the dry season, David joins members of the recently formed NGO named CHOICE, speaks with children and captures images of the site marked for closure, leaving residents facing an uncertain future.
Read MoreRemnants of the Khmer Rouge
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 MoreVan Nat, the Painter of S-21
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 MoreThe Anti-Empire Report
Mar 4, 2009 | Americas, Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints
William Blum’s Anti-Empire Report for March 2009
Read MoreThe Documentation Center of Cambodia
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.
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