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Cambodia after the killing fields
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA muddy, weed-choked field in the hills of northern Cambodia is the last resting place of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, chief instigator of a communist regime that enslaved a nation, dismantled its social and cultural institutions and took the lives of 2...Tags: Heart Attack, Norodom Sihanouk, Southeast Asia, Trials, Politics
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Education Matters: Let Cambodia teach us a lesson
Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...Tags: Indigenous People, Layoffs and Downsizing, Interior Policy, Unemployment, Unions
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Need an Asian language interpreter, teacher or city navigator? There's an app for that
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIf language limitations have kept Asia off your destination list, smart-phone applications can help you overcome those barriers. Before you go abroad, try testing apps that use the Internet or GPS to determine how much data roaming they do. Adding an...Tags: Hong Kong, Real Estate, Computer Networking and Internet, Beijing (China), Hotels and Accommodations
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Vietnam's Phu Quoc island slowly opening up to the world
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDuring the four years I lived in Hanoi, where I was The Times' bureau chief in the late 1990s, I did a pretty good job of getting around Vietnam and exploring new places, from Can Tho in the southern Mekong Delta to Sapa on the northern border with China....Tags: Hong Kong, China, Natural Resources, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Fishing
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Ellendale, N.D.: Students donate $12,000 for Cambodia Bible school
Students at Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, N.D., have donated $12,005.60 to help build a dormitory at a Cambodia Bible school. The money was raised in just a few months, according to the Dickey County Leader.Tags: Bible, Religious Texts, Human Interest
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Traveling abroad? For information, check with the country's tourist office
For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is through their website only. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-...Tags: Cuba, Madagascar, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda
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Flight, hotel and restaurant info for Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia
From LAX, Korean, Asiana, Thai, China Southern, China Airlines, Malaysia and EVA Airways offer connecting service (change of plane) to Phnom Penh. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $1,376, excluding taxes and fees. Asiana, Korean Airways and China...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, China, Restaurants, Malaysia, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Journeys Within: a tour company in Cambodia, a helping hand in Cambodian communities
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFifty years of civil war have left Cambodia a desperately poor and damaged nation with about a third of its 15 million people below the poverty line and a per capita gross domestic product of $739 a year. When Brandon and Andrea Ross started Journeys...Tags: International Travel, Water Restrictions, Southeast Asia, Hands, Utah
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Cambodia: killing fields timeline
Special to the Los Angeles Times1925: Saloth Sar, alias Pol Pot, born in central Cambodia. 1949: Pol Pot goes to Paris where he joins a group of young Cambodian revolutionaries, most of them Marxists. 1953: France grants independence to Cambodia under King Norodom Sihanouk; Pol Pot...Tags: Coup d'Etat, Heads of State, Norodom Sihanouk, Hun Sen, Politics
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Something to squawk about
You'd think at an election for schools the talk would be about schools, but at least in the Petoskey ward I worked election day it had plenty to do with chickens, hens specifically. Yes, the topic of the day was the flips, flops, squawks and turmoil...Tags: Minority Groups, New York, Natural Resources, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden
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Monster Mash: Hillary Clinton visits genocide museum in Cambodia; René Pape bows out of La Scala production
Culture MonsterOfficial visit: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia as part of her two-week trip to Asia. (Agence France-Presse) Bowing out: Bass René Pape has withdrawn from a new production of Wagner's "Die Walküre".....
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