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  • Duo helping Cambodias street orphans - The Border Mail

    Kate Barrette Cummins and her daughter Millie Cummins, 11, will host an exhibition on Friday of Cambodian art to raise money for street children in that country. Picture: BEN ...

  • I Tested Out Three of Cambodias Spiritual Practices - VICE

    Vitray's first memories are of the tent cities in Thailand where Cambodian refugees found safety during the killing-fields era of the Khmer Rouge regime. Vitray was one of the lucky ones, as his family eventually managed to emigrate to America-to a Nashville ghetto plighted by bullets and crack cocaine. At 24, he traveled to Phnom Penh to get engaged. A handsome American citizen, he was ...

  • Health sites too complex full of cliches study

    By Ivan Oransky NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate. She played the role of a "salty tongue," a Cambodian expression that paints outspokenness in a positive light. But even though the patient's family was in the room when doctors took the ...

  • HAGL boss denies NGOs accusations of Laos-Cambodia land grab - eco-business.com

    Doan Nguyen Duc, chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Corporation, has rejected all accusations made against his company of deforesting and appropriating land in Laos and Cambodia by the NGO Global Witness, calling them ';groundless.'; The organisation recently released a report titled ';Rubber Barons'; – apparently a play on ';robber barons'; which refers to ...

  • A Tale of Two Factory Disasters What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh - TIME

    stroke of luck that the number wasn't much higher. Then, on Monday, ten more workers in Cambodia, including a pregnant woman, were injured when an outdoor platform where workers took breaks toppled over. The incidents linked two low-income countries whose export-driven garment and footwear industries supplying major international brands were already being discussed together - but as ...


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Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham, a culture-clash sports comedy about the difficulties faced by young women who dont embrace their traditional roles and just want to play soccer (I mean, football), was a sleeper hit in England last year and has become a word-of-mouth hit in the U.S. ever since its release a few months ago. Its success on both shores is not particularly surprising since it offers the k ... ...

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  • Cambodian researchers musicians revive ancient harp - Radio Australia

    It's shown as being played by maidens on the walls of the great Angkor Wat.But no modern ear has known the sound of the pin, until recently.Now, thanks to the work of Cambodian researchers and musicians, the sound of Angkor Wat's lost harp will be heard ...

  • Cambodians mark Anger Day

    16/09/2012 16:31 CET At the Choeun Ek memorial site, Cambodians marked Anger Day on May 20 – with re-enactments of Khmer Rouge torture and executions. Choeun Ek, from 17 kilometres south of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, is one of the sites known as the Killing Fields – where the Khmer Rouge executed over more than a million people between 1975 and ...

  • More Than 20 Injured in Cambodian Garment Factory Accident

    PHNOM PENH--More than 20 people were injured Monday when a rest area outside a Cambodian garment factory collapsed and fell into a pond, adding to recent worries about safety in the country's garment sector. The incident came just a few days after portions of another Cambodian garment factory collapsed, killing three people and injuring several others. The Cambodian incidents follow ...

  • Second Cambodian factory collapse injures 23 workers who produce clothes for ... - NEWS.com.au

    A COLLAPSING structure injured 23 workers Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for fashion brand H&M, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial ...

  • Khmer Rouge victims remembered

    Cambodian students re-enact torture executed by the Khmer Rouge during their reign of terror in the 1970s to mark the annual "Day of Anger" at Choeung Ek, a former Khmer Rouge "killing field" dotted with mass graves, south Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, May 20, 2013. Cambodian Buddhist monks, nuns, civil servants, students attend the annual 'Day of Anger' event to ...

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