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previously & previously, the media company founded by Al Gore after the 2000 election, has picked up the kinds of in depth long form journalism being rapidly dropped by major networks, but has been tantalizingly unavailable for those without cable; until now. They have been putting their Vanguard episodes up on their website and on YouTube.
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posted by Blasdelb
on Apr 30, 2011 -
24 comments
Sou Ootsuki has recently posted a
new version of his wildly popular
video* for
Nujabes'
* "Luv(sic) Pt.2". This time, rather than the streets of Japan, he filmed it in the villages of Cambodia. The result is similar, yet very, very different.
posted by Toekneesan
on Feb 10, 2011 -
7 comments
Joeurt Puk (aka Joe Cook) is the father of Cambodian baseball. In
this feature by ESPN, Patrick Hruby looks into Cook's background and finds that Cook may not be the tireless philanthropist he claims to be.
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posted by reenum
on May 19, 2010 -
6 comments
“I have seen many Anne Franks in Cambodia. ...Under Pol Pot, many children were separated from their families. They faced starvation and were sent to the front to fight and die,” she explains. “Like Anna, they never knew peace and the warmth of a home.”
Translated by
Sayana Ser with help from the Dutch embassy in Cambodia (Kampuchea, Khmer), The Diary of Anne Frank has now become one of the most popular and discussed books in this war-torn country.
posted by parmanparman
on Oct 7, 2008 -
7 comments
The 1960's and early 70's saw an explosion of creativity and an astonishing variety of stylistic influences coming together in the pop and rock music of Cambodia.Tragically, almost all of the artists of that era were executed (or otherwise perished) during the nightmarish Khmer Rouge years. The following
MySpace Music pages will help you to get acquainted with some of the wonderfully eclectic and adventurous music of this fertile period:
Pen Ron,
Yos Olarang,
Rous Sareysothea,
Sin Sisamouth,
Vor Sarun,
Houey Meas,
So Savoeun,
Eng Nary,
In Yeng,
Choun Malai,
Mao Sareth,
Sem Touch,
Chea Savoeun,
Toche Teng,
Teth Sombath,
Pen Rom,
Em Songserm and
Choun Vanna. Also, these related pages:
Cambodian Rock,
Radio Khmer Sitya,
Cambodian Style and
Cambodian Soundtracks.
NOTE: For personal recommendations, check the hover-overs accompanying each link.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Dec 15, 2007 -
38 comments
The modern slave trade is thriving. The Dept of State
estimates that 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are trafficked - brought across borders and forced to labor. Among them, DOS estimates, hundreds of thousands are minor children. Some of those children - as young as 5 years old - are being sold as slaves and
kept in cages while they are raped and sold for sex, some servicing as many as
30 men a day. They are bought for as little as $10 from
desperate parents. But all is not lost:
Somaly Mam, a former child prostitute, is the Mother Theresa of Southeast Asian child prostitutes, using
AFESIP as her vehicle for saving them.
Glamour awarded her their Woman of the Year honor, and she has been lauded in
other ways internationally. Cambodian sex traffickers weren't as happy with her, though - her opponents kidnapped her 14-year old daughter, held her hostage for days, and raped her. It's hard to be on the wrong side of this issue, but
some advocates raise a few hackles by claiming legalized prostitution and porn contribute to sex trafficking and child prostitution. Sex trafficking, and child prostitution, is a
sizeable problem in the US as well. Although trafficking is
illegal in the US, combating trafficking is tough in part because victims often fear authorities, personal reprisals, harm to their families at home, or even deportation (although special visas -
T visas - are available to them in certain circumstances). In Southeast Asia (and throughout the world), child sex tourism is even harder to stop.
posted by Amizu
on Jan 24, 2007 -
41 comments
60s/70s psych, crossover, beat, and a go-go from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam with band/music scene histories, streaming audio, cover art, etc. Part of a
large site devoted to 60s/70s progressive music around the world.
posted by carter
on Dec 8, 2005 -
15 comments
Angkor Wat guide. "Published in 1944 in Saigon, republished in 1948 and again in Paris in 1963,
The Monuments of the Angkor Group by Maurice Glaize remains the most comprehensive of the guidebooks and the most easily accessible to a wide public, dedicated to one of the most fabled architectural ensembles in the world." Now online, updated, with maps and photos. (More Angkor Wat links in
this previous post.) Via
Plep.
posted by languagehat
on Nov 14, 2005 -
12 comments
Angelina Jolie: Cambodian. Has anyone else noticed that the press doesn't really know what to make of her lately, if ever. I mean, she broke up Brad and Jen! But she does good work for humanity! But she's crazy and seems like she may have had sex with her brother! But she's a good actress! Who makes bad movies! Well, apparently Cambodia wants her. Cambodia and every 16-year-old boy on the planet, as well as most of the girls.
posted by maxsparber
on Aug 12, 2005 -
61 comments
A year ago, NYT reporter Nicholas Kristof purchased two Cambodian prostitutes (discussed
here).
Today, he's published an
update, along with a multimedia presentation about the girls' lives.
posted by mudpuppie
on Jan 19, 2005 -
19 comments
25 years in a non-existant war In 1979, a Khmer Rouge guerrilla fled to the hills of Cambodia when his village was attacked by Vietnamese troops. He and a small group of friends and family lived in the dense forests for 25 years, emerging in 2004 to discover that the war was over and that Pol Pot was dead. They had been fearful of any human contact, believing everyone to be the enemy.
posted by BradNelson
on Dec 8, 2004 -
17 comments
Buying prostitutes. Nicholas Kristof (of the
NY Times; reg. req.) bought the freedom of two young
Cambodian prostitutes in order to return them to their villages... but it wasn't as simple as you might think. It's easy to be cynical (yes, he's using it as grist for columns; yes, it's a drop in the bucket), but isn't it better than doing nothing? Anyway, it's a fascinatingly messy story. (He discusses why he picked these particular girls, and addresses some of the moral issues,
here—scroll down to January 20.)
posted by languagehat
on Jan 21, 2004 -
22 comments
The work of
Cambodia's Army of Peace is known throughout the world, and a
Southeast Asian Peace Army or Shanti Sena is in the works for 2002.
Gandhi called for a Shanti Sena for national defense in 1942. Because the Japanese did not invade, India has used a "Shanti Sena" for combatting riots rather than homelands defense. (The Rainbow Gathering also calls its security people
"Shanti Sena, or the Peace Army.")
A short history of grassroots initiatives in unarmed peacekeeping from 1932 to the Present" shows that many of the Peace Army initiatives preceded Gandhi.
Narayan Desai is one of Gandhi's successors. Californian
Sanderson Beck offers comprehensive links to religion, non-violence, and peace movements.
Peace Brigades International is known for its work in the Balkans, Colombia, Indonesia and the Middle East. Working directly on terrorism, as well as war, is the
Sarovodaya Movement of Sri Lanka. Prize for the most highly focused "Peace Army" goes to the
North Koreans. Governments always come up with money for soldiers, but they don't hire unarmed, non-violent peacekeepers. Howcome?
posted by sheauga
on Mar 2, 2002 -
7 comments
Animals thought extinct found in remote Cambodian jungle: British scientists have found a wilderness in the Cardamom region of Cambodia where exotic species, some though to be
extinct, have been found. These include the Siamese
crocodile, the wolf snake (a new species so named because of
its dog-like fangs), large populations of tigers and Asian
elephants, and the gower, a forest cow. Ironically, the habitat was protected from significant human
intrusion because it was a longtime Khmer Rouge stronghold
and also because routes lead to and from it are landmined.
posted by jhiggy
on Oct 5, 2000 -
6 comments
