Posts Tagged ‘ cambodia ’

ctrp369 Modern War over Ancient Land

ctrp369 Modern War over Ancient Land

February 28, 2011

The Preah Vihear temple is piece of world heritage dating back to the 9th century. But the war being fought over who controls it between Combodia and Thailand is going on right now in 2011. This past month saw more fighting between both nation's military, with a number of casualties,...

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Killing Fields Survivor

Killing Fields Survivor

March 23, 2009

As I type this entry I'm listening again to a recent episode of CBC radio's The Current podcast.  It is a profoundly sad and important interview with a Cambodian man (now living in Canada) who survived 4 years in the killing fields during the Khmer Rouge regime. There are...

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bmtv87 Killing Fields and S21 Vlog

July 11, 2008

Im still getting over jetlag and settling in here in the US. In the meantime here is a video entry recorded in Cambodia last month. It features my visit to the killing fields and the s21 torture prison.

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bm267 Empowering Cambodian Children with Friends International

June 18, 2008

Friends International is a very unique organization doing some very revolutionary work in an often overlooked part of the world with the most overlooked people on this planet- street children. While in Phnom Penh I stumbled upon one of their restaurants by luck and asked about doing an interview. ...

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bm266 Finding Cambodia’s Lost Culture

June 13, 2008

Bophana is an organization based in Phnom Penh, dedicated to finding and archiving video, audio, and text documentation of Cambodian culture.  Throughout the decades of war and the destructive Khmer Rouge regime, much of the nation's audio-visual archives were lost. But Bophana has taken on the task of gathering...

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