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Holidays with a conscience |
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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Don’t just travel. Travel responsibly. Here are a couple of
hotels that offer the tourist with a conscience the opportunity to
help the disadvantaged in Cambodia while enjoying a holiday
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Cambodia keeps taking, gives little |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
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Why do the rich nations keep funneling millions of dollars every
year to a corrupt country like Cambodia? Each summer, at around
this time, for more than a decade, international donors have
pledged huge sums to prop up the impoverished Southeast Asian
nation. |
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Cambodia: Can't see the forest for the thieves |
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
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The latest report by illegal logging
watchdog Global Witness has received the highest accolade an
investigative NGO's work can receive from the Cambodian
Government: It has been banned. |
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Big oil in tiny Cambodia: The burden of new wealth |
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Saturday, 05 May 2007 |
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Still clawing its way out of the ruins of its brutal past, Cambodia has come face to face with an extraordinary new future: It seems to have struck oil. |
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Cambodia's cyclo drivers pedalling towards extinction |
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
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Phnom Penh's crowded streets have become the loneliest of places for the city's cyclo drivers as peddle-power is making way for a faster pace of life in the Cambodian capital. |
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'Where Elephants Weep': A Cambodian opera for modern times |
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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The opera begins with the haunting cry of a buffalo horn. Then one of Cambodia's master singers, Ing Sithul, begins to intone a love story in Khmer, a romance about a Cambodian-American rock producer who returns to his native land and falls in love with a pop/karaoke singer. |
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Hope revisited - Elegant hotels and cafes return to Phnom Penh |
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Sunday, 22 April 2007 |
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It's a late Saturday afternoon in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the waterfront along the Tonle Sap River is the place to be. |
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Trafficking crackdown in Cambodia |
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
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The Cambodian government has launched the country's first national task force to combat human trafficking. |
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Building Phnom Penh: An Angkorian heritage |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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Many Asian cities have laid claim to the title of "Paris of the East." During the 1930s, Phnom Penh's candidature was supported by no less a luminary than Charlie Chaplin, who described its orderly, tree-lined avenues as "little sisters" to the Champs-Elysées. |
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Return of the 'Monkey King' |
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Monday, 26 March 2007 |
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Cambodia's intricate dance tradition, with 4,000 different gestures, was nearly wiped out by Pol Pot. John O'Mahoney sees it rise from the ashes in the country's fire-ravaged theatre. |
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