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Cambodia’s Bonn Om Touk Festival

A River Runs Through It: Cambodia’s Splashy Bonn Om Touk Festival By Dagmar Busshoff Fluttering flags embroider the waterfront. Laughing workmen carry hundreds of strings of whitCambe mini-lights to drape every imaginable surface along the quay. The atmosphere is as electrifying as the lights, though, for I can feel the…

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From Darkness into Light in Cambodia

Cambodia Overcoming the Shadows of War By Shelley Seale At the age of 14, Ponheary Ly died and came back to life. At least, that’s how she describes it. The year was 1977, and the Khmer Rouge was on its deadly rampage in Cambodia. After seeing her father killed, along…

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