Word: cambodia
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...contraband streetwear. Lacoste, Adidas, Kappa, DKNY: all the labels and logos so prevalent on Sukhumvit as well as in the backpacker ghetto of Khaosan Road and in neon-drenched Patpong Market were on display. A Fred Perry shirt hung there, accusingly, in pink. "In countries like Vietnam and Cambodia, very often it's kids involved in the manufacturing," Gautier says. "People think, 'Oh, it's just a T shirt and it's no real harm,' but we try to explain where the money is going. What if a 10-year-old girl is working every day to make those...
...life with dignity in a world that has no place for dignity. We rejected that possibility and we said, no, we must continue believing in a future, because the world has learned. But again, the world hasn't. Had the world learned, there would have been no Cambodia and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia. Will the world ever learn? I think that is why Buchenwald is so important - as important, of course, but differently as Auschwitz. It's important because here the large - the big camp was a kind of international community. People came there from...
Ever since the release of the Pentagon Papers, which detailed America’s extensive involvement in the Vietnam War, including the controversial decision to bomb then-neutral Cambodia and Laos, the American people have learned the hard way that there is often a massive credibility gap between what Washington tells them and the realities on the ground. The Bush administration’s refusal to be honest about what happened at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib not only hurt its credibility at home but also inspired much hatred, indignity, and anti-Americanism abroad. If the Obama administration...
Given that practically all of Cambodia's historic Chinese shophouses have been demolished, it is some comfort to know that one of the finest not only survives but thrives as a trendy cocktail bar cum art gallery...
...film relates how Duras' impoverished and widowed mother struggled to establish a rice plantation straddling the Gulf of Siam in southern Cambodia. Having failed to adequately grease the required palms in the land-registry office, the mother, brilliantly played by Isabelle Huppert, is assigned land that she later finds is prone to flooding from the sea. In her attempt to hold back the tide, Huppert rallies local villagers to build a barrier against the ocean. It's a Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc...