Word: cambodia
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...said. “But I had gone out of control from my original idea, and my fashion shows had become big theatrical events.”Bartlett decided to put his business on hold for a year, something that is rare in the fashion industry. He went to Cambodia and Thailand, practicing Buddhism and yoga, and finding himself.After his hiatus, Bartlett stepped back into the industry with a small collection shown at the Harvard Club of New York. Since then, he’s become a more down-to-earth designer, offering clothes that are classic and sensible, while...
...with the help of campaign aide John Kerry and the slogan "Father Knows Best"). He charmed, and sometimes cowed, colleagues with his clerical clothing--he said he had no other suits--and was the first to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment, over the U.S.'s secret bombing of Cambodia. He left politics in 1980, after Pope John Paul II ordered him to resign, citing a canon law barring priests from elective office...
...Thai university estimated that between 1999 and 2002, 2.8 million Thais participated in the sex business - this in a country whose entire population is 65 million. Roughly 800,000 of those sex workers were underage; most came from poor farming households in Thailand, as well as nearby Burma, Laos, Cambodia and China. Some came willingly to escape a life in the rice paddies. Others, of course, were sold into the business. Did I mention? Prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, although you wouldn't know it to walk the streets of Bangkok...
Think of a trip to Cambodia and you think of Angkor Wat. It's not likely that you'll picture elegant seaside resorts. But that might begin to change with the opening of Knai Bang Chatt, www.knaibangchatt.com, an 11-room property that resurrects some of the oceanfront elegance characteristic of the French colonial era and popular with affluent Khmers until the outbreak of civil war. Nestled amid lush vegetation in the old resort community of Kep (or Kep-sur-Mer as it was known to the French), Knai Bang Chatt is a roughly three-hour, mostly coastal drive from Phnom...
Think of a trip to Cambodia and you think of Angkor Wat. It's not likely that you'll picture elegant seaside resorts. But that might begin to change with the opening of Knai Bang Chatt, an 11-room property that resurrects some of the oceanfront elegance characteristic of the French colonial era and popular with affluent Khmers until the outbreak of civil war. Nestled amid lush vegetation in the old resort community of Kep (or Kep-sur-Mer as it was known to the French), Knai Bang Chatt is a roughly three-hour, mostly coastal drive from Phnom Penh...