Word: cambodia
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...obviously much more than that. But that's where the genesis of his character is. This person might have been in Uganda and this person might have been in Sierra Leone, and this person might have been in Sri Lanka, and this person might have been in Cambodia, but I'm trying to put all of these experiences into one character that will at least speak to the reader...
...lewd acts with minors"; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. The 1970s glam-rock icon best known for hits like Rock and Roll (Part 2) and Leader of the Gang served two months in prison in his native Great Britain in 1999 for possession of child pornography and was expelled from Cambodia in 2002 under suspicion of pedophilia, an accusation he denied. According to police, five young girls, one aged 11, say he paid them $10-20 for sex at his rented home. Gadd denies the allegations, saying that he only taught the girls English and that they told him they were...
...Though there are no known cases of avian flu being transmitted by eating infected birds, chicken is off the menu for many in Southeast Asia. At least 130 people in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have contracted the virus-and 67 of them have died-this year. While human fatalities in Indonesia have been relatively few (13 known infections and eight dead), the number of infected birds in the country is thought to be significant. "Based on our research, the virus has spread all over the city," Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono told reporters last week in Jakarta...
...Instead, this bill is really about redefining the rhetorical playing field. It is about taking the difficult first step sooner than in the past. Previous criticism of U.S. military actions abroad have come only after major gaffes or losses of lives. It took the leak of the bombing of Cambodia combined with over 33,000 U.S. dead to spur then-President Richard Nixon to announce the withdrawal of the first 25,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam in June of 1969. In Lebanon and Somalia, President Ronald Reagan and President Bill Clinton, respectively, did not begin withdrawals until casualties took them...
...find humor a great way to break the ice and connect," he says. "Once you start to talk to people you find they're not that much different." A sense of the common humanity that links different cultures infuses "Face of Asia," an exhibition of his pictures from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India and Tibet, the first show at Asia House's new London HQ. When he photographed a bent-backed Indian woman (Brindavan, 1995), she invited him home for tea and told him how she'd lived her whole life on charity, praying for others. Wading through floods in India...