Word: cambodians
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...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The hipsters behind trendy Bangkok night spot, Bed Supperclub, have added elegant overnights to their menu with the opening of Hotel de la Paix (hoteldelapaixangkor.com) in Siem Reap - an ancient Cambodian city now in the throes of rapid, tourism-led development, thanks to its proximity to the World Heritage-listed ruins of Angkor Wat. From its strategic perch on the edge of Siem Reap's burgeoning bar scene, the imposing, Art Deco-inspired La Paix formally launches the architectural career...
...largesse inevitably provokes all sorts of mutually exploitative muddles with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif. But The Killing Fields took up themes far transcending show-biz silliness. It was about the 1975 fall of America's Cambodian client state to the genocidal revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails. His is a dispassionate sensibility, and he is not a strong enough actor -- nor has he a strong enough intelligence -- to fight...
ANGELINA JOLIE is with child. No, not that way. The genetically blessed mother of Cambodian-born MADDOX, 3, is apparently more interested in world peace than in procreation and has adopted internationally again. With much buzzed-about co-star Brad Pitt accompanying her--but not sharing in the adoption--Jolie picked up 5-month-old baby Zahara Marley, an AIDS orphan, in Ethiopia, last week. Maddox and she "are very happy to have a new addition to our family," Jolie told People. Aww ... How long before Zahara has her own punk-rock 'do just like her brother...
...DIED. MAXIM MICHALIK, 2, Canadian-born schoolboy; after being shot during an eight-hour siege of an international school; in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Chea Sokhom, 23, a former driver for a South Korean restaurant owner, and three accomplices entered the school and took about 30 schoolchildren and teachers hostage. Cambodian police delivered $30,000 in ransom and a van per the four's demands, but they were overpowered by police and arrested before they could drive away. Police reported that Sokhom wanted to take revenge on his former employer, who he said had slapped him, by kidnapping...
Schanberg has also written a book on the same topic, “The Death and Life of Dith Pran,” which tells the story of one Cambodian man’s struggle for survival during the Khmer Rouge regime. Schanberg described Dith as “my friend and interpreter and lifesaver.” The book inspired the 1984 film “The Killing Fields,” of which Schanberg is the protagonist...