Word: cambodians
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...Cambodia, and many were subsequently resettled in the U.S. (Some 1,000 made the journey Stateside following the 2001 protests.) Another exodus to Cambodia has now begun. TIME has met more than 160 would-be refugees trapped in wet, mosquito-infested jungles, afraid of being rounded up by Cambodian police and repatriated. They are battling hunger and illness. "We came so that the international community would help us," says a Gia Lai man in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province. But so far, no help has come. Still, says another, "It is better to die here than in Vietnam...
...REAPPOINTED. HUN SEN, as Cambodian Prime Minister; by the country's King Norodom Sihanouk, after a political stalemate that left the country without a government for nearly a year; in Phnom Penh. Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) received the most votes in last July's election but was short of winning the two-thirds of parliamentary seats required to govern alone. Two days before Hun Sen was sworn in, military police surrounded the home of party rival Chea Sim, acting head of state and CPP president, forcing him to flee the country...
...route into his fears and sexual obsessions but as a much more benign vocabulary of forms that could be joined with other influences to produce--and overproduce--his enigmatic, spiritualized faces. Over the next few years he would learn to borrow as well from the simplified language of Cambodian stonework, early Christian statuary and the geometric abstraction of ancient Cycladic sculpture...
...seasonal treat, visit a Cambodian street vendor during the rainy season, June to September, to nibble on a cricket. The size of a grown man's finger and priced at about 3? each, they're served deep-fried with a pinch of salt and pepper. The most popular are the females laden with eggs?like spiders, they have a crispy outer shell and a thick, milky center...
...Angelina Jolie for Cambodia's forests The Tomb Raider actress is donating 300 cows to impoverished farmers to wean them off logging and hunting. Two years ago, Jolie adopted a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage...