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...robber's bullet with your teeth?or so goes an apocryphal tale of a now legendary bus driver. Then get another one the next year, because you never know how much protection you might need. Somchai, a former soldier, says he once stepped on a land mine at the Cambodian border, but the shrapnel never pierced his tattooed legs. Somchai has returned for some more tattooing. His current profession: "None of your business...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen (right), on a roll after sweeping last week's local elections, said Khmer Rouge leaders will be tried in local courts under local law by the end of this year. So thoroughly have the Khmer Rouge seeped into Cambodian society?Hun Sen himself was a low-level commander?that many fear a U.N. trial could plunge the country back into a civil war that only ended...
...classically Khmer, are weathered and determined, like the busts on the walls of Angkor Wat. The body language of a few, clearly the bosses, is menacing. No need to read the captions: the atmosphere in these pictures portends the forced evacuation of the city and the beginning of the Cambodian holocaust...
...Crimson made the front page of the Boston Globe this summer when the paper hired two dozen Cambodian workers to typeset the 19th century issues of The Crimson. The workers were paid roughly 40 cents an hour, in U.S. dollars...
...hiring was at odds, some argued, with The Crimson’s endorsement this past spring of Harvard’s living wage campaign’s platform of a wage floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees. The Crimson typesetting was expected to employ 20 Cambodian typisis working two six-hour shifts a day on 10 computers for six months. The typists earn $50 a month, better than the $45 minimum wage paid in the garment sector, Cambodia’s biggest industry...