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...soon as possible with whatever group is desperate enough to accept you. And she starts down the backpacking trail with equal measures of complaint and courage. Her journey is prosaic in the extreme, filled with hearty Aussie backpackers, haughty French, outwardly friendly but inscrutable native guides, beachside bars in Cambodia, beachside bars in Thailand, etc. Although Tansy enjoys it, the strongest sensation the reader is likely to get from her trip is the been there, done that ennui pervading the backpacking scene...
...cities, rural sales have been surging. The segment is the only part of China's domestic auto industry that Beijing has allowed to develop along free-market lines, and it's the only one with a handful of supposedly profitable companies. One company even exports its light trucks to Cambodia. "Beijing wants to keep the countryside happy," says Columbia Business School professor Lee Branstetter. GM recently purchased a stake in a factory producing farm vehicles...
...spreading faster in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union than anywhere else in the world, according to a report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva. The virus continues to plague Africa, where it has killed more than 2 million people this year. Cambodia, Thailand and Uganda won praise for their prevention campaigns. But unaids executive director Peter Piot said that the crisis "will get worse before it gets better" and warned of complacency in the West. The report came out in advance of World AIDS Day, which was marked with vigils, memorial services...
...banking departments—which again is just replacing “Company X” with “Company Y” on the front page of pitchbooks that no one reads anyways—to a Third World country with strong English and typing skills, like Cambodia or India. Trading desks can be replaced by networks of day traders working from home. Ideally, once these firms have restructured, they will retain nothing but a HR department and an outgoing, charismatic, racially diverse skeleton staff to recruit us outgoing, charismatic and racially diverse students...
...early 1970s we used to sit around a little caf? and listen to old-timers talk about the harlequin days before the war when Cambodia was full of charm. Even the poor ate well then, we were told. We fervently wanted to believe that some day, when the fighting was over, the country would return to that bucolic ideal. It never happened. The war never really ended, as the pictures in this book painfully remind us. If you look closely around the edges of Neveu's pictures taken in the 1990s you see a modicum of prosperity and happiness creeping...