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This year, the cows had no good news for Cambodia's farmers. Each year before the planting season commences, all eyes in the capital turn to a pair of hungry royal oxen for guidance. Placed before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat - and don't eat - during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible...
...Cambodia's economy may have grown 10.4% last year, fueled by an influx of Chinese investment and strong clothing exports, but the country is still heavily dependent on agriculture - more than 80% of its 14 million citizens are farmers. Cambodia's population has doubled since 1975, and most of these extra mouths are in the countryside. In Phnom Penh, the tree-lined colonial avenues are being transformed by rapid construction that is uprooting fragrant frangipani trees in favor of glass-plated office buildings. The newfound wealth, though, hasn't extended much past city borders, and the disparity between rural residents...
...tame. Starting in 1967, when she arrived in Saigon, the enterprising reporter earned acclaim for her coolheaded front-line chronicles of the carnage, plus her empathic portraits of innocent victims. In 1971 the raspy-voiced New Zealander was captured by the North Vietnamese while covering a battle in Cambodia. Before she and her five colleagues were released from their 23-day ordeal, a media report suggested that her body may have been found. The resulting attention --including a family memorial service and an obit in the New York Times--was awkward for the modest Webb, who recently referred...
Cordiner's brainstorm began in 2002 as a pilot project in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for the International Finance Corp. (IFC), an arm of the World Bank that provides advice and backing for start-ups. The idea, says Cordiner, 57, was to simplify life for both hoteliers, who need business, and travelers, who want a reliable way to book ahead. A Worldhotel-link.com franchise partner in each destination city provides English-language content for the site and makes sure mouse clicks to the booking engine translate into rock-solid reservations. In some cases, that means a dash down the street...
Bird flu may have fallen off the media radar lately, but that doesn't mean the threat has passed. Poultry continue to die from the H5N1 virus, and human cases have lately popped up in Egypt, Laos and Cambodia. The frontline in the war against the disease remains the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia, which has recorded more bird flu fatalities - 75 deaths, including 18 this year - than any other country. But the world only has a partial idea of what's happening with bird flu in Indonesia. That's because the country stopping sharing samples of the H5N1 virus...