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...forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There is no culture around," Zakii says...
...best-kept secret of Pulau Langkawi, an island off the northwest coast of Malaysia, isn't its stunning sunsets. It's the four kampong (village) houses on the western edge of the island, perched next to a field of reeds, and known collectively as the Bon Ton Resort, tel: (60-4) 955 6787. Australian owner Narelle McMurtrie purchased the antique Malay villas from islanders, dismantled them, then reassembled them on her 1.5-hectare compound. You can choose to stay in the century-old Black Coral, 60-year-old Yellow Orchid (formerly the home of a fisherman), the painstakingly restored...
...with bullets instead of ballots. Determined to scuttle the election or greatly reduce the turnout, the rebels killed more than 20 people in assaults on several Cambodian cities and brazen raids against units of the 20,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force. On Monday guerrillas wounded five Indian soldiers in Kampong Cham province and temporarily seized the airport in the city of Siemreab, home of the famed Angkor temple complex. Later in the week a Japanese policeman was killed and an additional eight Japanese and Dutch peacekeepers were wounded in a rocket attack in the province of Banteay Meanchay. The Khmer...
Eventually, Seng and his family were sent to a rice-producing commune in the Kampong Cham area of eastern Cambodia. There, father and sons labored twelve hours a day and more in the paddies, although Seng's wife was too weak to work. At that, they were lucky: in the same commune, perhaps a third of the 3,000 workers died of disease, starvation and overwork, or were executed by their Khmer Rouge overlords...
...other side of the globe, in a military ward of a hospital in the Cambodian town of Kampong Spoe, 25 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, a soldier named Neh Kon, 30, lies on a wooden pallet. He has lost both legs -- one just above the knee, the other just below. The stumps are wrapped in flyspecked, blood-soaked bandages. Neh Kon's wife sits beside him, holding their young child. Two weeks earlier, on patrol in Khmer Rouge territory, Neh Kon stepped on a mine. "By the time we get peace," he says, "a lot of people won't have...