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When he arrived in Phnom Penh in August 1973, Roland Neveu was 23 years old and barely experienced enough to call himself a photographer. He stayed seven weeks until he ran out of money, but that was long enough to get hooked. Cambodia?its war, its people, its tragedy?became an obsession. After a year of mandatory military service back home in France, he returned to Cambodia in 1975, just as the Khmer Rouge swept to power and plunged the country into the abyss. For the next 25 years Neveu would return to photograph whenever he could...
...meet new people, he told his folks, and immerse himself in foreign culture; this would be an exploration, a journey for body and spirit. Put like that, his Parisian parents sent him off with their blessings. But lying in a hammock on a hostel's veranda in Phnom Penh with a girl under each arm and a beer on the table, it's clear Herv?'s main discovery is that $10 will get him a room, all the grass and speed pills he wants, and a different prostitute every night. "What a city," he grins, hopping...
...Digital Data Divide’s workers are paid $2.40 for a six-hour day. The poverty line in Cambodia is less than fifty cents per capita per day in Phnom Penh, according to the World Bank. The company employs up to a dozen workers on two six hour shifts, for a total of 30 hours a week, compared to the standard 12 hour shifts common in Phnom Penh’s factories...
...Harding has, perhaps, the longest experience in dealing with Japan's military of any operational commander outside Japan's shores. As deputy chief of logistics in the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cambodia (UNTAC), Harding met Japanese top brass in June 1992 at U.N. headquarters in Phnom Penh. The officers were planning one of Japan's first military detachments overseas since the conclusion of World War II. "They asked me a million questions all morning," he says. Four months later, a Japanese engineering unit of 600 men arrived with top-of-the-line equipment for road building in Cambodia. Harding describes...
...away for so long also acted as a kind of bell jar. River life has changed little since the Mekong was a major artery of French Indochina, when mustachioed messieurs shot crocodiles from steamboats while mademoiselles sipped fine wines and snacked on tinned delicacies. The journey begins in Phnom Penh, a city of wide boulevards where the Mekong meets the Tonle Sap River. The first leg starts at dawn?a six-hour ride upriver on a modern ferry to the town of Kratie. For the best views, pick a spot on the roof?as far forward as possible to avoid...