Word: phnom
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...pacifist talk belied a sinister agenda, one that would remain hidden to the outside world for years. When the Khmer Rouge succeeded in capturing the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in 1975, they evacuated the entire population of the city - more than 2.5 million people - to camps in the countryside. Similar evacuations took place every time the Khmer Rouge took over a new city...
...capitalism. Cambodia, for example, has played the game of global trade; it signed a deal with the U.S. governing its garment exports, a big part of its economy. Now some Cambodian leaders think they should look elsewhere. "Why wouldn't we copy what China did?" one official in Phnom Penh said to me. "We had years of what the U.S. told us to do, and got this" (he pointed at beggars crawling outside a five-star hotel). "Now we go to China and all we see is how far ahead of us they've come." Once wary of directly challenging...
...PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Maddox Jolie-Pitt and landmines. That was pretty much the extent of my knowledge about this exotic Southeast Asian country before I arrived. Now, after living here, working in the microfinance industry, and traveling extensively throughout the provinces, I feel a deep connection with the people and the history of Cambodia. The tragic history of the Cambodian people is not far beneath the surface of everyday life. In the taxi on the way to my hotel on my first night in Cambodia, I conversed with my driver about life in Cambodia, the best places...
...ballot box, and what this would mean for the balance of power in Cambodia. And the results suggest suggest that balance has tipped in the CPP's favor more than than ever before. Though he did not vote for the CPP, Dara, a small business owner in Phnom Penh, said the ruling party's win was a result that even he could live with for now. The electorate's decision, he said, reflected Cambodia's yearning for stability. "If [the CPP] were not elected, then there could have been problems," said Dara, who would only give his first name...
While it was largely free of the violence of previous election years, this week's vote was not without controversy. On July 11, an opposition-party-aligned journalist and his son were gunned down on a Phnom Penh street, and independent monitors reported problems with voter registration that prevented a significant number of people from voting. The CPP's domination of the broadcast media, particularly the country's television stations, also left a gaping hole in coverage of non-CPP parties, said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia...