Word: seng
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...Seng drew himself as a skeleton. He would be about 25 today. As a boy of 10, he had dark, serious eyes and large ears that gave his face a scholarly look. His father, a doctor, had been executed by a firing squad because he was an intellectual and thus threatened Pol Pot's primitivist ideology. People who wore glasses also were killed because it was assumed they could read...
When his mother died, Seng was allowed to leave his mobile work unit and go back to his village. He asked neighbors to bury her beside his father and gave them a shirt in payment. Then he knelt, took a handful of dirt from each parent's grave and prayed that their spirits would look after him. Returning to his work unit, he disobeyed orders, went off in search of food and came across a mass grave of 30 bodies. To punish him, soldiers tied him to a bamboo pole and left him to starve for days. Eventually he escaped...
...year-old girl named Peov was soft-featured and plump, though like Seng she was skeletal when she arrived at the camp. The first two years she hardly spoke a word. It was through a picture she drew that the adults working with her discovered what had happened...
...from the mainland realized that Hong Kong's only asset was represented by the manufacturing potential of its people. Shortly, as bigger factories opened and a diversified economy began to thrive, the real estate business--which to this day constitutes a third of the total valuation on the Hang Seng Stock Index--became the most profitable economic sector. Decades later, the enactment of the Open Door policy in China determined the rise of Hong Kong as a world-class financial center, attracting more than 300 foreign banks in less than a decade. The rest is the success story...
...Trie, Seng's business partner, is an Arkansas restaurateur and longtime friend of Clinton who is believed to be the DNC contact who brought Wang Jun, a Chinese entrepreneur and the head of a military-owned arms company, to a coffee klatch for political donors hosted by Clinton...