By SOPHAL EAR While my mother, four siblings and I escaped Pol Pot’s Cambodia in 1976, my father died of dysentery and malnutrition after a brief stay at a mite-infested Khmer Rouge “hospital.” Although I have harbored grave doubts about the ability of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal underway in Phnom Penh to punish the guilty,
Independence Monument; Vann Molyvann, architect (All photos: Luke Duggleby for The Wall Street Journal) A lone figure walks the stands of Vann Molyvann’s Olympic Stadium. The Chaktomuk Conference Hall, one of Mr. Molyvann’s earliest designs, was built in 1961. The library at the Institute for Foreign Languages, now part of the Royal University of Phnom
Monk, Hoeurn Somnieng receives a degree in business management from St. Ambrose University in Iowa, USA. (Photo: Courtesy of Life and Hope Association) Nuch Sarita, VOA Khmer Washington, D.C Tuesday, 18 May 2010 “It was a very profound experience for me. In a period of great suffering, I was kind of not knowing what to
Wednesday, 05 May 2010 15:00 Tharum Bun Respected for their religious adherence and intellectual curiousity, Buddhist monks have long been the backbone of Cambodian society. Regardless of how religious Cambodian citizens are, the men walking around in colorful yellow-orange saffron are an integral part of everyday life and one of the main forces revitalising the
