Writer, weblogger, and former VSO volunteer Angie Manzano has left Cambodia, following a persistent series of explicit posts and threats featured on website Khmer440.com.
A series of message board postings copied prior writings and attributed false statements to ‘Cambochica’ and ‘Angie Manzano’ over a series of several months.
They culminated in a ...
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In 2005, Cambodia related blogs were starting to coalesce. I began compiling a directory of them, which eventually ended up on the Global Voices listing.
One of them was 'Cambochica' (Angie Manzano) a writer for 'Off Our Backs' magazine, who was preparing to work as a Voluntary Service Overseas volunteer in ...
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Last year I commented on Khmer440's defense of former English teacher (CamEd) and accused pedophile Clinton Betteridge.
http://jinja.apsara.org/2005/04/khmer440/
Consequently I got some very weird site trackbacks from pro-pedophile sites in the UK. Ugh.
http://wmmbs.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1118044351
Lately Khmer440's featured a slew of articles about taxi girls interspersed with some fine articles on travel and culture. Not ...
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Miss Khmer-ica?
And a round of applause for Miss Utah USA... Soben Huon, as reported by the Phnom Penh Post.
I'm tickled that Utah (often typified as conservative and lacking in diversity) is fielding a Khmer-American candidate.
Beauty pageants aren't really my thing... some people like ballet, others prefer punk rock. ...
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Posted in cambodge, cambodia, comics, visual art on Dec 15th, 2005
Sera Interview
Auracan's Sera interview published in English. (via automatic translator).
http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36337
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