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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Posted in academia, current events, literature on Dec 16th, 2005
Conférence - Jeudi 15 décembre ? 18h - Salle de cinéma du C.C.F (Phnom Penh)
« L?Orientalisme dans la littérature française du 19ème siècle » de M. Philippe DUFOUR
Philippe Dufour, ancien élève de l?Ecole Normale Supérieure, Agrégé de lettres modernes, est Professeur de littérature française du XIXe siècle à l?université de Tours ...
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Water Festival is over, but not without a few more pictures!
Here's one of the illuminated boats that cruises the riverside at night time.
Click on the pictures below for full-size photos.
National Assembly
Royal Government
Ministry of Justice
Gendarmerie
Department of Defense
Cambodia
Cambodia is an agricultural country, and ...
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