It's often a challenge for me to parse UK newspapers, unlike USA media many don't maintain even a pretense of objectivity. Reading the first sentence of this article by The Mirror it would sound dire.
"Poor Sombo has been forced to pound the pavements for 30 years after being captured and ...
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I raise these hands up to you, Teacher, guru, of this song,
This melody, sung so long / Ago, before the Bo tree.
In your kind home you taught me / To chant Pali reverently,
Treat books with care, so gently, And to daily humbly pray
To the Three Jewels, our teachers / And ...
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This brightened up my day:
Scholar and blogger Erik Davis (formerly of blog DeathPower) is back with
"Imagining the Real World." Hooray!
http://erikwdavis.wordpress.com
Off to click through the many tidbits on offer, digesting a rather exhaustive examination of Chomsky Cambodia chronology.
Postscript: more drama on that last bit from Details Are Sketchy!
http://detailsaresketchy.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/scorned-in-cambodia/
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Doin' my best to spread the good word about Cambodian comics & Our Books at South Korea's Bucheon International Comics Festival (BICOF), with a talk on Cambodian comics history.
So many comics, so much art, so many cool people, so many bottles of Soju!
Stay 'tooned for short comic précis, to be ...
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WED, 08/04, 7 PM
Through historical frameworks and personal anecdotes, Phnom Penh based curator Erin Gleeson will explore the lack of place, until now, for contemporary art practices in and from Cambodia. Gleeson will trace her curatorial concept as well as the audience and press response to Forever Until Now, ...
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