Phnom Penh

Whimsical Cupcakes That Feed The Soul In Cambodia

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Empowering Women, Cake Decorating, Killing Fields, Cupcakes, Angkor Wat, Khmer Rouge, Economic Development, Cambodia, Tarantula, Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh, Vocational Training, Slidepollajax, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Dr. Caroline Cicero

Opened in 2010, Bloom Training Centre and Café is the brain-child of Ruth Larwill, a mother of two from Brisbane, Australia, who found she could use her passion for cake decorating to provide economic opportunity for vulnerable women in Cambodia.

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The Destruction Of Phnom Penh's Lake District

Matt Kepnes | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Cambodia, Travel, Phnom Penh, Backpacking, Cambodia Travel, Asia Travel, Asia, Travel News
Matt Kepnes

All that remains of this once vibrant area is a bunch of torn down buildings, empty lots and shacks.

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Holy Water In Phnom Penh

Rev. Chuck Freeman | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Jesus, Holy Bible, Ek Sonn Chan, World Water Day, Teachings of Jesus, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, Clean Water, Sustainability, Religion News
Rev. Chuck Freeman

Ek Sonn Chan is not merely providing for the bodily thirst of the people of Phnom Penh and Cambodia. His offering is Holy Water.

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Crime and Safety: Another Reason Why Americans Need to Travel Abroad

Lauren Quinn | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Travel Safety, Oakland Crime, Third-World Countries, Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Travel Abroad, Travel Alerts, Travel Advisory, Cheap Travel Abroad, Travel News
Lauren Quinn

There I was, in the capital of a poor country still bearing the wounds of civil war, filled with gypsies and beggars and busted-up sidewalks, and I was safer than in my American hometown.

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Hundreds Flock To 'Magic' Snake Marriage

AP | BY SOPHENG CHEANG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cambodian Python Wedding, Cambodia, Wedding, Buddhist Wedding, Svay Rolum, Phnom Penh, Buddhism, Snake Wedding, Python Wedding, World News

SVAY ROLUM, Cambodia — Hundreds of villagers flocked to a wedding ceremony Monday between a 16-foot (4.8-meter), 200-pound (90-kilogram) female ...

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Cambodia's Bon Om Touk Stampede Preventable

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phnom Penh-Cambodia, Phnom-Penh-Cambodia, Cambodia, Disaster, Emergency, Stampede, Bodies, Phnom Penh, Disaster Management, Death, World News
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Cambodia's government failed its people at all levels.

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Water Management Lessons From an Unlikely Source

Jim Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phnom Penh, Green News
Jim Lauria

The United States has a lot to learn from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority. The underfunded utility dug the Cambodian capital's water infrastructure out of the rubble of Pol Pot's regime.

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My Semester Off: Volunteering in Guatemala and Cambodia (PHOTOS)

YouthGive | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students, Scott Neeson, Volunteering, College, Cambodian Children's Fund, Cambodia, Guatemala, Phnom Penh, Asia, Slidepollajax, College News
YouthGive

I couldn't find a balance between working hard and enjoying a social life and decided it was time for a change. My time in Guatemala and Cambodia gave me a learning experience that I never could've imagined getting at college.

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Who Was Chea Vichea and Why Does He Matter? Ask Filmmaker Bradley Cox

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese New Year, Loud Mouth Films, Film, A Tragedy of No Importance, Bradley Cox, Kingdom of Cambodia, The Cambodia Daily, Phnom Penh, Cambodian Parliament, China, Southeast Asia, Documentary, Manhattan, Rich Garella, Gil Talmi, Chea Mony, Mu Sochua, Cory Aquino, Jeffrey Saunders, Buddhist Priests, Who Killed Chea Vichea?, Chea Vichea, Hun Sen, Philadelphia, MoveOn.Org, Cambodian Regime, Phnom Penh Post, Frederick Film Festival, Facebook, Los Angeles, New York City, Bangkok, Amnesty International, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chea Kimny, Burma, James O?Toole, Meas Sokchea, Huffington Post, Assassination, Cinemacapital, World News
Jim Luce

In my own special screening, director Bradley Cox recently showed me his 55-minute film Who Killed Chea Vichea? in his office in Manhattan. Bradley is...

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Brilliant Film Premiers Monday in NYC, Offering Solution to Global Child Exploitation

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnamese Mafia, CUE Art Gallery, Juliet Supper Club, Film, Sexual Slavery, Adi Ezroni, Dr. Susan Bissell, Redlight Children Campaign, Ron Livingston, Madhu Dhas, Queen Silvia, Phnom Penh, Carolyn B. Maloney, Restore NYC, Guy Jacobson, Somaly Mam, Lexisnexis, Priority Films, Oiww, Interpol, Cambodian Mafia, Human Trafficking, Vietnam, Sexually Abused Children, Mu Sochua, Jim Luce, Abigail Disney, Susan Sarandon, Elkana Jacobson, Aids, Child Prostitution, Child Trafficking, Unicef, Lucy Liu, K11 Project, Nobel Peace Prize, Holly, Goodwill Ambassador, Swanee Hunt, New York City, Global Hero Award, Lauren Bush, Brothels, Cambodia, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Orphans International Worldwide, Chinese Mafia, Human Rights, RedLightChildren.Org, U.S. State Department, Sex Industry, Redlight, Andrew Prozes, Vital Voices, Mark Lagon, World Economic Forum, Richard Attias, Cecilia Attias, Davos, Alyse Nelson, New York News
Jim Luce

Not often does a filmmaker present both an untenable social problem - and its solution. Not often is its filmmaker an artist as well as a banker and ...

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Only in America: Ambassador Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

I first met Ambassador Sichan Siv in 2004. He spoke on surviving Pol Pot's Killing Fields in Cambodia - and coming to America. He ended up working in the White House and then the United Nations.

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