Topic: Cambodia
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What kind of an eater are you?
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Beyond the 'fiscal cliff': 6 reasons to be optimistic about America's future
As Americans take stock of 2012 and gear up for 2013, it's tempting to adopt "decline think" about the country, especially since there is still no deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of steep budget cuts and tax increases. But here are six reasons Americans should still be optimistic about their future.
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10 best books of 2012 – fiction
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War with Iran? 5 ways events overseas could shape Obama's second term.
The threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program is the most urgent example of the foreign-policy challenges that face President Obama in his second term. Here are four others.
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3 outstanding 2012 novels
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In Burma, a frustrated quiet
Without aid coming along Burma's Asian Highway, Burmese head east to find help.
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Humor helps a rare bird survive in Cambodia
Conservationists’ gentle engagement with locals boosts the prospects for the Bengal Florican.
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As world grasps for rice, Cambodia's success story
The rice-exporting country has seen a dramatic rebound thanks to years of agricultural research.
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Roots of Asia's rice crisis
Tight supplies reflect population boom and neglect of farming.
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Asia limits rice exports as prices and uncertainty rise
Top exporters are trading less of the staple food, hurting countries that rely on imports.
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Phnom Penh's totem elephant – Sambo – survives
The speckle-eared pachyderm escaped machetes and famine, and now rests as Phnom Penh's totem of good things.
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Opinion: Olympic boycotts – a bad idea
They don't work. Instead, promote the Olympic truce.
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On the road – from Germany to Cambodia – in a communist jalopy
Towed by camels and laughed at by pedestrians, the lowly Trabant is a modern-day Marco Polo for a good cause.
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Alternative torch tours tout political efforts
Darfur, Tibet, and Falun Gong are among the awareness campaigns.
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Grain prices soar globally
Rice shortages are appearing across Asia. In Egypt, the Army is now baking bread to curb food riots.
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World
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Opinion: China's pollution nightmare is now everyone's pollution nightmare
The environmental disaster springs largely from its emulation of the American way of life – so let's set a better example.
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China's pollution nightmare is now everyone's pollution nightmare
The environmental disaster springs largely from its emulation of the American way of life – so let's set a better example.
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Tubegazing: 'Inside the Vietnam War'
The high-definition documentary on the National Geographic Channel, examines the dawn of the modern living room war.
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Money woes threaten Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal
The tribunal trying Cambodia's former leaders says it needs to triple its $56.3 million budget to try up to eight defendants.
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Opinion: Genocide prevention: 60 years of abject failure
Darfur reinforces the impotence of this UN mandate.
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Opinion: Don't pave Cambodia's flawed path to justice
The tribunal to try ex-Khmer Rouge leaders needs reform, then funds.
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As drug trafficking revives, Thais back another harsh crackdown
In 2003, a violent government antidrug campaign resulted in more than 2,500 deaths.
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A former Cambodian boy soldier defuses his past
Aki Ra laid mines with his bare hands for the Khmer Rouge and now takes them away to villagers' delight and official frustration.
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