Cambodia

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Hardly a thing of the past, slavery thrives in our world. Investigative reporter Benjamin Skinner tells Salon the shocking truth about human trafficking.
  • Inspiration of the day

    After a traumatic childhood of her own, Somaly Mam is helping Cambodian girls escape sexual slavery.
  • The paranoid withdrawal fantasy

    Why Iraq is not Cambodia, Mr. President. Plus: Britney's challenge, the Who's real magic, and lesbian bathroom sex.
  • Will Cambodian food ever catch on in America?

    Thai restaurants are a dime a dozen, but 30 years after Pol Pot, Khmer cuisine is still hard to find in the U.S. Why hasn't it become the next big thing? Plus: A recipe to try at home
  • Can we rebuild Afghanistan?

    There is no Marshall Plan for this tattered nation, and the lessons of trying to fix Cambodia, Bosnia and Somalia aren't inspiring.
  • Clearasil condoms?

    Cambodian women find an unexpected use for the lubricant.
  • The "jungle girl"

    The discovery of a mysterious feral woman in Cambodia prompts fairy-tale speculation and a media frenzy.
  • Cambodian justice

    Twenty-five years after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge launched its genocide campaign, could a war-crimes trial finally be a reality?
  • Just say don't

    Cambodian officials try to stifle the local sex trade by posting signs in public places.
  • Shotgun wedding, AK-47-style

    Armed to the teeth, a Cambodian man forces his sweetheart to say yes.
  • The Vietnam debacle

    The revisionists who believe that the war was just -- and winnable -- are rewriting a history they don't understand.
  • Monkey business

    Men of the cloth are under a cloud of scandal in Japan and Cambodia.
  • The perilous pepper of Phnom Penh

    A newcomer to Cambodia finds that the way to a stranger's heart is through her stomach.
  • A conversation with Elie Wiesel

    The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi.
  • Acidic Cambodian sex scandal

    A karaoke star is burned when a jealous politician's wife has her splashed with battery acid.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Blaming Clinton for three decades of Chinese spying; Cintra doesn't really understand why blacks are angry.
  • Adventures in the skin trade

    Our correspondent's brothel tour of Phnom Penh takes some unexpected twists.
  • Is it safe for a woman to travel alone in Cambodia?

    Our travel expert offers tips on Cambodia and Christmas Island, finding Washington hotels and comparing airline comforts.
  • Up Cambodia without a phrasebook

    On the pleasures and paranoia of being a mostly clueless white guy in the company of Third World hosts.
  • Song of the broken road

    For adventurers headed overland to Angkor Wat, Cambodia's Route 6 is Disneyland gone bad.
  • Losing it in Cambodia

    Getting a haircut in Battambang is a good deal -- especially if you like getting more than you bargained for.
  • Couped up in Cambodia

    A coastal resort seemed the perfect place for a long weekend away from Phnom Penh last July -- until civil war shut down the country. Rosemary Berkeley remembers the right place at the wrong time.
  • Road Warrior: Couped up in Cambodia

    A coastal resort seemed the perfect place for a long weekend away from Phnom Penh last July -- until civil war shut down the country. Rosemary Berkeley remembers the right place at the wrong time.
  • Cambodia's other madmen

    Focusing on the death of one individual, however monstrous his attitudes and actions, can blind us to forces and actors that continue to shape Cambodia's fate.
  • Under the spell of Angkor Wat

    Jeff Greenwald revels in the astonishing ruins and riches of Angkor Wat.
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