Spirit of Soccer in Cambodia uses soccer to help “children recognise the dangers around them” in the form of land mines and explosive remnants of war. Watch Video
Cambodia to allow foreign adoptins in 2013
August 31, 2012 in Adoption, Family Law According to yesterday’s Cambodia Daily (“Gov’t to Restart National Adoptions,” offline only, foreigners will once again be allowed to adopt Cambodian children beginning in January 2013.
New photos to help identify victims of Khmer Rouge’s S-21 torture jail
August 9, 2012 “The discovery of more than 1,200 photographs of former prisoners at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture jail has raised hopes that more Cambodians could learn the fate of their relatives.” Read The Telegraph full Article

Cambodian circus group shines light on Khmer Rouge era
entertainment-arts-19169044 If you have 2 minutes free, watch this BBC video. Bravo to the performers and their unique way of sharing the KR story. Amazing. LU

Market Garden Brewery’s Brews & Prose Reading Series a hit!
Good WED! It is official, our Brews & Prose series is a hit! Last night, at our second event, over 100 people came to hear poet Sarah Gridley and author Dan Chaon (author of ‘You Remind me of me’) read. Next month, our speakers will be poet Catherine Wing and Paula McClain, author of The Paris [...]

Novelist Vaddey Ratner’s book: ‘In the Shadow of the Banyan’
Congrats to Vaddey Ratner on the publication of her new book, ‘In the Shadow of the Banyon’! LU
Another Mass Grave discovered in Cambodia…
Meanwhile, here on earth…in a remote village in Cambodia, another sad discovery… LU “We estimate that 35,000 or more people died at this site,” the director said.. Read this Washington Post Article http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cambodian-villagers-unearth-skulls-bones-from-possible-khmer-rouge-mass-grave/2012/08/06/6c847d5c-df9a-11e1-8d48-2b1243f34c85_story.html

NASA’s spaceship lands on Mars?!
Good Monday, y’all! I now know way too much about ‘Dressage’ and not enough about NASA’s spacecraft landing (soon?) on Mars. So here’s a funny and informative Colbert report on that… http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/417293/august-01-2012/john-grunsfeld
Team Cambodia played great Olympic Games!
Team Cambodia didn’t win any medal but as Pierre de Cobertin, the French educator credited with being responsible for the revival of the Olympic games said in 1894, “The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part, the essential thing in life is not conquiering but fighting well.” Team Cambodian [...]

National Olympic Committee of Cambodia sent 6 Athletes to London!
Took me a while to find this, the Nat. Olympic Comm of Cambodia. Interesting facts: over 10,500 athletes from 205 countries went to London to complete in 305 sporting events. Cambodia sent six althletes to compete in 4 events–Swimming, Athletics, Judo and Taekwondo. LU http://www.noccambodia.org/website/read.php?lang=en&id=928





