Inside the Campaign to Save the Endangered Cambodian Rainforest

[ad_1] We were seated by a lush river in the Southern Cardamom Mountains over a lunch of chicken and rice, and when the tip came via text message: Someone had passed by the poaching camp. Within minutes, the entire group—including head ranger Darian Thackwell and four of his armed crew—was charged upstream. Finally, we hid …

Now Overlooked: Sinn Sisamouth, ‘King’ of Cambodian Pop Music

[ad_1] part of this article overlookedA series of obituaries about extraordinary people whose deaths were not reported in The Times beginning in 1851. Before singer-songwriter Sinn Sisamouth disappeared, he had been a fixture on radio shows and nightclubs in Cambodia and beyond. For more than two decades, from the 1950s to the mid-70s, fans have …

A Look at Cambodian Life in California, by Anthony Veasna So

[ad_1] NEXT PARTIES stories by Anthony Veasna So Stockton, California, in the Golden State’s Central Valley, has the country’s largest population of Cambodian Americans, with tens of thousands of refugees arriving between 1975 and 1990 after escaping genocide at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The Cambodian diaspora has settled in the San Joaquin Valley, …