The Music of Strangers — Bringing Down the Walls
You don’t want to miss seeing, and hearing, The Music of Strangers, a fresh breath of air in this season …
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The Missing Picture – Oscar Nominee from Cambodia
Update: Too bad, The Missing Picture, a powerful, engaging film about the Cambodian genocide did not win Best Foreign Film …
No Man’s Land: A Novel from Vietnam by Duong Thu Huong
I couldn’t have been more surprised when our guide in Hanoi, a Vietnamese Catholic, mentioned offhandedly that some soldiers coming …
Why Did They Kill? — An Anthropologist Looks at the Cambodian Genocide
Among the modern horrors of mass killings of non combatants, from the Holocaust on [or for many scholars from the …
Saigon: Surprise and Sorrow
Saigon is a surprise and still a sorrow. 38 years after the American war ended it shows barely a sign …
Laos and the Legacies of War
When the mind turns to South East Asia and war, Vietnam and Cambodia come quickly to mind. For most, Laos might …
A Monkish Day, Luang Prabang, Laos
We woke at 5 a.m. yesterday morning to join others in Luang Prabang offering alms of sticky rice to the …
Working the Mekong, Laos
We took a two hour motorized long-boat ride up the Mekong this morning. The first destination was an enormous cave …
Luang Prabang, Laos
Out of the ghastly big city of Bangkok to the sweet, old river-town of Louang Phrabang where the ‘low’ Lao …