Thursday, July 29, 2010 20:28

‘Asia’ Features

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Gems of Wrath

Gems of Wrath

Unscathed by mass tourism, Cambodia’s northeastern province of Ratanakiri is welcoming trekkers, military historians, gem-merchants, and connoisseurs of ethnic tribes to the country’s final frontier. Jim Algie discovers more In 1979, a group of Cambodian villagers fled from the invad­ing hordes of ...

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Silk Revival

Silk Revival

Liz Smailes meets Morimoto Kikuo, the man replanting and nurturing the roots of Cambodia’s silk industry Not far from Cambodia’s Ang­kor temples is the workshop of IKTT (Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles). Located in Siem Reap and founded by Morimoto ...

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