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King Sihomani gets a three-day holiday for is birthday. It seems a bit much but Cambodia is known for its excessive number of public holidays (24 vs 11 in the United States). Today is the second day of this holiday with one more to go, and then it’s back to work on Wednesday.
Sidewalks are an interesting phenomenon in Phnom Penh. This series of Topics takes a look at how they are used. Click here to see one of problems connected with sidewalks.
I want to be a student not a statistic |
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Guns will be the death of us. |
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It’s time to use our outside voices. |
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No Egg McMuffins but plenty of other goodies for breakfast on the run. Note the cooking with a wood fire in the middle of the city where gas is available. The majority of the population uses wood for cooking. Imagine the toll on the forests when 10± million people use wood to cook meals three times a day.
This is not left-right, this is life-death. |
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Now is the time to grab the NRA by the Glock. |
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Yesterday morning I woke up to messages that Fr. Jim Noonan had died during the Cambodian night. Jim was a Maryknoll priest who served in Cambodia from 1991 to 2009. He and I lived together for several years, and he was one of the finest people and finest priests I know. We will miss him a lot. Here we have his picture before the altar as we set up for our liturgy with our regular Wednesday meeting today.