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		<title>SUCCESS STORY: CAMBODIA Buddhist Monks Provide HIV/AIDS Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS in Cambodia are often considered to have brought shame to themselves and to their families. Discrimination makes it difficult for them to obtain adequate health care and support services, and many people with HIV even refuse the visits of village home-care teams because they fear what the neighbors might say. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cambodia: Beginning in the 1970s, the Library began to develop its Khmer collection, including a unique set of publications in Cambodian from refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border. More recently the Library has acquired legal and general reference works, government documents and publications by international agencies and donors assisting the post-Khmer Rouge government. The Library [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watt Svay Prokeap, in Battambang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a real story told by Somony Sam ..... in 1979 ..... Right after Heng Samrin and Vietnamese took over Battambang along road 13 to Pailin, I was still in my village, Svay Prokeap, Chhoeuteal, Battambang. It would take about an hour to get to Phnom Sampov where the Vietnamese Soldiers are station along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For seven years, monks have had no peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vandalism has plagued a Buddhist temple near Rochester for seven years. Neighbors and police are outraged and baffled. &#160; By CURT BROWN, Star Tribune Last update: May 29, 2010 - 8:59 PM ROCHESTER, MINN. A chorus of chirping crickets and the smashed shell of a mailbox greet Chhan Aun when he steps out the door [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fading art of magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fewer Cambodians want traditional protective tattoos. Los Angeles Times PHNOM SRUOCH, CAMBODIA — In a haze of incense, clients approach Kol Sambo and humbly request his help, sometimes seeking rush jobs for an imminent crisis. He listens and asks why they require added force. If he thinks they'll abuse the power, he turns them down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodian Buddhist monk a spiritual leader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY Caitlyn Emmett, Columbia Missourian, March 29, 2010 HALLSVILLE, MO (USA) -- A haze of sunlight streams in through the trailer temple&#8217;s window, illuminating the peaceful quiet that envelops Mey Savann as he begins to close his eyes and chant. Savann is a Cambodian Buddhist monk and the spiritual leader at the Wat Angkor Cambodian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Origins of Buddhism on the Indian Subcontinent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Theravada Buddhism is the religion of virtually all of the ethnic Khmer, who constitute about 90 percent or more of the Cambodian population. Buddhism originated in what are now north India and Nepal during the sixth century B.C. It was founded by a Sakya prince, Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.; his traditional dates are 623-543 B.C., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attend a special birthday celebration in Siem Reap &#8211; AsiaRooms.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AsiaRooms.com can announce that anyone staying in accommodation in Siem Reap at the end of May will find that there are festivities taking place for one of the region’s most famous faces. May 28th will be a day of processions and festivities as Cambodia’s Buddhists mark the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Known as [...]]]></description>
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