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Grey Girls: Part 3: The Tentative Relationship between Grey and Black
Following on with more recent conversations with grey girls, I have come across a slightly intriguing trend. Now, most of the grey girls that I know work in an assortment of bars; in fact, they cover the whole spectrum of…
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Grey Girls Part One: Clarification and Classification
Khmer Proverb No. 1 ‘A son is a diamond, a daughter a piece of white linen. If you drop a diamond in the mud it wipes clean again.’ Khmer Proverb No. 2 ‘Having a daughter is like having a toilet…
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Here a fish, there a fish; everywhere a fishy fish.
In 2000, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGK) initiated a reform of the fisheries sector, which included the release of 56% of fishing lots for the development of community fisheries. The Community Fisheries Development Office (CFDO) within the Department of…
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Grey Girls: Part 4, the Yuon Connection
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Yuon is, of course, a Khmer word for Vietnamese, a mildly offensive slang name – similar to those of us from the UK referring to; the French as Froggies, the Spanish as Spics, the Italians as Wops or the Germans…