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From Hatred to Love!

My name is Thany.  I was born in the Battambang Province.  My family was all farmers.  Every year, we wouldn’t have enough to eat because the rice was destroyed by flood or it was fruitless, so my family would go work in other people’s fields in exchange for food.  My mother drank, smoked, and gambled every day.  One day she got sick.  At that time we had no money so my father decided to sell our buffalo to get her to the hospital.  Unfortunately, she was diagnosed with uterus cancer and pneumonia.  We couldn’t afford the treatments she needed.  My …  

Update: December 2013

Dear Friends and Family,Thus goes the Christmas Spirit in Cambodia, “Thanks for speeding Pa Thom! Please remember to speed again next time you come through town,” encouraged my friend, “Mop the Battambang Cop”. (I know of no other country in the world where you get treated with such respect for breaking the law!) It seems that last year Uncle Sam gave him the greatest Christmas present he’d ever received, a used radar gun. It’s a money machine! There is about a 10 kilometer stretch of 50km/hr speed zones (in addition to the 30km/ph zone in the center of town) that …