Month: April 2009

Long Beach woman helped create library in Cambodia

Children of all ages in rural Takeo Province, Cambodia now have a library and books to call their own. (Photo courtesy of Caitlin Ishigooka) LONG BEACH – One sign came when she couldn’t enter the existing library because the floor…

Pain of Khmer Rouge Era Lost on Cambodian Youth

  Seth Mydans/The International Herald Tribune Yeoun Chany, 38, who lives near a former killing field, said her children “only know there are skulls and bones here; they don’t know what they are.” By SETH MYDANS TRAPAENG SVA, CAMBODIA —…