Sophal Ear

TED Fellow Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his family's escape from Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his mother's cunning and determination to save her children.

Mekong: Milton Osborne

A popular account of some of the historical highlights of exploration and development along the Mekong, Milton Osborne's offering is as much travelogue as history. For the more recent material he draws on forty years personal involvement with Southeast Asia, focusing on development issues; for the earlier period he is most fascinated by the history of European exploration. The result is episodic and personal, but also readable and informative.

http://www.amazon.com/Mekong-Turbulent-Past-Uncertain-Future/dp/0802138020

Phnom Pen, 1971

Angkor Wat BBC Documentary

Impressions of Angkor

Photographer: John McDermott
http://www.asiaphotos.net/gallery/Angkor/

Photographer: Martin Reeves

http://www.thehiddenrealms.com/

“There is a touch of surrealism, details that blend together in a dream-like brightness, architecture that would better lend itself to a Tolkien novel than to the rigours of scientific documentation. Martin coaxes something as solid as stone into an ethereal world, as weightless as it is intriguing. These images relate the photographer’s most intimate sensations surrounding the complexities of Eastern culture”.

Cambodia Weaves

http://weavescambodia.com/

"WEAVES OF CAMBODIA: Blending in perfectly with the stylish, big-ticket items on the shelves of Barneys New York, Weaves of Cambodia silk scarves swaddle the buyer in sumptuousness while opening a world of possibilities to the land-mine survivors of Tbeng Meanchey, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold eight hours' drive along a bumpy dirt road from Phnom Penh. Carol Cassidy, the innovative American weaver behind Vientiane-based Lao Textiles took over the town's craft studio from Vietnam Veterans International in 2003, training, employing and providing health care to over 40 disabled but gifted artisans whom she says "possess natural abilities to weave high-quality silk in spite of their disabilities." - C. Rosenfeld for TIME

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1642444_1659467_1648061,00.html

FCC Angkor

Jon Swain: River of Time

Jon Swain, award-winning Sunday Times of London reporter, looks back at the most memorable moments of his life: his assignments in Phnom Penh and Saigon during the last five years of the American war in Indochina

A beautifully written book.

http://www.amazon.com/River-Time-Vietnam-Jon-Swain/dp/0312169892