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The ESL Scene in Cambodia – Part 1: The Teachers 4 weeks 1 day ago

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POTW Garden Villa in the City

Jacked Camry

Traditional Cambodian wooden stilt houses are beautiful and practical, with the area under the living area providing a multi-use work and social space open to the flow of air but shaded from the sun. However, wooden houses are not suited for city living in the modern age. We wanted to maintain that indoor-outdoor connection of the Cambodian house. And to emphasize the beauty of the wood.
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POTW: Stylish Property for the Investor or Homeowner Alike

Independent Property Services

Property of the Week this week features an apartment currently under construction in the heart of the Daun Penh district.

This modern, two-bedroom apartment offers substantial returns to the savvy investor or provides high-end living in central Phnom Penh. Nearing lock-up stage, the apartment presents an exciting opportunity for the new owner to choose all furnishings and lighting, as well as to fit out the expansive kitchen with breakfast bar.
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Ethical Investments

Paul Dodd

Ethical investing used to be a very niche area of investment that was reserved for the brave few who would rather their money ‘did good’ than ‘did well.
But things are starting to change as the sector becomes more mainstream, and the performance of ethical funds is now competing with more traditional, non-ethical sectors. lets look at exactly what ethical investing is.

What is an ethical fund?
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King of the Bronx

Phoenix Jay

Grandmaster Flash and his adventures on the wheels of steel

All rise: the doyen of DJs is in da house (almost). Born the rather more modest Joseph Saddler in Barbados in 1958, Grandmaster Flash rose from the grim realities of life in New York’s South Bronx in the 1970s to, just five years ago, become the first hip-hop artist ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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The ESL Scene in Cambodia – Part 1: The Teachers

asiapundits

The reasons people give for deciding to move to Cambodia to teach English are as varied as the characters that walk into English institutes here and call themselves “teachers”. Many people start as English teachers after coming to Cambodia as tourists. The unsuspecting immigrant finds it all so intriguing and they decide to make a home out of their newly found paradise. Most foreigners, lacking the ability to speak Khmer, generally aren’t qualified to do anything else in Cambodian society, so teaching English seems a natural immediate fit. Others use teaching English as a means to an end.
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The Devil's Horn

Phoenix Jay

When The Vatican declared the saxophone a source of disgust and scandal in 1903, it was neither the first nor the last to dwell on its diabolical associations. Sixty years earlier, The Association of Instrument Makers – convinced this new horn would sound the death knell for bassoons, oboes, and flutes – had twice tried to kill its Belgian inventor, Adolphe Sax.
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Sanskrit epic given a cartoon twist

Hanna Sender

T.S. Eliot wrote that to have individual talent, one must have historical sense. This historical sense is what makes a writer traditional, and simultaneously “most acutely conscious of his place in time, of his contemporaneity”. Dany Chan embodies Eliot’s philosophy: his next exhibition places ancient tradition in the context of a post millennial Cambodia.
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