Heart of Darkness



[A middle-age Khmer women walks past the row cells at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum]Tuol Sleng was a high school before the Khmer Rouge set up a detention center here in May 1976, and it has been open as a genocide museum since 1980. During its life as a prison and torture center more than 10,000 adults and anywhere up to 2,000 children were processed through it, spending their...

Good Morning Phnom Penh



[Buddhist monks walk past a giant portrait of the Queen at the Royal Palace, Phnom Penh]Phnom Penh wakes up early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat. Already 6 A.M and the people of Phnom Penh are rushing and bumping into each other on dusty, narrow side streets. Waiters and waitresses...