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This is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while but kept putting off. One of the main objectives for creating this network is to make available to Khmer people around the world Khmer-related educational materials gathered from various places on the web.

I want this to become a place where kaun Khmer can come and learn how to read and write Khmer, research Khmer history and culture, in addition to chatting and interacting with one another. Because of our tragic recent history, our people are scattered all over the world. But this does not necessarily mean that we should forget our language, history and culture.

Today I stumbled upon a site called Scribd.com, a print media sharing site akin to Youtube. It allows users to share full-length documents, including Khmer books and texts, which can read or embedded on external sites like Khmercity.net.

Learning that I could embed materials from Scribd on KC, I knew I had to add the “Education” tab to KC. The Education Section will contain educational materials from other sources besides Scribd.

This is a work in progress. It will be refined as I gather more materials and find a better way to organize the materials. If you’re aware of other Khmer-related educational materials, either in Khmer or English, that you think should belong here, please let me know.

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You may have read about the recent death of a Canadian “aid worker” who was supposedly followed by Khmer men from an ATM and “bludgeoned, robbed, stripped of his clothes and left to die” in a Cambodian ditch by his assailants.

Well, as it turned out, the “aid worker,” Jiri Zivny, may have died from a simple motorcycle accident after a night on the town in Kompong Som, a popular destination for Western sex tourists and pedophiles.

As for the “humanitarian” organization which he “worked” for…

“The International Humanitarian Hope Society functions like a tourism business. Clients sign up and pay for tours that mix sight-seeing with visits to orphanages throughout Southeast Asia. The trips cost about $2,500 per person for airfare and accommodations. ” source

After the accident dozens of sensational articles were circulated about an “innocent” humanitarian who was savagely robbed, beaten and killed by the very people whom he came to “help”.

As the report below reveals, the real victim may be the Khmer motorcyclist hit by Zivny. The Khmer motorcyclist is still unconscious. It would be interesting to know the blood alcohol content Zivny when he was taken to the hospital.

I think the real tragedy is that Khmer people were falsely portrayed as savage ingrates by the news media, and I have yet to see any retractions of the inaccurate reporting by any of the sources.

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