Archive for January, 2010

January 23, 2010

Visitors to Haiti: “Having fun and enjoying themselves.”

“Sixty miles from Haiti’s devastated earthquake zone, luxury liners dock at private beaches where passengers enjoy jetski rides, parasailing and rum cocktails delivered to their hammocks.” The Guardian, January 17, 2010 (Five days after the Haiti earthquake.) _______ NPR interviewer: And what do people do when they go ashore at …Read the Rest

The Haiti Earthquake: January 12, 2010.
January 13, 2010

The Haiti Earthquake: January 12, 2010.

Updated January 14, 6 am. I am writing these words less than 24 hours after the disastrous January 12 earthquake …Read the Rest

“Just a normal guy.”
January 5, 2010

“Just a normal guy.”

Note: This post was updated on March 6, 2010. Tra was born in 1982 in Cambodia’s Takeo Province, a predominantly …Read the Rest

Some random scribblings from Phnom Penh
January 2, 2010

Some random scribblings from Phnom Penh

Updated (again) on January 8, 2010. This is my fourth visit to Phnom Penh, and I have been here for …Read the Rest