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Article: LETTER FROM PHNOM PENH: IT'S ALIVE
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- United Press International
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- January 16, 2003
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Letter from Phnom Penh: It's alive
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Jan 16, 2003 (United Press International via
COMTEX) -- Phnom Penh is bustling again. A decade after the fighting
in Cambodia's withering civil war finally ended, after the purges
wrought by the notorious Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian capital's central
market, for example -- commanding the middle its main traffic circle
--- is selling everything from soap to delectable tropical fruits
to chickens.
In another part of town, a whole block of money changers does a brisk
business exchanging whatever you have in your pockets to whatever
currency they have in glass boxes on which they rest their elbows
on at all times. ...