Real Estate market in Cambodia

Timely information on the Real Estate market in Cambodia :

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Cambodia

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Cambodia/Landlord-and-Tenant

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Cambodia/Price-History

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Cambodia/Buying-Guide

Open-source blueprints for 50 farm machines

From TED Talks

Open-source blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/marcin_jakubowski.html

http://www.ted.com/speakers/marcin_jakubowski.html

http://opensourceecology.org/

Book Review : Cambodia's Curse

In his new book "Cambodia's Curse," the former New York Times journalist Joel Brinkley comes very close to offering a similar dead-end theory to explain why he thinks the people of Cambodia are "cursed" by history to live under abusive tyrants. In his telling, Cambodians are passive Buddhists who have accepted their stern overlords since the days of the Angkor Empire. "Far more than almost any other state, modern Cambodia is a product of customs and practices set in stone a millennium ago," he writes, blaming that history for the ability of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to squash meaningful dissent against his corrupt regime.

Sunday, April 17, 2011
Cambodia's Curse
The Modern History of a Troubled Land
By Joel Brinkley

Source :
San Francisco Chronicle
http://editorials.cambodia.org/2011/04/cambodias-curse-by-joel-brinkley.html
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/17/RVTE1IKUA9.DTL