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Then she was on the ground, crying. It was the first time she had cried since the day of Peou’s death. Trying desperately to recall some long-lost detail, she felt the gaps of her own memory, the lingering shadows of the past that had stretched into her family’s present, into Cambotown, these shadows she recognized but didn’t quite understand, even as they were beginning to fade, to diminish, along with her memory of Peou herself.

A jilted lover took his life by jumping into the moat of the popular tourist attraction Angkor Wat in Siem Reap province on Wednesday evening.

Residents who were willing to leave their homes in Angkor Archaeological Park and relocate to Run Ta Ek eco-village five years ago are saying their lives have improved in the interim, and now Prime Minister Hun Sen has recently announced that Run Ta Ek area would be converted into a rural Run Ta Ek town.

A total of 689 families living “illegally” on land in the Angkor Archaeological Park have agreed to move to the Runta Ek eco-village within the same park and participate in a drawing for plots of land scheduled for August 25.

A short story titled Widow of Five Husbands – which was written in 1973 by a talented author of Khmer literature who enjoyed some fame in the 1970’s and 1980’s – was recently reprinted by Kampu-Mera Editions, a publisher whose mission it is to preserve the works of Cambodian writers from past eras.