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Cambodia, Catholicism, and Cauliflower
Peter Ford
Southeast Asia

Cambodia, Catholicism, and Cauliflower

The ups and downs of life in an ethnically Vietnamese community in Cambodia.

By Peter Ford

KIEN SVAY DISTRICT, CAMBODIA — Over a narrow cement bridge spanning ponds of purple-flowering lilies lies the ethnically Vietnamese village of Koh Pos Die Edth.With the Mekong River to its back, the village 45 minutes south of Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, sandwiched on both sides by farmland that floods at the height of the annual rainy season, consists of 40 or so modest two-story houses crowded around a bright turquoise Catholic church.

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Peter Ford is a freelance journalist based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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