Happy Khmer New Year (with colouring and replaced angels)

## it was my third ‘new year’ for 2007 and like last year celebrating in April makes lots of sense to me. So to all, happy belated Khmer New Year. This is a gorgeous message from a work colleague. (the other two new years are the western date and the Chinese new year which I saw lots of as I was in Phnom Penh at that time)

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Dear all,
I hope all of you are well and happy.

I would like to take this opportunity to send this email to all of you
as of my friend as same as an ICSO family for the event of KHMER NEW
YEAR, the year of PIG for duty replacement the angel the year of DOG.

I would like to thank to the existing angel to warming us for a year
period of April to March 2007.

Therefore, I would like to pray to the new angel coming up this April
to bless all of you and particularly your family would be in
LONGEVITY, SOCIALIZING and COLORING, GOOD HEALTHY, GOOD WISDOM and
MORALITY and PROSPERITY within progressively of all your both official
and private businesses for the year of PIG.

I would like all of you to forgive all bad things but to bring victory
for our family.

Please accept my regards and forgive the words you do not like in this email.
With Lovely and friendly to all.
Best wishes.
From XXXXX
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Aid agencies assist beer corporations

CARE is an international NGO and it is seriously large. Larger than World Vision for example. They do a marvelous bi-lingual education program here locally that can’t be criticized. But recently CARE took on a contract with Heineken and it is to assess the impact of the beer company’s own safe drinking messages in developing nations. Its one of the odder links between aid agencies and the corporate world.

2nd prize is "ya don't get to go to USA!"

And this is one of Leak’s clever cartoons from a week ago. Aust has announced some crazy plan to send refugees to America via Nauru

There have been some very unkind but realistic jokes made at Australia’s expense over this plan of Howard’s; getting a ticket to the USA will only increase refugees to Aust!

(as Aust is always considered 2^nd or 3^rd option down for any refugees who do have any thoughts on where they’d like to end up, getting to the USA is not a disincentive) The sense that Aust really does present itself as a major player in world politics is embarrassing rather than funny but Leak’s cartoons can make me laugh