HONOLULU (KHON2) — As Mixed Plate continues its Southeast Asian journey, Pamela Young sees how life along the Mekong Delta is very much like ours.
Many names have known it, but this Mekong Country, once called the Khmer Republic, is known as Kampuchea to locals and Cambodia on the map.
Through its political and social upheavals, its people have preserved traditions and a cultural heritage going back 20 centuries, dance.
But not all is well along the delta.
Progress battles the past as the landscape falls victim to climate change and political exigency.
How can Cambodians keep a traditional way of life and how are their issues echoed in our own backyard?
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