Auckland paediatric opthalmologist Dr Justin Mora will be the first of 12 Australasian surgeons to set up a children’s eye clinic and train local doctors in Phnom Penh during the next year – a service that is virtually non-existent in the third world country. Dr Mora’s voluntary contribution is funded by the Australian-based Sight for Read more
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Reconciliation in the homes of war criminals
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
On Saturday, I was travelling around the Catholic parish of Khompong Thom in Cambodia in company with the director of UCAN News, Australian Jesuit Fr Michael Kelly, and the parish priest, Thai Jesuit Fr Jub Phoktavi . As we drove through the village of Prek Sbeuv, Jub matter-of-factly pointed to Pol Pot’s old house. It Read more