[PDF] Expatriates Strange Lives In Cambodia eBook

Author : Monika Tep
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2019-02-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780578459721

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Everyone has faced the problem of wanting to give up, especially during times of hardship. I will show you how to overcome this problem by staying persistent and keeping an open heart. Growing up fatherless in poverty-stricken Cambodia, as a child I was responsible for gathering my own food. During my adolescence, life wasn't any easier, and I suffered through physical and emotional abuse by someone I was accustomed from an early age to love and respect the most, my own mother. After that, I experienced the horror of being raped, and when I thought I'd overcome that nightmare, my boss then sold me as part of the sex slave trade. Rather cave to my environment, I had realistic optimism that everything I dreamed of was possible, so I learned English, made it to America, attained an education, even fell in love, before finally starting a successful business in Beverly Hills, California. After reading Life Between Two Worlds, I promise you will be able to overcome adversity and conquer your goals. You will then take the word impossible, and remove it from your vocabulary, replacing it with the words, "I can, I will, and I did." Don't wait, or the thought of giving up may very well defeat you. Equip yourself now with the inspiration found in these pages so that adversity and obstacles in life give way to you, and you find success. My life story provides many lessons including the importance of being appreciative, why you should never waste what you can share, the power of forgiveness, and how to turn tragedy into triumph.

Author : Andrew Hallam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119411890

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Build your strongest-ever portfolio from anywhere in the world Millionaire Expat is a handbook for smart investing, saving for retirement, and building wealth while overseas. As a follow-up to The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing, this book provides savvy investment advice for everyone—no matter where you're from—to help you achieve your financial goals. Whether you're looking for safety, strong growth, or a mix of both, index funds are the answer. Low-risk and reliable, these are the investments you won't hear about from most advisors. Most advisors would rather earn whopping commissions than follow sound financial principles, but Warren Buffett and Nobel Prize winners agree that index funds are the best way to achieve market success—so who are you ready to trust with your financial future? If you want a better advisor, this book will show you how to find one; if you'd rather go it alone, this book gives you index fund strategies to help you invest in the best products for you. Learn how to invest for both safety and strong returns Discover just how much retirement will actually cost, and how much you should be saving every month Find out where to find a trustworthy advisor—or go it alone Take advantage of your offshore status to invest successfully and profitably Author Andrew Hallam was a high school teacher who built a million-dollar portfolio—on a teacher's salary. He knows how everyday people can achieve success in the market. In Millionaire Expat, he tailors his best advice to the unique needs of those living overseas to give you the targeted, real-world guidance you need.

Author : David Mosse
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857451111

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Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development’s discursive regimes but, oddly enough, have paid scant attention to knowledge producers themselves, despite anthropologists being among them. This is the focus of this volume. It concerns the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction but is equally interested in the social life of development professionals, in the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, in networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and in the dilemmas of maintaining professional identities. Going well beyond obsolete debates about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ anthropology, the book examines the transformations that occur as social scientific concepts and practices cross and re-cross the boundary between anthropological and policy making knowledge.

Author : Hana Bui
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781796493788

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This book offers a first-time essential guide on how to work well with Burmese people. It assists expatriates in achieving success in Myanmar by helping them overcome the biggest challenge of expats here - the cultural conflicts. Do you want to know "What Readers Say about the Book"? Please "Look Inside"!. An enchanting and mysterious country awakening after 60 years of dictatorship and isolation, Myanmar is emerging as the last frontier market. In the newly-opened country full of oddities and quirks, expats have found lots of challenges, especially cultural differences and subsequent cultural conflicts. It looks like "Men Are from Mars and Women are from Venus." When Global Meets Local - How Expatriates Can Succeed in Myanmar: Full of vivid, real-life stories, the book presents, in a simple and applicable fashion for super-busy expats, the following: · 2 Survival Rules of Social Interaction and the most common cultural conflicts in Myanmar· 3 Keys to Success and 12 Simple and Applicable Lessons· What the locals think of foreigners and 15 comparable thoughts between expatriates and locals (how they easily misinterpret each other's "strange" behaviours)· Things expats wish they knew before coming here so they may avoid re-inventing the wheel and save lots of time, effort and money.· How to foster good relationships with the locals (a must)· How to fix any damage done · Suggestions to Win - either for a two-year contract expat or a more long term one Having lived in Myanmar for six years doing business in HR services, author Hana Bui has a strong interest in global-local interrelations. She holds an MA degree on Globalization and Communications from University of Leicester, England. The author did a survey of over a hundred expatriates who work or have worked in Myanmar for over a year, plus over 50 local professionals. Further, 30 in-depth interviews were conducted. The interviewees are mostly in the commercial sector, but NGOs and diplomatic organizations are also included. The two Survival Rules, three Keys to Succeed, and twelve Simple and Applicable Lessons are gained from cultural insight into the values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of the amiable Burmese people. The book also assesses the local corporate working culture and the characteristics of the local talent pool. Plus, there are authentic stories of local giants transforming their lucrative businesses in a new, competitive, and open business environment. Who the book would benefit: · New expats and entrepreneurs coming here to work· Existing expats and entrepreneurs who want to improve their effectiveness and efficiency · Expatriates and investors who want to come to Myanmar or who are considering doing so· Travelers who want to have a deeper understanding about the people in the Golden Land· Local entrepreneurs and professionals who often work with expats, especially HR professionals· Anyone who is interested in gaining an understanding about Myanmar culture, business, and people in the transition period of connecting with the global world.

Author : Doug Mendel, Mark Palz
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491768061

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On the morning of April 8, 2006, a pale green, twenty-eight-foot-long, 1976 FireMaster fire truck—Engine 633—drove away from a port in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after traveling some 8,500 miles from Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. It had just cleared customs and was en route to a small fire station six kilometers away. Just two years before that, Captain Sok, Sihanoukville’s fire chief, told author Douglas Mendel that his town was in need of a new fire truck. Mendel made it happen. In Cambodia Fire, Mendel shares the story of how he came to visit Cambodia, how it changed his life and the lives of numerous Cambodian people, and how he began his journey to help them with firetrucks, supplies, and gear to make their lives safer and better. This memoir tells how the delivery of the fire truck was only one of dozens of projects and years of work in connection with the Douglas Mendel Cambodian Relief Fund. Cambodia Fire narrates how the country of Cambodia and its warm, loving people have shaped the last seventeen years of Mendel’s life.

Author : Lawrence Osborne
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429957328

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A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons—a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke (but no longer in pain), he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. And so the restless exile stays. Osborne's is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he's wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby; or launching his own notably unsuccessful career as a gigolo. A guide without inhibitions, Osborne takes us to a feverish place where a strange blend of ancient Buddhist practice and new sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to the West. Bangkok Days is a love letter to the city that revived Osborne's faith in adventure and the world.