The cover of my book is a photograph of a young Cambodian girl before she was executed, and probably tortured, by the Khmer Rouge as a so-called enemy of the state.

At its time, the Catholic Church asked the Salesians of Don Bosco in Bangkok to do something in technical education for Cambodian girls and boys of the refugee camps.

"Scores of teenage Cambodian girls are disfigured and in many cases blinded in acid attacks by rich men's wives," Short writes.

The 1986 ABC TV-movie The Girl Who Spelled Freedom, about a Cambodian immigrant girl who competes in spelling bees.

Many Cambodian girls have been kept from education due to several factors.

At 4:30 AM, a Cambodian girl came to our room and explained what was going on.

On a reporting trip to Cambodia in 1996, I met a 15-year-old Cambodian girl who had been kidnapped off the street and imprisoned in a brothel.

In an ad running in photography magazines for the Maxxum 9, a 35-millimeter single-lens reflex professional camera, a male photographer shown from neck to waist holds a picture of a young Cambodian girl injured by land mines.

Sopha Kol, secretary general of FFC, said: "For the very first time, very young Cambodian girls represented Cambodia in a regional tournament like this one.

April 6, 2007: "A 13-year-old Cambodian girl dies from bird flu, bringing the country's death toll from the H5N1 virus to seven."