Betsy Campo

Writer's Biography

Betsy Campo has traveled around several countries in South East Asia and has written various pieces for local HK publications.

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Siem Reap, Cambodia: Siem Reap, Cambodia - Story by Betsy Campo
- 7th Online Issue

Cambodia: the name alone evokes an array of images. Our largely American entourage had many notions of what to expect – a vague familiarity with its past struggles, nightmarish visions of Pol Pot and his murderous Khmer Rouge regime, Dith Pran's Killing Fields, piles of skulls, suffering and poverty. We saw the aftermath of this... and more. As a parade of temples, villages, people and experiences were presented to us in the coming days, we were all left dazed by the compelling dichotomy of Cambodia.

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Hanoi, Vietnam: Life is good in Hanoi - Story by Betsy Campo
- 2nd Online Issue

One of the many pleasures of being an ex-pat in Hong Kong is the myriad travel opportunities within the region. Just get out the atlas and see the proximity of all those exotic places! Vietnam is high on the list of desirable destinations for many Hong Kong ex-pats. As an American who grew up with graphic footage of the Vietnam War every night on the evening news, I was dying to go, albeit with a sense of ambivalence and guilt about my homeland’s ill-advised presence in Southeast Asia.

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