At nine years old Suan works everyday in the shadow of the hulkingly beautiful Angkor Wat ruins, selling bracelets and postcards to the hoards of tourists who descend relentlessly upon the site.
The crisis also "shattered conventional views" about the adequate level of foreign-exchange reserves, prompting emerging economies with large dollar hoards to hoard even more.
In recent weeks, they have helped to uncover significant hoards of Roman coins in Wales and Devon, which are expected to yield valuable insights into the society of our erstwhile be-togaed conquistadors.
Cue the growing ranks of top universities and hoards of school teachers who freely share their resources, teaching and learning research and lesson ideas on the web.
Most pundits expected them to be trounced at the polls.In this section The Maoists triumph A different sort of emergency Let them eat mud Diggers for China The ravening hoards A law unto themselves Slow breeders Reprints Related items The Gurkhas: Trouble in the rearApr 17th 2008 Nepal's election: Mountains to climbApr 10th 2008They reckoned without three factors.
Every time the tide of global capital flows shifts and emerging economies are caught short, it is those with the thinnest foreign-exchange reserve hoards that fare worst.But this is a recipe for trouble.
All but a couple of Saudi Arabia's 11 close neighbours facing a degree of unrest, and those two, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, have tiny native populations, proportionally even greater hoards of cash, and traditions of openness and tolerance that contrast starkly with Saudi Arabia.The kingdom in the middle has largely avoided regional ills, bar Islamist radicalism.
Gold reserves grew increasingly unbalanced; France and America built growing hoards, while Britain and Germany ran short.
The benefit is that "casual" terrorists would have great difficulty getting hold of it (officially, the only remaining stocks are held at one laboratory in America and one in Russia, though there are probably a few secret hoards in military laboratories around the world).
A suspicion that hoards of rabid animals are massed on the other side of the Channel has led the government to cling on to the law insisting that all cats and dogs imported into Britain have to first spend six months at a kennel, until they are certified as clear of rabies.
