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Posted March 25, 2009

Hollywood mogul swaps fantasy life, serves children living a nightmare.

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Posted August 1, 2008

The Forum: A Conversation with Scott Neeson

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Posted October, 2008

CCF is thrilled to have our Srey Mean Chey tote bags included in Travel + Leisure’s November issue – pick up your copy today (we’re featured in the stylish traveler/fashion section on page 98)! Click here to see our selection of colorful tote bags.

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Posted October 28, 2008

The trash felt like quicksand beneath my boots. My tour guide, Scott Neeson, a former movie producer, warned me to keep moving and watch for sinkholes. Last year, my wife, Lhotse, and I were in Cambodia-Angkor Wat is truly incredible-and at the urging of one of our humanitarian friends, we went to Stung Meanchey, Phnom Penh’s dump.

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Posted March 25, 2008

We have a more now on a story we told in 2006, It's about Scott Neeson, an Australian, now an American citizen, who gave up a rich life as a Hollywood movie executive to go live in Cambodia.

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Posted July 28, 2007

Hope for Cambodian children
by Margaret Conley

It is hot and humid and the stench of the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh is unbearable and inescapable. It is hard to believe people live there. However, many children have no choice but to forage through the waste for recyclables that earn them 25 to 75 cents a day for a bowl of rice.

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Posted June 13, 2007

Miracle Surgery Mends Cambodian Orphan
Plucked From Garbage Dump, Little Lyda Gets Cutting-Edge Care In L.A.

(CBS) When Scott Neeson first laid eyes on Lyda, the 13-year-old orphan was clambering over a mountain of garbage in a Phnom Penh, Cambodia slum. She was moving slowly and painfully because of a spinal deformity that left her with a severe hunchback. Still, she persevered.

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Posted June 3, 2007

After meeting a 13-year-old named Lyda, Sumner Redstone has turned an entire country of in-need children into one of his most personal causes.

Redstone has made a grant of $500,000 to the Cambodian Children's Fund, a nonprofit program that provides a wide range of critical health and educational services to impoverished and abused children in the capital city of Phnom Penh.

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Posted April 21, 2006

When Scott Neeson left Hollywood, shortly before Christmas 2004, he kicked the town’s rumour mill into overdrive.

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Posted September, 2005

Scott Neeson gave up a plush living marketing movies to try and lift Cambodian children from squalor and want. An interview with Scott Neeson written by LA Times staff writer Martin Miller.

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