Making Love Out of Nothing At All

Maybe the title of this blog is a bit... misleading.  I am, indeed, listening to Air Supply, but instead of "making love out of nothing," I am creating news articles out of something.  Last week, we were asked to write down an idea for a news story (to whoever got "Post-Olympics Beijing: Public and Political Reactions," I say both "Sorry" and "You're welcome!").  We handed our sticky notes to Rick, he mixed them up, then passed them out again.  Here is the nugget bestowed upon me:

"Cambodian army making personal profit from tourists for using excess artillery."

Right.  Here are my story ideas:

1)  Ethnic minority rights and restrictions in Cambodia (home to Muslims, ethnic Chinese, etc - how do ethnic tensions play into political and economic issues in the country?)

2)  Medical care in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia (Pol Pot and his cronies had denied tenets of Western medicine to its citizens - does this influence the welcoming of "tourists" and their access to Western medicines?)

3)  How "open" is the Cambodian government/media in its international reporting?  (Cambodia is consistently rated low on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index; how does this affect the validity of news reports coming from the country?  Does this affect reports on the aforementioned quote about the Cambodian army?)

4)  Recent tensions on the Thai-Cambodian border and their effect on tourism

5)  Investigation into the artillery in question.  Where are they getting this artillery?  Is it left-over from the short US invasion?  Was it purchased from the Soviets?  This can expand into a world-wide study of arms sales - who is buying and who is selling.