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    COVID CORNER

    Nov 05, 2020 4 minutes

    SCARE-COVIDS

    ambodian farmers have been erecting scarecrow-type effigies to ward off coronavirus. Known as ‘Ting Mong’ in the Khmer language, they have been used in the past to protect villages from sicknesses like dengue or water-borne diarrhoea. “It is our ancient superstition to set up Ting Mongs when there are dangerous diseases or to avert evil,” farmer Sok Chany, 45, told reporters. She has posted two in front of her wooden stilt home in Trapeang Sla village located in Kampong Cham province, about 110km (68 miles) northeast of the capital Phnom Penh. One floral-shirted Ting Mong is armed with a stick and has a plastic pot for a head. The

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