His swaggering style sets him apart from more low-key businesspeople who have emerged since the 1990s rebuilding of war-shattered Cambodia.

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It is also rebuilding the main roads in the war-shattered north and east, and is constructing a state-of-the-art performance-arts centre.

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Garner and his team face a daunting task which ranges from restoring power and water to establishing the rule of law in the war-shattered country.

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The Geneva-based United Nations Economic Commission for Europe was set up in 1947 to co-ordinate reconstruction in shattered post-war Europe.

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After WWII the U.S. faced unprecedented challenges--the emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union and the rebuilding and democratizing of shattered Europe and Japan.

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