Category Archives: Phnom Penh
Beer Promotion Saleswomen
Debate is currently raging on the 440 forum over the Bush funded NGO Care International”s self initiated and self proposed “cultural makeover” of Cambodia”s “beer girls.” Here’s a flavour of the debate. Okay, okay. I tried to ignore it. I…
Linguistic Faux Pas in Cambodia
Many moons ago when Lord Playboy was freshly arrived in Cambodia, looking for change, adventure and a cheap, clean, substitute for nuclear fuel, I took an intensive course in learning Khmer Having been a devoted student of the Khmer language,…
Khmer Police, Traffic Offences, Boxing and Beer
It is a fairly normal Sunday evening at home, normal but for one small, highly unusual, difference. I am roaming the corridors of the flat in a mood that can only be described as ‘seriously and dangerously peevish’ It has…
Harebrained Schemes
Remember awhile back when Phnom Penh’s governor decreed that 3-wheeled taxis were banned from the center city? He mentioned something about them being ‘disorderly’. I never quite got the connection between tuk-tuks and order and the ban never quite got…
People Need Space
There isn’t all that much I miss about living in America, at least not enough to imagine wanting to be there on a permanent basis; I do, however get a heavy dose of supersize country in my annual summer trek…
Things Can Only Get Wetter
We’ve now reached the dog days of this year’s hot season and the temperature has risen to its yearly zenith. Like a tidal rhythm the heat has roared and surged upwards for one last punishing blast prior to the arrival…
Drunken Dances and Violent Games with Fetching Office Girls: The Khmer New Year Staff Party
When the management declared that we would all stop work at noon on the last day before the recent holiday to have a staff party, most of the foreign staff anticipated the cultural awkwardness to come and skipped out to…
Khmer Vs International Banking: Volunteer Working and Inverse Snobbery
Not wishing too keep too much money in a Cambodian bank, I keep the bulk of my ready cash back in my UK Bank. The small volunteer stipend that I get for working here deals with those small day to…
Khmer New Year
So there I was (in the words of Martin Luther ”I could do no other”), sitting in one of my favourite male orientated drinking establishments a couple of nights ago. The clock had chimed twelve and the bar was being…
Study On The Affects Of Alcohol On Women
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“Younger women who drink two or three alcoholic beverages a week have a lower risk of developing high blood pressure than women who do not consume alcohol.” — Reuters A study by the anti-ngo Playboy Holdings Inc. finds that women…