Mekong Shadows
In 2012, a collection of short stories called ‘Phnom Penh Noir’ was released, edited by the highly talented Christopher G.
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The Khmer440 Games
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association of South East Asian Nations a year of superlative
Read MoreThe people you most want to avoid in SE Asia (and everywhere else also)
Call it expat privilege, call it snobbery, but let’s be honest; once you’ve been living in Asia for a while
Read MoreThe Fairytale Complex: 419s in Cambodia
As the western target market has become more aware, with only the really, really stupid and old folk with Alzheimer’s responding to African princes, new markets and opportunities are emerging where uneducated folk are given access to the internet without a crash course on who roams cyberspace looking to make a fraudulent buck or three. Word is slowly getting out, thanks to community phone in programmes on ABC Radio, but when I get asked whether a 6 headed naga caught in Kampong Cham going viral on Facebook is real, or if the Zika virus had been really been sprayed over Phnom Penh by Vietnamese agents, then it’s pretty safe to bet that safe internet safety steps are still in their infancy in Cambodia.
Read MoreProperty ownership update – Khan Daun Penh
This week has been an interesting one for real estate in Phnom Penh, especially if you are a foreigner who
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Fugitive Belgian paedophile Pieter Ceulen under arrest after surrendering to police in Phnom Penh
Fugitive convicted paedophile Pieter Ceulen is in police custody and facing extradition to serve a 19 year prison sentence
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Where are they now? Psychologist Dr Ken ‘Carrington’ Wilcox
Longtime readers of Khmer440 will surely remember the name Kenneth Drew Wilcox. Wilcox is a psychologist who had a
Read MoreRestaurant review – Il Forno
It’s disappointing when you go into a restaurant expecting to love it, and come away underwhelmed. That’s exactly what happened
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Charlie Chaplin’s Cambodia
Charlie and Paulette were big news, the reporters descended, and Charlie entertained them “with much courtesy and charm” in the hotel bar (presumably the Elephant Bar). Phnom Penh, he said, was charming, the palaces and pagodas delightful, the Cambodian houses picturesque. He felt he had to question whether French Colonial villas (the ones the Europeans lived in) were perhaps a little suburban and uncomfortable, but the wide boulevards, built over newly-reclaimed canals, were the equal of those in Paris. Asked if he might consider making a movie in Cambodia, he didn’t rule it out, but also didn’t see it happening in the immediate future. He would, however, undertake to publicise Indochina as a tourist destination on his return home.
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Singlets, Sok Bun, Sam Rainsy and the case of the missing PhD: 2015 – a year in review
As 2015 draws to a close, it is a good moment to take a step back and look at some
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