Nathan Hansford, an Australian businessman working in Thailand who reportedly “disappeared” several months ago, has been found in Cambodia, according to a statement from his family. The Sydney Morning Herald reported last week that Hansford went missing from his Thai wife in Bangkok in …
Cambodian’s use of Facebook is, like many Cambodian things, interesting. Naomi-Collett Ritz examines the phenomenon of Khmers and FB.
The other day on the internet a well-known photojournalist posted a photo of a family standing around an open coffin. The women were crying. The photo …
Vice and Slate writer Nathan Thompson encounters a disconcerting side of Khmer rural life: the treatment of stray animals
The dog was a right old mess. Its patchy fur exposed grey skin gathered into folds and each eye was blood red. Its head drooped as …
Sundays are brilliant, aren’t they? Whether you are nursing a hangover from Saturday night’s excess, or praising the Lord for the seventh day, that God-given day of rest applies to everyone (except Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists supermarket workers and the Khmer construction workers opposite your …
The Twelve Tables would like to invite you to our first big event of 2014 as we seek to educate others about the topic of sex trafficking and the rescue industry in Cambodia. Our continuous search for new perspectives on global issues …
Jeff Mudrick reviews Phnom Penh’s two newest middle-eastern eateries.
Random Prologue
Little Armenia, where I resided before coming to Cambodia overlaps Thai Town in the east Hollywood district of Los Angeles. It can be a dangerous place, more particularly a place where people live and die over …
Pedro takes a look at the body-less monster of Khmer villages, the Aap.
“Do you believe in ghosts?” is a question sometimes asked after conversations about rice and money have been exhausted. “Believe!” is the emphatic answer. When prodded on the subject further, the admission is …
Vice and Slate writer Nathan Thompson visits Sihanoukville and has a dire time of it
I expected Sihanoukville to be a Sodom of sexpats. But it wasn’t all that bad. “Just go to Otres”, my expat friends had told me. I would have followed …
The Comedy Club Cambodia has been champing at the bit for more mirth-filled moments and gallops back for its first show in the Year of the Horse.
Two comedy circuit heavyweights, Johnny Candon and Dave Johns, have been booked to …
Pedro takes part in a provincial Kru Khmer exorcism ceremony
As those who are familiar with The Kingdom of Wondering What in Lord’s Name is Going On are no doubt aware, asking a question about day to day events mostly results in a vague, non-intelligible …
