Here is a brief insight on my life and of my few years as a troubled teenager in Cambodia, for whoever might give a damn and be patient enough to read the cluttered product of a foggy mind.
Yes, I think you’re getting more …
Bumping on my mountain bike along a rock-strewn path beneath the Japanese Bridge leading into Kandal province, I heard a bizarre lowing sound from behind. Assuming it was some goofball Cambodian guy on a motorbike with one of the amusing custom horns one …
New Year comes but once a year, well, 3 times if you live in Cambodia. Finally the last one is done and dusted, ready for the rains, which made their timely appearance the day after.
Most expats welcome the holiday, but dread the …
The last couple of articles I have written for this esteemed website could be perceived by some as being a little cynical or perhaps at times even a touch vitriolic. To even the score the following story is nicer: a pleasant piece to prove …
When you find yourself pulling electrical wires from sockets of blasting speakers in a furious attempt to remove the Formula Milk promotion company that are set up just inside the front gates of the school in which you work-at least for now anyway-and …
So I grabbed a copy of the April 2013 Bayon Pearnik while departing one of my favorite lunch spots today.
As I was flipping through the magazine’s highlights (the hostess bar ads), I ran across an article on page 28 titled “Stages of Foreign …
Phnom Penh is one of the most twisted car markets in the world. At first glance it is expensive (for what you get), unreliable, decentralized and full of vehicles that have no means of being properly serviced.
The good news is that most expats …
The writer Gabi Yetter is a long standing contributor to Cambodia’s best-known and best-read expatriate website (this one) who’s had her finger on the expat pulse here for some years now.
As her editor at K440, it’s been a total joy to see …
Hang Borin is a Khmer writer whom I had the great pleasure of meeting recently.
He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1987. His mother had made the perilous journey over the border alone with a young son.
She arrived in Thailand and …
Anybody keeping half an eye on European media over the last few months cannot help but notice the uproar over traces of horse DNA found in Findus Crispy Pancakes and LidlXtra Value burgers. The issue, it seems, is not about the quality of the …
