Never mind the boat ride from Phnom Penh to Chau Doc, which started an hour late and stuttered through two “Ooops! We’re out of gas” delays before depositing us ashore in Vietnam.
The boat trip was late, ridiculous and at times alarming (particularly when the …
For a lover of fish life is good here in Cambodia where you really don’t have to go far for a good fish supper (or fish breakfast…fish lunch….fish snack ….fish cheese). Fish are literally everywhere. Even the walls in the classroom where I teach …
Dogora is being shown at Meta House in Phnom Penh at 8pm on Tuesday 6th November.
Sometimes living and working here in Cambodia with the daily stresses, struggles and inconveniences that are part of our everyday lives, we are in danger of forgetting just …
There was a documentary I saw about Spike Milligan and the depression that had blighted much of his life. He’d been brought up in India and moved to England when he was 15. It had a terrible effect on him. He missed …
There’s something deliciously decadent about a meal that consists of miniature morsels of macaroons, cream-filled concoctions of chocolate cake and sumptuous slivers of syrupy sponge.
Sure, there’s a savoury element tucked between the layers of pastries, but wafer-thin cucumber finger sandwiches and tiny tartlets are …
APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
They said it would be hot. April, that is. March was hot, they said. But April was hotter. That’s what they …
She seems to endure a very stressful time whenever she sees her family and always returns having not slept or eaten which in her present fragile condition leaves her looking sallow and haggard, yet despite me not cutting her any emotional slack, after a …
Phnom Penh – Police from the Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Department of Phnom Penh have arrested a French English teacher for distributing obscene photos and uttering threats.
The teacher has been identified as a 33 year old Frenchman named ‘GONZALES FRED ERIC,’ …
Phnom Penh – The first attempt ever by a Cambodian to plant the Cambodian flag on the summit of 8,848 meter high Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world, located on the border between China and Nepal, has ended in his death.
A …
Meas Bophea is 15; she is adopted and lives with her adopted mother Bopha and 6 or 7 other adopted children.
Bopha’s house is near Anlong Tong Wat in Sokong Village, Kampong Speu.
The youngest child is sponsored informally as he has a rare …
