Tag Archives: NGOs
Phnom Penh ‘War Elephants’ and Dodgy Views of Khmer Women
It was a couple of years ago in Phnom Penh when I was going to have lunch with my former boss – the Minister of Fish and his two highly respectable, fragrant and upper middle class teenage daughters (whiter than…
Khmer Rouge Trial Costs: A Perspective
Imagine the year is 2036. George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard, the current leaders of the USA, the UK and Australia are being persecuted by the UN for the War on Terrorism that occurred in Afghanistan and Iraq and…
Cambodia Barworld Studies: The Life of the Phnom Penh Barboy
Going through some old magazines that were lying around my house last weekend, I came across an edition of the feminist quarterly Leisure Studies (No. 22, July 2003). I used to subscribe. It contained an article by Sheila Jeffries, a…
NGO Rules: Guilty until proven Innocent
Those tree hugging hippy bastards at NGO Central spotted Lord Playboy last week committing the second most heinous of all crimes in their Playbook of NGO Nanny State Reformation. (Number 1 being fiddling with persons under 18 years of age)…
Running Away From Rabid Packs of Dogs (The Khmer way to fitness)
How can you, as a lard-arsed NGO fatty, lose weight fast? Do you have one of those ”can not-tell-if-it is-all those pies-or-down’s-syndrome kind of faces?” Are you the kind of man that is so severely testosterone-impaired that you make Barry…
NGOs strangling the Private Sector
As I was catching up with a few weeks of backlog of ‘Andrex: The Cambodia Daily’ at the weekend, I came across a correspondence on the letters page that was having a bit of a pop at NGO’s and Aid…
An Insider Writes
Intoducing our new columnist: top ‘foreign expert’ and close chum of Cambodia’s new money elite, Tobias Oliveira Slingshote writes exclusively for Khmer 440. Hello everybody! Before I start I just want all the readers on this board to know that…
NGO Bedwetting Workshop
Ben Matthews showed up to what he thought was just another NGO workshop last Tuesday, where he would once again share stories and support about his lifelong bedwetting problem and perhaps finally conquer his soggy night demons once and for…
Cambodia: Child Labour, School Attendance and Homer J Simpson
A week or so ago, a fresh faced, cheerful and optimistic young woman was found sitting in my office [no, do not ask me why, I had no idea why] It seems that one of those very well known International…
Heng Poev Skips Cambodia etc: DDSS
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DDSS The more things change, the more things stay the same Ah this Heng Poev debacle has been entertaining me all week; he is on the lam, he is not, he is; he is in Singapore, he is not, oh…