Tag Archives: Phnom Penh
Two Tonne Stockpile of Fake Drugs Seized in Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh – A guesthouse stockpiled with counterfeit medications imported from Vietnam was raided by police from the Anti-Economic Crimes Police Department of the Ministry of Interior, officials from the Ministry of Health, local authorities, and the Deputy Prosecutor of…
Police Crackdown Continues: Jailbait Mamasan Nailed
Phnom Penh – Police from Phnom Penh’s Anti-human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Department, led by Deputy Prosecutor Hao SayNa, arrested a mamasan and her male help for prostitution in connection with some Vietnamese girls (mostly underage, one still a virgin)…
‘City Cat’: Sugar Shack for Sugar Daddies Raided
Phnom Penh – The female proprietor of a beauty salon located in the area of The Old Market, Daun Penh District was detained by Military Police at about 5 pm of the 19th of September, 2012, while ដឹកញីទៅស៊ីឈ្មោល (with latitude…
Beaten Up and Robbed: A Dramatik Monolog of True Cambodia
Meanwhile, over on St. 63 … It was five of the A.M. in the city of Phnom Penh and I was crawling home. My hands were darkened by dust, by dirt, by the debris of urban peasantry, by scattered piles…
Phnom Penh Restaurant Reviews: Nike’s Pizza House
There’s something decidedly quirky about a restaurant that plays hits from the Bay City Rollers as it serves steaming bowls of pesto pasta. It’s made stranger by the presence of two four-foot-tall mosaic-studded ceramic chickens and a selection of shiny…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat 14: The Cambodia ‘Casanova’
So what was I doing over Christmas? I spurned all the invites to parties as I hadn’t heard from my poor phoneless waif and I was so worried about her; I suspected – rightly – that she was too weak…
InterNed in Cambodia: The World, Developing
I hit the street with an uncertain stride, endeavoring earnestly to be both confident and casual, as if I wasn’t the same sad wreck of a man who’d been so boldly abused aboard an airliner that day. I believe I’d…
Cycling to the Rural Villages of Outlying Phnom Penh
I have a long-standing love affair with the following: my wife, my daughters, my extended family, food, travel, laughter – and my bike. Back in the US, my Litespeed Siena road bike (titanium, with carbon-fiber cranks and a nifty Shimano…
Conkers, Minnows and Elastic – Childhood Revisited in Cambodia
Last Friday I sat on the edge of a desk, surrounded by the stench of half-eaten pizzas and sticky pools of splashed Fanta. It was the day of end-of-year parties. The bossiest girls from each class had collected a few…
Memoirs of a Grizzled Expat 15: Not a Straightforward Love Story
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This is by no means a straightforward love story however; do you still think I’m exaggerating when I perceive her and her family as the very personification of the troubles that beset this tragic nation? Fast forward to the next…