On the afternoon of February 24, Shen Kaidong the 51 year old editor in chief of Chinese language outlet Angkor Today was driving near Kulen mountain when his phone started to ring. He answered the phone and a stranger introduced himself in broken Chinese as an interpreter calling on behalf…
Cambodian and Vietnamese social media users were shocked by tragic videos on December, 2016. A Vietnamese Facebook account had posted several videos to Facebook showing a 2-year old boy being tortured. This is the story of how a Dutch man became one of Cambodia’s most hated men over night. Stefan…
Infamous expat thief and conman James Joseph Robert Whitlow and girlfriend Jamie Louise Rhodes caught stealing and arrested in Phnom Penh along with Argentine Daniel Zaccanti. Regular readers of Khmer440 are undoubtedly familiar with the name James Whitlow. Whitlow is an expat in Cambodia hailing from the lovely city of…
The Cambodia party underground is buzzing around a new way to get a kick. In January, a team of psychedelics enthusiasts from Ukraine launched Cambodia’s first online shop to sell party drugs. They call themselves bees but it is not honey they hunt. They use a Russian concept of “treasure…
Facebook has released the findings of an independent human rights impact assessment they commissioned in 2018 to evaluate the role of their services in Cambodia, along with details on how they’ve responded to the recommendations. The assessment builds on the work they’ve done over the last two years, beginning with…
The most useless embassy in the world has finally managed to do something. After much drama, the British Embassy in Cambodia has sent viable Brits previously stranded in Cambodia due to the Covid-19 pandemic off on a plane, leaving only the ambassador behind with those who have creative excuses to…
As the CoVID-19 pandemic hits the world in full swing, authorities in all countries are taking both precautionary and drastic measures to curb the spread of the Coronavirus. Most of the world has gone into lockdown, travel restrictions are in place, non-emergency work canceled, schools closed, roads blocked, gatherings prohibited…
The military has ordered 10 tanks and 12 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles to move from a military base in Kampot to Phnom Penh, The Cambodia China Times wrote on Wednesday. The vehicles were ordered to arrive in Phnom Penh between the 10th and 11th of April. Orders were given for…
Chinese people are paying for human traffickers to illegally smuggle them in and out of Cambodia by land and sea. Citizens of China that are trapped in Cambodia and wanting to return home are taking extreme measures. Plane ticket costs have skyrocketed due to the Covid-19 outbreak making some go…
A 21 year old exchange student to Ireland tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said in a statement. The man flew from Dublin, Ireland, to Doha, Qatar, on March 20 on Qatar Airways QR0018. He then flew with Qatar Airways QR0970 to Phnom Penh, Cambodia,…
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