The people you most want to avoid in SE Asia (and everywhere else also)
Call it expat privilege, call it snobbery, but let’s be honest; once you’ve been living in Asia for a while
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Analysis
2016 – The Khmer440 year in review
2016 has been a hell of a year, with the underdog, the anti-establishment figures and the disaffected finding themselves the
Read MoreBack on track in Cambodia
For me, the sight that most encapsulated the rebirth of passenger services in Cambodia was the two young children, travelling
Read MoreEncyclopedia Cambodiana
Let’s be honest; Cambodia isn’t the most literary country on the planet, and it’s rare to find genuine scholarly works
Read MoreCambodia graduates from Low Income Country status – how will that affect international aid?
There is a concern that Cambodia’s graduation to LMIC status means it is likely to lose a large amount of much needed aid. A number of leading international NGOs have spoken out recently about the classification process in general, and how it is linked to aid. It is feared that by ‘graduating’ and losing access to still very much needed aid dollars, there is an increased risk to reverse growth trends and then ‘reverse graduate’ and fall back down the ladder.
Read MoreDying to get to work
The most lethal challenge to Cambodian workers comes not from poor ventilation or industrial machinery, but the challenge of getting to and from the sweatshops 6 days a week. It’s kinda a case of hard work never killed anyone, but the commute might just be deadly.
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Is Eric David Erdmann a falsely accused victim of mistaken identity, or a lying fugitive child sex offender?
In late March, a new Khmer440 poster with the username “sniper_m4” started a topic in our discussion forums about “Being Followed.” Sniper_m4 expressed concern that a tuk tuk driver recently told his wife that he was being followed by Actions pour les Enfants (“APLE”), a well known pedophile-hunting, child protection NGO.
Read MoreThe pastor and the monster
Christopher LaPel’s father was a Brahman priest serving Cambodia’s king in his role as the earthly incarnation of the god
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Cambodia’s national symbols
The flora and fauna of Cambodia has suffered a fair bit over the past few decades. After the fall of
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Charlie Chaplin’s Cambodia
Charlie and Paulette were big news, the reporters descended, and Charlie entertained them “with much courtesy and charm” in the hotel bar (presumably the Elephant Bar). Phnom Penh, he said, was charming, the palaces and pagodas delightful, the Cambodian houses picturesque. He felt he had to question whether French Colonial villas (the ones the Europeans lived in) were perhaps a little suburban and uncomfortable, but the wide boulevards, built over newly-reclaimed canals, were the equal of those in Paris. Asked if he might consider making a movie in Cambodia, he didn’t rule it out, but also didn’t see it happening in the immediate future. He would, however, undertake to publicise Indochina as a tourist destination on his return home.
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