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2019 Public Holidays in Cambodia
As Water Festival has come to a close, and there remains only one lone holiday left in 2018 (at least it’s on a Monday!), it’s time to look forward to 2019 and the next 28 public holidays. Public...
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Le Broken Plate Falls Flat In Its New Location
Last year I visited Le Broken Plate a few times, and wrote this glowing review of a night there. The location on Street 13 was almost hidden, but once inside the small and trendy restaurant you were...
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Cambodia Photo of the Day
Thought this title needs resurrection. April 3, 2023. August 7, 2011 Get the backstory here. And a big hat tip to LTO for the image.
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History: The Commando Raid On Ponchentong, Jan 22, 1971
The presence of North Vietnamese forces inside supposedly neutral Cambodia had been a contentious issue for as long as the conflict had been waged. Following the coup of 1970, the new Khmer Republic...
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The journalist who lost his voice
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...
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Buying drugs online in Cambodia, is it really Anonymous?
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...
View ArticlePeople go in, Tanks come out
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...
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Student from Ireland gets COVID-19 from Cambodia
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...
View ArticleSwimming foreigner dies in The Place pool
A foreigner suffered from a fatal heart attack while swimming in the pool at The Place gym in Phnom Penh on Street 51 near Wat Langka in BKK1 on Wednesday evening. The man is suspected to have suffered...
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American Child Rapist Hunted In Cambodia
Khmer440 received a tip-off early Wednesday that Cambodian police and border officials are hunting for a 57 year old truck driver from Houston, Texas, named Marshall Ray Custard. Clerks at a...
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Is APLE Director Seila Samleang a paid confidential informant for the FBI?...
AMERICAN COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW THAT APLE DIRECTOR SEILA SAMLEANG IS A PAID CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT FOR THE FBI, AND THE FBI BRIBES CAMBODIAN POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARREST AMERICAN CITIZENS Earlier this...
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Has Notorious American Fugitive Psychologist Ken Wilcox Reinvented Himself as...
Cambodia attracts a lot of dodgy characters. There’s a custom among down and out expatriates here of telling tall tales about how rich, important, and successful they are back in their home countries....
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What is a ‘VoIP Scam’?
Telephone fraud has been around a long time. The phone offers anonymity between shyster and mark, a separation which makes lies easier to tell and simpler to swallow. Ever since the 1960’s hard sales...
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2019 Public Holidays in Cambodia
As Water Festival has come to a close, and there remains only one lone holiday left in 2018 (at least it’s on a Monday!), it’s time to look forward to 2019 and the next 28 public holidays. Public...
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Le Broken Plate Falls Flat In Its New Location
Last year I visited Le Broken Plate a few times, and wrote this glowing review of a night there. The location on Street 13 was almost hidden, but once inside the small and trendy restaurant you were...
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Update: Would the U.S. State Department cover up a bar fight involving an...
Last year, I wrote an article bitching and moaning about the U.S. State Department’s stonewalling response to my Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request for documents about a bar fight involving...
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7 Reasons to Not Buy a Business in Cambodia
According to the World Bank, Cambodia has the following scores out of 190 countries with regards to doing business: Over all ease of doing business rank: 135 Paying taxes: 136 Starting a business: 183...
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Mini-Marts I Know and Love – Camko City
Cambodia is changing. On the way out are the wretched, the desperate, the runaways, alkies and deathpats. They don’t suit the new ‘developed’ status that the country now is hell-bent on portraying,...
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A Return Trip to Le Broken Plate in Phnom Penh
I had some friends visiting from out of town for a week, and they wanted to have a fun and different experience from our other nights out in Phnom Penh. It was an easy choice to settle on Le Broken...
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The Jewel in the Crown: A History of Koh Pich (Diamond Island)
From a semi-submerged sandbar rising from where the Bassac, Tonle sap and Mekong rivers converge, to the shining light triumphing Phnom Penh’s rapid development as an international city, Koh Pich, or...
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