Years back, on a bus from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville – with the long defunct DH Cambodia – I saw flying cow. On National Route 4, we wer...

The Sihanoukville Railway Station was designed and built by Georges Kondracki and a German engineer in the late 1960s. It was the last of...

A hard man to like. Career soldier (Brit) and mercenary, retired. Veteran of the Malayan emergency. Did some work in Africa too. Lived i...

Chinese-Khmer Cemetery, on the Sihanoukville/Stung Hau road, Cambodia

Another story of Cambodians flocking to yet another ‘magic’ object has been making the news for the last 24 hours or so – this time it is a...

  What's wrong with this picture?... See the big signs above, directing traffic straight ahead to Otress ( sic ) Beach and Poymachoav? D...

(Sitting on Ochheuteal Beach in Sihanoukville in one of what must be a thousand beach chairs, I am reminded of an old Ochheuteal story from ...

Tuk-tuk outfitted with anti-bag snatching netting Two weeks left. Every year at this time, in the weeks before Khmer New Year, there...

Fire juggler, Ochheuteal Beach, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Koh Pos Island in foreground, from north end of Hawaii Beach, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

The near end of Otres Beach, last week Otres has long been my favorite Sihanoukville beach. Twin sister of Ochheuteal Beach (the next bea...

Bulldozer works on Serendipity Beach Road Development has once again reared its intrusive head in Sihanoukville, this time on Serendipity...

It’s the first New Year of the year. Two more to come. And it’s harvest time in Cambodia. The monsoons ended a month or so ago. It’s ...

Ya-Mao is the central personage of a legend local to Sihanoukville and much of the Cambodian coast. She is a neak-ta , a powerful ancestor ...