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

Angkor Wat

Notes on the death of a friend, a bit more than a month ago… 4:00PM - Terrible news. Our friend and colleague, Mrs. Dam Bopha, has died.*...

North Gate, Angkor Thom (2006) Victory Gate, Angkor Thom (2010)  West Gate, Angkor Thom (2002)  East Gate, Angkor Thom (2002) South Gate...

It was 35ºC in Phnom Penh today. After 3 months of blessedly cool, dry weather, the season is changing. Temperatures are beginning to rise....

Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh

Urn Jostling at Wat Phnom It's lunar New Year today, commonly known as 'Chinese New Year' here in Cambodia - 'Tet' in...

In my subjective and casual observation of some Cham Muslim communities in southern Cambodia, over the past decade the number of Cham women ...

Fire juggler, Ochheuteal Beach, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Two days ago rumors flew that the Cambodian government had blocked all blogspot websites, presumably to prevent access to the controversial ...

If you are reading this you are probably not in Cambodia. In a huge step backwards, it appears that the Cambodian government has requested...

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

Three months ago I reported on the state of the roads south from Phnom Penh to Kampot and Kep, recommending at the time taking an alternati...

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...

Kampong Bay River, Kampot town, sunset, January 1, 2011

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 ...

US Embassy, Phnom Penh, Christmas Eve It was many Christmases ago, one of our earliest living in Cambodia and our Khmer maid's first...

Christmas Eve 2010, 3:55AM. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cyclo at night, disturbed (by me.)

Bangkok. Out of the hospital with a clean bill and no required follow-ups. Not quite what I was but a helluva lot better than I could have b...

Nana Station, Sukhumvit Soi 7, Bangkok, Thailand

The Credo 1. I shall eschew the ways of the tourist and have an authentic Asian experience rather than a shallow, contrived, package holid...