Excerpt from Khmer New Year playlet broadcast on local TV in Phnom Penh this evening. Today (13/4/12) was the first day of Khmer New Y...

Our maid, Mean-Ta, was robbed today, in the ordinary fashion. She was riding pillion on a motodup (motorcycle taxi) when a couple of young g...

According to Cambodia Daily reports of recent prostitution busts in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian police are using the presence/possession of c...

Battambang, Cambodia (yesterday) (Click photo to enlarge)

The morning of Chinese New Year Day, on my way to the pharmacy, I happened up a street on which the owner of one of Cambodia’s controversi...

Ushered in the new Year of the Dragon at Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh a couple of hours ago. The crowd seemed a bit bigger than last year . I did...

Newly completed Phnom Penh Tower, the city's second highrise. Running a couple of weeks late on this post. Stray thoughts of Cambodi...

Tonle Sap River, Phnom Penh riverfront Left: October 18, 2011 (Water level 9.9m at Phnom Penh Port) Right: December 31, 2011 (Water level 3...

Street 51, early evening, 1AM New Year nears. A perfect excuse for talk of auld lang syne (times gone by,) and so I indulge. In the fol...

Christmas night, 12/11, Independence Monument, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Santa's Bodyguard Originally drawn in 1998 by Dutch artist Arijan (Aryan) Jansonius, inspired by life here in Phnom Penh at the tim...

3 or 4 year old Cambodian boy, begging cup in hand, working the tourists on Sukhumvit, about 1:00AM I was in Bangkok last week. Stayed in t...

Kim Jong-il died today. The North Korean embassy here in Phnom Penh flew its flag at 3/4 mast. Typical. Yet another half-truth from the DPR...