Back on topic: your business model needs some improvements. I would rent out hives to barangs in SHV. They could place the little buggers close to casinos, certain restaurants, and those guesthouse. Provided the bees know what is expected of them.

ah, Chinese neighbors.... Power drills running without cease or result(other than sounding like a dentists drill) , hammering on the ceiling of your apartment dribbling their basketball for hours, parking their car so that it blocks the entrance to the whole building.
Marvelous.

The spit in the hallways is a nice decorative touch


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Do you run this as a commercial enterprise and if not is it purely the costs or is it just the hassle?

Do you have to live on site to look after the bees and stop jao?
I ask as I have some land in SNV that I would like to use, it is away from any built up areas but does have families living nearby. About 3000sq and maybe I might look into doing this, Big scale.

yes, I am making my living from this.
the jao will sure take them if someone is not watching.
i will run a little 4-5 day residential course in beekeeping mid november all being well with getting a place to live in Kampot.

During my very short-lived teaching stint in China, I was given help to find suitable accommodation by the receptionist of the place where I was working, which seemed like a great idea. She showed me a total of 3 apartments - one communist-era block with a wonderful quadrant where haggard-looking Chinese retirees could give you a look of disdain every time you entered; one place which was so far from the school I would have had to start travelling to work around the same time that I had finished work the previous day and one bang up-to-date, super-modern high-rise right next to the restaurant district in the city, with flat screen TV's in the elevators and everything. I chose that one.

Since we were colleagues, I foolishly trusted the school receptionist so when she told me to pony up 3 months rent in advance, I did. Having rented the apartment and getting stuff I needed for it, I decided to have an early night. At about 2 in the morning, the light on my balcony suddenly came on and it sounded as though there were people having a full-blown argument in my lounge. I rushed in and, despite the noise becoming louder, there was no one there. Then the washing machine went on (arguing continued), then the TV went on full bast (to drown out the shouting), then someone came onto the balcony to wash dishes (and continue arguing). It was then that I decided to tap the interior wall and realized that my apartment was in fact one half of a larger apartment that had been ever so unskillfully partitioned.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, it became apparent that my neighbors were a young couple who worked at a the evening shift at a local restaurant and always came home to do their chores early in the morning. It was also clear that they despised each other and didn't care who knew it. I lasted until the end of the month when I got my first salary and did the moonlight flit.

I feel your Chinese neighbor pain!

rozzieoz wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:38 am The spit in the hallways is a nice decorative touch

That and the puddles of pee from the toddlers in Chinese baby pants make non-skid soles a necessity.

I find the casual racism of this thread towards the new proprietors of Cambodia absolutely sickening.

Attempting to apply a thin veneer of "humour" by the OP to disguise blatant and appalling sinophobic racism is incredibly offensive. The repellent subsequent posts about the Chinese are a disgrace, this thread is surely entirely contrary to the new Policy Statement.

I assume there will be fewer posters for the next twenty-four hours due to them serving bans. I initially scoffed at the notion of the week long bans and further shaming measures that some shitehawk snowflakes were calling for but I have seen the light. A week ban and a shaming isn't long enough. My flesh positively crawled at the racism and hate spewed in this thread, I have never been so triggered and upset.

Just you remember whose country you are in, fucking longnose racists. It's not the days of the raj anymore so stopping acting like entitled colonials

What racism? No one (except you) called anyone any 'names'.

I live in China and ALL the behaviours mentioned are true and typical of Chinese apartment dwellers.

Oh dear, it just gets worse. So a person has to use offensive "names" to be a racist?

Then the scandalous defence of ALL true racists, "ALL the behaviours are true and typical..."

What next? All african-american people love fried chicken, watermelon and kool-aid? What about those bludging, alcoholic indigenous Australians? And those pickpocketing Romanies? And the drunken Irish?

The Chinese are a nation not a race. The behaviour is cultural, not racial.