My wife says there's no negative connotations. It means foreigner from a western country. Cambodians need a word for this because they see a white person and don't know which country they're from...Europe, UK, Australia, America etc but they want to distinguish them from other foreigners eg Chinese ...

We've been married for 3.5 years and she's been in Sydney with me for 2.5. My wife's very happy here but we get along really well and just want to be with each other 🙂 She's also quite a happy girl generally. She's now quit her job doing nails and is busy looking after our baby daughter full time. I...

A related question: One option might be to mail stuff from a Western country but has anyone done that successfully? Many of the Phnom Penh (and other city) suburbs where people live have no street names or numbers. Any thoughts on that? (BTW the UV index in Phnom Penh gets up to about 8 so yeah suns...

Yes - in a large Phnom Penh clothes market my wife's mobile phone was stolen from her bag (possibly while I was holding it)