I got detained after filming this wonderful temple up a hill in Thailand, they said I was spying on a military base, I told them not to be so daft. Had military police, local police, national police & plain clothes police question me, was all rather silly as my only answer to every question was...

Thailand is too authoritarian, the ruling dynasty there is collapsing (and the King's daughter doesn't look like she'll wake up from that coma), and there is a strong sense of malaise, bitterness and discontent in the air: Thai people hate each other, politics and regionalism (e.g Thai vs Isaan &quo...

JUDGEDREDD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:54 pm Happy birthday lads, get a klang down ya

Do they even make that anymore? I am told Bayon Beer is also still made, yet cannot see any evidence for it.

7,500USD/ per day ? I understand that he is in a coma in a country with limited medical resources, but that seems extremely high, even by Cambodian standards. addendum: This article here says the expenses are 8000 Pounds Sterling per day, which is a considerably higher amount than 7500USD. So what i...

I know a few Cambodians 17-28 who speak English and Khmer both really well, but generally have trouble reading it or resort to "Sing Khmer" (i.e, abbreviated, latin-transliterated Khmer, e.g "nh tv dek hz" instead of "Khnyom tov dek haey") since most people in Cambodia ...

Why in the world would that arsehat David Cameron meet with Donald Trump to talk about anything? Is Cameron the UK Foreign Secretary? Yes. Is Trump possibly the next POTUS? Yes. Why wouldn't he? He's trying to persuade him to tell the Republicans to stop fucking with the $60B aid for Ukraine to buy...

Addendum: The Sleuk Rith Institute in its own brochure (no link as I only have a hard copy) says "From 1995 to 1997, we were a field office for Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program with US State Department funding." This is source of funding is important because if it were really j...

there is no “Cambodian Genocide Museum.” Except there is. :-o (coudn't open the article, perhaps missed some context on this quote? Else what is Tuol Sleng when it is at home...) The context lacking is not that Cambodia has no genocide museum; There is almost one in every province, and they do a go...

. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did on Sunday - been there done that kinda thing - but again, very surprised at how enjoyable the whole event was. If there's one thing Khmers are very, very good at, and that's letting their hair down and throwing a good old party. Atmosphere was just as ...

Here in Siem Reap, absolutely no one is abiding by the បាញ់ទឹក ban, and if anything cops were even participating in the festivities putting baby powder on people's faces down near the riverfront (the road closest to the Old Bridge). Everyone is in high spirits, a strong feeling of camraderie and fri...