Ohhh.... Most of them are underage. Unfortunate, but pretty standard practice. The beggar kids at Phsar Toul Tom Poung have been doing it for years. They tend to target tourist women, who, because they are kids, tend to allow them to get closer than they would allow an adult, even touching the kids...

The Phnom Penh Post already got the story wrong once. I wonder if they got it right this time. According to the Daily she was deported for participating in the protest and for work permit problems. In an extremely rapid decision by the authorities, Marga Bujosa Segoda was arrested on Tuesday and dep...

All that said, rule of thumb: the greater the refinement of the drug, the more direct the method of ingestion, the fewer traditional rituals and societal norms for use of that drug = the greater the chance that it will be destructive to the individual and society. Quite true. Traditionally, plants ...

Cambodia is pretty easy to figure out right now. They bust foreigners for quantities/dealing powders and pills. They also bust them for quatities/dealing of ganja too, but only rarely and usually because the foreigner is making problems. They (almost) never bust foreigners for personal use amounts o...

How do you get lost on a trail that runs in a circle?

After Bert's Books, I think London Books on Street 240 was the go-to place for a long time.

So how many First Worlders (NOT Nigerians, Vietnamese et al.) have been caught with BAD drugs over the years? A busful of wretched souls or enough to fill a tennis court? Or what? Just anecdotally, my guess is somewhere in between. I think the Cambodian authorities have had it with white powders - ...

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