You often hear people calling for the death penalty for a variety of reasons, usually for the most evil, heinous of crimes. I'm surprised that there is a country which regularly gives out the death penalty for freud. I don't believe in the death penalty for any reason. 1. Most civilised countries la...

Isn't this type of forum what used to be known as a bulletin board (or still is) ? One of the oldest types of message based boards, but still the best in my opinion. No 140 character limit (or whatever it is), not bombarded with adverts every few seconds, not designed to just mindlessly scroll throu...

The issue with Tik-Tok is two-fold, according to the recent senate social media hearings where they summoned the CEO's of the main social media platforms to testify. The first is that Tik-Tok, having a Chinese parent company, is compelled under Chinese law to share data with the CCP. Even if they di...

Why autocracies bother with elections.

It's an interesting question only if you assume that foreign men primarily come to Cambodia for the women. Other than that, it's a bit like asking why women visit France, or Australia or India. Women like to travel just as much as men, so I guess their reasons for travelling to a particular country,...

When people talk about ants in Cambodia, do they mean actual ants that bite you, the things we get in western countries also (or at least in the UK, especially in the summer) or do they mean those things that are about a quarter of the size but don't bite you and are just more of an annoyance? I hav...

I haven't drunk for about two years now - not through choice, and I quite miss my drinking days. It just got to the point where I would always awake in the middle of the night with a migraine of such unimaginable pain I would sometimes consider just throwing myself off the balcony. And no painkiller...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq7t0vHIuU8 "Bearing in mind I didn't interact with anything, I didn't 'like' anything, yet within two minutes I started seeing very inappropriate material which only got worse". This is the one thing many people don't understand about sites like Facebook a...

This happened to me in PP when Cambodia hosted an ASEAN summit a couple of years ago. I was living in a high-rise apartment, and was told to keep my windows and curtains closed for three days, and was threatened with a fine if I broke "the law". It was around this time I got chatting to an...

I can't remember the last time I used my debit card, and am unlikely to replace it when it expires. How do you pay for online shopping or sign up for online subscriptions? Does the app provide an alternative 'virtual' card? As mentioned, yes, ABA do offer virtual cards - your actual physical card i...