BillDoe wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:30 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:46 pm

BillDoe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living

Have you ever actually heard any local say something like that? I haven't.

Yes, I've heard plenty of locals discussing someone's karma and getting what they deserve. I'm not saying that is what happened to the ones who passed, we may never know.

You speak khmer?

Grand Barong wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:17 pm

BillDoe wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:30 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:46 pm

BillDoe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:28 pm I feel as if the family will somehow justify the deaths as "so and so" obviously did not like them and Buddha (praise him, don't get me big dog) struck them down for giving whoever died a bad time while living

Have you ever actually heard any local say something like that? I haven't.

Yes, I've heard plenty of locals discussing someone's karma and getting what they deserve. I'm not saying that is what happened to the ones who passed, we may never know.

You speak khmer?

Pretty good actually, been here 10 years. I've attempted learning to read and write but didn't get far in that.

Kampot Province Bans Illegal Alcohol Production
Cambodia News, (Kampot province): The Governor of Kampot Province has informed the local authorities that he has decided to close down and permanently ban all alcohol manufacturing businesses who do not have a permit from the Ministry of Science and Technology.

A Cambodian village ripped apart by a bad batch of rice wine
By Mech Dara & George Wright
BBC News
Published 3 days ago

In rural Cambodia, dozens of people have died in recent months after drinking toxic home-brewed alcohol. In the village of Thnong in Kampot province, a bad batch consumed at a funeral left tragedy in its wake.

Prom Vannak, 50, would rarely go a day without at least a few glasses of rice wine, especially after a serious motorcycle accident that left him unable to work as a fisherman.

So when his uncle Muth - who was also a big drinker - passed away in May, there was no doubt that the funeral would be spent drinking and reminiscing with friends and family in the village.

Vannak started drinking that morning and fell asleep early in the evening. When he woke up the following day, he told his wife he didn't feel right.

"He told me he felt very tired and that when he drank the wine it made his eyes feel drowsy," Hun Pheap recalled.

Pheap didn't think too much of it, and returned for the second day of the funeral. Vannak stayed at home to sleep off what they thought was just a bad hangover.

But by that evening, Vannak had started shaking and violently throwing up. Pheap tried to persuade her husband to go to the local hospital but he refused, saying he just needed rest. The following morning he was dead.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57496790

Deaths from rice wine continue in Kampot province:

11 wine sellers questioned over five deaths in Kampot
Khouth Sophak Chakrya | Publication date 29 July 2021 | 20:57 ICT


Kampot provincial police are questioning 11 sellers of rice and herbal wine for allegedly selling tainted wine which resulted in five deaths in Chhouk district’s Doun Yay commune. Two of the suspects have already been sent to court.

Commune police chief Sin Keun told The Post on July 28 that five men died and three others were hospitalised for suspected rice and herbal wine poisoning after consumption that began on July 26.

“The incident occurred after villagers attended a funeral on the evening of July 25 where people drank rice and herbal wine. They then suffered headaches, nausea and breathing difficulties and some died after being admitted to Chhouk district referral hospital,” Keun said.

District governor Khieu Rithy Phaon said the victims were tested for Covid-19 and the results came back negative.

Citing their relatives, the governor said people felt ill after drinking alcohol at the funeral.

Authorities have collected samples of wine from the village to test for poisonous substances.

Provincial deputy police chief Lok Nhav told The Post on July 28 that two wine sellers were sent to court after they confessed to selling the wine to the victims.

The suspects told police during questioning that they bought wine to produce a herbal variety by adding many ingredients, but they did not know the source of the wine.

Another nine wine sellers were allowed to return home after signing a letter agreeing to stop trading wine without authorisation.

“At this time, our team is preparing to summon two other wine producers from Doun Yay village to clarify whether wine was produced illegally,” Nhav said.

Soth Naroeurn, head of the provincial branch of the Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF), told The Post on July 28 that a working group had investigated places where it was suspected wine had been mixed with high levels of methanol for sale.

He said the manufacturers of the tainted wine had fled. His team found their production methods to be substandard, lacked hygiene and without a permit from relevant authorities.

“We found a lot of wine at the locations and temporarily confiscated it. We took samples to test at a laboratory in Phnom Penh,” he said, adding that a total of 11 wine samples were collected in the commune.

If it is confirmed that the deaths were caused by wine poisoning, this will be the third case in Kampot province since May when tainted wine killed nine people in neighbouring Kampong Trach district, followed by a second case when four people died in the district.

The provincial administration has since prohibited the purchase and sale of rice wine and traditional medicinal alcohol across the province.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... ths-kampot

As serious a subject as this is I can’t help thinking the photo above of the Moonshiners with their wares and brewing equipment is all a bit Monty Python-esque,it looks like the Cambodian version of the Great British Bake Off just waiting for the starting pistol to fire their engines up and see who can make the most lethal brew?

Phnom Penh Trader wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:07 am As serious a subject as this is I can’t help thinking the photo above of the Moonshiners with their wares and brewing equipment is all a bit Monty Python-esque,it looks like the Cambodian version of the Great British Bake Off just waiting for the starting pistol to fire their engines up and see who can make the most lethal brew?

Aren't these the urine samples before the competition starts ? Anyone on ethanol shall be disqualified