Posted in cambodia on Nov 22nd, 2019
View this post on Instagram Facebook, in I love Water Festival in Cambodia. Pictures from earlier in November: Villages store wooden longboats in their local temple, and bring them out and practice for the big match in the capitol. (There are some regional races too.) We have religious holidays, national holidays. But this is particularly [...]
Posted in Refugees on Jun 27th, 2019
Australia spent $55 million (USD 38 million) to relocate 5 refugees in Cambodia. Cost effective? You could have put the refugees up at the Hilton, bought them a business and sent their kids to top private schools for these prices. Maybe, just maybe, we could be kind instead. Australia’s Cambodia Refugee Deal [...]
Posted in tourism on May 23rd, 2019
From VICE magazine, a video about how the beach in Cambodia is a great, exotic place to take drugs. ………………………………. Video: “My first acid trip was with strangers in Cambodia” This is an excellent animated true story narrated by a woman who talks about the first time she took LSD, which was with strangers in [...]
Posted in news on Nov 25th, 2018
On social media in the last few weeks, this story has been HUGE: Meet the Incredible Cambodia Boy Who Can Speak Over 10 Languages https://nextshark.com/cambodian-boy-multiple-languages/ “Temple kid speaks many languages! But he’s POOR.” I lived in Siem Reap from year 2000 to 2004. (And was in Tomb Raider before it labeled Ta Prohm the ‘Tomb [...]
Posted in cambodia, current events on Feb 26th, 2018
[Above: memorial at Wat Teuk Thla, Phnom Penh. It is open to the public.] Steve Gourley (51) has passed. He had been convalescing from head trauma from a moto accident in Phnom Penh in 2017. He had the good fortune to have a good medical cover, and had initially begun recovery in Bangkok. Fluent in [...]
