Archive for the 'environment' Category

Extreme Sports: Cambodia

Posted in comics, environment, Other Goodies, sports, theatre, tourism, urbanization on Jan 30th, 2008

Tags: cambodia,skateboarding,extreme sports,phnom penh

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The Clean Team

Posted in environment, news on Jan 22nd, 2008

On The Waterfront: these white clad folks have been showing up and making Phnom Penh's top tourist zone spic and span in the evenings. No complaints about that! Hmm... what motivates them? Is it a religious cult? A political party? A community group? Actually, it's off-duty police. I wonder if ...

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Rice, Rice, Baby

Posted in environment, food on Jan 16th, 2008

When you cook big pots of rice, there's bound to be some leftovers. Here's a hardened shell of overcooked remains that came out pretty intact. It is possible to have a meal without rice in Cambodia, but the staple is a consistent, inescapable part of the overall culinary environment. Usually ...

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Huge Slice of Global Disaster

Posted in cinema, environment, intellectual property, visual art on Dec 27th, 2007

Would you like some more Christmas pudding? Yes please, with a HUGE SLICE OF GLOBAL DISASTER. I ran across this doozy shopping for Christmas presents in Phnom Penh's Soryia Centre. Now I can't get the title out of my head. These DVD bootleg multiple-movie collections are coming out of mainland China ...

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Mobile Methane

Posted in environment on Dec 3rd, 2007

On my last trip to Siem Reap, my driver made a pitstop to fill up with gas - natural gas, to my surprise. I've read (somewhere) an article about the growing use of methane hybrids, this was interesting to see in action. Tags:methane,hybrid car,cambodia

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