Saw this iconic image above when driving down Monivong Boulevard, and whipped out my trusty phonecam.
Which led to the development of this spoof ad: 'Proh Kouch' deodorant. Why?
'Cause if we're gonna dole out embarrassment, guys could do to improve their hygiene too.
Tags: cambodia,advertising,billboard,hygiene
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Posted in current events, hip hop, music, news on Jun 27th, 2009
Prach Ly makes the cover of Khmer Celeb for his new album, 'Memoirs of An Invisible War.'
"it will be released in June [the Khmer version] and in July for the English version."
More: http://www.khmerceleb.org/index
Tags: cambodia,hiphop,music,khmer
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Posted in current events, more stuff, music, stuff on Jun 25th, 2009
"Rebuilding The Rights of Statues" is my favorite People's-Republic-of-China-approved "post-punk" band.
No, seriously. Great sounds, they've obviously schooled themselves with some great influences. http://wiki.rockinchina.com/index.php?title=Re-TROS
Fun to listen to. And they are OK'd by a 'socialist' country as a cultural export, served up on a platter for us by Penhville's business community: ...
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Posted in stuff, weblogs on Jun 24th, 2009
Back when I was in Long Beach (April 2009), I took gobs of photos. But family comes first, so I figured I'd web them up in Phnom Penh. (In particular, some great hip hop and art.)
Several months later, I'm clearly not catching up. So I'm going to continue with my ...
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For Photo Wednesday.
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