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Cambodia or Thailand? Comparing expat destinations
In the wake of Thailand’s most recent coup d’état, the last few months have brought news that the new military regime would begin cracking down on the country’s liberal visa laws in an effort to rid...
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Three things to avoid in the provinces
Forget every inspirational advert and film you have seen about life in developing countries: smiling kids, appreciative adults, and the joy of helping your fellow man. It’s all sentimental bollocks....
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Santa and Budweiser – the Khmer explanation
I rather enjoy getting out of the States and coming to Cambodia for Christmas and New Years, not only because it’s considerably warmer, but just to escape the whole...
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Four things you absolutely must do when living in a Cambodian village
I felt a little guilty after my last piece. It’s easy to sit back and pick holes in things for cheap laughs and it’s not too difficult, living among the privations of village life, to find foibles...
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National colours: Cambodia’s ever-changing flags
In the midst of government upheaval, civil war or even genocide, the decision by those who finally seize power to alter the national flag of a country is a minor footnote to the death and destruction...
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Off the rails in Cambodia; two Brits and the role played by the British Embassy
There are few in the expat community here who haven’t heard a thing or two about Nick Mclernan, 40, and Martin Gates, 24: Singlet Senior and Singlet Junior, Beavis and Butthead, Dumb and Dumber — half...
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Restaurant Review: Discovering Khmer food at Malis
It’s a constant refrain on both Khmer440 and pretty much any guidebook you care to mention: Khmer food really isn’t up to much, especially when compared to that of its neighbours in Thailand and...
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The motodop and me: a Cambodian adventure
My general rule of thumb growing up has been that if your phone is ringing before 7am on a workday, it’s either very good news (like “your sister just had the baby!” type of good news) or very bad...
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News: Aerocambodia CEO Brian Naswall arrested abusing 12 year old girl
The Cambodia Daily has today reported that police have arrested AeroCambodia CEO, Brian Naswall, for allegedly assaulting a 12 year old girl on Koh Pich on Friday night. Mr Naswall is due to appear in...
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Twilight of the haunted headwaters of Virachey National Park?
In the mid-19th Century the French explorer Henry Mouhot was sitting in a hut in the thick jungle of central Cambodia when he wrote the following lines: “We are surrounded by forests, which are...
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Scambodia, uncovered
Visitors and expats alike have many a tale of being hoodwinked in the Kingdom of Wonder. Whilst the Siem Reap milk scam, the Filipino blackjack shysters and an army of Chinese fake monks fill the...
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To live and die in South East Asia
Death and taxes are the only things certain in life so they reckon. Well death anyway: some people never pay taxes. Where you choose to live invariably impacts on where you’re likely to die and, in...
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The Muslim Cham in Cambodia
Walking briskly down a dusty, pock-marked street off of Monivong Boulevard, Smay Manira turns her chestnut head just slightly enough for the casual observer to see a thin smile set in the middle of a...
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The Mekong Mutilator, part deux
If Britain is a nation of shopkeepers, then Cambodia is a nation of fishermen….. It’s a (admittedly disputed) fact that the Cambodian currency, the riel, is named after the d’trey riel, a small fish...
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Cambodia’s national symbols
The flora and fauna of Cambodia has suffered a fair bit over the past few decades. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Pol Pot and his cronies fled to sanctuary in the vast swathes of forested...
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Where are they now? Psychologist Dr Ken ‘Carrington’ Wilcox
Longtime readers of Khmer440 will surely remember the name Kenneth Drew Wilcox. Wilcox is a psychologist who had a private practice in Phnom Penh from about 2005 through 2010. Dr. Wilcox’ online...
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Finnish woman Jenny Jokela dies of head injuries following moto accident
A young woman from Finland, Jenny Jokela, died earlier this week from head injuries following an accident on the motorbike she was riding in Sihanoukville. Miss Jokela, 22, worked at Papayago...
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Cambodia graduates from Low Income Country status – how will that affect...
A popular discussion topic around Phnom Penh in recent months has been the news that Cambodia was to ‘graduate’ to middle-income country status on July 1 last week. I heard about this during my first...
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Encyclopedia Cambodiana
Let’s be honest; Cambodia isn’t the most literary country on the planet, and it’s rare to find genuine scholarly works on the country. As far as we are aware, there is no definitive encyclopedia on...
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Back on track in Cambodia
For me, the sight that most encapsulated the rebirth of passenger services in Cambodia was the two young children, travelling on a train for the very first time, accompanied by their grandfather or...
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