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[...] , an estimated 200,000-250,000 people, fled to Vietnam by early 1975. With the coming of the Khmer Rouge, it of course got worse. Most of the remaining Vietnamese, approximately 170,000 people, were [...]

[...] of remorseless fighting, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in April 1975, and forcibly evacuated the capital city. It banned things [...]

[...] , either told or forgotten. Battambang itself has an interesting monument to the legacy of the Khmer Rouge – informative, respectful and free from Scambodia style entrepreneurship. Wat Somrong [...]

[...] to express their grievances, the government response is often aggressive and violent. 5) Khmer Rouge tribunal The Khmer Rouge regime was ultimately responsible for the deaths of approximately 1.5 [...]

[...] Pedro Milladino continues to munch his way through myriad varieties of rustic Khmer nosh in the second part [...]

[...] ;s a hell of a lot of hungry crocs down there. Move over Bricktop, pig farms are for amateurs. Pedro Milladino [...]

[...] hits that there fan. And safety first! Guns don’t kill people………. Pedro Milladino [...]

[...] ; how I wished I’d gone to the pagoda and prayed for the soul of last year’s dog. Pedro Milladino [...]

[...] Nathan Thompson examines the customer demographic at Brown Coffee in Phnom Penh. I’m a coffee shop [...]

[...] with Costa, Brown, Gloria Jean, Spinelli and other soulless, corporate Starbucks wannabees? Nathan Thompson reviews the homely Khmer coffee shops in his village many miles away from the glitz of Phnom [...]

[...] After a twelve-month stint in-country, Nathan Thompson is leaving Cambodia and returning to the UK. In his final K440 article, he reflects on the [...]

[...] chants can be found here: http://www.suanmokkh-idh.org/talks/chanting-book-ver1-02.pdf Nathan Thompson [...]

[...] in for questioning and processing. More on this story can be found on this K440 forum thread. Khmer news from CEN translated by Porky Pig South African Man Drowns Off Koh Rong Samloem Tuesday, 17 June [...]

[...] arrival in Cambodia, had just leased the house as the NGO’s residence in August, 2013. Khmer news from the Koh Santepheap translated by Porky Pig More details here. [...]

[...] for further questioning and in order to have his case prepared for a court hearing. Khmer news from the Koh Santepheap translated by Porky Pig Read more about this story on the K440 forum. [...]

[...] victim is also not specified. He is merely generically referred to as a foreigner (ជនបរទេស). Khmer news from the Koh Santepheap translated by Porky Pig [...]

[...] remains a mystery to the guiding site archaeologist, Dr. Damian Evans, who noted in the Phnom Penh Post recently that the terraform is self-contained and not linked to outer landscape systems of [...]

[...] Monday’s edition of the Phnom Penh Post included an article about Sebastian Reuiji, a Dutch convicted pedophile who was recently [...]

[...] and funds to get Buckhunger back operational. “When we read the Buckhunger story in the Phnom Penh Post we were happy to support it,” says Julien Poulson, founder of the band. A handful of [...]

[...] the expense and difficulties of extraditing these fugitives from foreign lands. The Phnom Penh Post has reported that Glenn was, in fact, wanted in the United States for “drugs charges.” [...]

[...] . But whatever the reason, it is clear that consumption of alcohol is a common part of Cambodian culture yet Cambodia has very little to offer those with alcohol dependency. There are a number of [...]

[...] to sink into depression because if they did, they’d starve to death. But certainly, Cambodian culture does afford a place for the poor so even those on the bottom rung of the ladder have access [...]

[...] , interesting. Not bad, just different from the ways I am used to. The social nuances in Cambodian culture are portrayed so bluntly on the Facebook, and at the same time the very same nuances are so [...]

[...] . Whether this is due to the fact that I was a woman alone, or that my first exposure to Cambodian culture ended in violent tragedy, I don’t know. I don’t really want to know. Every time [...]

Tim LaRocco opines on his impending return to Cambodia as an expat I’m a New Yorker born and bred, and thus, a creature of particular routines and [...]

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 o [...]

Tim LaRocco looks at the NGO industry in Cambodia and finds a remarkable man a world away from the fat salaries, colonial lifestyles and dishonest fun [...]