Chinese Question Sihanoukville Shooting
Sihanoukville: On December 23, a report about a shooting in Sihanoukville caused one death and one serious injury quickly made headlines in various Cambodian media. According to media reports at…
Hu Nim- The ‘Moderate’ Communist
Hu Nim (ហូ នឹម) alias “Phoas” (ភាស់), was a Cambodian communist intellectual and politician who held a number of ministerial posts. His long political career included spells with the Sangkum regime of Prince Norodom…
CNE(sus) August-Us: Review #8
August is rainy, and a nightmare for tourism business. But between the floods of ‘low season’ the freaks come out and the news is never dull. Here are some hand-picked…
Chinese Burglars Shot By Armed Homeowner
Sihanoukville: A homeowner, who is also an armed border police officer, fired several shots at two Chinese suspects who were burgling his home. One of the suspects died, the other…
As July Kit- 2019 #7
There was the usual cocktail of murder, kidnap, drugs, armed and dangerous military men and over staying visa escapades once more as the year began its slip into the last…
June Remember? CNE Review#6
Whoosh! And just like that 50% of the year was gone. The month was the beginning of the end/end of the beginning for Sihanoukville’s runaway construction boom after tragedy struck…
Chinese/Cambodian Arms Cache/Drug Stash Seized
Sihanoukville: An investigation into kidnappings led to seven suspects \ arrested- three Chinese and four Cambodians. Preah Sihanouk Provincial Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Chuon Narin disclosed that in the afternoon of…
Let’s Read It (May)gain- 2019 Review #5
While the darling buds may be blooming elsewhere, the 5th month of the year is normally the harbinger of the monsoon, along with the sudden downpours, lightning and flash flooding…
Legal Action For Cambodia’s Most Hated Man
*Note, we ignored this story to begin with, as, even for our clickbait hungry team of gossip mongers it was a bit too much. However, the Youtube video in question…
Apriload- 2019 Review #4
April fools, April showers, April Flowers, April No-Power. Most survived, but we lost another of one of our own (RIP). As usual, the 269 stories which covered the month of…
Random Photos Of Old Cambodia
These photos, now in the hundreds, have been found across the internet, including Facebook, Twitter and news sites. Credits to the original photographer given, when known. We don’t use watermarks…
Intrigue In Longvek- Iberians in 16th Century Cambodia
The Cambodian-Spanish War 1593-97 The 16th Century The Angkorian age is generally considered to have ended by the mid-fifteenth century, following decades of subjugation by various rulers of the Thai…
Febr(eview)ary 2019
February, the shortest month didn’t disappoint news fans. There were bombs on the border, white men loosing their shizzle and a massive dru operation was found inside an Okhna’s disco…
Gun Recovered After Man Dies On Street
Phnom Penh: At around 9 .40 pm on December 12, 2019 in front of the Thai embassy on Norodom, a clash between two groups of young men left one dead…
2019 CN(r)Eview- January
Another year has almost come to pass, and as we stare down the giant fallopian tubes of a gender reassigned Chronos for our age, awaiting the delivery of a plump…
Intrigue In Longvek- Iberians in 16th Century Cambodia
The Cambodian-Spanish War 1593-97 The 16th Century The Angkorian age is generally considered to have ended by the mid-fifteenth century, following decades of subjugation by various rulers of the Thai…
