‘Killing Pigs’ Inside Chinese Online Gambling Part 2
The second installment of life as an illegal online gambling scammer translated from Phoenix Weekly. Yang Fuchun gave up working as a spinach dog after half a month. “I can’t…
Truck Falls Through Bridge
Pursat province: A truck belonging to a Chinese company, suspected of being overloaded, fell through “Chhay Lu” steel bridge in Chhay Lu village, O’Som commune, Veal Veng district, on the…
“Tofu Projects” Chinese Blogger on SHK Building Disaster
*The recent construction tragedy in Sihanoukville was not widely reported in mainland China, despite the huge investments in the region and Chinese citizens being held accountable for the deaths of…
Chinese Passenger Injured in Taxi Flip
Kampong Thom: At 03:30 am on April 17, 2019, a taxi crash caused a Cambodian and Chinese man injuries on National Road No. 6 between Kilometers 193-194 Snay Srey village…
Chinese Worker Spiked
Sihanoukville: On the night of April 11, 2019, a Chinese worker was seriously injured and immediately sent to the hospital in the village of Kampung, Sihanoukville. The man had somehow…
Exclusive: Chinese Describes Sihanoukville
Casinos, Brothels, Scams, Sihanoukville- Broken by the Chinese *This comes from a well-known Chinese language blogger, who for obvious reasons keeps prefers to remain anonymous, but writes as “Not Far From The Distance” EDIT: Since publication, this article caused some problems for the source, and the original content has since been removed…
Foreign Man Dead After Aeon Mall Fall
Phnom Penh: A man fell from the fourth floor of AEON Mall at 10:40 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2019. The unidentified man is reported by some outlets to be either…
Chinese Casino Cook Killed by Crapper
Svay Rieng: A Chinese man working as a cook at Crown Casino Online has died after falling and hitting his head on the toilet bowl in the casino bathroom. This…
Chinese Man Gets Rough With Khmer Woman
A Chinese man was taken by into custody by police after he was violent with s Cambodian woman, causing a disturbance at 2:40 am September 19, 2018 in a BKK 2…
Chinese Gambling Eyes Up Kampot- BBC
Chinese gambling boom looms over Cambodia’s Kampot 16 September 2018 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45443489?ns_linkname=news_central&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_news_asia Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES/VW PICS Kampot is one of Cambodia’s cultural jewels, but as George Styllis writes, a flood of…
This Week In Cambodian History: March 19-25
On 19 March 1956, a Immigration Act law was passed stipulating that ‘foreign nationals’ would be prohibited from entering 18 specified occupations, ranging from various civil service functions to hairdressers…
Vietnam’s “Lightning War” December 25, 1978
Early on Christmas day, 1978, while many in the Western world were at midnight mass, or hanging up stockings, a massive invasion force which had been secretly assembled crossed over…
This Week In Cambodian History- July 16-22
On July 16, 1993, Christian Science Monitor published a story titled ‘UN Peacekeeping Effort Breaking Down in Cambodia‘. On July 16, 1997, The New York Times quoted a UN source…
D.O. King- The First American At Angkor, 1858
The following piece is the first of two accounts in English of travels to Cambodia and Angkor Wat before the French protectorate was established, and pre-dating Henri Mouhot‘s visit of…
Early Travelers: E.F.J. Forrest, 1850’s
Sometime in the mid to late 1850’s, an Englishman was one of the the first western travelers to visit Angkor Wat. Very little is known about the writers- the Englishman…
Plots & Conspiracies- Son Ngoc Thanh & The Khmer Serei II: 1957-60
This continues from PART ONE After the election victory of Sihanouk’s Sangkum in 1955, the new government soon facing suspicion from neighboring Thailand and South Vietnam. Both nations were fighting…
