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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Champa And Malaysia- Connections Part 2
*History Steve continues his look into the special relationship between Cham people and the Malay peninsula. Part 1 on the 1970’s-80’s refugees can be read HERE Champa Many of the…
The Malaysian Connection; Cham People Part 1
The Fall of Two Cities April 1975, two capital cities, little over 200 kilometres apart fell to different communist armies within weeks of each other. In the chaos that preceded…
Economic Growth Predicted To Slow Slightly In 2020
Phnom Penh: The World Bank predicts that Cambodia’s economic growth will slow down by 0.2% next year. The World Bank issued a report, indicating that Cambodia’s economic growth in 2019…
NagaWorld Outperforms Macau in VIP Gambling
NagaCorp — led by the NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh, Cambodia — is projected to see 30 percent growth in VIP gaming during 2019, analysts CGS-CIMB reported in a recent…
Spinach Dog Confessions; Gambling Worker Tales
*Part One of a double part story written about a Chinese illegal Chinese online casino worker, who left his home in Northwestern China to try his luck in Sihanoukville. Read…
Non-Payment Leads to Construction Stabbing
Phnom Penh: A Chinese construction worker was detained by police in Toul Kork on September 11, 2019 at 8 pm on the site of the Gateway Lot No. 132, Group…
Evangelical Bible Festival Planned in December
Cambodia (MNN) – Cambodia wrote much of its 20th-century history in blood. Between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge, the scars of the recent past run deep. Hope and healing from…
4 Workers Killed In 3 Construction Incidents
Sihanoukville: At 7:10 am on August 9, 2019, a wall at a brick factory collapsed in Pou Thoeung Village, Bat Trang Commune, Prey Nop District, Preah Sihanouk province, following a…
HRH Norodom Monineath, The King Mother
Norodom Monineath was born on 18 June 1936, in Saigon, French Indochina. She was born Paule-Monique Izzi, and is sometimes referred to as Queen Monique. Her father, Jean-François Izzi, was a French banker of Corsican, French and Italian descent, who…
UXO’s – A Brief History
2019 has so far been a bad year for deaths and injuries caused by munitions left over from the series of wars that ravaged Cambodia from the 1960’s through to…
