From the monthly archives: May 2008

Cambodia and death

On May 11 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Cambodia, Diary

A comment that gets made here occasionally is about how you could write a book on the Khmer psyche, maybe a bunch of books. I’ve heard it a few times and said it a few times. Ray Zepp compares Cambodia to a Russian doll (open one up, think you have it sussed and then there’s [...]

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All the news is new and approved

On May 9 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Cambodia, Diary

I get to see the news every so often, not that often. The TV news is CNN or BBC World, so it’s quite US-centric, or in the case of BBC World a procession of B-team news readers and dull-as-ditchwater business reports I swear not a soul watches, interspersed with adverts for Rolex watches and how nice [...]

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