Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from South Asia and beyond
We´ve had Dengue Fever, the Cambodian Space Project are just round the corner, now check out Krom, a brand new musical missive from Cambodia.
I Walked the Line is a just released song and video put together by the people from The Mekong Sessions, the promoter who´s putting on the Leonard Cohen show in the Cambodian [...]
I tried to buy a weapon in a Wal-Mart supermarket in Lubbock, Texas, a few years back. I wanted the genuine American experience. I´d traveled thousands of miles for this. I almost managed.
These are the two guys that prevented me from becoming a devil´s reject on their parking lot with a semi-automatic cross-bow or some [...]
Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen is playing a one-off concert in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 27th. To introduce Cambodians to Mr. Cohen´s body of work, Bayon TV will show excerpts of Leonard Cohen´s Live in London concert as part of the channel´s Music Box show.
This may seem hardly newsworthy, but Mr. Cohen´s concert [...]
Charles Sobhraj, one of the world’s most notorious serial killer celebrities, also known as The Serpent and The Bikini Killer, is said to have murdered a string of back packers and tourists in South and Southeast Asia in the 1970s.
In 2003, Charles Sobhraj was arrested in Kathmandu, Nepal, for a 1975 murder.
In 2004, Mr. Sobhraj [...]
Do Not Sleep Here
“Today, you dead,” the Cambodian soldier hisses into Matt Dillon’s face and throws the American actor to the ground of a dilapidated room.
Seconds later, James Caan and a group of gangsters shoot it out on a patchy lawn in front of a dark, imposing building, while doom-laden fog drifts up [...]
The UN tribunal in Cambodia, set up to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly (a very small allegedly, the accused are all guilty) committed by the Khmer Rouge, finally passed its first judgment today.
The Khmer Rouge, a radical communist rebel movement, are responsible for the death of some 1.7 million people. Between 1975 and [...]
The seers have been consulted, the dotted lines are signed, the back-line is being oiled and squeaked as I write this.
Leonard Cohen, poet, writer, singer, sometimes zen monk and full-time visionary is opening The Mekong Sessions, a concert series to be held in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, on November 27th 2010.
Proceeds from this concert [...]
Working in Cambodia, no matter where - and this includes the Angkor Archaeological Park - is always an opportunity to witness the unusual.
Animals are transported in all sorts of bizarre and, by our progressive and enlightened standards, cruel ways around Asia, but the pig-on-a-motorbike routine is a favorite. Farmers travel for miles along often bumpy [...]
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Together with photographer Luke Duggleby, I visited Kep, a small town on Cambodia´s south eastern coast.
First populated by French colonial administrators at the beginning of the 20th century, Kep became something like Cambodia´s St. Tropez in the 1960s, with rock bands playing on the beach and King Norodom Sihanouk cavorting and partying as if there´d [...]