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This is a short teaser for the upcoming film ‘The Cause of Progress.’ The Cause of Progress tells the story of the lives of three Cambodians caught up in the country’s chaotic and often violent economic progress. This film focuses on the story of Srey Pov and the Boeung Kak community who have been forcibly [...]
In the light of several recent horrific rapes in Cambodia and the deplorable human rights situation in the country in general, I am republishing a 2003 story on gang rape in Phnom Penh. Cambodian sex workers In the shadow of the Independence Monument in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, young women sell themselves for 6$ a [...]
The first edition of new my English language guide to Angkor Wat (including Siem Reap and the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh) is hitting shelves this month. After Moon Cambodia and Spotlight Angkor, this is my third book for Moon Guides and Avalon Publishing. You can purchase the book on Amazon. Content: A group of young [...]
Andy Brouwer, acclaimed Cambodian blogger plugs The Cambodian Book of the Dead this week. Read his post here.
Airports in Ko Samui, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh all continue to stock Sacred Skin prominently. The first illustrated Sak Yant book in English featuring detailed portraits of masters and devotees paired with an insightful text. Described in TIME as a book that “… will further popularize a centuries-old tradition.” Sacred tattoos, [...]
Here’s a first preview of the cover of my forthcoming guide to Angkor Wat, including Siem Reap, Battambang and Phnom Penh, published by Moon Books in the US in November 2012. It’s been a great project to work on and I am just dealing with the final edits for the book. Photographs will be supplied [...]
My story on Phnom Penh’s cultural revival is published in this month’s edition of Bangkok 101, the Thai capital’s best known English language magazine. The story ran last month in The Guardian. Photographs by Conor Wall.
I published a piece on Phnom Penh’s current cultural revival in The Guardian last week. “Welcome to the Penh my friend, big city in the kingdom of wonder, where all the streets are numbered and when it rains it thunders, them smiles stay infectious, chaps asleep in their cyclos or pushing a Lexus.” Thus rhymes [...]
Sacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, for sale at Phnom Penh Airport, Monument Books. But who’s the dodgy looking guy on the left?
On a recent trip to Cambodia, I noticed that my first non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench is still being sold as a bootleg photocopy in Siem Reap bookshops. I was browsing the shelves of a pirate DVD shop in Phnom Penh a couple days ago, when I found, much to my surprise, that [...]