Category Archives: cambodia

Thai Invasion of Preah Vihar

July 15, 2008 – 10:42 am

Like many farangs living in Pattaya I’ve had to travel to the Cambodia on visa run. The frontiers are roughly demarcated, although both Thais and Cambodians have admitted to me that the borders aren’t what they used to be before the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975. Drivers have pointed out streams several miles from […]

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Two are better than one in Phnom Penh

July 10, 2008 – 11:21 am

Solomon never had to judge on the question of one man marrying more than one wife because he had a harem, but in modern times bigamy has a negative connotation to most societies outside of Saudi Arabia and Southern Utah. A Cambodian man was bucked his country’s regard for multiple wives by marrying his current […]

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Where are we now?

July 7, 2008 – 12:12 pm

US citizens are geographically challenged partially because they don’t travel outside the USA, except to DisneyWorld. Most Americans don’t have passports. Not even the 160,000 troops in Iraq. More surprising is the fact that over 70% of Americans can’t find New York City on a map. “What do I need a map for when I […]

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