Nick Kristof Live Tweets a Raid on an Underage Brothel – And Not Everyone is Thrilled
Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has taken his long-running coverage of sex trafficking in the third world one step further: Last week, in his most recent journalistic innovation, Kristof breathlessly live-tweeted a tense raid on a brothel exploiting…
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The Love Boat: Cambodian Russian Diplomacy
I’m on a Russian submarine destroyer, docked at the port of Sihanoukville in Cambodia, and I’m trying not to drop a glass of vodka on the helicopter-landing pad, while the ship rolls beneath me in the middle of a tropical storm. There are Russian Navy officials and their Cambodian counterparts…
Vann Nath, Famous Survivor of Cambodian Torture Prison, Dies at 66
Painter and writer Vann Nath, perhaps the most recognizable survivor of Cambodia’s infamous Tuol Sleng torture prison, died this week at the age of 66 from heart attack. One of only seven known survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s most horrific facility, the outspoken and creative Nath has been…
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Cambodian-Americans Get an Online Home: An Interview with Phatry Derek Pan
Recently, I interviewed Phatry Derek Pan, co-founder of upcoming Khmer-American web portal Khmerican.com. Khmerican hopes to provide Khmer-Americans, Cambodians, and the online world with a one-stop online shop— compiling news, information databases, networking opportunities and more into…
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The North Korea Connection: Cambodia’s Secret Refugee Pipeline
I have mostly included this painting because it is awesome.
WikiLeaks has come to Cambodia, and local media sources spent the latter part of July combing through hundreds of pages of not-so-secret information. Cables ranged from detailed accounts of the Siem Reap sex trade to cutting
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Cambodia Not Online: Why Cambodian Internet Access is So Dismal
Internet access is not a given in Cambodia. This is hard to fathom for those of us from new-media, online shopping, and iPad obsessed countries, but it is a reality of life here in Cambodia—and Cambodia’s lack of affordable and accessible Internet services is in my estimation, one of the…
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Cambodian Press Freedom (Or Lack Thereof)
When I told people back home in the U.S. that I was moving to Cambodia to work in journalism, they looked at me like I was crazy
“Isn’t it really dangerous for journalists there?” they’d ask.
I could tell that many of the people who asked me this had a certain mental image in mind.
They…
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