khmer

Getting my mooch on from letterfromthailand 132 days old

[ ... ] orphaned Khmer Rouge survivor who fought in the Cambodian Army before becoming a moto driver, has his home two hours from Phnom Penh in a place ...

Buying mates in Cambodia from letterfromthailand 137 days old

[ ... ] of the Khmer Rouge – the genocidal ultra communists who controlled the country in the late 1970s. For no reason he has been able to ascertain, his ...

Why are lobsters boiled alive? Because they fucking well deserve it. from letterfromthailand 346 days old

[ ... ] by a Khmer woman who made her living by flogging the things on the beach. She told me, through a barely concealed giggle I only noticed on ...

You gonna shoot me bud or what's the story? from letterfromthailand 360 days old

[ ... ] and only Khmer phrase ('Awkun' means thanks) handed over the cash and motioned towards the tuk tuk. Sadly, it was then that we hit a bump. The two ...

How to buy a gun in Cambodia from letterfromthailand 365 days old

Research for the article I wanted to right about the proliferation of arms in Cambodia was going well. Weapons, it appeared, were everywhere. Signs on ...

A spot of rain from letterfromthailand 400 days old

[ ... ] friendly Khmer who introduced himself as Sonny, and headed off towards my hotel. As it turned out, Sonny was either unwilling or unable to take me ...

Where in the fuck did you learn that?! from letterfromthailand 415 days old

[ ... ] Khmer people use the temples to make a living. While much of the entry fee is sucked into a black hole of corruption and Vietnamese-owned ...

'No hand grenades, guns or hard drugs in rooms please' from letterfromthailand 442 days old

Travellers opting to bus their way across the 400 miles from Bangkok to Cambodian capital Phnom Penh leave themselves open to a range of scams and rip ...