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I am seriously considering the Keeway Superlight 200 or 250. The price at its Phnom Penh showroom is USD 2,300 for the 200cc model. I heard a 250cc is available but am not sure of the price, probably 1K or thereabout more. It's good for zipping around the Phnom Penh roads, and so eye catching...

Father, son and the ho-lee ghost

Never a truer word said. Marriages between men and women are doomed to fail. Why? Once a woman has sized up the man and deemed him acceptable, will think of how to change him. On the other hand, once a man has deemed a woman acceptable, hopes and prays she never changes. Unfortunately we all...

China would gladly invest in such a venture, it's almost guaranteed returns baring some incurable deadly tropical disease. The money spent would almost be recovered from the clearing of the land. The area is almost virgin forest, with billions of dollars worth of hardwood. It will probably...

You are not supposed to understand anything. You just have to believe and swallow whatever bovine fecal matters fed to you. Be a good boy now, it's all for your own good.

All the authorities is doing is shooting themselves in their foot. Don't they realize how they are coming across? To me, whatever the percieved wrongdoings this brave young man has committed, the authorities come across as bullies. And bullies, in anybody's books, are like villians in movies...

Way back in 76-79, I heard many travellers telling me to get a residence permit leading to citizenship, all one has to do is join the French Communist Party. How true it is I don't know as I decided around 1979 that the winters in Amsterdam are too harsh for me.

Indeed life does carry on, without or without LKY. Just as the sun will rise with every morn and the moon at sunset the wane and ebb of the tides the urge to procreate and the inevitability of death A man dies Another born Life continues Nature prevails So, what's the big hooha about? Now...

What's all the hooha for? Just a death for a mortal man. It's like having babies - all the fuss the 1st one, by the time the 4th one comes along, its like taking a dump. Now if he was to die a 2nd time.....

What's all the hooha for? Just a death for a mortal man. It's like having babies - all the fuss the 1st one, by the time the 4th one comes along, its like taking a dump. Now if he was to die a 2nd time.....

How to rent a property in Cambodia by a expat in Cambodia 1. Get a map of the town/city you live in. 2. Draw a perimeter around the area you want to live in. 3. Be able to recognize the Khmer script for ˜for rent/sale. The sign is normally posted on the outside of the property in question. If...

All the local staff in a company I used to work at called the cleaning lady Ah Soh. One day the expat MD came in our sales office to ask us why do we call her arsehole. MD or not, we fell off our chairs laughing.

From Bayon Pearnik Jan 1999 Everything You Need to Know About Men 1. Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved. 2. Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. 3. Men are very confident people. My husband is so...

Fear & Loathing in Cambodia For many reasons, Pailin does not have a great reputation for tourism among Cambodians or foreigners. Through the troubled 1980s and early 1990s, it was a fiercely contested region, alternately under the control of government and Khmer Rouge forces. Pailin was a...

Some snippets from the Bayon Pearnik dated July/August 1998. Canning and culture. A recent straw poll conducted recently enquired about worker relations between expats and locals. The results showed that if you start the business and employ locals from the outset not many problems occur. If...

It's quite difficult to put your finger on who is a Cambodian girl. The DNA has been mixed as thoroughly as the bok lahong (the papaya salad we probably are more familiar with the name somtam) in a pestle. There's probably a trace of Indian, Vietnamese, Malay, Chinese and in the last 20 years...

I enjoy reading this column from the Phnom Penh Post. If some of the incidents were not so tragic, they'll be funny. Thief tries to haul more than a fair share home Tue, 16 December 2014 Sen David Greed was once again not good for four men who were arrested for allegedly stealing several motos...

If you like things French, you won't do wrong at Armand's. It's a small, cozy bistro on Street 108, a block South of the night market. It's not budget priced but it won't break your bank either, it's about the value for the money you cough up. Most of the clients are expats, and I have met...

I thought that Cambodia, with 27 public holidays, would rank way of top on the Country with Most Holidays List. I googled and was surprised it didn't make it to top 10. My second surprise was the of the ten, two are South American - Bolivia (4th) and Venezuela (9th), and the rest are all...