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Loving and leaving Phnom Penh - 18/Sep/2014 06:07 - 3731 days ago
It seems appropriate to start our last blog talking about the birth place of Phnom Penh, our home for the last two and a ha...
A fearless life in the White Building (Bo ding) - 15/Sep/2014 14:31 - 3734 days ago
I originally wrote this piece on 25th February 2012 before I had been back to the White Building after that first time. I had fo...
Cambodia: A Kingdom of Wonder - 08/Sep/2014 16:16 - 3741 days ago
I had previously done research that showed that schools received 65% of what they expected and that because of ring-fencing rule...
Can garment factories be a liberator for women? - 03/Sep/2014 16:30 - 3746 days ago
In Cambodia, there is literally one rule for girls and a different one for boys. When they are pre or early teens, girls will be...
Old culture, young people - 13/Aug/2014 15:32 - 3767 days ago
Men in Cambodia, and throughout Asia, like to dye their hair to hide any grey hairs. I may be a little odd having youthful face ...
Cambodia's Olympic Games - 06/Aug/2014 14:04 - 3774 days ago
For Claire and I, the jewel in the crown of Phnom Penh is the optimistically named Olympic Stadium. It was actually built for th...
Why should Scotland be in the Union? - 30/Jul/2014 17:31 - 3781 days ago
I wrote aprevious blogdiscussing Cambodia’s relationship with Viet Nam and suggested that the best way for Cambodia to find pe...
Well did you ever… - 31/May/2014 05:26 - 3841 days ago
Or, things I never thought I'd do, never mind do in Cambodia…(I started writing this post in February, then edited it in March...
Are all explorers lost and is Scotland the best? - 30/May/2014 06:06 - 3842 days ago
When a friend of mine left Scotland to work in France, I was envious of him as I imagined what it would be like to live in Franc...
Cambodia: more than temples and Toul Sleng - 13/May/2014 05:41 - 3859 days ago
In USA, there are some cities that are now forever defined by shootings at a high school. For many people, Cambodia is defined b...
Foreigners welcomed with a smile in Cambodia - 04/May/2014 07:31 - 3868 days ago
We live in the Cambodian equivalent of Mayfair. A house in Boeung Keng Kang 1can cost $2m, in a country where GDP per capita is ...
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll - 05/Mar/2014 15:28 - 3928 days ago
During the Khmer Rouge regime, nearly two million people perished including most of the country's artists, musicians and intelle...
Shoe shining and paper aeroplanes - 27/Feb/2014 14:32 - 3934 days ago
It's easy to mock tuk tuk drivers or moto top drivers, with their incessant shouts of"tuk tuk?!?"or"moto?!?"As soon as you appea...
In Cambodia, nobody can be perfect - 02/Feb/2014 04:56 - 3959 days ago
Cambodian’s have accepted the notion that “nobody is perfect” to such an extent that they do not even have the word “per...
Us = Cambodia, Them = Vietnam - 28/Dec/2013 14:13 - 3995 days ago
It happened when I was out with a Khmer friend for dinner. We were sitting at a street corner discussing the election and my fri...
Fight corruption? Send volunteers not money - 17/Dec/2013 10:30 - 4006 days ago
A few years ago, the head of the Kenyan anti-corruption unit was hiding in a dorm in Oxford University,on the run for his life. ...
How did the Philippines end up in South East Asia? - 12/Dec/2013 15:35 - 4011 days ago
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VSO celebrates 55 years - 18/Nov/2013 10:44 - 4035 days ago
I found this blog in the draft section - I wrote it in May, just before I was heading home for the summer for three months…Thi...
Cambodia defies Gladwell's outliers - 11/Nov/2013 15:41 - 4042 days ago
My eldest nephew was born in February so he could have started school either aged 4 and a half or five and a half. My sister, in...
Where are the Khmer Rouge now? - 01/Nov/2013 17:02 - 4052 days ago
The forest was burning right up to the other side of the road just a few metres from where we were sitting drinking beer with fo...
International development? You can bank on it. - 16/Sep/2013 12:15 - 4098 days ago
One of my less appealing characteristics is my ability to appear smug. One such time was during the banking crisis in 2008 when ...
Cambodian hopes and Western shame - 22/Aug/2013 03:06 - 4123 days ago
The guy I go to get my haircut beside my work once asked me if Australia was close to England. He thought France, America, Engla...
trains, tuk tuks and folding-up bikes - 12/Aug/2013 02:41 - 4133 days ago
When I lived in London, I considered getting a fold up bike so that I could cycle to the underground train, fold it up, carry it...
Angkor Wat explains a lost love in election - 30/Jul/2013 16:32 - 4146 days ago
Since 2003, the Cambodian GDP has grown at an average of 7% per year. Life expectancy has risen from 59 to 63 over the same peri...
Cambodian election: change or no change? - 23/Jul/2013 14:06 - 4153 days ago
Last July, some of my colleagues were showing a mix of frustration, incredulity and hopelessness.Resultsfrom the commune council...
Sports in Cambodia - 10/Jul/2013 10:00 - 4166 days ago
When I walk through a market here, I sometimes find a Cambodian quietly sidling up beside me to measure themselves against my sh...
A view of home from afar - 06/Jul/2013 16:57 - 4170 days ago
Claire and I were back home for a few weeks, and when I got back to Cambodia (Claire's still home), there were a few people who ...
Kings of Karaoke - 27/May/2013 16:04 - 4210 days ago
In Scotland, friends meet and go to the pub. In Cambodia, they go to karaoke. They absolutely love it and it is pretty certain t...
No more 50 shades of grey; kill the Lexus - 29/Apr/2013 09:32 - 4238 days ago
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Key to Cambodian development? Google. - 24/Apr/2013 08:13 - 4243 days ago
By the end of this blog, I bet 6 beers you that you will be able to read and write Khmer script.This is the Khmer alphabet and t...
Cooking Khmer - 20/Apr/2013 10:45 - 4247 days ago
Christmas 2011, my wonderful sister, smart cookie that she is, gave me a crisp $50 note with the instruction to spend it on aKhm...
transport in Cambodia 1 - the moto - 18/Apr/2013 14:57 - 4249 days ago
A few weeks ago Gordon and I learned to ride a moto. In about 30 minutes. Turns out driving a moto is as easy as everyone says i...
Kayaking, Koh Trong and killing time in Kratie - 25/Feb/2013 10:06 - 4301 days ago
Kratie has been on our list of places to visit in Cambodia for a while but towards the end of last year we realised that we'd be...
Pchum Ben holiday part 3 - Singapore - 23/Feb/2013 05:59 - 4303 days ago
(NB These Pchum Ben holiday blogs were meant to come one after the other but that didn't quite happen. We went to Singapore in O...
The King Father's Funeral - A glimpse of Cambodia's past - 10/Feb/2013 12:01 - 4316 days ago
We were out of the country when the King Father died in October, and we missed witnessing the huge numbers of Cambodians who mad...
Cambodia hosts USA vs China - 21/Jan/2013 12:13 - 4336 days ago
We live in a flat above a family who live in the two ground floor apartments. Gran and Grandpa (the owners), live in one, and th...
A New Year surprise in Siem Reap - 13/Jan/2013 06:08 - 4344 days ago
I had heard about Pub Street in Siem Reap before seeing it and it evoked hazy memories of alcohol soaked holidays in Gran Canari...
Anything he can do I can do better - 21/Dec/2012 06:31 - 4367 days ago
AKA a blog post which could also be called "If he can put up pictures of his pants then so can I!" or, "If the world really is g...
Pchum Ben holiday - Melaka part 2 - 17/Dec/2012 14:39 - 4371 days ago
As I mentioned inMelaka part 1, the food in Melaka was delicious. Two of my favourite things were the roti john and the chicken ...
Pants: How Victoria saved the Beckham's marriage - 13/Dec/2012 14:21 - 4375 days ago
I don't think that we're getting acclimatised to the heat in Cambodia, more that we're just getting used to sweating a lot. One ...
There's nobody playing ball - 07/Dec/2012 09:11 - 4381 days ago
Just a strange aside to get us going is that I've noticed many schools in Cambodia have basketball courts, but that they are ne...
Pchum Ben holiday - Melaka part 1 - 03/Dec/2012 15:11 - 4385 days ago
For Pchum Ben, a Buddhist holiday that took place in October and is about paying respect to ancestors, Gordon and I decided to l...
Haaallllooooooo!!!!!! - 28/Nov/2012 10:43 - 4390 days ago
Haalllooooooo!!!!! Not so much in Phnom Penh, but in the rural areas, you will be cycling along a dirt road and a little kid wil...
Culture vulture - 28/Oct/2012 10:29 - 4421 days ago
After nearly ten years working the arts, and being lucky enough to see some form of great performance at least once a week for t...
Birthday fun at the Olympic Stadium - 04/Oct/2012 16:17 - 4445 days ago
Sam and Gilly are two volunteers who are based in Kratie. They are the couple who've inspired ourcompetitionto see who can visit...
With these Rocher you're really spoiling us! - 12/Sep/2012 13:29 - 4467 days ago
Gordon pipped me to the post a bit with his earlier blog about his job here - I'd been planning one about what I've been up to w...
Take a step into my office - 06/Sep/2012 01:52 - 4473 days ago
So, six months in and there's not really been much said about what we do. There's been a few pics of somenice placesin Cambodia,...
Cambodian comedy - 29/Aug/2012 10:49 - 4481 days ago
I'm sitting at my desk typing away when my boss steps out of the bathroom in our room and says "Mr Bean. He's from England, righ...
Six months? Already?! - 13/Aug/2012 15:20 - 4497 days ago
For our six month anniversary in Cambodia, Gordon and I thought we would do something completely unprecedented. A joint blog.&nb...
gooood morning Viet Naaaammmm - 28/Jul/2012 06:03 - 4513 days ago
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Shock: Scot admits the power of English - 12/Jul/2012 06:58 - 4529 days ago
Just after we arrived in Phnom Penh, we were walking through The White Building - concrete blocks of claustrophobic flats cramm...
Landing in trouble - 05/Jul/2012 14:22 - 4536 days ago
In late 2003, the Government organised a competition to select the best development plan for Boeng Kak Lake in the Borei Keila a...
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