Coffee at the Foreign Correspondent's Club

Phnom Penh--Back to the Past

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July 8th 2008
Phnom Penh This is somehow what I remembered when I first started in this line of work and somehow I recognize that it's something I have been missing in the posh places where I have been over the last few years in the Europe-Middle East region. Phnom Penh reminds me alot of Africa. On the drive in from the airport, you pass block after block of low-rise, cheaply constructed buildings with ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh

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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more