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  • POTW: Escape the frenzied pace of inner-city life

    Rooftop Real Estate

    Escape the frenzied pace of inner-city life by taking flight to Tuol Kork, a suburban oasis just 10 minutes from central Phnom Penh. A calmer alternative to the capital, the area is famed for fresh air and fashionable real estate. This week, we are offering this fully serviced, modern apartment. Sweepingly spacious, it occupies a full 100 square metres on the fourth floor of this quiet residential block.

  • Introducing Jaguar Skills: ninja master of the mix

    Phoenix Jay

    Bastardising music is nothing new. From the jazz tradition of reinterpreting standards to the DIY ethic of punk, the art of assembling new songs from purloined elements of existing tracks has been around since music was first recorded. But a certain breed of DJ is jacking up the creative bar – and then some.

  • Dancing with Dictators: a very problematic publisher

    Phoenix J

    “Jinxed” is how the Australian media described Dancing with Dictators, a documentary film about Southeast Asia’s most controversial newspaper man, when it was canned at the 11th hour during last year’s Sydney film festival.

    When Phnom Penh Post and Myanmar Times publisher Ross Dunkley agreed to allow filmmakers to follow in his footsteps for an exposé on how the foreign media fares under one of the world’s most repressive regimes, few outside his immediate circle could have imagined what was to come.

  • An artist rises from the ashes

    Totallyrandomman

    Srey Bandaul has come a long way since he first picked up a paint brush at the SiteTwo Refugee camp on the Thai border. Spooked by personal experience of fleeing the murderous Khmer Rouge, the 38-year-old has turned memories of a traumatic past into a promising artistic future.

  • Christie’s to hold first art auction in Cambodia

    Totallyrandomman

    One of the world’s most esteemed auction houses is poised to stage its first ever event in Cambodia.
    Christie’s, founded in London in 1766, is synonymous with fine art and today boasts offices around the world, including in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai, and Hong Kong.

  • The Magic of Myanmar- Part 1

    Tanja Wessels

    Republished - Feb 2012

    It was a decision based on avoidance. An avoidance of two things: Christmas and Cambodia. The idea of another December 25th with fake snow and Happy Merry Christmas written on every available surface while you felt your skin being fried under the relentless Cambodian sun was enough to prompt the quest for a location far, far away from sweaty Santas. After a bit of geographical and financial arithmetic Myanmar presented itself.

  • The Magic of Myanmar- Part 2 Mandalay and beyond

    Tanja Wessels

    (Continued from last week, The Magic of Myanmar Part 1)

    Republished - Feb 2012

    I’m not sure if it was the suitcase crashing down on my head, or the cold and hunger on the train that did it, but when we arrived at our hotel in Mandalay, the Emerald land Inn, it did indeed feel like we had walked into a giant gem. The room was spacious, comfortable and had a bath. Sold.

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