Continued from here.

Talking about Cambodia ... Apparently, Indian tourism businesses are looking to invest big time In Cambodia, so are determined to put a happy spin on everything Khmer ...

More than 1.4 million tourists visited Cambodia last year and at least 1.1 million... more

The Cambodian government has managed to impress at least one US official with its efforts to make adoptions by US citizens "more transparent". Could this be the beginning of the end of the horrible suspension that's been keeping thousands of kids held hostage for the past almost five years? Fingers crossed, please ...

Maura Harty, US assistant secretary of state, said she had met with Long Visalo, secretary of state for the... more

And this story REALLY has me steaming ... so mad I could chew up my slow cooker and spit the results, with great accuracy, in a slapping hand pattern at the back of any blue-beret-bearing head in a passing white Land Cruiser ... this morning: Cambodia has made significant achievements in improving children`s health over the past five years, according to the United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF), VNA reported. The improvements were seen in child survival, child... more

I've been wondering about the story coming out of Cambodia about the new law passed last week that makes adultery a crime punishable by up to a year in jail. Not that I'm any big fan of philanderers ... there have been plenty of times when I would have loved to have seen my own personal dalliers dangling by their danglies for 365 days ... twelve months in a Cambodian clink seems an excessive penance when polygamy has been the order of the day in the Khmer royal family for centuries.

Ah... more

I've not done any Cambodian news in a while, so it's time ...

More hard luck for the poor in Phnom Penh, as slums are cleared to make way for new developments.

More than 3,000 families have had to leave their homes - and thousands more are set to follow.

... On Wednesday, police moved into one slum community during the night and dismantled dozens of dwellings. The action has continued into the weekend.

Most of the displaced residents have been offered... more

A headline in former King Norodom Sihanouk's blog: I thank you for insulting me.

Not words you'd expect from an ex-king, but there it is.

Norodom Sihanouk is a blogger, and like most of us who do this regularly has an opinion or two. He posts in French, Khmer and English and gets about 1000 hits per day. Not bad for a cancer-stricken 82-year old taking treatment in China.... more

I was wrong! (Now there's a phrase my husband would swear I don't utter often ... )

The best story out of Cambodia today is NOT the potty coverage I wrote about earlier ... complete with stand-up comic and dramatizations of how happy everyone is to be able to poop indoors.

This one is even stranger, therefore appealing to my... more

Lots to talk about from Cambodia today ...

The Catholic Church is working to reestablish itself in Cambodia after being all but wiped out during the Khmer Rouge years. Church officials say there were 65,000 Catholics before Pol Pot's reign of terror, and less than 1000 by the time it ended in 1979.

Making headway in the predominately Buddhist country won't be an easy matter.

Appreciation for history as a valuable Church tool was evident recently during a synod focused on "The Word of God Guiding Church History." The special national meeting, held July 11-14 at St. Joseph's... more

There's often a schizophrenic bent to news from Cambodia ... violent mood swings with a touch of vertigo in print ... and today is no exception.

On the high end of self-rightous, erroneous and disingenuous bluster, the Cambodian Government has banned the wearing of swimsuits during the Miss Cambodia Contest. The official line is that bathing costumes somehow endanger the Cambodia Culture ...

Cambodia, a socially... more

I'm writing about Cambodia today, both here and on my Older Parent blog. That one, appropriately, is about old stuff and problems. This is just about problems. First of all, I'm sure most of you have heard about the death of Ta Mok, aka "The Butcher". This lucky stiff (and that should be a pun, but isn't) is another in a long line of monsters who'll never suffer justice being served.

An interesting ... more