Here's a story I never thought I'd see coming out of Cambodia: the country is seeing a cold snap.

Yep, according to their director of meteorology, Cambodia is experiencing the coldest weather in twenty-seven years with temps down to the mid-40s.

Krang Karath, a Phnong chief in the northeast province of Mondolkiri, which had some of the most extreme cold last week, said his people had taken to drinking little cups of fish sauce and stashing hot coals under their beds to stay warm. Inmates in Mondolkiri provincial prison complained to the prison director of a strange new sensation in their arms and legs: numbness.

Elections are coming up in Cambodia. April 1st is the date, and I hope there will be no "April Fooling" going on.

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has announced that his party will be fielding candidates in 99% of communes.

"The people will react to a state of injustice," he said.

"They have lived in poverty for so many years while a few people have got very rich because of corruption.

"People are longing for social justice."

There and everywhere, I'd say.

PERV REPORT, and stuff like that:

Silly former British glam rock star, Gary Glitter, had high hopes of being granted amnesty for sex crimes against children in Vietnam, but it didn't work out that way. The Tet holiday does get him a reduction of three months, but he'll still be serving time for another year plus.

He went to Vietnam after molesting kids in Cambodia.

A Canadian, Richard Beaulac from Quebec, has been charged with the attempted rape of a 13-year-old street beggar in Siem Reap.

Some folks in Canada are, "calling on the Canadian government to investigate the serious allegation against this individual, and if they are substantiated to lay charges under Canada's child sex tourism laws ... "

And just in case anyone's been wondering about Heng Pov, the former Chief of Police in PP who did a runner a while back, he's in prison and not happy about it.

He's mad as anything at the Malaysians who turned him over and has now been granted permission to take legal actition.

Does that sound like a smart move?

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