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THE PHNOM PENH POST ​MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013 . ISSUE #198

‘Cinema is a point of view’ Rithy Panh: Cannes win, a life of film Behind closed doors Inside the city’s quirkiest homes

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03 | 7 Questions: How to keep film 04 | The only Western monk in the village 05 | Rithy Panh: Director after Cannes win 08 | Inside the city’s most unusual homes 12 | High time to dump the dope?

13 | Am Nam, Nyam: Vietnamese delights 17 | What’s on: Watch, see, party CEO: Chris Dawe

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Editor’s letter: Secret lives, private homes

Poppy mcpherson nyone who tells you the life of a journalist is glamorous either has never been one, or is deluded. There are times when the profession brings nothing but woe.

Door-knocking in the rain is one. The dreaded line in an email from a pushy PR with a promise to ‘follow up’ in the coming days, another. Appeasing diva-esque interviewees. Waiting for call backs.

Lurking. Begging.

But the redeeming thing about this job – and the reason most suckers are fooled into it – is the license to be nosy.

A beautiful stranger’s kitchen? Usually possible if you ask nicely. Backstage at a theatre? They’ll keep you there for hours.

Even the red carpet at Cannes isn’t a problem for many. ( Just don’t expect anyone to be too happy to see you.) Some weeks are a succession of glorious insights.

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Filmmaker Rithy Panh’s new feature, The Missing Picture, uses static animation to illustrate Khmer Rouge atrocities. PHOTO SUPPLIED

This week was one of those.

For our cover story, we talked to the famously media-shy director Rithy Panh the day after he flew in from Cannes Film Festival taking home with him the Un Certain Regard award, a prize which celebrates innovation.

In his new feature film, The Missing Picture, the story of his own devastating experience under the Khmer Rouge is played out by more than 100 clay figurines, using archival footage and narration.

He told us about Cannes, teaching the

next generation, and his lifelong struggle with Kaing Guek Eav or ‘Duch’, the former Khmer Rouge commandant.

In the first of a new regular series on Phnom Penh’s quirkiest homes, we were guided through one of the grandest mansions in the city.

Its owner, a property developer with a passion for European art - and a soft spot for taxidermy - told us how he created his unusual home, and how money doesn’t always mean good taste.

Just a few streets away, we found an

American monk living in Phnom Penh, who was a Christian minister for more than 10 years before coming to the country.

For this week’s story behind the classified ad, a coin collector told us the story of his desperate search for cash after blowing $9,000 on a dud coin haul. A good illustration of how, for every high, there’s a big, fat low.

No doubt we’ll be back to begging and lurking ourselves next week but, for now, we’ll share the riches.

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Séverine Wemaere, head of the Paris-based Technicolor Foundation, specialises in rescuing “orphan” films.

When years of neglect cause long-abandoned prints to deteriorate, Technicolor steps in to restore them and bring them to new audiences. Wemaere is now in Cambodia to support Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center’s Memory! Film Festival, which aims to promote cinematic awareness among the Kingdom’s young generation.

Bennett Murray spoke to the cinephile about the lost footage of Georges Méliès and the threats to film in Cambodia.

How long have you been protecting film heritage?

For the past ten years I’ve been directly involved in film heritage. But I’d say it’s a passion much older than that.

It’s probably from my parents, I’m very grateful that they led me to that. My parents drove me to the cinema from the very beginning, and I watched classics a lot. The modernity it could have, the joy it could bring. After that it became a personal passion.

I’ve been working with Cambodia for the past seven years. Bophana was one of the first projects of the foundation. I was working in India and Cambodia at the same time, but I would say that Cambodia is the founding project of my foundation. I took part with the film inventory and digitisation that was founded

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“Heat and humidity. They are the enemies of film”: Séverine Wemaere at Bophana on Wednesday. KOAM CHANRASMEY

it. Films are not just to be in shelters. They’re good as treasuries and memories, as Do many films get lost?

Lots! Méliès shot 600 titles, a country’s memories or the You were behind the world’s memories. They are and we could only find 250. restoration of the colour And he’s the master of cinema. to be shown and shared. Each version of Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon, the first There’s a lot of lost films I want project that we launch, I’m known science fiction movie. to find, but you have to think going to see that film onscreen Can you explain what you with an audience. That’s the there’s no lost films. You can did? spirit of cinema. always find them if you try.

Méliès shot the film in Sometimes you have to accept 1902, and had a colour version that a movie might be lost, but What threatens film? made by hand painting each of you should never give up hope.

Heat and humidity. They the individual 14,000 frames are the enemies of film. If it’s Films have always traveled a by hand. It disappeared, lot since the beginning. Méliès not preserved in a humidityand years later we found it controlled and heat controlled would screen a movie first in in Spain. It was almost 100 France, then a few weeks later environment, it undergoes years old and in pieces, but in New York. You never know chemical destruction. You because it was a masterpiece, have it in Cambodia, but where you will find them. we collected all the frames you have it everywhere in the and put them together again world. You can’t just keep Are you in Cambodia to like a puzzle. The film was 260 restore films? your film in a kitchen in your metres long and 15 minutes apartment. You have to keep it Not right now, but maybe in length, which was huge for Memory! will allow that. I’m in proper storage conditions. not going to restore a film, the time it was made, and it I’m not going preserve a film, took over a year to put back What is your favourite I’m not going to look for a together. But it was very movie that you have film to preserve if I don’t have restored? important and was used to a plan or a vision to show open the Cannes film festival I fall in love with all the at the Department of Cinema here.

when we finished.

films I’m involved in. I never choose a film to restore because I personally like it. But usually, there’s something that happens where I fall in love with the film.

You go into the universe of the filmmaker in a very singular way. You go into his universe, you find his intimate booklets about how he conceived the film. So you very much like the film at the end of the day, or end of the year or two that you work on it.

What film would you most like to restore?

I don’t know the title of what I want to restore, because I think it will pop up just like that. It will come to me. I’m not going to choose my next project, or my favorite project.

But I’d like to find lots of Khmer films. I’ve read a lot about that, so my ambition is to collect films from Cambodia.

Chan Thul Prak@ prakchanthul A country emerged frm yrs of wars, prize is important: we r still alive, says Rithy Panh, winning top prize in Cannes Chris Brown@ChrisInCambo Adverts for bullet proof glass on the front page of a national newspaper. Must be election time Vireak@yuttarachaly This #PhnomPenh restaurant serves “Sausage cold cute”.

Someone fantasizes sausage being cute. #OnlyInCambodia is in the studio@FX_PP I would like to announce that tomorrow is a National Holiday, AGAIN. It’s something to do with what sort of grass cow eats.

Greg Bloom@AsiaBloom Playing shorthanded, Cambodia’s ultimate frisbee team, Angelina’s Orphans, finishes a respectable 6th out of 12 in Mekong Cup in Bangkok

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With open alms: the story of an ex-clergyman who turned monk With his olive skin, red robes, bald head and skinny frame, the Venerable Vira Avalokita looks like an ordinary monk at first glance. But his round, light blue eyes betray his American roots. Born James Beard to a protestant family in the Northwest, Avalokita was ordained in 1987 in the Koyasan Shingon Japanese Buddhist tradition. Upon arriving in Cambodia in 1997, he devoted his time to Phnom Penh’s Municipal Referral Hospital, where he helped establish an HIV/ AIDS clinic. In the early 1990s he published several books at the University of Washington, and is currently working on a book about Buddhism and behavioral psychology. Bennett Murray talked to the American monk about his life in Cambodia and his relationship with Cambodia’s Theravada Buddhist Community..

How did you get into Buddhism and become a monk?

I was always interested in Buddhism. Ever since I was small, my family would take me to Chinatown and my family would gravitate to a statue of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion.

When I was 15-years-old I had a statue of him in my room.

Half of my family was Japanese, and they had converted to Methodism from Buddhism when they came over.

I became Buddhist in 1978 after being a minister of a Methodist church for 10 years. I still consider myself a Methodist minister.

You can be a Methodist and still be a Buddhist - although I’m not sure what the conservatives would say about that.

I went to Koyasan, a mountain

What do you do with your alms?

I share the alms I collect. I used to go down to the riverside before they chased all the children away, and I’d give them food. Someone asked me, are you trying to feed the children? And I said, I’m not feeding them, I’m sharing with them. These people think, they’re not my relatives, why should I help them? I help in the hospital, I pick up the sick off the street, I help the children, I feed the hungry.

Why should I do this? Because of brotherhood.

“You can be a Methodist and still be a Buddhist,” according to American monk the Venerable Vira Avalokita. MAI VIREAK

near Osaka, in the later part of the eighties, and I was ordained there in 1987.

Why were you ordained?

Just to practice Buddhism and help people. Understand, ordination in Buddhism is not the same idea as it is in Christianity.

All Buddhist ordination is that you go to a group of five monks, they question you and give you commission. There is no special empowerment or special thing that is given to anyone. It is a recognition.

How did you come to Cambodia?

I knew monks at a Khmer

‘I was a minister of a Methodist church for 10 years’ temple in Takoma, Washington.

There was a money and sex scandal going on at the time, and I was there because I was the only one who spoke English and could explain things to the court.

I met someone there who had just built a health centre in Phnom Penh. At that time I ran a program that helped people with AIDS in Seattle, and I had experience in nursing, so I went to Phnom Penh.

At first I had my clinic in Wat Botum, but in 1998 I set up my

clinic in the Municipal Hospital.

Tell us about an ordinary day in your life.

I start my trek at six in the morning. I go to Psar Kapko. I have about 20 people I see, who have known me for 15 years and give me alms. In the afternoon I read and I write.

Now that I’m retired, I live off social security in my own house. I don’t live in a pagoda with other monks.

Are Cambodians ever surprised to see a white monk?

Yes - they say, ‘you’re the first barang I saw who was a monk!’

But I tell them that there are three million, sign-on-the-line Buddhists in America, and another 10 million who practice it. That means we have more committed Buddhist practitioners in America than in Cambodia.

Have you known other Western monks in Cambodia?

In 1998, one American and one Briton got ordained, but they didn’t stay monks. The thing is, you can become a monk and not do anything, take pictures and your certificate, take your robes off and open a guided meditation business in America, and charge $60 an hour.

Do you think you will stay here the rest of your life?

I don’t know, depends how long I live. But, I don’t really care. This is better than the 10 feet of snow I got when I lived in the United States.

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Rithy Panh: the director on Cannes glory and haunted life Rosa Ellen HREE days after accepting the Un Certain Regard award for The Missing Picture at the Cannes Film Festival, Rithy Panh is back in Phnom Penh, in a small and quiet office on the first floor of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, looking exhausted. He has a quietly expressive face and an unobtrusive way of slipping in and out of the Center, though the Bophana staff keep a close eye, and stubs of his Cuban cigars betray his movements.

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Hand-crafted figurines and model landscapes take the place of actors in Rithy Panh’s autobiographical film The Missing Picture. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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When he reluctantly has his photo taken beside an ancient film projector donated to Bophana, 49-year-old Rithy – Uncle Rithy to some of his film mentees – jokes that his only worry is being recognised by the public when he eats street-side noodles.

Before Saturday’s announcement, Panh was set to return to Cambodia for preparations for the Memory Film Heritage festival, of which he is a co-director, when he made the decision to turn back and attend the redcarpet award ceremony. Was he tipped off?

“No, nobody knows before,” he insists. “Maybe you can by listening to the rumours …but it’s a very special [atmosphere] at Cannes.”

The director has been to seven Cannes film festivals, last time to accompany screenings of the 2011 documentary Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell, his face-to-face encounter with the notorious Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav or ‘Duch’. The previous festivals are now but a blur, he admits.

Duch and the torture centre S21 have been the subject of three of Panh’s feature documentaries, as well as The Elimination, his memoir released in February of this year. The Missing Picture [L’Image Manquante ] tells what happened to Panh’s family during the Khmer Rouge and his own improbable survival in the regime’s forced labour programs, which he worked and starved through after the deaths of his parents, sisters

they now? Maybe I could take care of them? …In fact the missing picture is the thing that you are looking for, film after film. Each film you are looking for a missing picture and after you make one, you find another. You can find one picture but then another is missing again.”

Unusually, rather than re-enactment or straight documentary, the 95-minute autobiographical tale is played out by more than 100 small clay figurines, shot in static

‘The ‘missing picture’ is the thing that you are looking for, film after film’ and their small children.

Panh’s meetings with Duch, as he awaits the final judgment of the ECCC are woven throughout The Elimination, on which The Missing Picture is based, but those parts are not in the film, he says.

“The ‘missing picture’ could be my parents. How old are

motion behind archival footage and life-like miniature sets – including one of Rithy Panh’s old family house in Phnom Penh. The film took two years to shoot, much of it in Phnom Penh, with a single sequence taking up to a week.

“I started first to build my home,” Panh explains,

motioning to a cardboard scale-model house used on a different film. “I’ve never been back to my home since the 17th of April 1975, when the Khmer Rouge pushed us out…

I just wanted to remember my home, so I started to rebuild it, with cardboard. I try to build it to visualise the space from my childhood and I asked my assistant to sculpt - in clay - a small toy.”

The toy figurine would represent him as a boy, through to his early teens, the age he was when the Khmer Rouge came to power.

“When I started [this film] two years ago, there were no figurines… I was in the villages in Battambang. I met a lot of old people who knew the story of the time and I tried to interview [them], to make something - but it looked the same,” he says. “You know, the cinema is not the truth.

There is no truth… Cinema is your point of view. So if Filmmaker Rithy Panh: “Cinema is your point of view.” SCOTT HOWES you make each film the same, you have to give a [new] cinematographical proposal.

Panh’s figurine proposal was quest itself.

If you cannot give it you just not easy for the film crew to “It’s not the image that repeat things.” grasp at first, and remained I’m looking for, it’s just the way that you are looking something of a mystery even for the missing picture,” he to friends and colleagues at Bophana and the Cambodian explains. “Maybe it’s a picture of the Khmer Rouge killing Film Commission building, somebody – if you have the where he worked away in a picture can this…explain the small studio. image of the truth? I’m not Searching fruitlessly for a sure. I’m not sure one image photograph that could bear can explain the truth of what witness to inhuman acts happened.” perpetrated by the Khmer Impressed by the small Rouge, which one Khmer Rouge photographer had told painted clay figures his assistant carved, Panh asked him existed - Panh began to him to come up with more think about the nature of the

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“I tried to...visualise the space from my childhood and I asked my assistant to sculpt - in clay - a small [figurine].” More than 100 clay figures were used in the film. PHOTO SUPPLIED

representing his family members, then water buffalo, then forests and landscapes.

“When I found out what he could do, I started to talk about the history [behind it] because he was born after the Khmer Rouge fell. We started to talk and created some sequence and so I had to explain to him what people do, how people think, what they said, like you direct an actor you know? So he listened to me and he [then] shew shew shew! [mimics carving the figurines]. Sometimes I’d sit next to him [as he carved]: ‘Much more happiness’ or ‘much more sad’, like you direct an actor or actress.”

Panh first found film in his twenties. After dabbling in painting and sculpture and experiencing periods of deep unhappiness and isolation in France, where he and his sister arrived after finding their way to a Thai refugee camp in 1979, the young Cambodian was accepted into film school.

The Institut des Hautes

études Cinématographiques appealed initially, he jests in The Elimination, only because it gave him access to the school’s enormous film library.

He returned to the Thai refugee border camps in the 1980s to film his first feature documentary Site 2.

At film school, did he think himself different from the other students – driven by a different purpose?

“Yes, you know everybody when they make a film [wants] to tell their story.

Woody Allen makes a film about his story – New York - and Scorcese, Wim Wenders. This is my story [and] if you are Cambodian and you can’t talk about testimony, what can you talk about? … If you don’t do that the next generation will not understand what happened and they will be lost. You know, in the world, no country can build its future without a memory.”

Panh says recent comments attributed to National Rescue Party acting president Kem Sokha questioning the

The former Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav or ‘Duch’, who was tried and sentenced by the ECCC. AFP

existence of S21 show not just the importance of survivors’ testimony but the need to keep analysing history.

“If you don’t … [a] guy who wants to be in power says, ‘Oh it was just the Vietnamese’.

And we spent $100 million [to] judge the Khmer Rouge? … It’s not true to say a thing like that – it’s not good, good for the country. We can talk, we can have different opinions, but we cannot lie [about] history.”

He sees his own memoir, on which the new film was based, as a kind of “testimony”.

a very good friend who comes later and watches the film with you …sometimes it’s clear for you but not clear for other people to understand it, so you need another team around you and we finished [the film] in France.”

Before going to France to live as a teenage refugee, Panh was familiar with the culture.

His father, who worked in education, spoke French and some of his close family members had moved there before the events of April 17.

He remembers going to see movies and French-language

There are no big bucks to be made in Panh’s line of auteur filmmaking [“If you lose money, nobody gives you it again”] so he teaches, at different film schools and courses around the world.

“I spend more and more time here [in Phnom Penh] but I have to earn my living by teaching – I am a volunteer here [at Bophana] so I need to earn my living back to train people. I teach everywhere – whoever pays me best!”

Panh believes the impact of film images on the squishy human memory is vital not just to bearing witness but to the future of Cambodia – tourism, identity, the economy. The image of Bruce Willis laying waste to Los Angeles can burn the city into the minds of many - just as a glimpse of Ta Prohm in Tomb Raider made Angkor stage plays in Phnom Penh known to thousands more and eating the water melon people around the world. seeds sold as snacks to the “Now everything is images theatre-going crowds. and sound. Today we have “There were a lot of 3G, tomorrow we have 4G. [French] theatres, stage plays.

We move very, very quickly.

In Phnom Penh I watched Maybe you don’t even earn Moliere, Lakhaon Bassac… one dollar per day, but you’ll we ate [watermelon seeds] have a smartphone with 4G. which are very red, and when So, if you want to educate your we came out of the theatre, people, if you want to boost our lips were red. It was very commercial exchange [use interesting. We have to create technology].” these places for performing In the light-filled ground art… it’s very important for us,” floor of Bophana, which he says. he founded in 2005 with Panh can’t say which capital filmmaker Ieu Pannakar, – Phnom Penh or Paris – he giant papery shadow puppets ends up spending most of his are being installed for the time in, but his production upcoming nine-day Memory company, Bophana festival.

Productions, is based here and Bophana has come a work sees him travel much of long way in digitizing the year. the audiovisual heritage

‘Everything is images and sound. You earn a dollar but you have a smartphone’ The Elimination wasn’t written with a film in mind, he says, but rather it was a way of reflecting on his disturbing encounters with Duch, ‘a man who stalks his humanity’ and telling his own story.

“I had so many things in my heart, so it was useful for me first to put it down in the book, maybe to keep a trace of testimony or something like that. It’s not easy to meet a guy like Duch, he’s very human and at the same time very complex.” *** After finishing The Missing Picture, the director returned to his other home of Paris for some space between the production and editing process. “[In filmmaking] you need

of Cambodia, but its role preserving archives and investing in the next generation of documentary makers and auteurs is far from over.

“Memory: it’s also social cohesion. If you build it, you build your social cohesion… the festival is one of the ways for us to show that memory is very important. Film is still important because the digital footage we do not know how many years it can last; but film? One hundred years.”

What’s the next move for this man who has been so long involved in the story of the Khmer Rouge and the war criminal Duch?

“I don’t know…There are lot of stories to do now. ..It’s such a complicated story. I don’t want to be a specialist, you know, about this sort of film. I have a lot of work you know. My dream is to train a new generation, my dream is to found and run Bophana. I have a lot of work!”

Despite his jetlag and what must have been a hurriedly celebrated prize-taking, Panh has been speaking with interested intensity, for almost an hour.

His dedication to understanding his and Cambodia’s past, is perhaps best seen here at Bophana, where as he winds up the interview, a final passage from his memoir comes to mind.

‘I place more credence in pedagogy than in justice. I believe in working over time, and in the working of time. I want to understand, explain and remember – in precisely that order.’

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Inside a home: the prop EHRAN born, London raised property tycoon Howric Ghotbi has a preference for all things old and antique, shunning the modern and slick aesthetic often synonymous with property developers in Cambodia.

“You can tell a lot about someone by their home…By what is inside,” Ghotbi says as he greets us at the gated entrance of his sprawling, five-story Phnom Penh house.

“You can tell if they have taste or not.

Sometimes money doesn’t help. Old stuff is classic and makes you feel good. I lived in London, renovating properties in the best areas of the city. I love these old buildings with rich histories…the chateaus of France too. I saw an article on Bill Gates’ home… it’s a mess, very unusual and modern, I guess his personality is like that.”

Ghotbi was first lured to Phnom Penh, he says, after a holiday to the Kingdom in 1997, captivated by the grand, French colonial villas peppered around the city.

The developer soon snapped up several of the crumbling structures and renovated them – including one on Street 240 which now boasts the British ambassador as a tenant.

“Every time I walk through this front door, I am taken aback. That’s important

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‘There were some nice 60s villas, smaller homes, but I wanted something big, huge, that was going to last! ’ I think – every time one opens their front door they should be surprised.”

The home certainly is surprising. Built three years ago on a parcel of land close to the ostentatious ministers’ residences surrounding the Independence Monument, the daunting, neo-colonial mansion was once a humble Khmer style wooden home.

“There was nothing here then, now look around at all of this construction. There were some nice 60s villas, smaller homes, but I wanted something big, huge, that was going to last!”

Past a columned porch and entering through the elaborate front door, the main room opens into a soaring, vast atrium, closed in by a cascading glass ceiling, Ghotbi’s “oasis in an urban jungle.” “[The house] is bigger that what you think, isn’t it?” he says.

With four living spaces, a dining room, six bedrooms (all with separate sitting rooms), a huge kitchen manned by at least three staff on our visit (he has a total of 14 live in staff ), and a heated, basement pool (looked down on through a glass floor in the atrium), the house hasn’t a whiff of modesty about it.

Crystal tear-drop chandeliers swing from the ceilings, an elevator whirs up to the fifth floor roof top “secret garden”.

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Ferns, creepers and orchids spill down a lemon brick walls, past Juliette studded balconies - a glimpse of a figure is spotted peeking out from a bedroom window off the balcony, but the space has been designed with privacy being paramount. “You could have 20 people staying here and you wouldn’t know,” Ghotbi says. KARA FOX

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The entrance foyer to Howric Ghotbi’s neo-colonial mansion, built three years ago. KARA FOX

“What is critical in a house is that it makes you feel relaxed and at peace, light and has space. KARA FOX

“I don’t find it hard to find alcohol and wine here, I used to import everything from Thailand, but it’s easy now. I don’t really drink, it’s more for collecting and for guests. I like Cognac though…I have a bottle of120 year old Cognac that is quite special.” KARA FOX

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without the irritations here- the heat, the bugs, cockroaches and rats.

The pale walls, tawny floorboards and sandstone tiles are a muted backdrop for an eclectic mish mash of items gleaned from around the world.

They reflect the different tastes of he and his Cambodian wife, and there’s a sense of far East meets East meets West.

Gilded mirrors are placed alongside 19th century and contemporary paintings and ornate Vietnamese pottery next to bejewelled hookahs from Iran. Elsewhere, modern bronze female figurines flank apsaras, buddhas and a spirit house.

Ghotbi often refers to his love of British and French antiques but they’re largely missing in his Cambodian home.

“I left most of the antiques that I had brought over in the mansion on Street 240 – they fit the style of that house.

“I had a big collection of antique furniture and paintings that I sold up in 1999 at Christies [auction house] in London...how could I bring them here? They’d get damaged. So now I collect cars instead.”

The basement pool can be seen from the atrium above. CARA FOX

Light filters in through the curved, glass ceiling. “It’s a very British idea, an indoor courtyard...My ideas come from a lot of other countries,” internation

“It was critical for the house to have lots of light. Most Cambodians that build big houses here, they’re huge but so dark.” KARA FOX

The house sprawls across five floors, with stairs and an elevator ascending to the rooftop garden. Although local art hangs on the walls, Ghotbi says he sold most of his art collection in London. KARA FOX

Ghotbi has furniture made by “excellent Cambodian craftsmen” modelled from photographs. “When I first arrived I wanted a dining table made- I bought a whole tree!” Hand woven, silk rugs from Persia are a nod to his Iranian heritage. “This one here, an original imperial rug, I bought at an auction for about $100,000. Now we have the furniture on it! It’s very heavy but still delicate.” KARA FOX

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The rooftop garden has a vegetable and herb garden. KARA FOX

nal property developer Howric Ghotbi says. CARA FOX

“I picked up a lot of things from renovating all of these old homes in London, in Mayfair and Kensington I learnt- how did people used to live a few hundred years ago- the little details, the luxuries, beautiful cornices, gilded, 24 carat gold…these things have stood the test of time…you can’t pick that paint off…luxury, real luxury.” KARA FOX

Above a red velvet sofa hangs a taxidermied wild American wolf. “ I picked this up from a Native Indian reserve in Florida. It’s very interesting. The US has no power in that land. This house if filled with things from all over the world, from my travels.” KARA FOX

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Is it high time to dump this dope?

JACKSON LORD SEATON Dear Jackson, I’m a freelance copywriter - I’ve been living here for more than a year and can see myself staying put a while longer. My first few months were characterised by random hookups and a lot of weed-smoking. I was really into it in college and I guess I fell back into the routine. Anyway, about six months ago I started seeing a girl and things have turned serious. She’s an overachiever - motivated career-wise, popular, and very smart. My life, by contrast, is a bit of a mess. She hates my smoking - and has issued me with an ultimatum - her or the weed. I just turned 30, and she sees that milestone - as perhaps I should see it - as a time when I should be past all this ‘stoner stuff ’. I don’t see it as a real problem - I only have a couple of joints a day, and it helps me write. But I really don’t want to see this relationship die.

Do you think she sees love in your bloodshot eyes? Do you think your yellowtoothed smile melts her heart? It’s one thing to have the occasional joint, but there’s no way that you can be a functioning permastoned lover.

Look at it from your girlfriend’s perspective. The two of you are supposed to go out dancing, but you’re drooling, clumsy, glassy-eyed, laughing at shiny objects and your own semi-coherent jokes.

Or you’re lethargic, drowsy, spurning her advances, making rambling statements that you think are poetic admissions of love. If she hasn’t already, she will end up seeing you as a pity case, not a boyfriend.

I went through those college days, toking

morning, noon, and night and eventually got involved with a girl who sold the stuff.

We rarely went out – always stayed home, smoking, staring in profound wonderment at her flickering television set. When she left, so did my supply. After a few desperate days smoking pipe gunk, I became sober enough to behold a tattered academic career and personal life. You say your life is a bit of a mess. Have you ever put your pipe down long

enough to contemplate why?

Marijuana advocates often claim that pot is not addictive. Perhaps, chemically speaking, this is true – but psychological dependency can be very real. Most devastatingly, the drug saps motivation, hence the deadbeat stoner stereotype. That’s the first reason you need to cut back - not just for her but also for yourself. This is not helping you professionally or socially.

You say marijuana can be a creative tool, but chronic pot-smoking kills brain cells. And I’m sure I don’t need to remind you of your poor, tar-heavy lungs. Your being permanently baked is probably having serious affects on your ability to display intimacy, both emotionally (it’s hard to access a stoned person – they’re in their own hazy world, after all) and physically (shortness of breath affects sexual performance, and chronic marijuana use has been linked to erectile dysfunction) – which I doubt you realise...because you’re always stoned.

Start with taking a day off. It’ll be hard.

Day two and three will be easier. If you can’t control yourself in this land of cheap and plentiful weed, why not take a week-long trip to somewhere where you can’t find it?

Perhaps ask your girlfriend if she’ll take a romantic vacation with you to Japan? Who knows? You might even like being sober.

Relationships are about balance and compromise. If you can demonstrate to her and yourself that you’ve really shaken your drug dependency, perhaps she won’t mind if you hit the occasional bong with friends. If you find yourself backsliding, though, you need to quit - you need to stay in control.

And who knows? You might realise that she’s not for you once you emerge from the haze. Cutting back or quitting will only do you good.

Or, if all this fails and you think the pot is really that important, perhaps you ought to park yourself at a happy pizza place and find yourself a stoner girlfriend to help you smoke your troubles, life, and, ultimately, mind away.

To put a question to Jackson, contact ppp. lifestyle@gmail.com. ​

Movie Review

High-speed car-trash thrills

By Jen Chaney

to sink into a deeper register with every Fast release. In Fast & Furious 6, he sounds We hold the following truths about The like he swallowed a pint of gravel, Leonard Fast and the Furious franchise to be selfCohen and a subwoofer. By the time we evident: get to Fast 10, Vin Diesel’s dialogue will * That these movies, including the latest, no longer be uttered, it will simply be straight-forwardly titled installment, Fast communicated via vibrations that the & Furious 6, will always be about hot audience feels deep in its sternum. cars that get into epic accidents; action * That there is no such thing as an sequences that defy the laws of physics as action sequence that is too over-the-top. well as rational thought; and precariously Like, if someone suggests that in Fast & assembled plotlines that aren’t really that Furious 6, there should be a shoot-out important anyway because — oh, my Lord, on an ascending airplane that also has did you just see Tyrese leap onto the roof of cars speeding beside it as well as people that speeding Ford Escort RS 2000 in order dangling from said airplane’s wings, the to avoid being crushed by a military tank only correct response to that idea is: “Yes. also traveling on a public thoroughfare at Let’s do that.” an exceptionally high velocity? (The plot of * That The Fast and the Furious movies this movie is not relevant.) will maintain their commitment to casting * That most Fast characters will ethnically diverse actors and, in the case of miraculously survive numerous collisions, the sixth one, treat women as true equals leaps from bridges and bullet barrages even The cast of the latest installment of the “never-ending smashy-crashy” Fast franchise. Reuters by allowing Rodriguez and mixed-martialthough they all clearly should have been actress Gina Carano to beat the snot out of killed at least 17 times. Per film. is actually alive and apparently working way better at tracking intel using high-tech each other twice. * That even if a character dies — spoiler for a nefarious former SAS officer/ equipment.) * That Fast & Furious 6, like its alert! — he or she may miraculously terrorism enabler named Shaw. FBI agent * That the Fast movies are no longer predecessors, doesn’t need CGI, 3-D glasses resurrect in subsequent movies, as Michelle Luke Hobbs, played by Dwayne Johnson, about street racing, but still commit to or even praise from film critics. It just needs Rodriguez’s Letty Ortiz does in Fast & concludes that the only way to stop Shaw delivering some dizzying examples of to please its audience with amped-up, Furious 6. is by recruiting the now-wealthy-and-offvehicular ballet, as well as infinite shots of old-school thrills that make its target demo (For those who actually care a little the-grid crew led by the love of Letty’s life, Diesel and Paul Walker displaying the facial whoop and holler with every zoom, smash about the plot of the new movie: Letty, Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto. Because, expression best described as “Stick-Shift and ka-BOOM. supposedly murdered in the fourth chapter you know, everyone else in the FBI is kind Face.”

Consider this review a declaration that it of this never-ending smashy-crashy story, of busy, and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges is * That Vin Diesel’s voice will continue does just that. the washington post

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A group of Cham women shell peanuts by the river’s edge in Kampot. RUTH KEBER

Restaurant Review

An Nam, Nyam, Nyam! Quirky Vietnamese Rosa Ellen THERE’S no adjoining bar or a pastry shop to thriving An Nam, instead the bright and quirky Sothearos Blvd restaurant - with its neon stone lion guards and mint-green interior - shares its premises with that most Vietnamese of small businesses: a beauty salon.

My first taste of the menu was while having my nails painted, surrounded by the buzz of hairdryers, American Idol and a tinkling bamboo water feature. However luxurious, picking up fresh spring rolls and sipping iced coffee between freshly lacquered nails isn’t much of a food experience. Next time, my friend and I decided, we would save the meal for after the manicure.

Walking back into the restaurant, An Nam welcomes with a sweetly kitsch aesthetic and an eclectic array of ornaments and wistful Vietnamese art. The French vibe of the decor might be because owners Randy Long and chef Jacqueline Remacle are French-Cambodian and French-Vietnamese, respectively. The pair arrived from Paris in 2001 to open An Nam and have built what could well be described as a local establishment, offering an extensive roll-call of authentic Vietnamese cuisine from the north, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City and served in appealing blossom-hued ceramics.

Perusing the French and English menu, over an embroidered tablecloth covered by glass [on the tasteful side of kitsch], my table of three ask the waitress, dressed in a purple

Delectable: Morsels of steamed rice pancakes topped with shredded prawn, the bánh bèo. ruth keber

ao-dai, for the house specialty.

That would be either phở, or the bánh bèo stuffed with shredded prawn, says Randy, coming over.

Layers of gelatinous steamed rice ‘pancakes’ spread around green yellow plates like petals of a flower, the bánh bèo is a delicate, morsel-like appetiser that demands to be wolfed down, while trickily coaxed between chopsticks.

Scattered on top of the snowy pancakes are salty, shredded dried prawn, snips of spring onion and chewy fried onion, to be

scooped up with the pancakes and dipped in nước chấm.

Before we have finished devouring the bánh bèo , other plates arrive.

Our second appetiser is bánh chả giờ của – six crispy spring rolls, hedged next to a generous forest of mint and lettuce. Stuffed with pulled crab meat and vermicelli, they are a satisfyingly deep-fried appetiser to the slippery bánh bèo.

Served on yolk-yellow dishes and rose plates, our meal is full of contrasts. The most surprising is a rich, classic clay pot-style thit

nước dừa, which comes steaming to the table in a ceramic mock- green coconut shell.

The retro crockery collector in me is heartsa-flutter. Inside the kooky coconut, tender chunks of pork are simmered in coconut water and caramel. The meat is melt-in-themouth and surrounded by a sweet and salty liquor that tastes slightly too sharp to be drunk as a soup. To cut through the umamioverload, a bowl of riotously coloured pickles is placed next to the glossy stew: bean sprouts, garlic chives, slivers of red capsicum and red onion, quickly preserved in a sweet vinegar sauce. A boiled egg that has been cooked in the salty-sweet broth is another homely accompaniment, together with steamed rice.

Yellow mango salad (gỏi xoài cá sấu) brings a burst of crunch and sourness to the meal, especially in its thick-cut form.

Rather than the shredded tangle of Thai and Cambodian sour-green salads, An Nam’s dish features thick match-sticks of carrot and semi-ripe mango, flecked with chilli, fresh Vietnamese mint and crunchy smoked fish.

After our initial encounter with An Nam’s exhaustive menu, it was almost relieving to find that dessert is taken out of our hands.

A sago sweet pudding is complementary at the end of the meal, each night a different fruit or legume. Tonight it is a pleasant banana sago in coconut sauce – a mild end to my most enjoyable Vietnamese meal this side of the Mekong. ​​​​​​​​ 118 Sothearos Blvd, near the Hong Kong Center [The Salon is next door]

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Friday

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04:00 Se7en

02:00 06:15 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 03:00 04:00 08:00 Turbulence 05:00 09:45 Sphere 05:30 12:00 Captain America 06:00 07:00 14:00 Michael’s Navy 07:30 16:00 Se7en 08:00 18:15 Addams Family Values 16:00 20:00 Lords Of Dogtown 16:30 22:00 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 17:30

The Amazing World Of Gumball My Gym Partner Is A Monkey Chowder Tom & Jerry Show Courage The Cowardly Dog Oggy And The Cockroaches Ben 10: Omniverse Ben 10: Omniverse Kumbh Karan Ben 10: Omniverse Adventure Time Oggy And The Cockroaches

03:50 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 05:40 Talladega Nights: Ballad Of Ricky

14:30 The Fairly Oddparents 15:00 Victorious 15:30 iCarly 16:30 Marvin Marvin 17:00 Spongebob Squarepants 17:30 Rocket Monkeys 18:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18:30 Robot & Monster 19:00 Spongebob Squarepants 19:30 The Fairly Oddparents 20:30 House Of Anubis 21:00 Spongebob Squarepants

Bobby 07:30 Bicentennial Man 09:40 Armored 11:10 Lockout 12:45 The Darkest Hour 14:15 Once Upon A Time 15:00 Da Vinci’s Demons 16:00 People Like Us 18:00 The International 20:00 John Carter NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Biography Lords Of Dogtown

12:00 HSBC Seven World Series

12:30 Wheels 2

12:30 Nascar Nationwide Series

13:00 Boston Marathon

13:30 Smash

16:00 Jet Ski World Cup

The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that 14:00 Global Football originated in Venice, California 14:30 MLB Regular Season 17:30 Baseball Tonight International during the 1970’s.

18:30 Fox Sports Central Live 19:00 ASEAN Basketball League 21:00 Fox Sports Central

20:00

21:30 Football Asia

17:00 Inside Sailing 17:30 Hot Water 18:30 SBK Superbike World Champ.

19:00 One Fighting 22:00 Score Tonight 22:30 HSBC Sevens World Series 23:00 Score Tonight 23:30 Premier League Darts

13:20 Dangerous Encounters With 14:15 15:10 16:05 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00

Brady Barr UFOs: The Untold Stories 80s: The Decade That Made Us Hyena Queen Japan’s Hidden Secret Mega Factories: Supercars To Catch A Smuggler Alien Invasion UFOs: The Untold Stories Taboo Breakout

14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00 19:30 20:00 21:00 21:30 22:00

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Saturday

02:15 03:45 06:00 08:00 10:15 12:00 13:30 15:30 17:30 19:45 22:00

American Chopper Life On A Wire Man Vs Wild How Do They Do It? How It’s Made Dirty Jobs How It’s Made Everything You Need To Know Mythbusters Lost Tapes Lost Tapes Nightmare Next Door

12:00 Great Ocean Adventures 13:00 Snake Crusader With Bruce

George

13:30 In Too Deep 14:00 Killer Outbreaks 15:00 Finding Bigfoot 16:00 Untamed & Uncut 17:00 Great Animal Escapes 17:30 Up Close And Dangerous 18:00 Great Ocean Adventures 19:00 Snake Crusader With Bruce

George

19:30 In Too Deep 20:00 Untamed Europe

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Priest Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Captain America Se7en Barbershop 2: Back In Business Priest Turbulence Lords Of Dogtown Sphere Se7en Captain America

02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00

The Amazing World Of Gumball My Gym Partner Is A Monkey Chowder Abe Monsters Baby Looney Tunes Tom & Jerry Show Bola Kampung Ben 10: Omniverse Oggy And The Cockroaches Adventure Time Tom & Jerry Show The Amazing World Of Gumball

05:30 Glastonbury

16:00 Kung Fu Panda

07:00 The Sixth Sense

16:30 Kid Vs Kat

08:50 Fire With Fire

17:00 Penguins Of Madagascar

10:30 Up

17:30 Fanboy A Chum Chum

14:10 13 Going On 30

18:00 Spongebob Squarepants

15:50 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

19:00 Penguins Of Madagascar

18:20 This Means War

20:00 Kung Fu Panda

20:00 Safe

21:00 The Fairly Oddparents

21:35 Con Air

22:00 Spongebob Squarepants

23:30 Once Upon A Time

23:00 Chalkzone

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Action

16:30 The Football Review 17:00 Football Asia

Con Air

17:30 Baseball Tonight International

A newly released ex-con and former 18:30 Fox Sports Central Week In US Ranger finds himself trapped in Review a prisoner transport plane when 19:00 US Open: Official Film the passengers seize control.

20:00 US Open: Official Film 21:00 ASEAN Basketball League 23:00 Planet Speed

21:35

23:30 Fox Sports Central Week In

Review

03:30 04:00 06:00 07:30 08:00 08:30 09:00 09:30 10:00 11:00 12:30 14:30

Score Tonight PGA Europro Tour FIA FL World Champ.

Golf Focus Smash Wheels Mobil 1: True Grid SBK Superbike World Champ.

European Le Mans Series FIA FL World Champ.

USA Swimming Grand Prix Sports Max

16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00 01:30 03:30 05:30 07:30

Dangerous Encounters Animal Autopsy Great Migrations Megastructures Mega Breakdown Diving The Labyrinth Witness Valley Of The Wolves UEFA European League UEFA European League NBA Playoff Serie A Show

Sunday

11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00

Man Vs Wild Gold Rush Bering Sea Gold My Shocking Story Dirty Great Machines Around The World In 80 Ways Man Vs Wild Body Bizarre Monsters Resurrected Gold Rush Moments Of Impact Ultimate Warfare

Tanked Pit Bulls And Parolees Austin Stevens Adventures Animal Planet Showcase Untamed Europe Finding Bigfoot My Cat From Hell Tales Of Nature Penguins: Birds That Wanted To Be Fish 21:00 River Monsters 22:00 Killer Outbreaks 23:00 Whale Wars 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00

S T A R

03:45 Sphere

03:00 Best Of The Festivals

12:30 Drake & Josh

04:00 The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

13:00 You’ve Got To See This

05:30 Fat Albert

13:30 Big Time Rush

18:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

07:05 Stuart Little

14:00 The Fairly Oddparents 15:00 iCarly

13:30 Michael’s Navy

19:00 Adventure Time

08:35 Stuart Little 2 09:55 National Treasure

18:00 iCarly

15:45 Sphere

20:00 Tom & Jerry Show

12:00 Pirates Of The Caribbean

19:00 Marvin Marvin

21:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball

14:50 Cheaper By The Dozen 2

19:30 Penguins Of Madagascar

16:25 Safe

20:00 Kung Fu Panda

18:00 John Carter

21:00 The Fairly Oddparents

20:15 Once Upon A Time

22:00 Spongebob Squarepants

21:00 Da Vinci’s Demons

23:00 Chalkzone

06:00 Priest 07:45 Lords Of Dogtown 09:45 Captain America 11:45 Turbulence

18:00 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 20:00 Addams Family Values 22:00 Priest 23:45 Captain America

15:00 Tom & Jerry Show 17:00 Dragons: Riders Of The Berk

22:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 23:00 Chowder

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Drama Priest

Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church.

22:00

03:30 US Open: Official Film 04:30 US Open: Official Film 05:30 Fox Sports Central Week In

04:00 Max Power

06:00 09:00 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 13:00 15:59 16:00 16:30 17:00

09:00 HSBC Sevens World Series

Review MLB Regular Season | Planet Speed World Of Gymnastics FINA Aquatics World Spirit Of The US Open ASEAN Basketball League MLB Regular Season Fox Sports Central Weekend Great Goals Great Goals Great Goals

05:00 Hot Water 06:00 MotoGP Champ.

09:30 Football Asia 10:00 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers 12:00 USA Swimming Grand Prix 14:00 SBK Superbike World Champ.

14:27 MotoGP Champ.

15:27 Wheels 2 15:57 MotoGP Champ.

20:00 Freedom Riders Asia

16:00 Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy 17:00 The Known Universe 18:00 Naked Science S2.5 19:00 Banged Up Abroad

13:00 Monsters Resurrected

13:00 Tales Of Nature

14:00 Auction Kings

14:00 Whale Wars

15:00 Gold Rush

15:00 Killer Outbreaks

16:00 Reef Rescuers 16:30 Eye On Malaysia 17:00 Body Bizarre

20:00 Breakout

18:00 Dirty Great Machines

21:00 The Border

20:00 Surviving The Cut

22:00 Forensic Firsts 23:00 Banged Up Abroad

Monday

19:00 Discovery Sunday

16:00 My Cat From Hell 17:00 Pit Bulls And Parolees 18:00 Wildest Islands 19:00 Untamed Europe 20:00 Wildest Africa

21:00 Bering Sea Gold: Under The Ice

21:00 Whale Wars

22:00 Auction Kings

22:00 Untamed & Uncut

23:00 Discovery Sunday

23:00 Pit Bulls And Parolees

S T A R

01:45 Se7en

02:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball

04:00 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 03:00 My Gym Partner Is A Monkey 06:00 Turbulence 08:00 Sphere 10:15 Priest 11:45 Se7en 14:00 Lords Of Dogtown 16:00 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 18:00 Captain America

04:00 Chowder 05:00 Tom & Jerry Show 05:30 Courage The Cowardly Dog 06:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 07:00 Adventure Time 08:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 16:00 Ben 10: Omniverse

04:55 Up

14:30 The Fairly Oddparents

06:35 Best Of The Festivals

15:00 Victorious

07:35 The House Bunny

15:30 Marvin Marvin

09:15 Stand By Me 10:45 The Sixth Sense 12:35 One For The Money 16:15 Con Air 18:10 Once Upon A Time

16:00 Big Time Rush 16:30 Figure It Out 17:00 Spongebob Squarepants 17:30 Nick At The Movies 19:00 Spongebob Squarepants 19:30 The Fairly Oddparents

16:30 Adventure Time

19:00 Da Vinci’s Demons

20:00 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

17:30 Regular Show

20:00 The Day After Tomorrow

22:00 Danny Phantom

22:00 Michael’s Navy

18:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

22:05 Safe

23:00 Chalkzone

20:30 Nick At The Movies

What’s on TV

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Monday

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

14:00 Archery World Cup 14:30 MLB Regular Season 17:30 Baseball Tonight International 18:30 Fox Sports Central Live 19:00 ASEAN Basketball League 21:00 Fox Sports Central 21:30 MotoGP World Champ.

23:00 Great Goals 23:30 Fox Sports Central

05:00 07:00 10:30 11:00 13:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00

ASEAN Basketball League MotoGP Champ.

Planet Speed FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers MotoGP Champ.

Freedom Riders Asia European Rally Champ.

FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers Great Goals Great Goals Score Tonight FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers

14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 19:00 19:30 20:30 22:00 23:00

The Fairly Oddparents Victorious Marvin Marvin Big Time Rush Figure It Out Spongebob Squarepants Nick At The Movies Spongebob Squarepants The Fairly Oddparents Nick At The Movies Danny Phantom Chalkzone

13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00

Body Bizarre Monsters Resurrected Nightmare Next Door Man Vs Wild How Do They Do It? How It’s Made Dirty Jobs Swords: Life On The Line Bering Sea Gold: Under The Ice Gold Rush Moments Of Impact Swords: Life On The Line

13:00 Snake Crusader With Bruce

George In Too Deep Untamed Europe Wildest Africa Animal Planet Showcase Great Animal Escapes Up Close And Dangerous Great Ocean Adventures Snake Crusader With Bruce George 19:30 In Too Deep 20:00 River Monsters 21:00 Whale Wars 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00

Lords Of Dogtown Captain America Se7en Barbershop 2: Back In Business Turbulence Lords Of Dogtown Sphere Captain America Priest Barbershop 2: Back In Business Lords Of Dogtown

15:30 Oggy And The Cockroaches 16:00 Ben 10: Omniverse 16:30 Adventure Time 17:30 Regular Show 18:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 19:00 Adventure Time 20:00 Tom & Jerry Show 21:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball 22:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 23:00 Chowder

05:30 07:00 09:10 10:55 12:35 14:50 16:25 18:05 20:00 21:50 22:40 23:40

Stuart Little National Treasure My Week With Marilyn 13 Going On 30 John Carter Safe This Means War The Magic Of Belle Isle White Chicks Once Upon A Time Da Vinci’s Demons One For The Money

Animation Regular Show

Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob.

17:30

Tuesday

S T A R

02:00 04:00 06:00 08:15 10:00 11:45 13:45 16:00 18:00 20:00 22:00

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14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:30

The Fairly Oddparents Victorious Marvin Marvin Big Time Rush Figure It Out Spongebob Squarepants Rocket Monkeys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Robot & Monster Spongebob Squarepants The Fairly Oddparents House Of Anubis

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

09:00 ASEAN Basketball League 11:00 Nascar Sprint Cup Series 12:00 Nascar Nationwide Series 13:00 Beach Soccer Tape 14:00 Archery World Cup 14:30 MLB Regular Season 17:30 Baseball Tonight International 18:30 Fox Sports Central Live

05:00 07:00 10:30 11:00 13:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00

ASEANBasketball League MotoGP Champ.

Planet Speed FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers MotoGP Champ.

Freedom Riders Asia European Rally Champ.

FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers Great Goals Great Goals Score Tonight FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers

06:00 07:00 09:00 09:30 10:00 11:00 11:30 12:00 14:00 15:00 17:00 17:30

Review Of The Season Classic Match World Netbusters Own Goals And Gaffe Classic Match Classic Match Match Of The Week Review Of The Season Classic Match World Netbusters

14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00 19:30 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00

Gold Rush Moments Of Impact Man Vs Wild How Do They Do It? How It’s Made Dirty Jobs Auction Kings Auction Kings Around The World In 80 Ways Deadliest Catch Man Vs Wild Auction Kings

12:00 Great Ocean Adventures 13:00 Snake Crusader With Bruce 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00 19:30 20:00

George In Too Deep River Monsters Whale Wars Austin Stevens Adventures Meerkat Manor Up Close And Dangerous Great Ocean Adventures Snake Crusader With Bruce George In Too Deep Wildest Islands

04:00 Priest 06:00 Lords Of Dogtown 08:00 Captain America 10:15 Addams Family Values 12:00 Sphere 14:15 Barbershop 2 16:30 Priest 18:15 Turbulence 20:00 Captain America 22:00 Se7en

02:00 03:00 04:00 05:00 05:30 06:00 07:00 08:00 16:00 16:30 17:30 18:00

The Amazing World Of Gumball My Gym Partner Is A Monkey Chowder Tom & Jerry Show Courage The Cowardly Dog Oggy And The Cockroaches Adventure Time Ben 10: Omniverse Ben 10: Omniverse Adventure Time Regular Show Oggy And The Cockroaches

04:40 06:35 08:00 09:35 10:25 11:35 13:10 15:05 17:10 20:00 21:55 23:35

Undefeated Garfield Safe Once Upon A Time Da Vinci’s Demons Cheaper By The Dozen 2 Con Air The Day After Tomorrow Pirates Of The Caribbean Shallow Hal The Big Year Safe

Chowder

In Marzipan City, the young, excitable food-loving Chowder is the apprentice of Mung Daal, a very old chef who runs a catering company with his wife.

23:00

Wednesday

S T A R

01:45 Sphere

Animation

14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:30

The Fairly Oddparents Victorious Marvin Marvin Big Time Rush Figure It Out Spongebob Squarepants Rocket Monkeys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Robot & Monster Spongebob Squarepants The Fairly Oddparents House Of Anubis

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

17:30 Baseball Tonight International

18:00 Jet Ski Pro Asian Grand Prix

04:00 Match Of The Week

12:30 Auction Kings

18:30 Fox Sports Central Live

19:00 FIM Supermoto Champ.

06:00 Classic Match

13:00 Around The World In 80 Ways

19:00 Global Football

19:30 Inside WTCC

08:00 Review Of The Season

14:00 Deadliest Catch

09:00 World

15:00 Man Vs Wild

09:30 Netbusters

16:00 Man Vs Wild

10:00 Classic Match

17:00 How Do They Do It?

10:30 Classic Match

17:30 How It’s Made

11:00 Premier League Greatest Goals

18:00 Dirty Jobs

12:00 Match Of The Week

19:00 Dirty Great Machines

14:00 Classic Match

20:00 Ultimate Warfare

16:00 Review Of The Season

21:00 World War II In Colour

17:00 World

22:00 Inside Out: Smart River

19:30 The Football Review 20:00 US Open: Official Film 21:00 Fox Sports Central 21:30 The Memorial Tournament 22:30 Global Football

20:00 Smash 20:30 Score Tonight 21:00 Mobil 1: True Grid 21:30 Smash 22:00 Malaysian Invasion Mixed Martial

Arts Fighting Championsh

23:00 The Football Review

23:00 Score Tonight

23:30 Fox Sports Central

23:30 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers

12:00 Great Ocean Adventures 13:00 Snake Crusader With Bruce

George In Too Deep Wildest Islands Great Savannah Race Tales Of Nature Meerkat Manor Up Close And Dangerous Great Ocean Adventures Snake Crusader With Bruce George 19:30 In Too Deep 20:00 My Cat From Hell 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00

S T A R

02:15 Barbershop 2: Back In Business 02:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball

03:00 Best Of The Festivals

04:15 Turbulence

03:00 My Gym Partner Is A Monkey

03:55 The Sixth Sense

06:00 Red Dawn

04:00 Chowder

05:45 13 Going On 30

08:00 The Eagle

05:00 Tom & Jerry Show

07:25 This Means War

10:00 Serenity

05:30 Courage The Cowardly Dog

09:05 John Carter

12:00 Hudson Hawk

06:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

11:20 White Chicks

13:45 The Deep End Of The Ocean

07:00 Adventure Time

13:10 The Magic Of Belle Isle

15:45 About Schmidt

08:00 Courage The Cowardly Dog

15:05 Stuart Little

18:00 Red Dawn

16:00 Ben 10: Omniverse

16:35 Stuart Little 2

20:00 Tower Heist

16:30 Adventure Time

17:55 National Treasure

22:00 Mirror Mirror

17:30 Regular Show

20:00 Safe

23:45 Anonymous

18:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

21:35 One For The Money

Action Turbulence

After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a stewardess must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself.

18:15

Thursday 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:30

The Fairly Oddparents Victorious Marvin Marvin Big Time Rush Figure It Out Spongebob Squarepants Rocket Monkeys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Robot & Monster Spongebob Squarepants The Fairly Oddparents House Of Anubis

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

18:30 Fox Sports Central Live 19:00 Total Rugby 19:30 ABL Crossover 20:00 US Open: Official Film

16:00 Asian Festival Of Speed

14:00 Dogtown

13:00 Ultimate Warfare

16:30 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers

15:00 Cruise Ship Diaries

14:00 World War II In Colour

18:30 MotoGP Champ.

16:00 Machines Of War

15:00 Inside Out: Smart River

21:00 Fox Sports Central

20:00 Wheels 2

21:30 UFC Tonight

20:30 Score Tonight

22:00 UFC Tonight

21:00 Inside Grand Prix

22:30 UFC Tonight 23:00 Total Rugby 23:30 Fox Sports Central

21:30 Wheels 2

17:00 Animal Mega Moves 18:00 Cruise Ship Diaries 19:00 Situation Critical 20:00 Megastructures 21:00 Diggers

15:30 Inside Out: Smart River 16:00 Man Vs Wild 17:00 How Do They Do It ?

17:30 How It’s Made 18:00 Dirty Jobs 19:00 Destroyed In Seconds

22:00 MotoGP Champ.

21:30 Diggers

23:00 Score Tonight

22:00 Dogtown

20:00 What Happened Next?

23:30 Inside WTCC

23:00 Forensic Firsts

20:30 Magic Of Science

19:30 Destroyed In Seconds

12:00 Great Ocean Adventures 13:00 Snake Crusader With Bruce

George In Too Deep My Cat From Hell Tanked Pit Bulls And Parolees Meerkat Manor Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer Great Ocean Adventures Snake Crusader With Bruce George 19:30 In Too Deep 20:00 Killer Outbreaks 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00

Action One For The Money

Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin’s bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.

21:35

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THE PHNOM PENH POST • 7Days • MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013

Free will astrology Week of MAY 30

Aries

(March 21 – April 19) Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough for us.” She was dead serious. I suspect you may soon have to deal with that kind of garbled thinking, Aries. And it may be impossible to simply ignore it, since the people wielding it may have some influence on your life. So what’s the best way to deal with it? Here’s what I advise: Be amused. Quell your rage. Stay calm. And methodically gather the cool, clear evidence about what is really true.

Taurus

(April 20 – May 20) A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Washington announced that classes would be canceled the next day. What was his rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat, or an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give students and teachers the day off so they could enjoy the beautiful weather that had arrived. I encourage you to make a similar move in the coming days, Taurus. Take an extended Joy Break -- maybe several of them. Grant yourself permission to sneak away and indulge in spontaneous celebrations. Be creative as you capitalize profoundly on the gifts that life is offering you.

Gemini

Libra

(Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) Reverence is one of the most useful emotions. When you respectfully acknowledge the sublime beauty of something greater than yourself, you do yourself a big favor. You generate authentic humility and sincere gratitude, which are healthy for your body as well as your soul. Please note that reverence is not solely the province of religious people. A biologist may venerate the scientific method. An atheist might experience a devout sense of awe toward geniuses who have bequeathed to us their brilliant ideas. What about you, Libra? What excites your reverence? Now is an excellent time to explore the deeper mysteries of this altered state of consciousness.

Scorpio

(Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) When explorer Ernest Shackleton was planning his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, he placed this ad in London newspapers: “Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, return doubtful.

Honor and recognition in case of success.” Would you respond to a come-on like that if you saw it today?

I hope not. It’s true that your sense of adventure is ratcheting up. And I suspect you’re itching for intense engagement with the good kind of darkness that in the past has inspired so much smoldering wisdom. But I believe you can satisfy those yearnings without putting yourself at risk or suffering severe deprivation.

(May 21 – June 20) In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the Lonely Planet travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re enjoying your meal. In that spirit, Gemini, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be as uninhibited as you dare this week -- not just when you’re slurping your noodles, but in every situation where you’ve got to express yourself uninhibitedly in order to experience the full potential of the pleasurable opportunities. As one noodle-slurper testified: “How can you possibly get the full flavor if you don’t slurp?”

Cancer

(June 21 – July 22) Here’s a thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door.” I’d like to suggest that his description fits you right now, Cancerian. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I’m wrong? Reflexively agree with me? I’ve got a better idea. Without either accepting or rejecting my proposal, simply adopt a neutral, open-minded attitude and experiment with the possibility. See what happens if you try to pull the door open.

Leo

(July 23 – Aug. 22) If you have been waiting for the right moment to perfect your party skills, I suspect this might be it. Is there anything you can do to lower your inhibitions?

Would you at least temporarily consider slipping into a chronic state of fun? Are you prepared to commit yourself to extra amounts of exuberant dancing, ebullient storytelling, and unpredictable playtime?

According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos is nudging you in the direction of rabblerousing revelry.

Virgo

(Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) Where exactly are your power spots, Virgo? Your bed, perhaps, where you rejuvenate and reinvent yourself every night? A place in nature where you feel at peace and at home in the world? A certain building where you consistently make good decisions and initiate effective action? Wherever your power spots are, I advise you to give them extra focus. They are on the verge of serving you even better than they usually do, and you should take steps to ensure that happens. I also advise you to be on the lookout for a new power spot. It’s available.

© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny

“NOT OPEN FOR BUSINESS” Across

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” said the vivacious chanteuse Janis Joplin. Her attitude reminds me a little of Salvador Dali’s. He said, “It is never difficult to paint. It is either easy or impossible.” I suspect you Sagittarians may soon be in either-or states like those.

You will want to give everything you’ve got, or else nothing at all. You will either be in the zone, flowing along in a smooth and natural groove, or else totally stuck. Luckily, I suspect that giving it all and being in the zone will predominate.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) In 1948, Nelson Mandela began his fight to end the system of apartheid in his native South Africa. Eventually he was arrested for dissident activities and sentenced to life imprisonment. He remained in jail until 1990, when his government bowed to international pressure and freed him. By 1994, apartheid collapsed. Mandela was elected president of his country and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast-forward to 2008. Mandela was still considered a terrorist by the United States, and had to get special permission to enter the country. Yikes! You probably don’t have an antiquated rule or obsolescent habit that’s as horrendous as that, Capricorn. But it’s past time for you to dissolve your attachment to any outdated attachments, even if they’re only mildly repressive and harmful.

1 Horrid creatures in “The Lord of the Rings” 5 Charlotte ___ (cream-filled dessert) 10 Whispered call 14 Country in Western Africa 15 One who’ll put you in your place 16 On the protected side 17 Hydroxyl-carbon compound 18 Eddie ___ (sportswear chain) 19 Singer Vikki 20 Offspring of Japanese emigrants 22 Inspector of the rails 24 More than required 27 Little hopper 28 “What, me worry?” magazine 30 Not had by 31 Last full month of summer 34 Missile’s path 35 Lunchtime, for many 36 Contour feather 37 Benefit from planting 39 They may hang by the neck 42 Variety-show segment 43 Bird for dinner 45 Layer of ore

47 Expert in ledger-domain?

48 Stablehand 50 Perimeter 51 Above, to Shakespeare 52 “Hawkeyes” university 53 Naval petty officer 55 Certain parents 58 Disbursement 61 Brown bagger?

62 South American fiber plant 65 Sweetums 66 Pizzeria fixture 67 “In this corner ...” begins one 68 Minute land mass 69 Lord’s counterpart 70 Partner of crannies 71 “Beetle Bailey” pooch

Down

1 Sign for the superstitious 2 Rajah’s mate 3 Like broadcasts for certain viewers 4 Proctor ___ (appliance maker) 5 ___ elbows with 6 Dos Passos trilogy 7 Try to ignore, in a way

8 Divination practitioner 9 Novel flubs 10 FedEx deliveries 11 NBA All-Star weekend event 12 Red Cross supplies 13 Migratory minnow muncher 21 Desktop item 23 Clever accomplishment 25 Slaughter the slugger 26 Ticklee’s cry 28 “Polo” is the answer?

29 Spheres 32 Bird of the marshes 33 Dweller along the Volga 38 Agile equine 40 Hand over 41 Pudding starch 44 Gingrich of politics 46 In-basket item 49 Cookie addition, perhaps 54 The “A” in A/V 55 Army deserter 56 Opera singer supreme 57 Drink in an Italian restaurant 59 Ayn Rand’s John 60 It comes in black and white 63 What Noah saved for a rainy day?

64 ___ Alamitos, Calif.

Thursday’s solution

Aquarius

(Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) As a renowned artist, photographer, and fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has overflowed with creative expression for 50 years. His imagination is weird and fantastic, yet highly practical. He has produced a profusion of flamboyant stuff. “I’m very down to earth,” he has said, “just not this earth.” Let’s make that your mantra for the coming weeks, Aquarius: You, too, will be very down to earth in your own unique way. You’ll follow your quirky intuition, but always with the intent of channeling it constructively.

Pisces

(Feb. 19 – March 20) In the following passage, French novelist Georges Perec invites us to renew the way we look upon things that are familiar to us. “What we need to question,” he says, “is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us.” A meditation like this could nourish and even thrill you, Pisces. I suggest you boost your ability to be sincerely amazed by the small wonders and obvious marvels that you sometimes take for granted.

Thursday’s solution

MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2013 • 7Days • THE PHNOM PENH POST

FRIDAY PIZZA HAPPY HOUR Fresh homemade pizza baked by culinary students for 10,000 riel.

SmallWorld Restaurant, #17 Street 604. 5pm SCOTT BAYWATER Alias “Scoddy” from the Cambodian Space Project sings across a range of styles from pop to folk, blues and jazz, including covers.

Le Jardin, #16 Street 360. 7pm LOCO Practice Salsa Bachata and Merengue moves with Ray, just arrived from El Salvador.

Latin Quarter, corner of Street 178 and 19. 7pm METAL AS ANYTHING & MAD BBQ A vegetarian and burger BBQ provides the perfect pre-show supper before No Forever and other special guests take to the stage for a night of headbanging.

Show Box, #11 Street 330.

Starting 7:30pm SONHADOR Bossa Nova Night.

The Village, #1 Street 360.

8:30pm SALSA PARTY Free beginner classes beforehand at 8pm.

Perma Cafe, #69 Street 450. 9pm LADY AND THE TRAMP Energetic live songs by a duo polar opposites.

Doors, corner of Street 84 and 47.9pm PENTHOUSE Club music presented by DJ Tensions. Special cocktail is Penthouse Miami served for $4.

Vodka and champagne bottles 20 percent off from 1am. Free entrance.

Nova, #19 Street 214. 9pm SUGAR DADDY Short set from an acoustic performer.

Paddy Rice, #213 Sisowath Quay. 9pm FLIGHT OF THE MANTIS The classical set: DJ’s Rob Bianche MC Kinki, Flo, and Achaya rock the club with house tunes.

Pontoon Club, #80 Street 172.

9pm JAWORSKY 7 A post punk, new wave, 80s revivalist band from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The band is composed

by Sonic, Michael, Gem, Jerby and Marcus: Oceania all-stars, 4 Filipinos and one Australian.

Sharky Rock n Roll Bar and Restaurant, #126 Street 130.

9pm KROM Dark, disturbing, beautiful – Krom are a Phnom Penh classic. In their melancholic ballads the formation around Chris Minko combine powerful lyrics with vocal brilliance.

Doors, No18, Street 84 & 47.9pm DJ ILLEST Expect an ill mix of Electro, R n B, and Hip Hop. Pontoon Club, #80 Street 172.

9pm IMOJAH FEATURING DUB ADDICTION Imojah, a female Caribbean Roots Reggae singer from Martinique takes the Equinox stage with the Dub Addiction band.

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 10pm SKY PARTY Live music with DJ Orland on the top of Cambodia’s tallest completed skyscraper.

Eclipse Sky Bar, #445 Monivong Boulevard. 9:30pm CRIMINAL RECORDS A night of alternative Indie tunes with the occasional avant-garde live act.

La Croisette, #241 Sisowath Quay. 9:30pm TARZAN & JANE Turntabalist DJ Major Taylor is currently visiting Phnom Penh from the US. His specialities: hip-hop, club music, funk, and soul.

Free entrance all night.

Riverhouse Lounge, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 110.

10pm CAMBODIA NEW YORK CONNECTION Hip Hop, R n B, and Reggae: live performance by DJs B-Boy Peanut, Lawd Furor and Chikai Bexza.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 10pm

FILM UNTIL TODAY – OUTGROWING THE SHADOW OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA The series of nine student docus deals with Pol Pot’s legacy.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm ITINÉRAIRES After a trial instigated by his father, 18-year-old Thierry Chartier is ordered by the court to live with his grandmother in a small village in Northern France. He works in the fields and fancies himself running the farm. To add a bit of spice to life, Thierry and his friend Rouillé (Rusty) – the village outcast – steal meat from a nearby slaughterhouse at the behest of a bunch of local restaurant owners.

One night, when Thierry is on his own, he frees all the penned-in piglets.

Institut français, #218 Street 184.

6:30pm YANGON CALLING: PUNK IN MYANMAR For young Burmese, punk is a radical way to spit all the frustration in the face of the government they despise.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

SATURDAY SWEAT AND SAMADHI YOGA Flow style yoga class. Call 012 739 419 or 012 739 284 for details and directions.

Yoga! Phnom Penh Studio, #172 z2 Norodom Boulevard. 10am CRAFTY SATURDAY Fun and games for children aged 1.5-10 years old. Includes swimming activities, snacks, outdoor activities and storytelling.

An adult must accompany children under 5. $8 per child.

Bring three kids for the price of two with reservations. Reserve 24 hours in advance and get $1 off. Call 078 777 466 or email ls@ dkschoolhouse.com.

DK Schoolhouse, #7 Street 466.

10am ROAST AT SCORE Classic weekend roast served at Score Sports Bar and Grill.

Score Sports Bar and Grill, #5 Street 288. 12-5pm

1st DAY FOR CAMBODIAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE Today the official Cambodian basketball league is born.

A family event with the best basketball teams in Cambodia.

At half time, contests will be organized for the audience with prizes to win.

Bring family the whole family to make it a basketball fest for kids and adults.

1:00pm: Opening Ceremony with all teams 2:00pm: NSK Dream VS Sela Meas 4:00pm: Cellcard Eagles Vs IRB The Lord 6:00pm: Alaxan FR Patriots Vs Ganzberg Beeline Arena, # C25, Street 8CW. BRITISH GARDEN PARTY In celebration of Britishness Himawari Hotel opens its gardens for families. Bouncy castles, live bands, food and drinks, fun competitions, and best of British fancy dress contest create the right picnic flair. $10 adult ticket, $25 family ticket.

Himawari Hotel, # 313 Sisowath Quay.3pm FISHING BOAT TRIPS Join us on the Tonle Sap river boat trip on Saturdays as we try to catch some fish. We’ll go away from the city in search of good fishing spots. Everyone will get their own rod and drinks. At the end of the trip, we’ll cook some river fish Cambodian style with pepper sauce and sour mango, even if you don’t catch any. Also, we’ll tell you some stories about the river and its history. Email dorn_phok@ yahoo.com or call 0978970007 to make a reservation by Friday. $10 per person.

Brown Coffee, corner of Street 98 and Sisowath Quay. 4pm SPLITTER AND OTHER PUNKS Ricky Rotten and the Scumbags play their Sex Pistols repertoire, Cookiepuss rock after them, and then louder than loud Splitter melt faces off with their sound waves.

Sharky Rock n Roll Bar and Restaurant, #126 Street 130.

8pm CANVAS SESSIONS “Canvas Sessions” at Bouchon goes as codename for listening to records from Mr. Tenisons and sipping fine wine from France.

Bouchon Wine Bar, #3 Street 246. 8pm

JAWORSKI 7 Jaworksi 7, a post punk, new wave, 80s revivalist band from Phnom Penh is composed by Sonic, Michael, Gem, Jerby and Marcus: They are Oceania all-stars, four Filipinos and one Australian.

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 9pm WHY: THE KHMER ROUGE? Acclaimed French historian Henri Locard (currently guest lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh) presents his book Pourquoi les Khmers rouges (Why the Khmer Rouge. What started as a report for the NGO ADHOC, has become a detailed explanation of how the ultra-communists could emerge as a political power out of relative obscurity.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

ordered by the court to live with his grandmother in a small village in northern France. He works in the fields and fancies himself running the farm. To add a bit of spice to life, Thierry and his friend Rouillé (Rusty) – the village outcast – steal meat from a nearby slaughterhouse at the behest of a bunch of local restaurant owners.

One night, when Thierry is on his own, he frees all the penned-in piglets.

Institut français, #218 Street 184.

6:30pm

SUNDAY ROAST SUNDAZE All day roast. Free beer or glass of wine.

From $7.50 The Local, #8 Street 144. All day.

SAY HELLO, WAVE GOODBYE 80’s New Wave Music with DJ Surfing Bird.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

ROAST AT SCORE Classic weekend roast served at Score Sports Bar and Grill.

Score Sports Bar and Grill, #5 Street 288. 12-5pm

FILM

SUNDAY CARVERY A traditional carvery with a selection of succulent roast meats.

The Exchange, #28 Street 47.

1pm

VIVEMENT LE CINÉMA As part of the MEMORY! International Film Heritage Festival, the Bophana Center presents Vivement le cinéma (Pictures in Motion) by Jérôme Prieur.

This documentary situates the start of film history a century before the Lumière brothers.

Without Etienne Robertson and his phantasmagorias, Emile Reynaud and his praxinoscope, Joseph Plateau and the phénakistiscope, Edward Muybridge and his zoopraxiscope or Etienne-Jules Marey with his chronophotographie: would there be cinema?

Bophana Centre, #64 street 200.

4pm WAR DANCE The documentary reveals the redemptive power of music, even in the most horrific places.

Focusing on three children in their early teens in war-torn Uganda filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix track the efforts of the school of a refugee camp to compete in a countrywide music competition.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm ITINÉRAIRES After a trial instigated by his father, 18-year-old Thierry Chartier is

HASH HOUSE HARRIERS Cross country running and walking through fields, farms and foliage followed by Anchor beer and softies. Walkers and runners of all shapes and sizes are welcome. $5 for expats, $2 for locals. Fees include all bottled water, cool drinks and beer.

Phnom Penh Railway Station, corner of Monivong and Russian Boulevards. 2pm SUNDAY ROAST Option of Argentinean beef, lamb shoulder imported from Australia and chicken of which you may choose more than one at $10 per person. All the trimmings you can eat, including Yorkshire pudding, cauliflower cheese, Brussels sprouts, green beans, carrots, roasted potatoes, stuffing and homemade gravy.

The Piano Lounge, #53 Street 57. 2pm TEXAS BBQ All you can eat Texas barbecue. $7.50 per head.

Sundance Inn and Saloon, #61 Street 172. 3pm

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ALL WEEK – DENGUE FEVER TOUR The much adored Khmer-American psychedelic rock band, Dengue Fever, are finally back on Cambodian soil, playing a string of gigs around the country over the next week. The six-member group, who formed in 2001 and are fronted by striking Khmer chanteuse Chhom Nimol, have won praise around the globe (they’ve played at Glastonbury, the Melbourne Festival and WOMAD, while Ray Davies from the Kinks called them “a cross between Led Zeppelin and Blondie.”).

Unsurprisingly, tomorrow night’s performance at the riverside FCC has sold out, but the band will play their trademark blend of Cambodian and American 1960s surf rock, LA indie music, and melodic pop at the larger FCC in Siem Reap on Saturday night, before playing in the capital again next Wednesday as part of the Memory! International Film Heritage Festival. The band will then head to Ho Chi Minh City at Cargo Bar.

MONDAY – NERD NIGHT A favourite amongst Phnom Penh’s (sizeable) NGO set, the monthly Nerd Night is locked in at the leafy, candle-lit courtyard of Gasolina in the city’s Boeung Keng Kang neighbourhood for this Monday.​Whether the tone be self-deprecating or dead pan, Nerd Night provides a stage for people who would like to share a niche knowledge, a special talent or a quirky idea. Each presentation is short and sweet: 20 slides at 20 seconds each.

This week Lucia from Italy wallows in her pizza-obsession and Ken’s “from syrup to sweater” lecture explains the process of turning polymer liquid into fashion.

Keen presenters can register to speak at nerdnightphnompenh@gmail.com

Numerous locations in Cambodia and Vietnam, May 31-June 7

Gasolina, Street 57 (around the corner from Street 380), 8pm

ULTIMATE FRISBEE Pickup games and league games.

All levels welcome. Contact Greg at gbloom88@gmail.com for more information.

Northbridge International School. 3pm CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ART EXHIBITION Simphony Music and Art School present their third annual concert and Art Exhibition.

Dress Code: Smart Attire (such as a dress or a shirt and trousers or skirt) Seats for the concert are limited.

Please call in advance to confirm the guest numbers.

InterContinental Hotel, #296 Mao Tse Tung Boulevard.3pm CHESS CLUB No charge but players are asked to buy a drink to justify their presence.

Open Wine Restaurant, #219 Street 19. 4pm JAM SESSION With Smokin’ Kenny Smith. All musicians welcome. Margaritas and Cranbullkas sold.

Sharky Rock n Roll Bar and Restaurant, #126 Street 130.

8pm FILIPINO DANNY Acoustic covers of crowd favorites every Sunday.

The Local, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 144. 8pm

EUAN GRAY & GTS JAZZ Every Sunday.

Riverhouse Lounge, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 110.

8:30pm

FILM CINECLUB WITH OLIVIER ASSAYAS As part of the MEMORY! International Film Heritage Festival, the Bophana Center presents a special CineClub with French director and screenwriter Olivier Assayas. Mr. Assayas will present his documentary film Eldorado and discuss it afterwards with the public. Discussion in English.

Free admission and soft drinks.

Bophana Centre, #64 street 200.

3pm WHEN THE ROAD BENDS: TALES OF A GYPSY CARAVAN A display of the musical world of the Roma, juxtaposed to the real world they live in. Director Albert Maysles follows top Gypsy performers on their US Gypsy Caravan Concert Tour. He interweaves tales of their home life and social background.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm A WOMAN IN BERLIN Max Färberböck’s film is based on the true story by “Anonyma”.

This powerful feature film is bringing attention to an issue long considered a taboo in German society: the mass rape of women

by Soviet Red Army soldiers after the fall of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

MONDAY YOGA CLASSES Call 012 739 419 or 012 739 284 for details and directions.

Yoga! Phnom Penh Studio, #172 z2 Norodom Boulevard. 8am, 12:15pm, 5:45pm KATY PERI’S PERI PERI CHICKEN AND PIZZA The Katy Peri chefs serve their dishes to the tune of reggae music.

Show Box, #11 Street 330. 6pm NERD NIGHT An exhibition of local talent and ideas inspired by the Pecha Kucha presentation format. Each speaker’s rapid-fire presentation features 20 slides, with 20 seconds allotted to each slide.

Email nerdnightphnompenh@ gmail.com to sign up.

Gasolina #56 Street 57. 8pm.

MARGARITA MAYHEM Shake your blues away with Margaritas in every flavour. Buy one get one free all night. Enjoy mash-up remixes and tunes with DJ Narata.

Riverhouse Lounge, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 110.

8:30pm

TUESDAY

FILM

TWO 4 TUESDAY Resident DJs playing the best popular dance tracks, buy two get one free for cocktails and mixed drinks all night.

Riverhouse Lounge, corner Sisowath Quay and Street 110.

4pm

STRANGE BIRDS IN PARADISE Australian Charlie Hill-Smith is a journey into just some of the more than 250 West Papuan cultures. While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs about loss, oppression and resistance.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm

QUIZ NIGHT Teams can accumulate points just for playing and win great prizes at the end of the season. Weekly prizes are featured as well. $1 per person, with winning team taking all.

The Gym Sports Bar, #42 Street 178. 5:30pm OPEN MIC Musicians, poets, comedians or other entertainers invited to join.

Sundance Inn and Saloon, #61 Street 172. 8pm POP MUSIC QUIZ NIGHT Test your music trivia, hosted by Brecht van der Laan. Winning team gets a choice of a bottle of Red Label Whiskey or Captain Morgan Rum, runner up team gets free Equinox t-shirts. No entry fee.

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 8pm GENTLE WINDS A band that has nothing to do with baked beans.

The Village, #1 Street 360. 9pm

PRETTY AS A PICTURE – THE ART OF DAVID LYNCH From an early age, David Lynch was inspired by the arts and the warm inner glow that comes with the pursuit of creative expression.

Toby Keeler’s docu examines how this modern day Renaissance man makes a motion picture, and examines, through his artistic explorations, the very nature of creativity.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

WEDNESDAY

gbloom88@gmail.com for more information.

ISPP, Street 380 between Street 57 and 51. 3-5pm WHY: THE KHMER ROUGE The victims of the regime of terror established by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 number more than two million, or nearly a quarter of the population.

A question: how could this tragedy have taken place? Henri Locard, a former consultant to the Khmer Rouge tribunal and currently a visiting professor at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, will explain the internal and international mechanisms leading to this tragedy. In order to illustrate his remarks, Henri Locard will refer to the most recent testimonies: his own, and also those of Suong Kiloeun and Laurence Picq.

Institut français, #218 Street 184.

6:30pm IN BETWEEN Gay and lesbian night, with prizes for best dressed.

Show Box, #11 Street 330. 7pm

YOGA CLASSES Call 012 739 419 or 012 739 284 for details and directions.

Yoga! Phnom Penh Studio, #172 z2 Norodom Boulevard. 8am, 12:15pm, 5:45pm

GTS JAZZ New York jazz night. A selection of standard and original tunes to recreate a typical jazz club feel.

Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, #25 Sothearos Boulevard.

7:30pm

ULTIMATE FRISBEE Pickup games from 4.30pm at ISPP field. Contact Greg at

TRIVIA NIGHT $2 entry per player, maximum seven people per team.

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ALL WEEK – MEMORY! INTERNATIONAL FILM HERITAGE FESTIVAL Film lovers rejoice. Rolling into town this weekend is the first MEMORY! International Film Heritage Festival, dedicated to the preservation of the world’s rich cinema heritage – and all events are free. From lush technicolour Hollywood musicals to Khmer classics and Jacques Tati delights, watch movies as they were intended: 35mm projectors and French sound installation, installed for your viewing pleasure at Chaktomuk Conference Hall.

With its ‘Golden Age’ of cinema, Cambodia knows more than most how precious film is. Over 90 per cent of films around the world made before 1929 are lost forever, as well as half of all American films made before 1950. Memory! brings together cinephiles, film conservationists and students for a nine-day viewing feast.

Memory! International Film Heritage Festival runs from June 1-9. See www.memoryfilmfestival.org for the program.

TUESDAY - PRETTY AS A PICTURE: THE ART OF DAVID LYNCH Cinema buffs around the world both revere and revile surrealist film maker David Lynch for his unique cinematic style, seen in the dreamy imagery and neonoir, cryptic narrative of Mulholland Dive, the graphic, violent Blue Velvet, in the eerie series Twin Peaks - a lamentation on suburban life - and of course his wonderfully soundtracked cult classic Lost Highway. On Tuesday Toby Keeler’s documentary, Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch, takes a thorough look at the movie-maker’s motivations and inspirations, documenting the making of Lost Highway: music recordings in Prague, its premiere at Sundance and interviews with cast and crew members. The documentary should please Lynch enthusiasts: the auteur Lynch is very forthcoming.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

The Willow #1 St 21. 7:30pm QUIZ NIGHT Lots of prizes and drink specials. $1 entry.

Sundance Inn and Saloon #61 Street 172. 8pm 8-BALL COMPETITION First prize is a $25 bar tab, second and third prizes are a bottle of wine.

Sharky’s, #126 Street 130.

8:30pm NO FOREVER Yes! They are playing tonight.

Doors, #18 Street 84.9pm

FILM HEART OF GOLD Neil Young shot the documentary during a two-night performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

Filmmaker Jonathan Demme was on hand to film the shows. The flick also features interviews in which Young talks about his life and music.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm A RIVER CHANGES COURSE Meta House shows the documentary in celebration of World Environment Day This DCCAM-production offers an impressionistic portrait of life among three rural Cambodian families over a two-year timespan.

Pollution, clear-cutting and other

typical developing-nation woes are making their livelihoods more difficult. Free Entrance.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

THURSDAY PHNOM PENH BOWLING LEAGUE All welcome, regardless of skills.

Three games played each week with average scores recorded over the season for a final league ranking and winner’s trophy. Entry is $6 each.

Parkway Square, corner of Mao Tse Toung Blvd and Street 163.

7:30pm JAMMING NIGHT Acoustic and rock music. Join our band with your own talent.

Riverside Bistro, #273A, Sisowath Quay. 8pm LADIES NIGHT It’s ladies night and the feeling’s right. Hot dance and house tunes.

Buy two get one free.

Riverhouse Lounge, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 110.

8:30pm OPEN MIC NIGHT All musicians and singers welcome to join.

Paddy Rice, corner of Sisowath Quay and Street 136. 9pm SWING DANCING With Mama Swing

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 9pm VANITY NIGHT Ladies receive one free bottle of 12-year-old whiskey, a bottle of vodka or one free carafe of cocktail.

NOVA, #19 Street 214. 9pm COSMIC ROCK PARTY with DJ SAM DAY Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

FILM MOOG Robert Moog has been inventing and building electronic musical instruments for nearly half a century. The documentary Moog (2004, 72mins) takes viewers inside the mind of this legendary figure Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm STORM Hans-Christian Schmid’s Storm (2009, 105 mins, English subs) is a superb drama about the continuing search for justice for crimes committed more than a decade ago during the war in Bosnia.

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague’s Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate. Screening is presented by the Goethe-Institut. Free Entrance!

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Bophana Center, #64, Street 200 and Chaktomuk Conference Hall, Sothearos Blvd

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

ONGOING BEER O’CLOCK Free flow of draught Angkor and Tiger beer on all nights except Wine and Cheese Night. $15 per person includes French Fries and nibbles. 10 percent off a la carte delicacies. Special group discounts for groups of 10 or more.

InterContinental Hotel, #296 Mao Tse Tung Boulevard.

Running until June 30. 6pm SURVIVING Chov Theanly, a self-taught painter, is having his first exhibition. In this series, Theanly draws on live models that he selects amongst his friends, people he observes on the street and even himself. He poses them standing as well as sitting on chairs, a difference that signifies their varying personal circumstances and an echo of his own.

Java Cafe, #56 Sihanouk Boulevard. Running until July 7.

A THING OF SMOKE Romeet’s new exhibition is a collaboration between the visual art of Séra and the poetry of Julianne Sibiski. The artist uses ink, acrylic, and pencil on Chinese paper mounted on canvas to play with vision and perception, creating a paradox in order and chaos.

Pieces of word and line allow for spontaneous compositions while somewhere between abstraction and form, fragment and ink, a

dance between the artist and the poet is created.

Romeet Gallery, #34E1 Street 178. Running until June 26.

BLOOD AND SAND Photographer Erika Piñeros documents the bullfighting culture of her native Colombia through a series of photographs.

Chinese House, #45 Sisowath Quay. Running until further notice.

OPEN SPACE BAND Live music Wednesday-Sunday, playing ‘60s, soul, jazz, blues, rock Riverside Bistro, #273A Sisowath Quay. 8pm YOGA CLASSES Daily Yoga Classes with Oskar and Alison at two locations. Join to improve your flexibility, strength, balance, posture and stress levels.

Email phnompenhyoga@gmail. com or call 012 739 419 for details.

SUBMISSION GRAPPLING A combination of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, catch and freestyle wrestling, we teach all the basics of ground fighting, control, escapes, chokes, arm locks, leg locks, while building a competitive spirit. All levels and ages can and will be catered for. $10 for a single session, $135 for 15 sessions, $205 for 30 sessions and $360 for 60 sessions.

K1 Gym, #131 Street 199.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

5:30pm Tuesday and Thursday. 6:45pm

PRETHEA CHA The exhibition will showcase the work of German photographer Jessica Hetke, who spent time at three of CLA’s traditional arts teachers’ homes, and captured their everyday lives.

Cambodia Living Arts, #128-G9 Sothearos Boulevard.

DANCE WORLD CAMBODIA Classes in a range of dance forms from ballet, jazz, and tap, to break dancing, k-pop, and belly dancing. There are classes available for all ages. For class prices and timetables go to danceworldcambo.wordpress.com Dance World Cambodia #313 Sisowath Quay, (Hotel Cambodiana - Entrance at Physique Club Gym) WINE, FOOD AND MUSIC Lolito plays the piano and DJ Lady Bluesabelle mixes global sounds of world jazz, Latin, soul and tropical beats during sunset.

Le Bar at the Sofitel, #26 Sothearos Boulevard. 6pm till late, every week Tuesday through Saturday.

DORSU! THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE Photo exhibition by Heather Stilwell. Each photograph was taken within the last year during street protests, at garment factories, or inside people’s homes to capture moments that are rarely seen.

Craft Peace Cafe, #14 Street 392.

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Ad, unclassified: coin collector “Wanted: old Cambodian and Vietnamese coins, gold and silver.

I am only interested in very fine to exceptionally fine pieces.”

BENNETT MURRAY

I would also say there is an emotional element, and what I This North American coin mean is that you physically hold collector, whose name has been them in your hands and there’s a withheld, has a passion for old East story behind every coin for what it and South Asian coins. was used, what country and what Part hobby and part “foolish transactions they were used. As an investment strategy”, he aims to adolescent boy I collected coins, make a return on his valuable loose and I enjoyed the beauty they change. carried. I liked Moroccan coins, Mexican, whatever I was given.

“MY first purchase of rare coins As a kid I collected whatever my was for more than $9000 at a grandfather brought me. In grade reputable and established auction seven my science teacher accused house. me of being a communist because Unfortunately for me, I hadn’t I was wearing a Mao button - just done any homework to know in something my dear grandfather advance what similar coins were picked me up from a merchant selling for. So I might have grossly ship. He worked as a machinist, overpaid. Or not. Time will tell. and rules were not so strict then My investment plan is to sell them about going onboard. to Chinese and Indian collectors [Coin collecting] is a hobby, in eight to twelve years. but my interest is also financial.

Treasure chest? A growing coin collection is one classified advertiser’s “foolish” investment strategy. reuters

[Warren] Buffet says buy what you understand. Stocks and bonds I do not understand. I find financial markets these days confusing, complicated and adverse to personal liberty. I know the world has changed but I am a grumpy ‘old’ man and I am not willing to adapt. I resist. One way of

Young Cham women on their way to plant mangroves in Kampot province. RUTH KEBER

resisting is collecting rare precious metal coins. It is a political act for personal sovereignty in an increasingly regulated financial world.

I am not a rich man, and in a few years if I don’t go back to teaching, say, in Vietnam, or start some sort of business that gives me

cash flow, I will be broke. I had a modest inheritance, and like many in this situation, I have become lazy. So to spend $9000-plus on rare coins was really, quite idiotic.”

To swap coins with this ‘outlaw’ collector, email him at Chrysallis_2005@yahoo.com

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Priceless

DENGUE FEVER CREATES BUZZ IN TOWN

By Miranda Glasser

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/Khmer band Dengue Fever is headed back to Temple Town, playing a sellout gig at FCC Angkor on June 1.

This will be the second time the band has visited, following a packed concert at the former Hotel de la Paix in November 2011.

The Siem Reap gig is part of a tour that came about thanks to the inaugural Memory International Film Heritage Festival slated for Phnom Penh from June 1-9 – festival organisers invited the band to play in the capital.

In Siem Reap, expats and Khmers have been queuing up to buy tickets, and FCC general manager Douglas Moe expects Saturday to be a sellout success. He said he is expecting to sell 400 tickets and as of Tuesday over 250 tickets had been sold. “We will also have some special drinks with cheaper prices,” he added, “And finger food stands will be laid out on the corner for late evening bites.”

The concert will take place in a speciallybuilt marquee in the FCC garden to accom-

Some of the band at Angkor Wat in 2011 – from left to right: Paul Smith, Senon Williams, Chhom Nimol and Zac Holtzman. MARC WALKER

modate the large audience, and in case of rain.

The band is also pleased to be performing in Siem Reap. Bassist Senon Williams said, “We are really happy and very excited to see that we have a reach that extends beyond Phnom Penh. On our last tour we had a great show in Siem Reap. We are fired up to see that the interest is still there and we plan to reward those who come with a fantastic night.”

Siem Reap has always held special significance for Dengue Fever. It was on the road from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh that founder member and keyboardist Ethan Holtzman first heard the strains of 1960s Cambodian rock ‘n’ roll music playing on the radio, back in 1997. His travelling companion, meanwhile, was huddled in the front seat suffering from a bout of dengue fever. This eight-hour roadtrip both generated a love of Cambodian pop and inspired Holtzman to eventually start the band in 2001.

Holtzman described this experience to More than Music website in June 2011.

“I was riding in the back of a pick-up

truck,” he said. “It was a long dirt road and all the bridges had been blown up from war. I sat scrunched up in a little ball with thirty something villagers, some of them holding their carsick babies, others grasping on to their rooster in this rusty old truck with bald tyres. The driver drove fast. My friend was in the front of the truck, sick with dengue fever.

Every time I poked my head in to see how he felt, I caught sound of the driver’s cassette tape that was looped for the eight hour drive to the capital. The sounds were amazing and I asked him to write down the artists so I could purchase some of them from the local market.”

Arriving back in Los Angeles six months later, armed with a suitcase full of Cambodian cassettes, Holtzman founded the band with his brother Zac on lead guitar, saxophonist David Ralicke, drummer Paul Smith and bassist Senon Williams. Singer Chhom Nimol from Battambang was discovered performing in a club in ‘Little Phnom Penh’ in Long Beach, California and completed the outfit.

Apsara Authority land (and offices) grabbed

By Thik Kaliyann Staff from Siem Reap’s doomed Administrative City, aka Salakhet Siem Reap, will move into the recently built and relatively swank Apsara Authority headquarters next to the Angkor Gyeongju recreation area in Boeung Donpa village, Slakram commune, according to deputy governor Bun Tharith.

This follows an announcement on Monday, April 29, by Tea Banh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, that changes would be made to the location of government offices based in the Siem Reap Administrative City due to its distance from Siem Reap’s business district.

When making the announcement in April, Tea Banh said he was thinking about government officials who have to travel almost twenty kilometres in order to work at the Siem Reap Administrative City.

The new offices in the Apsara Authority building will only be four kilometres from town.

Last week the new Siem Reap governor Khim Bunsong ordered the completion of the construction

of a road from Angkor Gyeongju to the Siem Reap Administrative City.

This road will provide a short cut to the city.

The governor added that the road must be completed within two months to enable government officials to continue to work temporarily in the Administrative City before they move permanently to their new offices in the Apsara Authority building.

Bun Tharith also told Insider that, “A 60-metre wide road from Angkor Gyeongju is still not complete, so the governor decided to construct the rest and link it to the Administrative City​ road to create a short cut for officials before they move to new workplace.”

He said that governor also confirmed there would be no deductions from the monthly salaries of government officials who attended work only irregularly due to the distance of the workplace.

An administrative official who preferred anonymity told Insider that in recent months very few staff and some senior officials did not attend their workplace because it was so far out of town. He said if some staff had to do business in town, travel to and

from the office could rack up over a hundred kilometres a day.

That the Administrative City has not exactly been a hive of activity is perhaps made evident by the Administrative City’s forlorn Facebook page. The page is headed, “Working for Salakhet Siem Reap.” But it is completely blank, apart from an outline of a briefcase.

The staff move does come with further complications – the Apsara Authority building is too small to house all workers from the Administrative City, hence other buildings will have to be constructed.

Deputy Governor Bun Tharith pointed out that the Administrative City sits on about 40 hectares of land in Ampil commune, Bakong district.

But the land on which the Apsara Authority sits is much smaller.

He said, “Because the Apsara Authority department is smaller than the Administrative City, the government will order construction of other various departments on another four hectares.”

The big question of course is where exactly will the staff from the Apsara Authority go?

The Apsara Authority headquarters, soon to become home to staff from the doomed Administrative City. THIK KALIYANN

Deputy Governor Bun Tharith was hesitant in discussing this aspect, but said that the governor will make a decision that will not adversely affect any government workers.

He said, “The “Apsara Authority and Administrative City staff are government officials, thus we will not let one side be badly affected by the other side. The governor will make a good decision for them.”

But according to some staff at the Administrative City, there is a cruel twist of fate in store for Apsara Authority officials.

An anonymous Administrative City official claimed that many people were saying that Apsara Authority officials will be moved to the Administrative City site.

He said, “I heard from my colleagues that Apsara officials will go to work in the Administrative City instead of us, but I don’t know whether that’s true or just a rumor.”

Speculation is that governor Khim Bun Song will make an announcement shortly after the elections about where Apsara officials will be housed.

Additional reporting: Peter Olszewski

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Man About Town Peter Olszewski TRIBUTE TO ZIPLINE FOUNDER Tributes continue to flow internationally following the death of New Zealand adventurer David Allardice, dubbed as the “Kiwi Indiana Jones.”

Allardice, well known in Siem Reap, was regarded as an adventure tourism visionary and one of the founders of the Flight of the Gibbon zipline tourist attractions, which originated in Chiang Mai, Thailand and is now spreading through the region.

In February he secured the rights to build a zipline inside the Angkor Wat complex and his wife Louise Allardice told Fairfax News NZ on May 7 that this made him “The first person in history allowed to set up a commercial operation in a Unesco world heritage site.”

In a farewell statement on its website, the Flight of the Gibbon organisation said, “David’s legacy will continue – already the government of Cambodia is planning to dedicate trees in his honor within the Angkor Wat Park in Siem Reap; where David designed one of the next Flagship FOTG courses. Many more tributes and memorials will be announced over the next days.”

Allardice was diagnosed with terminal melanoma in January, and died in Bangkok on April 25, just days before he was to visit Siem Reap to check on work on the new zipline attractions, which is scheduled to open in August this year.

After his death in Bangkok, his body was taken to a Buddhist temple where he received an official interment.

His wife, Louise, told Fairfax News NZ that, “We had a police escort through peak traffic in downtown Bangkok, which had us all laughing, it was so David.”

His cremated remains were sent around the world globe in four urns. His ashes were scattered at sites memorizing his many and varied adventures, in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. The fourth urn was returned to his home, the Allardice farm in Moutere, New Zealand. A farewell was held on that property on the weekend of May 11-12, and guests from throughout the world attended.

MISS BELGIUM VISITS Siem Reap is playing host to Miss Belgium 2013, Noémie Happart, who arrived in town on Wednesday and hopes to visit Angkor Wat today.

Happart, a medical student, was crowned Miss Belgium on January 6, and this is her first visit to Cambodia.

On Sunday June 2, she will open a new school building and meet children from the Rong Vean village, Banteay Meanchey.

According to a press release Mrs Darline Devos, the president of the national Miss Belgium committee, donated $16,000 “through her representative, Noémie Happart,” for the construction of a school building in the Rong Vean village.”

The press release also says that Happart’s “dream” is to work with children, and the beauty queen was quoted as saying.

“This is my first time to travel outside of Belgium and Europe. I am so exciting to be a part of this special project to help families from the Rong Vean village in Cambodia. My dream is to work with children. I love children.”

WATER WOES It was one of those purely ‘Only-in-Cambodia’ moments: Man About in full preparation for an evening function, was halfway through the pre-shower shaving ritual when, yep, the water supply abruptly cut out. With a face full of foam, Man About’s expletives echoed in the bathroom until interrupted by the pitter-patter of … rain. Water, water everywhere, but none on tap. Then the brilliant light-bulb moment: donning swimming togs Man About ventured out into the street and with the aid of a small portable mirror finished shaving while at the same time undergoing the necessary ablutions in the rain.

Then of course there was the day with no water and no electricity.

Cambodia, bring it on.

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Town school kids help their poorer village counterparts

By Miranda Glasser

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hildren from the International School of Siem Reap (ISSR) travelled to Kantoo village in Dan Run commune on May 7, to donate over $500 of school supplies purchased with money raised from their school fair.

The donation was part of a project run by Angkor Hospital for Children’s Capacity Building and Health Education Program (CBHEP), ‘Education for Kantoo Village’.

A former parent at ISSR, Daniela Vagni, worked at CBHEP last year and suggested Kantoo as a cause when the school decided to raise money for charity through its inaugural summer fair.

“Angkor Hospital for Children has an outreach department for some of the local rural villages where they can’t get access to a health centre,” says ISSR school principal Richard Halliday. “The hospital has projects where it

Children and staff from ISSR give a schoolbag containing uniform and school supplies to a child from Kantoo village school. PHOTO SUPPLIED

goes to the villages to educate on health care. One of these local villages, Kantoo, had a school that Daniela knew of and she suggested we donate the money towards it because it’s a rural school – it doesn’t have any books or facilities, it’s very poor.” ISSR’s children were in agreement, and the $520 raised went towards buying resources for about fifty children at Kantoo village school. Each child was provided with a school pack, containing a school uniform, books, pens

and pencils and a rubber. A set of the Khmer teaching books was also purchased for the Khmer teacher for the different grades taught.

In March, Halliday and ISSR owner Chhun Phallin visited the school with CBHEP program manager Amra Phoeurk, meeting children, teachers and the commune chief. On May 7 they returned with students from ISSR and the school packs.

“The kids were very excited,” says Halliday. “We handed out

the packs and the uniforms and the first thing the kids did was take out the school uniforms and very excitedly put them on.

Straight away – some of them over the top of what they were wearing, and others ripping off their shirts and shorts and putting on their new uniforms.

They all looked very smart.”

The village is building a new school raised on stilts with a concrete structure and better facilities. The village raised some money through the local pagoda and started to build the foundations. Halliday says at the next school fair, coming up in June, will help fund the purchase of more school supplies.

“We’d like to help provide maybe desks and resources for the school once it is finished.

We’d like the children to be able to raise money to buy things that they can associate with education –things they take for granted in their school.”

The next ISSR school fair takes place on June 15, from 11am – 4pm.

Complaints flood in over dodgy water supply

By Thik Kaliyann Many Siem Reap residents are again becoming the great unwashed because of an extremely erratic water supply.

For days now the supply has been on and off intermittently – some cuts are short, some are long but the process is constant and really annoying.

Officials at the Siem Reap Water Supply authority say the water supply is being affected by two causes.

The Deputy General Director of Siem Reap’s Water Supply Authority, Chan Seng La, told Insider that Siem Reap city’s demand for domestic water has been increasing rapidly, and the water production

process could not cope with domestic and commercial customer demand.

Siem Reap Water Supply Authority produces 20, 000 cubic meters daily, but this is not enough, he said.

“Before we predicted that if Siem Reap Water Supply Authority produced 20,000 cubic meters daily, it would be enough for customers in the whole city. But our customer demand increased day by day and now that we do produce 20,000 cubic metres daily, we find that’s still not enough.”

He said the domestic and commercial customer demand is now 25,000 to 30,000 cubic metres per day.

He added, “We are still trying

our best to fulfill resident demand and we are now constructing another water plant near the Baray which will be completed in August and will produce 5,000 cubic metres per day.”

The sewage disposal system construction along various roads in Siem Reap city is also a reason why the water is cut off many times a day.

“The water distribution pipes are sometimes cut by workers who dig the holes along the side of the road in the city for the construction of a sewage disposal system. When the pipes are cut we have to fix them and then the water will be cut off around one hour,” Chan Seng La said.

Siem Reap Water Supply Authority deputy director Soum Kounthea told Insider that on March in 2012 the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an Official Development Assistance to Cambodia loan agreement with the government in Phnom Penh to provide a loan of up to 7,161 million yen (approx. US$91 million) to assist the Siem Reap Water Supply Expansion Project in Tonle Sap Lake.

He said the Siem Reap Water Supply Authority undertook an additional feasibility study on the Tonle Sap Lake for taking water to treatment.

“We are trying so hard by working on a water treatment factory which will be finished in 2018 to take water from Tonle Sap to treatment,” Soum Kounthea said, adding that the Siem Reap Water Supply Authority plans to take around 60,000 cubic metres of water per day from Tonle Sap for treatment in 2018.

He added that the water supply problem was most serious in the Old Market and Central Market areas because the demand there is very high.

He said, “We would like to apologise to customers for this shortage, but please understand the situation.”

He said he has been getting many calls from customers as shortages start, and he suggests storing water while it’s on and using it when the water is off.

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Zen and the humble art of bike riding

By Miranda Glasser

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have a shameful secret. I only learnt to ride a bicycle two years ago. At the age of 35 in fact, when I moved to Siem Reap. I don’t know what happened: I had an otherwise normal childhood. Swimming – no problem. Roller-skating – well I’m a bit rusty but I could find my way round a roller-disco. But riding a bike? It just never happened. Somehow the stabilisers never came off. Frankly, I think my parents just gave up on me.

So it was that I found myself living in Temple Town, where the mode of transport of choice is the humble bicycle. Ridden by all, from kids to businessmen, zipping around the dusty streets all day long. Everyone, that is, except me. For the first few weeks I took tuk tuks everywhere like the tourists, but later my husband bought a bike and rigged up a sort of tandem affair – adding a second seat to the back. On it I would perch, sitting sideways with legs dangling, feeling somewhat like a prim Victorian lady.

However the hoots of laughter that followed me around from incredulous Khmers eventually got too much, and I decided enough was enough. I had to learn. My long-suffering husband took me out for a few “lessons” in the Royal Gardens. Remember the old adage about not having driving lessons with your other half? Well. I would wobble down a small path, perspiring in the 36 degree heat, inevitably get cross at

Learning to ride a bike is no peddling matter, as our erstwhile correspondent discovered.

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not getting the hang of it and the whole thing would end in an argument. It was all also extremely embarrassing.

I’ll never forget a trio of young monks walking past me laughing at me. One of them urged me to “keep

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practicing.”

We continued in this way for a few more sessions before I, like the sullen toddler I am, gave up. It was back to the tuk tuks for a while and seemingly my Mission Bicycle was over.

Then, one day, a strange thing happened. One bright Sunday morning I suddenly had the urge to try again. I had just done a yoga session, and perhaps my inner zen had been re-awakened. I rented me a bike, found a quiet dirt track to practice on, and off I went. The first few minutes were full of the inevitable wobbles, skids and swearing. At one point I very nearly cried. But slowly but surely, I got it. I did a slow circuit round the back of Wat Damnak. My two-wheeled adventure took me down roads I’d never been before.

Rice paddies, chickens scratching in the dirt, and a small boy leading a white cow down the road. Plus the clichéd but true feeling of wind in my hair – it was amazing.

Then, just as I was busy congratulating myself on my cleverness, the rainy season came and with it the worst floods Cambodia had seen in a decade. Siem Reap’s roads turned into rivers, sandbags appeared in doorways and children floating around in washing-up bowls became a common sight.

But I discovered that cycling through two feet of water was actually doable. Sure, I fell off a few times. I resigned myself to getting soaking wet

each time I went out and had one unfortunate and painful incident with a hidden pothole. But on the whole I just did what everyone else did and got on with it. Although I will never forget the memory of fishing around in the water to see what had got caught in my spokes, only to retrieve a sodden nappy.

Nowadays I am proud to say my guilty secret no longer is. I can barely remember the days of frustration and monk-laughter, or the period when even though I could ride, I had yet to master the art of taking one hand off the handle-bar to signal.

Sometimes I had to get off and wheel my bike across the busy junction of Wat Bo and High School Road. When I went home to London last summer, I even surprised life-long friends by cycling on ACTUAL BUSY ROADS, and attempted a couple of small hills in the Welsh countryside. After a lifetime of feeling ‘left out’, suddenly the joys of going on holiday, renting a couple of bikes with friends and pootling around country lanes were open to me.

I still can’t cope with cycling on sand and struggle to find any real pleasure in mountain-biking, but I’ve come a long way. My $30 rust-bag of a bike and I are now firm friends. I love cycling to work every day and as silly as it may sound, some thirty years later than everyone else my age I still get a little kick out of free-wheeling down a hill as fast as I dare.

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What’s on FRIDAY 31 KNOCK OUT POOL COMP Free entry, winner takes home a $30 food and drinks voucher.

Jungle Junction, High School Road Friday May 31, 7.30pm PARTY NIGHT Elements Bar, Pub Street.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday May 7:30pm LADYBOY REVUE Linga Bar, Pub Street.

Friday May 31, 10:30pm LADYBOY REVUE The Station Bar, Street 7, Old Market area.

Friday May 31, 9:30pm LIVE MUSIC WITH CANAPES Victoria Angkor Resort and Spa Friday May 31, 5pm to 7pm

SATURDAY 01 JUNE DENGUE FEVER Blend of 60s Cambodian pop and Los Angeles psychedelic rock. Tickets $12 including one free Angkor draught from FCC Angkor, Beyond Unique Escapes or Asana Old Wooden House. Tel: 093 700 123/097 888 5598 or email: vanthan@fcccambodia.com FCC Angkor, Pokambor Ave Saturday June 01, 8.30pm MADE IN CAMBODIA Market and street fair on the first Saturday of each month. Products by artisans and designers including Eric Raisina, Saarti Candles and Theam’s House.

Outside Shinta Mani Hotel Saturday June 01, 4 – 9pm SUPER SATURDAY 50 per cent discount on food Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Saturday June 01 12 – 8pm LADIES NIGHT Free glass of sparkling wine Elements Bar, Pub Street.

Saturday June 01, 7:30pm LADYBOY REVUE Linga Bar, Pub Street.

Saturday June 01, 10:30pm SHOW SPECTACULAR Show spectacular featuring ladyboys and Khmer comedy.

The Station Bar, Street 7, Old Market area.

Saturday June 01, 9pm

SUNDAY 02

WINE NIGHT Special offers for wine lovers.

25 per cent discount on all wine, 50 per cent on selected wines. For those who enjoy their wine, this is not to be missed. Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Sunday June 02, 12pm – 10pm BBQ POOL PARTY Sunday BBQ including homemade beef sausage, pork chops, chicken and vegetable skewers, jacket potatoes, crispy salad, special home-made sauce and a baguette.

The Siem Reap Hostel, 7 Makara Street Wat Damnak Sunday June 02, 4pm - 8pm

MONDAY 03 KHMER LOCAL HANDICRAFT WORKSHOP ON SHOW Please come and join us and discover what the locals have.

Apsara Holiday Hotel, National Road 6.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 7am / Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 7am and 5pm

TUESDAY 04 AUTHENTIC KHMER BBQ & APSARA DANCE SHOW $25 per person, poolside.

Dining reservations: 07756 56 22 Heritage Suites, Wat Polangka Tuesday June 04, 7pm8.30pm LIVE MUSIC AND OPEN MIC NIGHT House guitars available, all instruments welcome.

Fresh at Chilli Si-Dang, East River Road Tuesday June 04, 8pm LADIES NIGHT Complimentary glass of sparkling wine and free mini manicure/pedicure on the Soria Moria rooftop.

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Tuesday June 04, 7pm

WEDNESDAY 05 MOVIE NIGHT Film: “Snitch”, 6pm Film: “Oz the Great and the Powerful”, 8pm Movie meal specials Free entrance & free popcorn Rosy Guesthouse, East River

Road Wednesday June 05, 6pm $1 NIGHT All drinks $1, all food $1.

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Wednesday June 05, 5pm – 10pm LIVE PIANO Asana Old Wooden House, The Lane, Pub St area Wednesday June 05, 7pm JAM NIGHT Open mic night, all welcome whether singing or playing a musical instrument.

X Bar, end of Pub Street.

Wednesday June 05, 8pm

Heritage Suites, Beside Wat Polanka Thursday June 06, 6:30pm – 9.30pm WEEKLY CHARITY PUB QUIZ Come along and help a local charity helping local people. $1 entry The Warehouse Bar, the Old Market area Thursday June 06, 8pm

ONGOING

THE APSARA TERRACE Outdoor pan-Asian BBQ buffet with classical Khmer dances and Bokator Khmer martial arts. Experience the magic of the Apsara dance in our lush gardens. Traditional music, beautiful dancers, delicious food and a great atmosphere.

Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Vithei Charles de Gaulle.

Dinner Commences 7pm Culture Performances 7:45pm Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

SWIM, SIP & SAVOUR Swim in our infinity pool in nice quiet surroundings, sip a cocktail prepared by our bar man and savour a special dinner. $30 per person.

Sala Lodges, Salakomroeuk commune, behind Wat Damnak

LADIES NIGHT Free cocktail for all female customers.

Pyramid nightclub, National Road 6A Wednesday June 05, 8:30pm

HALF PRICE SPECIAL 50 per cent off food. For bookings please contact: +855(0) 63 966 550 / 12 760 448 or email: Bookings@ selantra.com Selantra Restaurant & Lounge Every Sunday, all day

GOLDEN BUTTERFLIES LADY BOY SHOW The Station Bar, Street 7, Old Market area.

Wednesday June 05, 9:30pm

THURSDAY 06 OH MY BUDDHA! 50 per cent off all food and drink, buy one get one free.

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Thursday June 06, 12pm – 10pm LIVE! JAZZ IN THE CITY Saxophone, trombone, piano, guitar Happy hours at the cocktail bar. Dining reservations 077 56 56 22

SUNDAY POOL BRUNCH $20 per person, access to the pool included Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa Every Sunday, 10.30am – 2.30pm

FINDING HOME Exhibition of works in progress by resident artist Phok Sopheap.

Hotel 1961, River Road Ongoing until June 28 BABEL GUESTHOUSE CLASSES: Zumba with Ti Sam ($8) Mondays & Wednesdays, 6-7pm Ashtanga yoga ($8) Mondays & Wednesdays, 7-8pm Babel Guesthouse, St 20, off Wat Bo SIEM REAP HOSTEL CLASSES: Hatha yoga with Joel from Hariharalaya ($5) Wednesday: 6pm, Sunday: 4:30pm Pilates ($5) Monday & Thursday, 6pm

The Siem Reap Hostel, Wat Damnak Road.

PEACE CAFE CLASSES: Yogilates, ashtanga, hatha & restorative yoga: Mon-Fri: 8.30am & 6.30pm, weekends various (For more details check: http://www.peacecafeangkor. org/program.htm) Khmer lessons (free): Saturday and Sunday 16:00 – 17.00 Vegetarian cooking class: Every day 11.00 – 13.00 Peace Cafe, Wat Bo Area WEEK-LONG SPECIALS Earlybird Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5-7pm: $1 off any main dish Sexy Saturday: Roll The Dice For Your Price: Roll 2 dice and pay the total amount in '000 Riel. Roll a double 6 and your drink is free! Price will always be lower than menu price Hangover Sunday (day) 125pm: Bloody Mary for $3. Menu special: Bacon butties and chip butties available Soccer Sunday, 6pm til late: Watch Sunday's double header English football matches on the new projector and enjoy offers on beers and Western food.

Monday Madness, 7-9pm: Free Angkor or juice with any rice or noodle dish ordered Two for Tuesday, 8-11pm: 2 for 1 on house cocktails or Angkor draft Toxic Thursday, 8-11pm: House short & mixer, house wine and Blur shot only $2.50 Freaky Friday, 7-11pm: Appetiser medley only $8. 2 for 1 on all draft beers. House cocktails only $3 Under Construction Bar & Restaurant, Wat Bo Rd ANGKOR BODHI TREE RETREAT & MEDITATION CENTRE CLASSES: Meditation: Every day: 6.30am and 4pm Yoga: Sun - Wed and Friday: 6pm Chill pill class: Thursday & Saturday: 6pm & 8pm. Tuesday 8pm.

Angkor Bodhi Tree Retreat & Meditation Centre, Wat Polanka area VICIOUS CYCLE BIKE RIDE 20-30km bike rides through the countryside. $5 to

hire a mountain bike or bring your own. Rides take place most Saturdays but please check on: 012 462 165 or at: http:// www.facebook.com/ groups/308395112548010/ Vicious Cycle Bike Shop & Bike Tours, St 26, off Wat Bo Most Saturdays, 8am COOKS IN TUK TUKS Cooking classes. Cost: $25 River Garden Hotel, River Road Daily, 10am LE TIGRE DU PAPIER COOKING CLASS Cost: $13 or $19 Le Tigre du Papier, Pub St Daily, 10am or 1pm AFTERNOON DELIGHT Hot drink and a slice of homemade cake (from the daily selection) for $4.50 Upstairs Café, Wat Bo Road Daily, 3pm – 5pm TRADITIONAL SUNDAY ROAST Meat alternates weekly; chicken, beef or pork plus all the trimmings for $6. Served all day until 6pm.

Sister Srey Café, River Road Every Sunday till 6pm SUNDAY ROAST Choice of roast beef or roast stuffed chicken with roast & mashed potato, cauliflower cheese, seasonal vegetables & gravy. Price is inclusive of one free beer. $8.

Molly Malone’s, Pub St Every Sunday, 12 – 10pm ‘LET THERE BE ROCK’ NIGHT Featuring the X-Rays live; covering Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, AC-DC and much more. Bar food available all night.

X Bar, end of Pub St Every Tuesday and Thursday, 7pm – 12am LADIES NIGHT PROMOTION Buy one get one free on selected cocktails.

Island Bar, Angkor Night Market.

Every Wednesday and Saturday 4pm till late LADIES NIGHT All cocktails buy 1 get 1 free.

Picasso, Alley West Every Wednesday 6pm