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Publishing trap Tangled dealings in the country’s literary world

Art from the forest Nou Sary on making use of nature’s materials

Displaced Exiled journalists speak out on loss, terror and return

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03 | 7 Questions: Here comes the Ciderman 05 | Applied science gets gastronomical 06 | A publishing problem: fact and fiction 08 | Journalists on exile, freedom, a return 10 | Making art from the forest 13 | New Mexican joint exudes playfulness 17 | What’s on: Watch, see, party CEO: Chris Dawe

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While Phnom Penh lags behind other global capitals in the culinary stakes, its community of foreign chefs can act as microcosm of global trends. We get inside the kitchen of some of the capital’s most experimental chefs. SCOTT HOWES

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Editor’s letter: writing, at home and abroad

Poppy mcpherson N the mid 90s, political journalist Sar Sophorn stood in front of the Cambodiana Hotel, a popular spot for press conferences, and posed for a photo. Within a few years, he would flee the country.

Warned that his work was putting his life at risk, he left Cambodia in 1998, going first to Bangkok and then the Netherlands, where he was granted asylum in 2001. He now lives in Finland, where there is a sizeable Cambodian community – including many political exiles.

We heard his story, and that of Lem Piseth, who, after fleeing under similar circumstances, chose to return, publicly, and hopes to mentor future generations of journalists.

The country’s literary world, meanwhile, is embattled by book piracy, murky distribu-

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Journalist Sophorn Sar, who fled the country in the late 1990s. SCOTT HOWES

tion practice and self-censorship. There are so many writers who don’t publish, we were told. Of those who do, some find inventive ways to make social criticism, quietly but with a pointed humour.

Onto artists, we profiled one of them this week: one painter who has made his home

and studio in the White Building; the other a photographer and painter who now lives in France, but has returned to Cambodia to find material to work. He uses the country’s coffee beans in his latest exhibition, which is open now.

We also took a peek inside some of the

most experimental kitchens in the capital, and had cider with Brian - the man behind some inventive local brews. As for Jackson he’s on holiday.

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Faine Greenwood@ faineg 11h Side effects of being in Southeast Asia: I am covered in tiny bandaids.

Brian Brunt, 63, has been making cider for most of his life. Five weeks ago, he launched Bruntys Premium Cider at Kingdom Brewery, where he brews strawberry, apple and pear cider. Currently serving the Cambodian and Thai markets, the dream is to become Asia’s premier cider brand. He talked to Bennett Murray about his bold business venture and his love of cider making.

Chris Brown@ChrisInCambo 44m Free WiFi seems to be everywhere in Phnom Penh these days, even my barbers, car wash and local petrol station have it.

The Amazing Ciderman: Brian Brunt has spent most of his life brewing and perfecting the drink. SCOTT HOWES

How long have you been in the cider business?

It started as a hobby of mine in a garage when I was a teenager about 45 years ago.

I made wine, beer and cider.

Cider interested me the most, because I lived in Somerset, the cider capital of the world.

A lot of my friends had farms, and they made ciders on the farms. I started commercially about 30 years ago.

I have several brands back in Somerset, including Broadoak, Moonshine, Rustic Gold, Red Oak, Pheasant Plucker, and a few I can’t remember at the moment.

My wife is back there running things. Cambodia is my first foreign venture.

Why did you choose Cambodia to set up shop?

I’d never actually been here before. A friend of mine has connections here, and we got together and had this idea and it seemed like the right thing

to do, because there’s nobody here doing it. Cider has been the fastest growing alcohol sector in the world for the past six or seven years.

Has it caught on in the local markets?

So far, it’s been fantastic.

Everybody seems to love it. We’ve done two years research down here, and we discovered [Asians] have a sweeter palate, and I thought that strawberries were bound to work. I sat down with my son and some strawberries and apples, and came up with his.

I don’t like it, it’s not for my palate, but the young girls like it especially.

We’re only launching the three flavours this year, but I’m looking at using some local Cambodian fruits in the future. I’ve been talking to people with mango groves.

Years ago I made a mango cider and it was delicious, so I think I might bring some

mangoes out. And some citrus fruits, with the lemons and oranges and the limes, would be lovely.

their beer half the time and our cider the other half. In a single shift, we can produce 10 pallets, or 1,440 bottles. We’ve

Where do you get your apples?

The apples come from Somerset. It’s not very complicated to get them here, because we evaporate them. got an 18 month contract, and You take all the water out, ship if it takes off the way it looks them, and then rehydrate, so like it will, we’ll invest in our you don’t lose any apples. The own place. strawberries and pears come from the UK as well.

How does brewing beer differ from brewing cider?

What is so great about It’s a completely different being a cider maker? thing from beer. Actually, It’s nice that I’m doing we don’t call it brewing, we something I love doing that’s call it cider making. We’re not like work, and everyone using fruits rather than enjoys it. The more I perfect malts and barley, so it’s a it, the happier I am. There are different process, and it takes still things I learn every day a lot longer to ferment. But after all these years. I’m 63 the equipment is largely and should be retiring, but the same, and we really it’s not work for me, so how didn’t need to bring a lot could I retire from something of equipment here. We just I love doing?

‘Cider has been the fastest growing alcohol sector in the world for the past six or seven years. ’ How did you end up bottling your cider with Kingdom Breweries?

Their sales had gone down a bit, and their bottle sales were not up at all. So this bottling line was available, and a partner of mine knew this place and he was going to buy it. We come down and offered X dollars per case, which is three to four more times than what they’d make on beer bottles. It’s a bit expensive, but it’s good to try this out without making our own facilities and spending millions. The facilities alternate between producing

brought our own filter, as well as our own rubber pipes to make sure there is no cross contamination with the beer.

is in the studio@FX_PP 21 Jun Gotta give it to the Chinese for having their embassy on Mao Tse Tung Blvd.

Make sense. Why isn’t the Russian on Russian Blvd? is in the studio@FX_PP 21 Jun No 9 is considered lucky here. So far I’ve seen beer garden or restaurant go as far as 9999999. Thats a lot of luck but no customers. morealtitude@morealtitude 21 Jun #HipsterAidWorker makes it personal goal to capacity-build the tea-lady into producing a decent skinny soy chai latte.

Cynan@cynan_sez 21 Jun Oh, you’re still ‘facilitating workshops’? Quaint.

You should come by my Ngorogoro womens group’s next open mic night. #hipsteraidworker Joanna Ash@SunGoddessTarot 6m The haze in #Singapore hasn’t hindered my ability to take on #Tarot reading appointments. I’ve been kept busy with email readings. #sghaze

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Inside artist’s studio home Rosa Ellen

that was cheap and had a space to work in, but I had N his small another friend that knew studio-cum-living about [the White Building]. area in the White I came to have a look and it Building, painter had a big space so I decided Pen Robit is using the small to rent”, says Robit, 24, who apartment’s kitchen as a moved to Phnom Penh from washroom, full of tarry oil Battambang this year. paint containers and pots. His “My father told me that kitchen – a gas burner and this building was built as collection of sauces and a jar apartments a long time ago. of coffee – has been The people who lived here transported to the balcony, were mostly artists: musicians, from which the ’70s-era dancers.” double doors have been pried He says he keeps to himself off long ago. The wide-open but sometimes hears guitar space is good for ventilation music and traditional music from the oil paint fumes, he coming from upstairs. says smiling.

Until recently the artist Leaning frame-to-frame shared his flat with two inside the apartment, are rabbits who “were like family”.

Robit’s bold, large scale Sadly the pair died, separately, canvases ready for exhibition on a trip to Battambang but in his latest solo show at their absence is somewhat Romeet Gallery next week. disguised by a new ginger “Before I came here I asked kitten, Miao Miao, who my friend to find me a place. springs and claws his way He couldn’t find somewhere around Robit as if the artist

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Pen Robit’s studio in the White Building has become his living space. Scott howes

were a human gymnasium.

The kitten runs behind one of the canvases suddenly and Robit coaxes it away from the artwork.

Lively and imposing, Robit’s dark and colourful oil paintings are pulsating,

around heads and sometimes on their own, hovering in front of a mass of black and blood-red lines.

“Wherever you go you see old people using the krama . . . Especially in Phnom Penh I see so many people who are

close-knit, active art scene was a big leap for the artist, who was educated at the city’s Phare Ponleu Selpak school and taught there for a short time before heading to the capital.

“They’re not so different, Phnom Penh and Battambang, but I just wanted to change my life.

Here there are opportunities, galleries where artists can talk, communicate . . . and I could improve myself.

“Before I went to Phare Ponleu, when I was young, very poor, begging for money, I had [art] in the blood. I wearing the krama – this is loved art when I was a child. who I want to show in society. I started to draw when I was In this society, it’s hard.” six years old. I drew cartoons, As well as being symbolic everything that I could, and of provincial life and an at school when I was taught older generation, the krama’s drawing, I was awarded the beautiful versatility – “to highest marks.” bathe, to shield from the sun” After five years completing – has a strong resonance for a graduate diploma for art Robit. at the well-known school, Leaving Battambang’s the 21-year-old was funded

‘I don’t like to draw small – I can’t express my feelings, what I want. Big has more power ’ tangled portraits of obscured faces and traditional objects.

The artist picks up a small plastic bag to demonstrate how he fills the dense backgrounds with a repetitive net-like pattern, dripping the paint across the canvas to create loose criss-crossed drops and forms.

The paintings feature kramas, looped and folded

to study in Paris for three months.

“I learned a lot of visual art techniques, I studied life drawing, anatomy, portrait, observation and realist painting and many more techniques.”

The Romeet show is Robit’s second solo exhibition at the Phare Ponleu’s Phnom Penh gallery and will feature 13 works on the poignant kramas and portraits theme.

To get it all finished, Robit begins his days early, at 6am, when the White Buildings is alive with vegetable sellers, roaring children and cornershop life.

On the wall in his studio, ‘WORK HARD’ is written in orange chalk.

“I don’t like to draw small – I can’t express my feelings, what I want.

“Big has more power, the big canvas offers more inspiration.”

Pen Robit’s larger-than-life drip paintings and portraits. Scott howes

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Chefs go big by thinking smaller At the Common Tiger, seabass served with heat-resistant agar agar, which acts as a gelling agent and allows the cucumber gel to be cooked at high heat. SCOTT HOWES

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make around 300 individual spheres.

From spherifying juices to flash freezing ice t a specially prepared meal at cream with liquid nitrogen, touches of applied Sofitel’s Do Forni restaurant, science have occurred in the culinary arts for Andreas Molinari, the restaurant’s decades. executive sous chef, serves smoked Sometimes referred to as molecular salmon adorned with sweet green spheres that gastronomy, chefs exploit foods’ physical resemble caviar. properties for various reasons: from At the end of the course, Molinari reveals boosting flavour, to making the texture more that the little balls are actually cucumber juice, interesting, or the presentation slicker. ‘spherified’ with sodium alginate and calcium.

While Phnom Penh lags behind other “You have to make these spheres one by one, global capitals in the culinary stakes, its drop by drop, with a syringe,” says Molinari, community of foreign chefs can act as who estimates it takes two and a half hours to microcosm of sorts for the varying styles and opinions found in restaurants the world over.

Some - such as Molinari, who most recently worked at Sheraton Abu Dhabi - come with the international hotel brands, while others choose to set up shop in Cambodia because they thrive on the challenge of developing the Kingdom’s culinary offerings.

Timothy Bruyns, head chef at the experimental new restaurant Common Tiger, says he uses ‘modernist’ techniques to play with customers’ preconceived notions of how a dish should be experienced.

One of Bruyn’s techniques is to extract the maltodextrin molecule from tapioca, which absorbs fats and oils, and releases them in water. The resulting powder can then be used as flavouring.

“It’s not heavy and it doesn’t overpower the dish. People put it in their mouths and it reconstitutes itself with moisture and you’ve got the green peppercorn oil, foie gras fat butter, or peanut butter or something like that.”

Bruyn presents a spoonful of a brownish Caspar von Hofmannsthal, head chef at Deco. SCOTT powder. It dissolves in the mouth, releasing HOWES a load of foie gras flavouring, uncanny in its

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resemblance to the real thing.

While Bruyn’s chemical extractions play with the customers’ sense of texture, Caspar von Hofmannsthal, head chef at Deco, uses scientific techniques to cook food under vacuum at precise temperatures.

Sous-vide cooking involves preparing vacuum-sealed food at low temperatures in a water bath, allowing the food to retain its juices and other flavourings that are otherwise lost in the process.

“Say you’re roasting a fillet of beef in the oven,” says von Hofmannsthal, “when you take it out, all the juices come out. That’s the fat that has been melted down, where lots of the flavour is. If you can imagine taking that beef and vacuuming it in a bag, there’s nowhere for that fat to go apart from staying in the meat.”

The use of a slow-cooking water bath allows for incredibly precise temperatures and consistent final products, which prevent overcooking and undercooking. Consequently, Von Hofmannsthal uses sous-vide for all of his proteins, including snapper, chicken, steaks, pork and hamburgers.

Sacha Hernaus, who ran the modernist Aqua Restaurant before it closed earlier this year, says that the concept of playing around with the physical properties of food is nothing new.

“When you take some cream, and put some sugar and you whip it, that is already molecular cooking,” says Hernaus.

The term molecular gastronomy, which was coined by French chemist Hervé in the 1990s, raises eyebrows among some of Phnom Penh’s chefs.

“What is ‘molecular’?” said Hofmannsthal, who says he does not include sous vide under that umbrella. “Everything has molecules in it.”

Sous-vide cooking involves vacuum-sealing food.

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The Sofitel’s Molinari says that so-called molecular chefs often sacrifice heartiness for chicness. “[Molecular gastronomy] is more about preparation, because it looks nice, neat and fancy,” says Molinari. “But it will never fill your stomach.”

Bruyns says that the term can be used more broadly to refer to refer to any approach to cooking that makes use of applied science – though he would never use it to describe his own cooking.

“There’s a misnomer about molecular gastronomy being a defined cuisine, when it’s actually defined as the study of the physical facts of what happens during the process of cooking,” he says.

“Everybody wants to define everything these days and you have to have a catchphrase, word or f---ing name for everything.

“If people come here expecting molecular cooking they will be disappointed, because all they get is food that tastes good.”

And for some, old fashioned classics – from barbeque steak to grilled squid – are all that is needed for a good time.

Song Teng, head chef at the Hotel Cambodiana, said some of the newer ideas wouldn’t have a huge impact on the local market anytime soon.

“In general, Cambodians like Cambodian food.”

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An unpublished manuscript. The author says the sensitive nature of parts prevent him from publishing it in Cambodia. sCOTT HOWES

Book bound: publishing trap Cambodia’s literature output is bigger than you think. But putting a novel out in the world is a hard slog and everyone suffers for it, writes Rosa Ellen.

N the traumatised, material-deprived scramble of Phnom Penh in the 1980s, a library of sorts emerged. For a few hours or a day, a borrower could take out a handwritten story from a shop, read it for pleasure and return the papers when they had had their fill of words. Many would return for the next installment.

Thirty years later, such low-margin publishing ingenuity might be seen on every street corner: photocopied books haunt newsstands and bookshops, selling Khmer language novels for half the price of the real copy. But in the piles of variously cheap and impressive-looking replicas lies a bitter truth: Cambodia’s contemporary literature is being hindered by a web of book piracy, murky book distribution and selfcensorship, say writers and editors.

In the bright new office space of the Nou Hach Literary Association in BKK1, Teri Yamada, co-founder of the literary group, nominates piracy as the biggest obstacle facing the journal, Nou Hach, which comes out once a year. Unlike most book publishers in the Kingdom, the non-profit team behind the Nou Hach Association copy edit, discuss, promote and translate the literary journal stories into English.

When it comes to getting the journal into bookstands, the path is less straightforward. For Cambodian writers with manuscripts, the road to publication is even rougher.

“The culture here undercuts the ability for publishers to publish fiction,” says Yamada, a professor of Asian Studies in Long Beach, California.

“In the past for Nou Hach we actually had to hire someone who apparently had connections with these little shops in various markets – [like] O’Russey - this person would take and sell a couple of copies to each little shop they would get their cut and if they had connections, they could do it Siem Photocopied and pirated books rob authors of proper payment - some argue it also attracts a larger readership. SCOTT HOWES Reap and Battambang and they might be able to get it out into the countryside. But what we noticed immediately with ours is that we couldn’t make any money…they would be Without the literary book market - established publishing Thailand, Vietnam and the West, for Cambodian writers immediately pirated and we had no control over that.” houses and professional fiction editors - that exists in trying to get their novels published and read, the challenge is

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great. “It’s different from the West,” says prolific writer Suong Mak, 26, who has written 50 novels and more than 200 short stories, including Boyfriend, the first contemporary Khmer novel about a gay-male couple, mostly published on his blog, Archphkai.

“If I want to publish my book I have to sell it to a publisher.

Then he/she pays me some money that we have agreed to.

Even though that book might become a best seller, I will get nothing because the book belongs to the publisher already after paying.”

Young fiction writer Heng Borin, whose novel Blood from Hell was published after a friend put up money to a local publisher, treats Cambodia’s fiction publishers with similar forbearance.

“Because I feel we cannot really trust them. My contract says they’ll publish 1000 [copies] but they might make 2000.

How can we trust them?”

Although the size of Cambodia’s small literary readership is bemoaned, the number of writers who do invest in publishers to print their novels face inevitable photocopying and often see their work replicated in book stalls cross the city. The inability to make money because of piracy is what deters literary publishers in Cambodia, says Yamada.

“Because why go to the trouble of spending $500 to publish your own work and have it be popular and have it be immediately pirated for half of the amount?” says Yamada.

“I’m not even going to distribute [Nou Hach] any longer.

We’re going to go all online…If I’m going to publish I’ll selfpublish and bring copies here.”

Twenty-six-year-old Borin, who is reading an (unpirated) copy of Isac Marion’s Warm Bodies, has seen his work reappear in photocopied versions but has a different take.

“For me, I don’t care because I want people to read my books. I think if that they don’t want to read the book, they wouldn’t steal it. Some people are poor. If they buy one copy and copy the book…I’m happy they do it. Even though we want to protect, we cannot.”

Since the loss of almost an entire popular generation of writers from the 1950s and 60s under the Khmer Rouge, through to the slow re-emergence of fiction writing, contemporary stories have moved in a different storytelling style, says Yin Luoth, co-founder of Nou Hach., says Yin Luoth, co-founder of Nou Hach.

“The old style narrative, not the first person [we see now] – it was usually more romantic, very poetic – mostly how

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Writer and poet Heng Borin has published two novels and through both self-publishing and a local distributor. SCOTT HOWES

beautiful the lady is looking, and descriptions of nature…

Now we seem to delve into issues and topics.”

While writers like Borin insists there is freedom to publish stories reflecting criticism of authority and society, the “limitations” as book publisher Kim Channa says, have an effect on creative output.

“There are so many writers who don’t publish,” says Heng Sreang, lecturer at Pannasastra University.

The director of Cambodia PEN, Sreang guides the writers organisation, which traditionally promotes writers’ freedom of expression, down “a very clear line”.

“For me I have my own philosophy. As long as people have a chance to talk, to write, to publish their work, that is the freedom of expression. I create that kind of opportunity and chance [in Cambodia].”

In a café in Phnom Penh, a writer who has published more than 10 novels puts his unpublished manuscript on the table. A thick tome, the novel is set across the past four decades and “has some sentences that are difficult to express in our society.”

“If I published the book I’d have to take those sentences out. Things which happened which led Cambodia to the present day.”

Teri Yamada is careful to distinguish between political criticism and social criticism in Nou Hach’s contemporary fiction. “In many ways our stories contain socially critical themes but they’re not politically critical. In other words American culture isn’t perfect either… and certainly there are novelists who write about that but it’s not necessarily a political attack against the government when you write like

that.”

Most writers – whether self-published or through a local publisher – self-censor to some degree, agrees Mak, “But some still continue their criticism of society and problems in Cambodia. Some are not afraid about that and some have their own strategy …For example, characters in their story are animals or anything not related to humans, or [they are] human but don’t refer to someone directly.”

In the landmark 2006 study Publishing in Cambodia, by the Center of Khmer Studies, the report concluded ‘it is abundantly clear that Cambodian writers are almost invariably unable to make a living from their writing.’ The small book market and low purchasing power of everyday readers has not changed, but contemporary fiction must have a room to grow, say Sreang and Nou Hach.

Three groups, Nou Hach, Cambodia PEN and the less-active Khmer Writers Association, all have desires to improve the quality of writing and lessen the obstacles to publishing novels.

Sreang is starting a book reciprocity scheme in different in PEN, and recently held a PEN forum on writing, Nou Hach, which received more than 100 entries in their 2013 literary prize, is toying with the idea of a book fair for fiction writers.

A book publisher that “looks truly at literary value” would improve Cambodia’s literature scene as well, says Luoth.

Holding up his copy of Warm Bodies, Borin reels of a list of American novelists.

“Isaac Marian was only poor and worked in a hospital – but now he’s got a Hollywood movie.” He laughs. “So different for Cambodia!”

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Tale of two journalists: exile, freedom, a return CLAIRE KNOX

Sok Yoeun. CPP officials alleged Sok Yoeun (Sophorn’s father-in-law) was involved SINCE 1992, 252 journalists have in a 1998 Siem Reap rocket attack that been killed in Southeast Asia (out of 985 was alleged to be an assassination attempt worldwide). The Philippines is the second against Prime Minister Hun Sen. On March deadliest country in the world for a journalist 22, 2001, Sophorn was granted political – at least 73 have been killed since 1992. asylum in the Netherlands. Sophorn now Cambodia’s statistics are also unsettling: lives in Helsinki, Finland, with his wife and nine journalists have been killed since 1992 two-year-old daughter, and is a member of with a motive confirmed, the most recent the Cambodia Friendship Association in just last September in the dense canopies Finland. of Ratanakiri, when Hang Serei Oudom, “It was a shock when many of my who had been investigating reports of illegal reporter or editor peers, some were logging by local officials for the Virakchun friends, were killed. In June 1994 Tou Khmer Daily was found dead in the boot of Chhorn Mongkol [editor of Antarakhum (Intervention), a paper which had a car. condemned corruption among government Last week saw crusaders for press freedom officials] was shot dead on the street. from 67 countries gather in Phnom Penh Then in March his office was attacked for the twice-yearly IFEX – a network of with a grenade [nobody was ever held organisations defending and promoting free expression – conference. The consortium called accountable]. When Noun Chan was gunned down in 1994 driving in the streets on ASEAN to appoint a Southeast Asia of the city, it was unbelievable, terrible. regional Special Rapporteur for Freedom of But I continued as a journalist. After 1997 Opinion and Expression.

I visited the UN human rights office and In April, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM), which produces they advised me to flee to Bangkok. I went Voice of Democracy radio, released a scathing through Battambang, in the evening, and hid there for one night. Then in Poipet in a report on the issues that fetter independent taxi. I was paranoid and anxious. Someone media in the country. helped me cross the border. I was so young “Journalists are just more afraid than ever and small at that time. At least as a print to speak, there’s a huge cycle of intimidation journalist, I thought, nobody knew my face and threats - journalists don’t dare to report on things now, it’s self-censorship. The biggest or voice.

“The past is the past, but it’s also the hurdle here is the political environment,” CCIM director Pa Ngoun Teang told 7Days. present. My articles were about UNTAC,

‘The elections…it’s hard to say…but could be dark. Cambodian people are very scared in public, they cannot speak freely ’ Lem Piseth, 44, who fled to Norway but has recently returned. SUPPLIED

A university teacher at the time, he said the killing of journalists, the intimidation of the media, and the exile of many reporters in 1990s had spurred his passion for working in the media and promoting free press. He was arrested himself in 2006.

7Days spoke to two journalists, Sar Sophorn and Lem Piseth, who were forced into exile after receiving death threats in response to politically charged stories they had reported.

deforestation, corruption. I stay in touch with people in Cambodia and have hosted or met with many Cambodians who come to Finland – Mu Sochua, Kem Sokha, musicians, CPP members, Licadho, I try to open up my home and knowledge to anyone with a Cambodian connection.

It’s my nature do be active and help my country, despite the distance. Others [political exiles in Helsinki] are still afraid [of persecution] even though they are far away from Cambodia…some say they always Sar Sophorn, 40, is the former editor-in-chief of two now defunct political will be, but I’m not really. I don’t keep silent opposition newspapers: Serei Pheap Thmei as others do. I’ve been back to Cambodia a few times and, yes, I feel protected by my (New Liberty News) and Proyuth News Finnish citizenship.

(Fighter News). At age 20, Sophorn began “Most Cambodian people here are his newspaper career as a technician on the political refugees. There are two main Khmer Youth Newspaper. In August 1997, groups, those that came in the late 1980s after the coup d’état, Sophorn republished Fighter News. It was swiftly suspended by after the Khmer Rouge and a second wave the Ministry of Information and a summons who came in late 2000. People in danger, to appear at the Phnom Penh municipal identified by the UN. Finland and Norway court was issued for “misinformation” and the Netherlands were the countries that under the UNTAC-period criminal law. we could get to quickest – the US was next Sophorn fled to Thailand, in January 1998 but it took longer and most of us were in where he was classified a UNHCR person imminent danger. Most are from the Sam of concern. From Bangkok, he edited Light Rainsy Party, some are from unions – Chea of the Khmer Nation (an online opposition Vichea’s wife lives here and is a good friend. bulletin) and became the general assistant She only spent a few days in Bangkok. Most to opposition leader Sam Rainsy. On of them are living in Helsinki and Espoo December 24, 1999, he was held in custody [the country’s second largest city]. in Bangkok with Sam Rainsy Party member “The community here follow what

is happening at home very, very closely.

We still also have water festival, Khmer New Year celebrations. This is important perhaps because Finland, these northern parts of the world are the polar opposite to Cambodia. Sometimes it’s -30 degrees.

It might seem not a big deal compared

to what they have been through but it is difficult - the darkness, culture change, the food. But you adapt and then you enjoy. The quality of education and the healthcare and government support is overwhelming.

“For many here, it is not safe to return to Cambodia and they miss it everyday.

Journalist Sar Sophorn was the editor of two political opposition newspapers but fled the country in 1998. SUPPLIED

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Sar Sophorn with his family, in Finland. SUPPLIED

People donate money to various causes and campaigns.

“The elections…it’s hard to say…but could be dark. Cambodian people are very scared in public, they cannot speak freely. I guess we’re afforded that now [in Finland].

Vote buying and intimidation still exists in Cambodia.

“The community here get together at dinners - we listen to radio, internet and we discuss what is happening, the BK residents, anyone who has a problem. We do what we can, we donate what we can. There’s not much Cambodian food here but we have Battambang rice and morning glory…there’s no Prahok though.

“I’m very happy now. I have a family, I graduated with a degree in social healthcare.

I live freely, enjoy democracy and breathe freedom here. Cambodians live here and in other countries like this without corruption, and that’s the biggest point safety. I don’t know if I want my daughter to go to Cambodia but I want her to have a connection to the country.” *** Lem Piseth, 44, worked on and off for two decades as a broadcast reporter for Radio Free Asia and the editor of newspaper The Free Press Magazine before fleeing to Thailand in 2008. He had been investigating a drug trafficking and murder case with links to officials. Three days earlier, he says, his daughter found six bullets lined up outside the family’s front gates. As dusk fell on April 13 in Phnom Penh, a group of eight men on motorcycles surrounded Piseth and threatened him. He spent eight months in Bangkok before he was granted asylum in Norway and said throughout that time he “never felt safe.”

It was the third time Piseth had fled to Thailand in response to death threats he encountered – numerous phone calls from anonymous people asking him if he wanted to die. He believes these were responses to reports of his that aired on deforestation in swathes of Prey Long and Kampong Thom.

In mid 2009 he re-launched The Free Press Magazine online from his Grimstad home, where his wife and five children continue to live. He returned to Cambodia this year and hopes to mentor the future generations of journalists – he’s helped train Apsara TV journalists in Bangkok and wants to start a web-cast news service.

“We worked for freedom of the press and expression. Our first issue of the magazine was printed in November 2007. We covered some sensitive issues and all 2000 copies were confiscated on November 3. Police came to our offices and created biographies and profiles on all of our staff. My house in Kandal was visited by police. We had 10 journalists at this stage, and I advised all to have a low profile. As publisher and editor, I fled, that was the second time [the first was as a RFA reporter]. I came back

I felt really deflated and upset when I left. I thought I had lost my chance, as a journalist. I thought: that’s my career over.

I didn’t want to go. Some people want to go to get citizenship in other countries, the West. For me that is not important.

“I remember when Noun Chan was killed [the editor of Samleng Yuvachun Khmer, who was killed in 1994] I never knew him though. I felt frustrated, afraid, anger. My wife and family almost every night asked me to stop. My mother was petrified. Before I was a teacher, my mother and father had been teaching. They wanted me to continue that, not to challenge things. Especially the type of journalist I was, an aggressive one. Most of my articles then were biased towards the opposition, even though I was not a member of the political party. I’ve changed now. I’ve had the chance to study

‘When I was surrounded by the men, I felt lonely and afraid. We were all in a sea, was it the government, the military, the opposition?’ again in December. I didn’t want to live abroad. I wanted to work for the media in my own country so much. I think that the media help build democracy, especially in developing countries. I never knew who or what was threatening me and that was the scariest part.

“That last time, when I was surrounded by the men, I felt lonely and afraid. We were all in a sea, we could not see who it was – the government, the military, the opposition?

When many of the papers started in the 90s, there was so much fighting between politicians, games being played, killing people and accusing each other. Very, very murky. We work for our own will, we work for our people. That’s the ultimate role of the journalist. Just to tell the truth.

“I fled in a taxi through Siem Reap,

journalism, and I value being objective, balanced. When I worked back then at the start, much was opinion, rather than news.

“I was first a high school teacher since 1989. I always enjoyed reading the newspapers, in the early 90s. I could read some English but not much. I then saw the Phnom Penh Post. I would read it cover to back with a dictionary. I really valued journalists after that and made it my mission to become one. I realised when things [are given coverage in the press] people are more likely to take actions – most are afraid to be criticised publicly – so the media has a lot of sway and power in that way. I want to work for an organisation that isn’t controlled by anything or dictated to or abused by authorities, to be able to use my own freedom – so I decided to write articles

for local papers.

“I used to report on deforestation and I supported [murdered environmental activist] Chut Wutty’s activity. In Prey Long in 2007, I remember we got messages from Global Witness…clues… then they assigned me to the jungle to investigate deforestation - it is the largest forest in Southeast Asia.

I went undercover as an illegal logger… in disguise…and had the chance to meet commune leaders, chance to talk to the loggers, the military. When I think of this now it was incredibly dangerous. They followed me at that time. Who knows if it was the government, the military, the villagers – there’s a range of people who logging benefits and I won’t point fingers.

“I completed a graduate diploma in media management in the US. We invited media projects to join in training sessions in Bangkok in 2011 and 2012 – I wanted them in Cambodia but was still afraid. Can I come back? I want to say that …I fled the country for my safety. Not because I wanted to leave. I wanted asylum for my safety. Now that situation is better I want to be back here.

“I’m here to set up my second test to the Cambodian government – is it okay for me to be here? They know that I am here.

“In Norway, I wrote about refugees and immigration. I understood and learnt much about reporting. That is why it is important for me to continue my magazine, here in Cambodia. The government need to learn, journalists need to learn.” *Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said journalists had not been persecuted over the last two decades in Cambodia.

“I can say that at time between 19932000 many people used the occasion to gain a visa to a foreign country. In response to threats after deforestation articles…the courts in Cambodia have already made judgements on this. The government is not idle…we do our best to ensure people are brought to justice for these crimes.”

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“When we die we go back to nature”: Nou Sary’s exhibition focuses on the cyclical nature of our environment. sUPPLIED

An artist on painting with the forest Nou Sary speaks four languages, is an accomplished painter, and has taken awardwinning photographs. For his latest exhibition, Homme et Nature, on show in Phnom Penh now, he explored - and made use of - some of our material surroundings Chloe Cann

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ambodian artist Nou Sary is a man of many talents, but he is the first to admit that his English skills are a bit rusty. “About 12 years ago I learned to speak English, so it’s very difficult for me to return to speaking it,” he says apologetically. Sary, who now lives in

France, quietly mentions that he sometimes gets confused between the four other languages he speaks fluently.

The Khmer Rouge regime left Sary without any family, and as a result he spent his childhood in an orphanage. His international success on the arts stage is a symbol of his resilience.

While Sary sometimes creates engravings

and drawings, his latest exhibition, Homme et Nature (Man and Nature), showcases his mastery of painting and photography as well as art installations.

Is there one artistic pursuit that he naturally gravitates towards? “I’m always painting.

In the last five years I’ve become busy [with lots of projects] but I always think about my painting.”

While studying for his artistic diploma in France Sary took to black and white photography, as the materials he needed for painting were too expensive there. Ironically, it is his photography that earned him a bronze medal from the Association of French Artists.

The exhibition explores the relationship between man and his earthly environment and Sary takes a holistic approach to the

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Cambodia inspired Sary’s paintings, he says, even though they were created while he was living in France. PHA LINA

subject, working with nature to create his art.

“My paintings are made from the colours that you see in the forest: coffee beans, ochre, the spices found in curry.” Sary tries to use colours from the natural world wherever possible and seven of the paintings at the exhibition use pigment from (Cambodian) coffee beans.

Environmental awareness is one of the body has energy for working because we eat central themes of Homme et Nature, but fruit and vegetables provided by nature,” he sustenance is also a recurring focus. “The says. Sary has first-hand experience of how

A monk’s umbrella can be seen among the paint. Sary believes that man survives thanks to nature’s bounty. PHA LINA

‘My paintings are made from the colours that you see in the forest: coffee beans, ochre, the spices found in curry. ’

Sary learned traditional Cambodian dances during his childhood, spent in an orphanage after the destructive Khmer Rouge regime. SUPPLIED

food can give life but also take it away, having lost his father to famine under the Khmer Rouge.

Sary’s stay in the Cambodian capital will be short-lived, but just like his passion for painting, coming back to his birthplace is something that’s always on his mind. “In August I will go back to France, but I want to return to live in Cambodia, to teach children how to study art.” The exhibition takes place between June 27 – August 31 at the gallery of the Institut français du Cambodge, #218 street 184.

Some of the poses in Sary’s work are inspired by the traditional Cambodian dances which he learned.

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Guidebook obscures modern Myanmar under retro patina Douglas Long aroline Courtauld’s awkwardly titled Myanmar: Burma in Style, a guidebook released earlier this year by Hong Kong-based Odyssey Books, aims to offer a more complete, and more literary, reading experience for those planning to visit the so-called Golden Land.

The book immediately stands out for the effort put into the visual presentation: It’s printed on heavy, glossy paper, and the pages are peppered with dozens of colourful, high-quality photographs of people and places around the country.

But does the content of Burma in Style deliver on the promise of the surface sheen?

The book’s basic structure holds few surprises. The introduction includes sections on history, geography, people of Myanmar, religion and society, and festival and theatre. There are also facts for the traveller (getting around, visas, health, food, shopping), practical information (travel agencies, hotels, restaurants), reading recommendations, maps and a

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glossary.

As for destinations, the focus remains on the main tourist circuit – Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan and Inle Lake – while information on secondary sites such as Naypyidaw, Mrauk Oo, Mawlamyine and Kachin state is kept very brief.

As such, Burma in Style is best suited for readers who have never been to Myanmar. However, even those who have lived in-country for a while might find it handy to read the “Special Topic” sections on nats, lacquerware, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and more, as well as “Literary Excerpts” by authors ranging from George Orwell to Norman Lewis.

Burma in Style is not without its problems. For starters, the text seems quickly written. The sentence structure is often awkward, even sloppy at times, and there are occasional irreconcilable, and inexcusable, contradictions within the same paragraph.

The brief section on Setse Beach begins: “Before starting the hot return journey to Mawlamyine, pause at Setse Beach for a refreshing swim in the clear waters of the Gulf of Mottama (formerly Martaban).”

Three sentences later we read, in

reference to the same beach: “As this beach is south of the Ayeyarwady Delta the sea water here is brown, so not so inviting for a swim.”

There is also a disappointing lack of specificity concerning “recent” events, which might point to a lack of up-to-date primary research. In fact, the word “recent” recurred so frequently in lieu of precise dates that its repeated appearance soon became very noticeable and very grating.

The author’s focus on the distant past rather than more “recent” developments fits comfortably within Courtauld’s tendency to overromanticise Myanmar. Any form of development is apparently felt to be an inconvenient and inconsequential assault on the quaintness that foreign visitors hold so dear.

For sure, the old-school description of Thingyan Water Festival won’t come close to preparing visitors for the chaos that rules the streets of Yangon and Mandalay during the holiday, and Courtauld even claims that festival-goers will wait politely while you put your camera away before splashing you. (I hope the publishers have a good team of lawyers on hand to deal with readers who follow this poor advice and, as a

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result, find themselves in possession of broken, waterlogged cameras.)

Despite these problems, Burma in Style – especially the first-rate photography – will succeed in infecting most readers with the travel bug. I’ve been to nearly all the destinations covered in the book on multiple occasions but perusing it

gave me a strong urge to lock up the house and head upcountry.

But Burma in Style will have limited utility out in the field, and therefore probably won’t make the cut when you’re deciding what to pack in your suitcase or backpack. Bring along your much more useful Lonely Planet guide instead. MYANMAR TIMES

Movies Reviews

World War Z: an intelligent thriller Ann Hornaday

contours of a globe-trotting mystery, throwing in occasional set pieces of terror and Surprisingly entertaining, even fitfully mayhem. One of the most impressive, which exciting, World War Z is primarily an exercise projects the cheering image of Israeli Jews and in expectation management. Forget those Palestinians finding common cause against trailers suggesting a rock ’em, sock ’em, blowthe teeming undead behind the separation it-all-up extravaganza or a Grand Guiginol wall in Jerusalem, results in Gerry’s acquiring of cannibalistic grotesquerie by way of those a sister-in-arms, a tough Israeli soldier named titular Z’s; i.e., face-eating zombies.

Segen, played by Daniella Kertesz. (Make Instead, be prepared for a relatively grownwhat you will of her unsettling resemblance to up, modestly intelligent and refreshingly a Holocaust survivor.) Later, after a sequence un-bombastic thriller that owes as much that might fairly be described as the Ultimate to medical tick-tocks such as Outbreak Revenge of Economy Class, World War Z and Contagion as it does to 28 Days Later indulges in a rare instance of graphic ickiness, and the seminal works of George Romero. albeit one from which its victim recovers in Anchored by a solid lead performance by near-record time.

Brad Pitt, who plays a happy Philadelphia For all the carnage and horror that World househusband pulled back into his old War Z entails, its net effect is oddly soothing, profession of UN investigator when a perhaps because one of the conceits of the zombie apocalypse threatens to destroy the plot is that Gerry and his confederates must Brad Pitt plays the ideal reluctant hero in World War Z, a film he also produced. bloomberg world, World War Z may not break new work quietly so as not to attract their enemies’ ground in either of the genres it straddles. hour traffic. Soon Gerry is enlisted by a problem solver, even when those problems attention. (When they fail, the zombies come But it deserves a certain amount of credit for former colleague to help stop the epidemic, can be solved only by swiftly cutting at them with necks outstretched, clicking refusing to buy into the current cinematic and with a virologist and Navy SEAL team someone’s hand off. their teeth like menacing squirrels on the arms race in Biggest, Loudest and Dumbest. in tow, he lands in South Korea, where the But don’t worry: Even in that wincehunt for winter chestnuts.)

The most memorable sequence of World first known zombie infestation occurred. inducing scene, the blood is kept safely off the Pitt, who produced World War Z after War Z occurs early in the film, when Gerry With his dashing neck scarf and blondscreen. World War Z, which was directed by optioning the book by Max Brooks, does Lane (Pitt), his wife, Karin (Mireille Enos), highlighted hair worn just long enough to Marc Forster from a much-worked-over script his best to inject a note of serious global and their two daughters are caught in a suggest rugged iconoclasm, Pitt portrays by a large team of writers, doesn’t traffic in consciousness into what can be read as both maelstrom in downtown Philadelphia, Gerry as the ideal reluctant hero, less a the kind of gratuitous gore for which zombie an outlandish horror fantasy and a flattering where a horde of blue-veined, palsied comic-book-style vanquisher of flesh-eating flicks are known and loved. portrait of brave and handsome self-sacrifice. the washington post wraiths makes a gruesome hash of rushspecters than a thoughtful, proficient Instead, the film follows the classic

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Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, Koh Kong. SCOTT HOWES

New Mexican joint exudes playfulness Poppy McPherson

on microwaved Chimmychangas in the ciudades perdidas – though recipes don’t have names Once Upon a Time in Mexico would – they’re simply “what your suggest otherwise.) grandmother used to cook for Not so Alma, which specialises you”, Barbara Nicauz, chef at new in hearty home-cooking. Sadly, the Russian Market eatery Alma Cafe, place doesn’t get its name from a told me over an indulgent breakfast. fiery mamacita – the word means I learned to associate Tex Mex ‘soul’ in Spanish. Alma makes with a kind of pathetic tragedy “Mexican soul food”, said charming early in life. It was a family trip to mamacita stand-in Barbara (from Disneyland Paris. I had stomped Acapulco via New York City). and refused my mother’s entreaties The place – barely a month old to take us into the city – home – is on the corner of a residential of the Louvre and Picasso. It was neighbourhood. A stick man in a between Tex, Café Mickey and multi-coloured cape and a mariachi King Ludwick’s Castle. We chose hat stands guard at the entrance. gloopy sour cream and nachos There’s a teapot on the counter sandwiched together with cheese with little cardboard handlebar as plastic as the Donald Duck mustaches, handed out to each keychain in my sweaty little fist. table at the end of the meal.

And so the glowing neon Tex The whole setup exudes a Mex sign hangs heavy over the sense of playful comfort. Like a culinary tradition of Mesoamerica. golden retriever, or the Beatles.

Cities the world over are packed On the table next to us a baby in a with tacquierias touting a tepid highchair modeled one gleefully. assortment of dishes – none Faint trumpheting could be heard resembling what’s actually on the from the mariachi on the stereo. An tables of Mexico City. (Disclaimer: earnest-looking man wandered out I have never been, for all I know of the kitchen, whisk in hand. they could be happily munching The staff are canny marketers.

My appetite was initially whetted by the menu, which changes daily, and is posted to Facebook. The feed is a delight: colourful shots of plates, from glistening oxtail stew to dense Kahlua chocolate cake, accompanied by breathless commentary (“Tres leches cake for dessert today!!!!!”) and more mustached babies.

On a recent Monday afternoon we tried carnitas with sautéd vegetables ($5, including watermelon limeade). This was the pork of dreams: soft, fatty strips oozing juice with every bite and completed with soft, creamy bean. The filling was wrapped in a handmade flour tortilla, with a doughy consistency and as absorbent as an Indian roti, with fried peppers on the side.

Then some chicken empanisado (breaded, tender on the inside with a satisfying crunchy coating) with salsa, and rice pilaf (also $5).

Dessert was vanilla bean sponge ($2) – delightfully moist, and served with strawberry puree and whipped cream. Real strawberries, with real strawberry tang – syrupy,

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fruity joy. Plus the kind of sugary thick whipped cream that sticks to the plate and invites furtive lapping.

Like a summer picnic in England.

We turned up the next morning for breakfast. So did the baby in the highchair. This is the kind of place that will attract a regular clientele.

The breakfast burrito ($4) came with choritzo, egg and potato, plus chilis – one of the few ingredients imported from Mexico, according to Barbara. Smoky, spicy and

pleasantly light on the egg. French toast ($3) was thick and fluffy, sprinkled with cinnamon and drenched in syrup.

It’s cheap, too: a morning main is served with juice and unlimited mugs of coffee and cream for $3-$5. Cheap enough to leave an extra dollar for the smiley paper mustache.

(Open daily for breakfast and lunch, with dinner plans pending. #43A, Street 123/454). ​​​​​​

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06:00 Birth

16:00 Ben 10: Omniverse

08:40 The Grey

16:30 Dragons: Riders Of The Berk

10:35 The Beach

17:20 CSI: Miami

16:30 Figure It Out

17:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

12:30 What To Expect When You;

18:15 CSI: Miami

17:00 Spongebob Squarepants

18:00 Adventure Time

14:20 21 Jump Street

19:10 Hancock : Prod Year

19:00 Tom S Jerry Show

16:10 Bad Ass

20:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

17:40 Once Upon A Time

20:45 Fia Fl Champ

21:00 Whale Wars: Viking Shores 22:00 Untamed A Uncut

Monday

08:00 Head Of State 09:45 Source Code 11:30 Abduction 13:30 The Last Exorcism 15:15 The Core 17:30 In The Line Of Fire

15:40 Trie Voice

21:00 Hawaii Five 21:55 CSI: New York

21:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball

18:25 Cat 8 - Part 1 Of 2

19:45 The Core

22:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

20:00 Spy Kids:

22:50 Hawaii Five

22:00 Birth

23:00 Chowder

21:30 X-Men: First Class

23:45 Wipeout Canada

15:30 Marvin Marvin 16:00 Big Time Rush

17:30 Rocket Monkeys 18:00 Nicktoons : Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles 18:30 Nicktoons : Robot S Monster 19:00 Spongebob Squarepants 19:30 The Fairly Oddparents 20:30 House Of Anubis

What’s on TV

june 28 - july 04 , 2013 7DAYS THE PHNOM PENH POST

Monday

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

17:30 Baseball Tonight International

07:00 Champ, Wimbledon 2013 Best Of 18:00 The Lady With 700 Cats

18:30 Fox Sports Central Live

Week 1 Highlights,

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

08:00 Wimbledon

19:00 Expedmon Wild 20:00 Close Quarter Battle 20:30 Close Quarter Battle 21:00 Lords Of War

16:30 Champ, Wimbledon 2013 Best Of 21:30 Lords Of War

22:30 Global Football

Week 1 Highlights,

23:00 The Football Review

22:00 Taboo 23:00 Close Quarter Battle

23:30 Fox Sports Central

17:30 Wimbledon

23:30 Close Quarter Battle

01:45 The Last Exorcism

13:00 Adventure Time 14:00 Kumbh Karan 15:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 16:00 Ben 10: Omniverse 16:30 Dragons: Riders Of The Berk 17:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 18:00 Adventure Time 19:00 Tom S Jerry Show 20:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 21:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball 22:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches 23:00 Chowder

04:50 06:20 08:20 09:55 11:50 13:15

15

12:30 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00

Auction Kings Around The World In 80 Ways Deadliest Catch Man Vs Wild Man Vs Wild How Do They Do It? How It’s Made Dirty Jobs Dirty Great Machines Ultimate Warfare World War Ii In Colour Inside Out: Smart River

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

Ocean’s Deadliest Extinctions Africa’s Outsiders Meerkat Manor Jockeys Wildest Africa Whale Wars Hillbilly Handfishin’ Wild Recon Luke Gamble’s Vet Adventures Meerkat Manor Jockeys

14:45 15:40 16:30 17:20 18:15 19:10 20:05 20:30 21:00 21:55 22:50 23:45

Trie Amazing Race Trie Voice Wipeout CSI: Miami Hawaii Five Caught On Camera American Ninja Warrior American Ninja Warrior Hannibal CSI: New York Hannibal Caught On Camera

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

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

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 Deadliest Catch Auction Kings

14:00 Hillbilly Handfishin1

Action Spy Kids

The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.

20:00

Tuesday 03:30 In The Line Of Fire 06:00 Abduction 08:00 Michael 10:00 The Core 12:15 The Last Exorcism 14:00 Head Of State 15:45 In The Line Of Fire 18:00 Source Code 20:00 Boiler Room 22:00 In The Line Of Fire

15:00 16:45 18:10 20:00 21:30 22:20

Cedar Rapids Home Alone 2: Lost In New York Marley ; Me: The Puppy Years Shallow Hal Chronicle Did You Hear About The Morgans?

Confessions Of A Shopaholic The Sitter What To Expect When You; Shark Night Once Upon A Time Cat 8 - Part 1 Of 2

18:30 19:00 19:30 20:30

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Fox Sports Central Live Total Rugby Abl Crossover Us Open: Official Film Fox Sports Central Ufc Tonight Ufc Ton/ Primettme/ From All Angles Tape 22:30 Ufc Ton/ Primetime/ From All Angles Tape 23:00 Total Rugby 23:30 Fox Sports Central 18:30 19:00 19:30 20:00 21:00 21:30 22:00

01:00 Wimbledon

07:00 Wimbledon

08:00 Wimbledon

17:30 Wimbledon

18:30 Wimbledon

08:45 09:40 10:35 11:30 12:25 13:20 14:15 15:10 16:05 17:00 18:00 19:00

Hooked Hooked Somewhere In China Megafactories Hooked Hooked Mudcats Inside Cocaine Wars Breakout Don’t Tell My Mother Unlikely Animal Friends Diggers

05:30 07:00 08:50 09:35 11:10 12:40 14:25 16:35 18:25 20:00 21:40 23:30

13:50 A Family Thanksgiving 14:45 Monte Carlo 15:40 Once Upon A Time 17:20 Cat 8 18:15 Bad Ass 18:40 Trie Vow 19:10 Men Of Honor 20:00 21 Jump Street 21:00 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 21:55 Kung Fu Hustle 22:50 What To Expect When You; Spy Kids: All Trie Time In Trie World 23:50

15:00 Wild Recon 16:00 Luke Gamble’s Vet Adventures 17:00 Meerkat Manor 17:30 Jockeys 18:00 Wildest Africa 19:00 Whale Wars 20:00 Wildest Latin America

Action In The Line Of Fire

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn’t save Kennedy, but he’s determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

21:00 Animal Planet Showcase 23:00 Meerkat Manor

22:00

23:30 Jockeys

Wednesday 02:00 Birth 04:00 Source Code 06:00 The Last Exorcism 07:45 In The Line Of Fire 10:00 Boiler Room 12:00 Head Of State 14:00 Michael 16:00 Source Code 17:45 The Core 20:00 Abduction 22:00 Head Of State

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

Adventure Time Kumbh Karan Oggy And The Cockroaches Ben 10: Omniverse Dragons: Riders Of The Berk Oggy And The Cockroaches Adventure Time Tom S Jerry Show Oggy And The Cockroaches The Amazing World Of Gumball Oggy And The Cockroaches Chowder

Csi: New York Trie Amazing Race Trie Voice Csi: Miami American Ninja Warrior American Ninja Warrior Caught On Camera Trie Apprentice Asia | Csi: In Vino Csi: Ny: Seth And Apep Trie Apprentice Asia Caught On Camera

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 Nicktoons : Teenage Mutant Nnja

Auction Kings Around The World In 80 Ways Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Man Vs Wild How Do They Do It? How It’s Made Dirty Jobs Strip The City Ultimate Warfare Heroes Of Hells Highway Surviving The Cut

14:00 Wildest Latin America

Turtles

18:30 Nicktoons : Robot A Monster 19:00 Spongebob Squarepants 19:30 The Fairly Oddparents 20:30 House Of Anubis 21:00 Spongebob Squarepants

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

12:00 Hsbc Sevens World Series

12:30 Wheels 2

12:30 Nascar Nationwide Series

13:00 Boston Marathon

13:30 Smash

16:00 Jet Ski World Cup

14:00 Global Football 14:30 Mlb Regular Season

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

12:25 13:20 14:15 15:10 16:05

Paranatural Paranatural Wicked Tuna Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan’s Leader Of The Pack Don’t Tell My Mother Unlikely Animal Friends Wicked Tuna Wicked Tuna Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan’s Leader Of The Pack Wicked Tuna

21:30 Football Asia

23:30 Premier League Darts

17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:00

02:00 Bad Teacher

15:30 Oggy And The Cockroaches

03:25 Win Win

03:45 The Core

16:00 Ben 10: Omniverse

05:10 The Wife He Met Online

06:00 Flubber

16:30 Adventure Time

17:30 Baseball Tonight International 18:30 Fox Sports Central Live 19:00 Asean Basketball League 21:00 Fox Sports Central

19:00 Mma - One Fighting 22:00 Score Tonight 22:30 Hsbc Sevens World Series 23:00 Score Tonight

12:30 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 17:30 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00

15:00 Animal Planet Showcase 17:00 Meerkat Manor 17:30 Jockeys 18:00 Wildest Africa 19:00 Whale Wars 20:00 My Cat From Hell 21:00 Tanked 22:00 Cats 101

Comedy

What to Expect When You’re Expecting

A look at love through the eyes of five interconnected couples experiencing the thrills.

23:00 Meerkat Manor

21:40

23:30 Jockeys

Thursday 07:45 The Three Musketeers 09:45 Changing Lanes 11:45 The Dukes Of Hazzard 13:45 Town S Country 15:45 Star Trek Iv The Voyage Home

17:30 Regular Show

06:45 U2 - From The Sky Down 08:15 What’s Your Number?

10:05 Confessions Of A Shopaholic

18:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

11:50 Kung Fu Hustle

19:00 Adventure Time

13:30 The Sitter

20:00 Tom A Jerry Show

17:45 Battleship

21:00 The Amazing World Of Gumball

20:00 Flubber

22:00 Oggy And The Cockroaches

22:00 Far And Away

23:00 Chowder

14:45 Trie Amazing Race 15:35 Trie Voice 16:25 Wipeout 17:15 Csi: In Vino 18:10 Csi: Ny: Seth And Apep 19:05 Trie Apprentice Asia 20:05 Chuck

14:55 Shallow Hal

21:00 Ncis: Los Angeles

16:50 Chronicle

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

18:15 The Vow

21:55 Csi: New York

20:00 What To Expect When You;

22:50 Chuck

21:50 The Sitter

23:45 Ncis: Los Angeles

18:30 19:00 19:30 20:30

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

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

09:00 Asean Basketball League

05:00 Asean Basketball League

14:15 Ghost Town Gold

14:00 Heroes Of Hells Highway

14:00 My Cat From Hell

07:00 Motogp Champ

15:10 Diggers

15:00 Surviving The Cut

15:00 Tanked

10:30 Planet Speed

15:35 Diggers

16:00 Man Vs Wild

16:00 Cats 101

11:00 Fifa World Cup Asian Qualifiers

16:05 Family Guns

17:00 How Do They Do It?

17:00 Meerkat Manor

13:00 Motogp Champ

17:00 The Diving Women Of Jeju

17:30 How It’s Made

17:30 Jockeys

16:30 Freedom Riders Asia

18:00 Unlikely Animal Friends

18:00 Dirty Jobs

18:00 Wildest Africa

14:00 Archery World Cup

17:00 European Rally Champ

19:00 Huge Moves

19:00 Destroyed In Seconds

19:00 Whale Wars

14:30 Mlb Regular Season

17:30 Fifa World Cup Asian Qualifiers

20:00 Ghost Town Gold

19:30 Destroyed In Seconds

20:00 World’s Deadliest Towns

19:30 Great Goals

21:00 Diggers

20:00 What Happened Next?

21:00 My Extreme Animal Phobia

20:00 Great Goals

21:30 Diggers

20:30 Magic Of Science

22:00 Untamed S Uncut

20:30 Score Tonight

22:00 Locked Up Abroad

21:00 American Chopper: Snr Vs Jr

23:00 Meerkat Manor

21:00 Fifa World Cup Asian Qualifiers

23:00 Ghost Town Gold

22:00 Blood Relatives

23:30 Jockeys

11:00 Nascar Sprint Cup Series 12:00 Nascar Nationwide Series 13:00 Beach Soccer Tapeww

17:30 Baseball Tonight International 18:30 Fox Sports Central Live

Adventure Far And Away

A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord’s daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893.

22:00

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Mind boggles

THE PHNOM PENH POST • 7Days • JUNE 28 - JULY 4, 2013

Free will astrology Week of JUNE 27

Aries

(March 21 – April 19) “To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin,” said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes you finish prematurely. Other times you sort of disappear without officially bringing things to a close. Now would be an excellent time to refine your skills.

Taurus

Libra

(Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) During the past ten months, you have been unusually adventurous. The last time you summoned so much courage and expansiveness may have been 2001. I’m impressed! Please accept my respect and appreciation.

You’ve had a sixth sense about knowing when it’s wise to push beyond your limitations and boundaries. You have also had a seventh sense about intuiting when to be crafty and cautious as you wander through the frontiers. Now here’s one of your assignments for the next 12 months: Distill all you’ve learned out there in the borderlands and decide how you will use your wisdom to build an unshakable power spot back here in the heart of the action.

(April 20 – May 20) “The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it’s hard to determine whether or not they are genuine.”

So said Joan of Arc back in 1429, right before she helped lead French troops in the battle of Patay. JUST KIDDING! Joan of Arc never had the pleasure of surfing the Web, of course, since it didn’t exist until long after she died. But I was trying to make a point that will be useful for you to keep in mind, Taurus, which is: Be skeptical of both wild claims and mild claims. Stay alert for seemingly interesting leads that are really time-wasting half-truths. Be wary for unreliable gossip that would cause an unnecessary ruckus.

Gemini

(May 21 – June 20) French Impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint water lilies, and he did so over and over again for many years. Eventually he created about 250 canvases that portrayed these floating flowers. Should we conclude that he repeated himself too much?

Should we declare that he was boringly repetitive? Or might we wonder if he kept finding new delights in his comfortable subject? Would we have enough patience to notice that each of the 250 paintings shows the water lilies in a different kind of light, depending on the weather and the season and the time of day? I vote for the latter view, and suggest that you adopt a similar approach to the familiar things in your life during the coming weeks.

Scorpio

(Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the most influential scientists in history. He produced major breakthroughs in both chemistry and physics.

Have you ever used devices that run on electricity? You can thank him for playing a major role in developing that wonderful convenience. And yet unlike most scientists, he had only the most elementary grasp of mathematics. In fact, his formal education was negligible. I propose that we name him your role model of the week. He’s a striking example of the fact that you can arrive at your chosen goal by many different paths. Keep that in mind if you’re ever tempted to believe that there’s just one right way to fulfill your dreams.

Sagittarius

(Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) “The only thing that we learn from history,” said the German philosopher Georg Hegel, “is that we never learn anything from history.” I’m urging you to refute that statement in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I’m pleading with you to search your memory for every possible clue that might help you be brilliant in dealing with your immediate future. What have you done in the past that you shouldn’t do now? What haven’t you done in the past that you should do now?

Cancer

(June 21 – July 22) “In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes,” said 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, etc., before one is sufficiently naked.” Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to get au naturel like that.

It’s time for you to make yourself available for as much of the raw, pure, wild truth as you can stand.

Leo

Capricorn

(Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be a pretty good time to talk about things that are hard to talk about. I don’t necessarily mean that you’ll find it easy to do. But I suspect it would be relatively free of pain and karmic repercussions. There may even be a touch of pleasure once the catharsis kicks in. So try it if you dare, Capricorn. Summon the courage to express truths that have previously been hard to pin down. Articulate feelings that have been murky or hidden. For best results, encourage those you trust to do the same.

(July 23 – Aug. 22) Gertrude Stein was an innovative writer. Many illustrious artists were her friends. But she had an overly elevated conception of her own worth. “Think of the Bible and Homer,” she said, “think of Shakespeare and think of me.” On another occasion, she proclaimed, “Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century.” Do you know anyone like Stein, Leo? Here’s the truth, in my opinion: To some degree, we are all like Stein. Every one of us has at least one inflated idea about ourselves -- a conceited self-conception that doesn’t match reality. It was my turn to confront my egotistical delusions a few weeks ago. Now would be an excellent time for you to deal with yours. Don’t be too hard on yourself, though. Just recognize the inflation, laugh about it, and move on.

Virgo

(Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) When I close my eyes, I get a psychic vision of you as a kid playing outside on a warm summer day. You’re with friends, immersed in a game that commands your full attention. Suddenly, you hear a jingling tune wafting your way from a distance. It’s the ice cream truck. You stop what you’re doing and run inside your home to beg your mom for some money. A few minutes later, you’re in a state of bliss, communing with your Fudgsicle or ice cream cone or strawberry-lime fruit bar. I have a feeling that you will soon experience an adult version of this scene, Virgo. Metaphorically speaking, either the ice cream man or the ice cream woman will be coming to your neighborhood.

© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny

Aquarius

(Jan. 20 – Feb. 18)

“ANIMALS LARGE AND ... JUST LARGE ” Across

1 Mustang encourager 5 “Turf,” not “surf” 10 Try not to be taken by surprise 14 Olympian Korbut 15 Monetary unit of India 16 Paris’ ___ Gauche 17 Divas’ deliveries 18 Old Italian coins 19 Melange 20 Withdrawal phantoms 23 Gives a new color to 24 Morning container 25 Art fan, perhaps 28 Snobbish highbrow 30 Bathing suit top 33 A nose that certainly shows 34 Trembling companion 35 They’re not on your side 36 Doctors swear by it 39 Publican’s stock 40 Some parasites 41 Beyond the fringe 42 Make a couple of 43 Magnitude 44 Yankee legend Thurman 45 If it’s tidy, it’s not tiny 46 Split-off group

47 Diving creature 53 Type of hoop 54 Where addresses include @ 55 Kappa’s preceder 57 Jelly for germs 58 Hindu noblewoman (var.)

59 Proper word, at times 60 Commissioned to go 61 Bit of shattered glass 62 Slide uncontrollably

Down

1 Help-wanted announcement?

2 Fall into a chair 3 Type of tangelo 4 Nimbus output 5 Inessential internal organ 6 Top hat accompaniment 7 Blarney Stone land 8 With haste, hastily 9 Language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan 10 Outlet insert 11 Light quality in music 12 Bird of old Rome 13 “Recent” prefix 21 Capital of Japan, once

22 Third qtr. month 25 “What a bunch of malarkey!”

26 Like a feeble old woman 27 Lifted one’s spirits?

28 Word spoken with a twofingered sign 29 Appraise 30 Gravy containers 31 Like the ’70s look, now 32 Wan 34 Looney Tunes animator Freleng 35 Drinkers’ stops 37 People moving up the social ladder 38 Comfortable furnishing 43 Have a light repast 44 Behaved like a baby 45 Like Mensa members 46 One trying to stay up while going down 47 Bigger than big 48 ___ Bator, Mongolia 49 Asian caregiver 50 Site of Jesus’s first miracle 51 Start of an explanation 52 Holder of combs, perfumes, etc.

53 Is composed of 56 “Your point is?”

Thursday’s solution

Are you familiar with Quidditch? It’s a rough sport played by wizards in the fictional world of Harry Potter.

All seven books in the series mention it, so it’s an important element. Author J.K. Rowling says she dreamed up the sport after having a quarrel with her boyfriend. “In my deepest, darkest soul,” she reports, “I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.” (In Quidditch, a bludger is a big black ball made of iron.)

I bring this up, Aquarius, because I suspect that you, too, are in position to use anger in a creative and constructive way. Take advantage of your raw emotion to make a lasting improvement in your life.

Pisces

(Feb. 19 – March 20) In his erotic poem “Your Sex,” Joe Bolton exults: “My heart simplified, I touch the bud of happiness -- it’s in season. And whatever grief I might have felt before simply dies inside me.” You might want to write that down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you this week, Pisces. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the bud of happiness is now in season for you. You have good reason to shed the undertones of sadness and fear you carry around with you. I’ll tell you the last lines of Bolton’s poem, because they also apply: “Sometimes I think it’s best just to take pleasure wherever we want and can. Look: the twilight is alive with wild honey.” (The full poem.)

Thursday’s solution

JUNE 28 - JULY 4, 2013 • 7Days • THE PHNOM PENH POST

FRIDAY SIDE EFFECT Contemporary dance and performances inspired by Phnom Penh.

Show Box, #11 Street 330. 7pm THE VOICE The vibes of Rhiannon Johnson accompanied by Nord specialist Barry Spears.

Opera Cafe, #13 Street 178.

8:30pm RNA A hybrid of rock, jazz, Latin and country rock covers featuring the talented Sonny Krishnan, and Chris de Nogleas, Brent Clark, Pervez Gulzar and Arnel Quiapo.

The Village, #1 Street 360.

8:30pm HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA Live music.

Paddy Rice, #213 Sisowath Quay. 9pm FRIDAY NIGHT SALSA PARTY Free beginner classes beforehand at 8pm.

Perma Cafe, #69 Street 450. 9pm BREAK DANCE AND POPPING BATTLE Cambodia’s Bboys, Bgirls and Poppers compete.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 9pm SKY PARTY Live music with DJ Orland on the top of Cambodia’s tallest completed skyscraper. Free entrance.

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 THE WANDERLUSTERS A Saigon-based hillbilly soul band with Americana roots.

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 9:30pm DJ EWONE Between 2003 and 2009, Ewone was the only DJ in France to have his daily radio mixshow. Busta Rhymes, Rihanna, Kanye West and Akon are among the superstars to make anthological performances on his show.

Pontoon Club, #80 Street 172.

11pm

TOP FLOOR, LEFT WING Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to carry out his daily property seizure, issue Villon in Montigny with a summons, and return home to his disastrous love life. But, on the day of the commemoration of 9/11, fate decides otherwise, putting Mohand, an impoverished father, and Salem, his wild son, in his path, who, due to a misunderstanding, kidnap him.

Institut français, #218 Street 184.

6:30pm A DAY IN THE CAMBODIAN GARMENT INDUSTRY Consists of six docus, made by young Cambodian film students.

They showcase the lives of those who earn their living by working in Cambodia’s garment industry.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

SATURDAY PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS AND DIGITAL PHOTO RETOUCHING In the morning, learn how to make the most out of your DSLR’s functions so that you can take high quality, beautiful photos. In the afternoon, the ‘Digital Photo Retouching’ session will demonstrate how to edit and enhance photos that you have taken.The cost is $30 for each workshop. $50 per person for both, or bring a friend and pay $40 each. Email info@ phnompenhcommunitycollege. com to book your place.

Phnom Penh Community College, corner of Street 63 and 294. 9am SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ROAST AT SCORE Classic weekend roast served at Score Sports Bar and Grill every weekend.

Score Sports Bar and Grill, #5 Street 288. 12-5pm CAMBODIAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE Three games including Alaxan FR Patriots vs. Pate 310, NSK Dream vs. Galaxy and Extra Joss Warriors vs. Post Buffaloes. Entrance is free, and there will be contests for the audience at halftime with prizes to win. Food and snacks from Blue Pumpkin will also be available.

Beeline Arena, across the Japanese Bridge in front of Norton University. 3pm

FILM

THE SANDS LOUNGE GRAND OPENING Phnom Penh’s newest sisha lounge. 50 percent off for the first three days.

The Sands Lounge, #11B Street 246. 4pm

TOUCH THE SOUND This documentary explores the connections between sound, rhythm, time and body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm

PIANO RECITAL BY LOO BANH HEAN Award-winning Malaysian pianist performs Beethoven, Prokofiev, Messiaen and Franck. $5 regular admission, $2 for students and children.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 8pm

BERLIN TROPICAL PARTY German minimal techno music from the Berlin underground.

Phnom Penh Railway Station, corner of Monivong and Russian Boulevards. 8pm THE WANDERLUSTERS A Saigon-based hillbilly soul band with Americana roots. $3 cover charge.

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 8:30pm MONSTERS OF ROCK NIGHT Featuring The X-Rays, Splitter, Sangvar, Dar and more. Also featuring the Sharky Air Guitar Contest.

Sharky’s, #126 Street 130. 9pm MOI TIET Featuring Jenna Holliday (Holliday in Cambodia), Andre Swart (Grass Snake Union, Kheltica), John Shakespear (Durian), Charles Villar (Musikero) and Scott Bywater (Cambodian Space Project, The Lazy Drunks, WASH). 100 percent original material including rock, pop, soul and funk.

Equinox, #3A Street 278. 9:30pm INVISIBLE AGENT Featuring intern DJs and live painting by Khmer artist Chhan Dina.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 10pm

FILM DE GAULLE: MY FATHER This film reveals an intimate and unknown side of De Gaulle, at the opposite of his public persona. This portrait represents the ultimate testimony of the De Gaulle family.

Philippe De Gaulle, the son of General De Gaulle, former Admiral of the Navy and then Senator, and his family, provide us with a wealth of revelations and anecdotes about the General. French version only.

Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, #64 Street 200. 4pm ASIAN-FRENCH SHORT FILM SPECIAL SCREENING A series of screening featuring short films from Asian countries and France. Organised in partnership with Kon Khmer Koun Khmer. Free admission. All movies are in the original language plus subtitles.

Institut français, #218 Street 184.

5:30pm

DEGENERATION PUNK This documentary covers three influential years in the shaping of punk rock (1976-1979) and the bands that pushed the envelope: Clash, Sham 69, Gen X, The Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex a.m.m.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm MALARIONICA K. Miller’s mockumentary is about a foreign film crew whose shoot in Cambodia goes completely awry.

Q&A with filmmaker.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm MACHETE MAIDENS

UNLEASHED A documentary about the Filipino genre films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 8pm

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

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

Photo auction and exhibition by three Italian artists. Followed by jam session led by Scott Bywater.

Opera Cafe, #13 Street 178.

6:30pm

FILM INTERN. MUSIC FESTIVAL A selection of short festival documentaries from 2003 – 2012 about Khmer classical musicians.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ROAST AT SCORE Classic weekend roast served at Score Sports Bar and Grill every weekend.

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

NICO ICON S Ofteringer documents the life of the Velvet Underground’s chanteuse, Nico, from her beginnings as a model to her death, in 1988, as a pallid junkie.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

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

The Exchange, #28 Street 47.

1pm

MONDAY

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 SIMPLY THE BEST 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 KIMCHI COLLECTIVE Electronic music alongside cocktails, wines and tapas.

Quay Hotel, Sisowath Quay.

3pm TEXAS BBQ All you can eat Texas barbecue. $7.50 per head.

Sundance Inn and Saloon, #61 Street 172. 3pm ULTIMATE FRISBEE Pickup games and league games.

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

Northbridge International School. 3pm CHESS CLUB No charge, but we ask that you buy a drink to justify our presence.

Open Wine Restaurant, #219 Street 19. 4pm CAMBODIA FROM THE OTHER SIDE

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 JAMES VOAN Performance of music from the 70s, 80s and 90s rock scenes.

The Village, #1 Street 360.

7:30pm NERD NIGHT Inspired by the world renowned Pecha Kucha presentation format, Nerd Night is an exhibition of local talent and ideas. Each presentation is short and sweet: 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide. Topics are not themed.

Score Sports Bar, #5 Street 282.

7:30pm

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 KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID A series of comic strips by young Southeast Asian artists will be launched at a humble noodle restaurant.

Rik Reay, #69C Street 178. All day.

TUESDAY 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 RECAPTURED A series 10 of revealing short documentaries on local memory culture and the Khmer Rouge regime.

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 CAMBODIAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP CONCERT The Boston Children’s Chorus is travelling through Southaast Asia and they are performing in Phnom Penh on the occasion of American

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SATURDAY: ‘SWAGGER’ PARTY AT GERMAN CULTURAL CENTRE

THURSDAY – SWAP TILL YOU DROP

Local music label INVISIBLE AGENT is throwing a party of epic artistic proportions.

In between the electro, breaks and techno guests can watch live painting by Khmer artist Chhan Dina. Intern DJs take to the decks on one floor, while the other lures punters with a chill out area.

Those familiar with the feeling of having a cupboard full of clothes but nothing to wear can revive their wardrobe without finding themselves out of pocket. ARTillery’s clothes swap evening allows punters to exchange up to 10 pre-loved items, including clothes, shoes, and accessories. The only pre-requisite is that all items should be in good condition. Drinks are on hand for shattered shoppers too.

Entry is free.

ARTillery, #13 Street 240 1/2 and Street 278. 7pm

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 10pm

Independence Day. These young and highly experienced performers will present an energetic program showcasing the best of American choral music along with some Khmer songs that have been added for this special occasion. $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

Intercontinental Hotel, #296 Mao Tse Tung Boulevard. 7pm UCLA RESEARCH LECTURE How can we assess wideranging claims about the social consequences of Pol Pot’s terror reign, from domestic violence to prostitution? At Meta House, UCLA researcher Patrick Heuveline holds a lecture about his on-going project in Cambodia, which began in 2000 and is designed to study family change since the KhmerRouge period and to examine the actual death toll. Free entrance.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm GENTEL WINDS A fusion of Philippine and Khmer musicians playing a variety of cover music including pop rock, rhythm and blues and contemporary jazz.

The Village, #1 Street 360.

7:30pm GTS JAZZ Late 20th Century jazz music.

Piano Shop, #186 Street 13.

7:30pm OPEN MIC Musicians, poets, comedians or other entertainers invited to join.

Sundance Inn and Saloon, #61 Street 172. 8pm

WEDNESDAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE Pickup games from 4.30pm at ISPP field. Contact Greg at gbloom88@gmail.com for more information.

ISPP, Street 380 between Street 57 and 51. 3-5pm NEW YORK NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE Featured in the recent Season of Cambodia festival in New York City, the renowned New York

New Music Ensemble will present a world-class combined program featuring the works of some of Cambodia’s most respected classical composers including Him Sophy, Chinary Ung and Sam AngSam, along with some American classics. $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

Intercontinental Hotel, #296 Mao Tse Tung Boulevard. 7pm IN BETWEEN Gay and lesbian night, with prizes for best dressed.

Show Box, #11 Street 330. 7pm SALSA CLASSES $5 for foreigners, $2.5 for Cambodians.

Ebony Tree, #29 Street 29. 7pm ARTIST TALK Daniel Rothenberg’s art photo series explores “Life Is” explores contemporary Cambodian life.

Rothenberg will discuss “the joys and challenges of being allowed to capture the beauty and struggle the fears and joys that make up everyday life in modern day Cambodia.”

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.

and third prize is a bottle of wine.

Sharky’s, #126 Street 130.

8:30pm

LADY + THE TRAMP Originals and covers on piano and guitar.

The Village, #1 Street 360.

7:30pm

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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 Old Auguste Site, Sothearos Blvd. 7:30pm TRIVIA NIGHT $2 entry per player, maximum seven people per team.

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 MIXED 8 BALL COMPETITION First prize is a $25 Bar Tab, second

OUT OF THE POISON TREE An American survivor of the genocide returns to Cambodia to unlock the mystery of her father’s disappearance in 1975. Her search stirs up the fractured pieces of one family’s nightmare, and ultimately shines light on a people’s broken silence.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm WHITE BUILDING DOCUMENTARIES A series of documentaries that explore life in Phnom Penh’s vibrant ‘squatter slums’ that consist largely of artists.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 7pm

THURSDAY

BALL HOCKEY Sticks provided. Contact Greg at gbloom88@gmail.com for more information.

City Villa, corner of Street 360 and 71. 7pm CLOTHES SWAP Bring up to 10 of your 10 clothes, shoes and accessories in good condition.

ARTillery, #13 Street 240. 7pm 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 JOE WRIGLEY The UK folksinger provides a slant on the Americana songbook with his own versions of the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.

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MONDAY: KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID

FRIDAY: PARISIAN DJ HITS THE DECKS AT PONTOON

This May in Thailand, Our Books staff joined Mekong ICT Camp, which aims to train and network young IT practitioners.

Master of mash up and hip-hop, DJ Ewone! returns to Phnom Penh’s Pontoon for the second time.

A small workshop brought together diverse minds to create a small comic. Participants were urged to draw quickly on subjects they either enjoyed or disliked.

The Parisian DJ’s resume boasts warm-up sets for the likes of Snoop Dogg, Mary J.Blige and Missy Elliott.

When he’s not working with the world’s biggest music moguls he plays on the radio stations and TV shows of his native France.

Workshop participants reflected the camp’s diversity, with participants from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, India and Laos.

Ewone! likes to play all the club classics but he’s also renowned for his eclectic mixing style.

From July 1 to July 14, the comic artists will display their work at the Rik Reay, a small family owned noodle shop on Street 178.

Entry is $6 and includes one drink.

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The Village, #1 Street 360.

7:30pm

cocktail.

NOVA, #19 Street 214. 9pm

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

COSMIC ROCK PARTY X-Pat Soundsystem and DJ Sour Crowd, featuring German psychedelic music.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 9pm

X-PAT SOUND SYSTEM DJ party. Free entrance.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 8:30pm

FILM

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

WE WANT (U) TO KNOW A participatory film, directed

by Nou Va and Ella Pugliese.

Cambodian villagers use video cameras to document what they have gone through during and after the Khmer Rouge era.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard. 4pm CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL 2005 This documentary takes the audience on a journey through the thriving music scene of the Turkish capital. It was screened out of competition at the Cannes

Pontoon, #80 Street 172.

9pm

Film Festival and features German musician Alexander Hacke (member of “Einstürzende Neubauten”) as the narrator.

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. 6pm.

Runs through June 30.

SUNDAY ESCAPE WITH FRIENDS The Regency Cafe’s Sunday special features international and Asian cuisine complemented with a selection of European and New World wines. $34 per adult, featuring a free flow of wine. Free for children below 12-years-old.

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InterContinental Hotel, #296 Mao Tse Tung Boulevard.

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. From May 30 to July 7.

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

Chinese House, #45 Sisowath Quay. Runs until end of June.

ROHINGYAS EXHIBITION Award-winning photojournalist Greg Constantine has spent seven years photographing the Rohingya community in an effort

to draw attention to their plight.

Stripped of their citizenship in 1982, the Rohingya are a stateless community, unwanted not only in their homeland of Burma but also everywhere else.

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard.

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 us 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.

Rik Reay, #69C Street 178.

$10 for a single session, $135 for 15 sessions, $205 for 30 sessions and $360 for 60 sessions.

K1 Gym, #131 Street 199.

5:30pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 6:45pm on Tuesday and Thursday.

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 Each day be serenaded by Lolito on piano and DJ Lady Bluesabelle mixing 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.

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Ad, unclassified: ‘Mercedes stretch limo for sale’ “Mercedes Stretch Limo for sale, $29,500. Fitted with 3-litre diesel engine, in excellent condition, serviced by Western Motor Garage, all paperwork current. Contact Ms. Navy 017 476 509” Noel Hunt, 55, Manager of Western Motor Garage, Phnom Penh.

and most stretches are made that way. There are a few limousines here now, maybe three or four of “I’ve never owned a limousine them, but there’s not an old classic before and to be perfectly honest I like this.” wasn’t keen on buying one.

“We use Cambodian drivers “I came to Cambodia as general who are often scared to drive it manager of Phnom Penh Honda because of the length of the limo. cars in 1998 from Australia. Just Westerners really like it because it’s over two years ago I was doing work a classic older car. In Australia it for The InterContinental in Phnom costs $250-plus per hour to hire a Penh through a New Zealand limo, so it’s only for a super special friend who was an engineer there. occasion. Here we’re a $60 airport “Out the back of the hotel a pick-up or $180 to Sihanoukville, limousine was parked with more so it doesn’t cost a lot. than two years of dust on it. A local “The limousine’s a lot of fun. businessman owned it, but the There’s a DVD player, a cocktail hotel had used it as a courtesy car. cabinet, a cooler box for beer and an The limo needed repairs and was internal window that goes up and expensive to run. It wasn’t fit for the down so you can speak to the driver. hotel at that stage and was being It’s also a very nice soft ride because stored there, parked on wooden of the long wheelbase [the distance This limo, equipped with a bar, was once mistaken for the head of Hun Sen’s convoy. SUPPLIED blocks. between the centrelines of the front “We put petrol in the engine and go up to exit the InterContinental from a petrol engine to a diesel “The limo is a Mercedes SEL and rear axles]. On the main roads it started. Inside it was in pretty and Prime Minister Hun Sen was engine, and it’s become very made in 1984. It was one of the it handles remarkably well. good condition, but all the tyres there with the police, who waved economical and reliable. We started first stretch limos in Cambodia. It’s “We’ve used it a lot but we don’t were flat and it wasn’t short of me through. I was the only car on renting it out to groups for airport not a factory stretch [a purposehave a driver and I’m so busy with electrical problems. It looked like it the streets and driving about two pick-ups and tours. People love the built limousine] but a stretch made the Western Motor Garage, where was worth about $50. After a year or three kilometres in front of Hun airport pick-up because it’s special by professional, licensed coachI now work as manager. I just don’t we finally got all the legal papers to Sen’s convoy. and makes customers look like builders in the USA, who cut have the time to do more with it, buy it.

“Over the past two years we’ve VIPs. The German ambassador to and stretch a car and weld it back but I want somebody to make a “The day I picked up the limo was a been doing up the limousine and Cambodia and his wife have used together, to make it a limousine. business out of it.” funny experience. There’s a ramp you reconditioning it. We changed it that service before.

That’s pretty common these days, As told to Chloe Cann.

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enowned chamber music group The New York New Music Ensemble will perform a one-off concert at Shinta Mani Hotel on July 6. The program consists of four pieces written by different Khmer composers, including award-winning Chinary Ung. Originally formed in 1976, this acclaimed group of classically-trained musicians’ current line-up comprises cellist Chris Finkel, pianist Stephen Gosling, violinist Linda Quan, singer and violist Susan Ung, flutist Jayn Rosenfeld and on clarinet, Benjamin Fingland who has collaborated with many artists including Sir Elton John.

Shinta Mani general manager Christian de Boer invited the group to perform at the hotel after having heard them perform at New York’s Seasons of Cambodia festival a couple of months ago.

He emailed them saying he’d love to do something if they were ever in town. Within half an hour they responded saying they were coming to Cambodia to do some concerts in

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Phnom Penh.

A performance date in Siem Reap was then set and on July 6 the ensemble will perform a ninety minute concert in Kroya restaurant at Shinta Mani.

The program kicks off with a quintet arrangement, Karuna, written by

Sam-Ang Sam, also curator of music programs at the Seasons of Cambodia fetsival. Sam is ministry assistant at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, and dean of the Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Humanities at Pannasastra University in Phnom Penh.

The second work will be Spiral XI, Mother and Child, by Chinary Ung for viola and voice. Khmer-born Ung moved to the US in 1964, where he became the first American composer to win the Grawemeyer Award for musical composition in 1989. This was the first of many awards to follow. Ung teaches at the University of California in San Diego and was also involved in Seasons of Cambodia, where the New York New Music Ensemble performed a concert of his work.

“He’s probably the only high-level Khmer composer,” says De Boer. “He’s impressive. The music fits perfectly

with what we want to do – it’s made in Cambodia, it’s played in Cambodia.”

The final two pieces are Piano Trio

by Him Sophy, professor of music at the Royal University of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy of Cambodia, and quartet Child Song by Ung. De Boer says he is excited about the concert and hopes it will be a night that prompts Reapers to dress up.

“I think it could be quite a special night,” he says. “The space really only holds about 80 people and we’re doing this for charity. I’m charging $18.50 a ticket and all the proceeds will go towards Cambodian Living Arts.

“The more I look into this the more excited I get, I mean for a tiny little hotel in the middle of nowhere – we can do something like this.”

Also, while in Cambodia Chinary Ung and his wife Susan Ung will begin steps to set up a composers institute to train young composers, and his “exploratory trip” has been supported by a grant from the Asian Cultural council.

The Siem Reap concert will start at 8pm on July 6. For tickets, contact Shinta Mani Hotel or Beyond Unique Escapes..

Mad cows feature in funky multi-media show

By Miranda Glasser Psychedelic cows and a film about life without proper toilets are two of the works on show in a new multi-media exhibition called Seedlings, which opens at Hotel 1961 tomorrow.

Run by the Ponheary Ly Foundation and Global Citizen Media, the exhibition showcases the photographic and video work of the foundation’s students who spent a year learning how to write, film and edit short documentaries.

“It’s a culmination of one year of students learning about visual storytelling,” says teacher and documentary film-maker Diana Gross, who founded the Global Citizen Media project which teaches digital media classes at Ponheary Ly Foundation. “It’s going to be photographic series, videos, some websites that they creat-

Ponheary Ly Foundation president Lori Carlson (left) with Global Citizen Media founder Diana Gross.​MIRANDA GLASSER

ed with blogs and really just getting them to share their voices.”

At the heart of the project, says Ponheary Ly Foundation president Lori Carlson, is a desire to give the students, most from poor rural areas, the confidence to express themselves, and also to examine their environment and consider change.

“In the very beginning there were so many conversations about, ‘who are you?’ and every conversation ended with,

‘I’m poor’,” says Carlson. “It took a really long time to establish that this is your situation – it’s not a description of you. So this process of bringing awareness to things and being their own spokesperson is really important.”

The exhibition comprises several photographic series and five short documentary films shot by fifteen students aged 14 to 18. The films deal with topics ranging from the struggle of girls trying to go to school in Preah Vihear province, to what life is like in a village without toilets.

Gross says the process is to sit down with the students and ask them what they want to say to the world. The students started brainstorming ideas and finally came up with the idea of toilets and the fact that most people in their villages don’t have them.

She adds, “Then they started researching it on the internet.

This is where it becomes about raising awareness because it puts a face on the 60 or 80 per cent of people in the countryside who don’t have a toilet.”

The photographs include a series documenting the gradual construction of a house, and another series depicting cows.

“You put a camera in their hands and see what they come back with,” says Gross. “One student came back with all animals, to which I initially thought maybe he just shot whatever was near him because he didn’t have enough time. But he said no, he really likes the animals. It turns out he loves cows because they do all the hard work, they pull the ploughs, and they won’t eat other animals.”

Gross says the student, Mov Sopheap, started playing around in Photoshop, making

Media students on location in Koh Ker village.​LORI CARLSON

adjustments and exploring the colour-wheel. The result was Warhol-esque, pop-art bovines in psychedelic hues.

She says Mov Sopheap then discovered the work of Andy Warhol during his internet searches and was amazed, “that somebody became famous doing something that he just did himself.”

The Ponheary Ly Foundation, together with Global Citizen Media, started the student media program in 2012.

Last year one of the documentaries it produced, I Am One, won first place and a $10,000 grant in the 2012 Goodtube Film Competition. Goodtube, an extension of Profiles in Caring, a US-based television show, is a video sharing web site which features only videos from volunteers and nonprofit organisations wanting to promote their causes.

Seedlings opens on Saturday June 29 at Hotel 1961 at 7pm, and runs until August 28.

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Man About Town Peter Olszewski TRIPADVISOR ILL ADVISED Siem Reap has suffered a slight fall from grace in the new TripAdvisor list of ‘Top25 Travelers’ Choice World Destinations.’

Last year Temple Town starred, coming in at a heady Number 9 on the list. But this year Siem Reap has slipped out of the Top Ten, and just scraped into the Top 25, coming in at Number 23, sandwiched in between Shanghai at Number 22 and Chiang Mai at Number 24.

But at least beating Chiang Mai once again in the ranking softens the blow somewhat.

According to TripAdvisor the fifth annual awards “recognises 412 outstanding destinations in 38 markets across the globe,” and is based on, “millions of valuable reviews and opinions from TripAdvisor travelers.”

But questions are being asked in town of just how credible TripAdvisor ratings and rankings really are. Earlier in the year, TripAdvisor released its ‘Top 25 Hotels in Cambodia’ listing. Heading the list was Hotel de la Paix at Number 1, but the hotel had actually been closed for about six months before the list first appeared. And now, many months later, it is still listed as the top hotel in Cambodia.

This despite the fact that several people claim they contacted TripAdvisor informing them of this gaffe. Plus a contributor to Trip Advisor told Man About that she wrote to the site informing them of their error, only to receive a punitive response – and no action taken in changing the listing.

At times, Siem Reap hotels and guesthouses that can best be described as questionable and/or marginal regularly surprise with high ratings on TripAdvisor lists. Even the owner of one guesthouse was surprised to see his establishment ranked so highly when, due to business disputes, the guesthouse had been dysfunctional before the ranking was released – and shut its doors within days of the favourable ranking appearing.

Indeed many questions are asked about how hotels are reviewed and savvy general managers go to great lengths to ensure that friends, acquaintances and even guests are roped in and convinced to write glowing reviews. And some charlatans in the trade stoop to planting bad reviews against opposition establishments.

This practice was partly responsible for an outbreak of lawsuits in October 2010, when NBC News reported, “More than 700 hoteliers and vacation agencies have joined KwikChex, a British company now threatening to file a series of defamation lawsuits in both the UK and US against TripAdvisor on behalf of travel businesses.”

But all the same, questions of legitimacy and fairness aside, good reviews on TripAdvisor help fill hotel rooms, and so the game is played regardless.

Man About just wishes the site would remove the nowdefunct Hotel de la Paix from its best hotel in Cambodia ranking as it’s an embarrassment.

MORE WATER WOES At the risk of continually banging on about the severe water rationing that has hit large swathes of town, Man About still marvels that while water taps run dry inside houses, outside the houses are lashed by monsoonal rain deluges.

Go figure. But Siem Reap isn’t alone in suffering such water restrictions: France seems to be short of water at times as well. At least that’s according to author David Sedaris, who in his tome titled, When you are Engulfed in Flames, writes, “In Paris they warn you before cutting off the water, but out in Normandy you’re just supposed to know.”

He adds, somewhat curiously, “You’re also supposed to be prepared, and it’s this last part that gets me every time. Still, though, I manage to get by. A saucepan of chicken broth will do for shaving, and in a pinch I can always find something to pour into the toilet tank: orange juice, milk, a lesser champagne.”

The Red Piano Restaurant Siem Reap is looking for a western chef · Reliable · Experience in Cambodia a Plus Send CV to Geertcaboor@online.com.kh

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Pedal power takes bike duo around the world

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hey’ve been on the road since 2011, taken in 19 countries, and are now in Siem Reap. But Roberto Gallegos and Annika Wachter haven’t caught one plane on their travels – they believe that pedal power is the way forward and that riding bicycles long distance is an “excellent way to get to know our planet and the different people who live in it.”

German Annika and Mexican Roberto went roaming by bike back in September 2011. Living in Germany at the time, they had no major plan apart from heading east.

“Malaysia was the first big goal,” says Annika. “We thought we’d head there and then see. We didn’t even know if we’d continue all the time by bike because I, for my part, had never done a bike trip before.

I’ve always wanted to travel the world but actually bikes scared me in the beginning.

“With all that baggage, I thought it must be really hard, and I didn’t think I was sporty enough to do it. But on our first day we made 55km which was the longest bike day ever for me and it was great.”

As a fallback, the pair took backpacks in case they got sick of cycling or it became unfeasible.

Roberto and Annika started in Europe, making their way through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China and eventually into Southeast Asia.

“Things got a little bit more difficult when we got to Serbia where there are no bicycle lanes,” says Roberto. “But then you get used to it and once you get used to the life, you’re there.”

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Kyrgyzstan presented their greatest challenge when they ran into difficulties in the icy Taklamakan desert.

“It’s 4000km of desert and it was minus 20 degrees,” says Roberto. “The problem was our equipment – we just had our normal clothing. We had gone up the Alabel Pass and we were celebrating. But when we went down the sun had already set and it was so cold that the wind was chilling our hands. Annika and I felt our hands were freezing – we couldn’t even move them.”

The pair was forced to catch a lift with a passing truck driver, and later had to take a 55 hour bus journey through the desert.

This setback aside, from China they continued into Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, with Malaysia and Singapore next on the agenda.

Astonishingly, all this biking was not carried out on top-of-the-range touring bikes, but on two-wheelers costing under $100.

“I didn’t want to spend a lot of money because I had no idea how long we were going to do this for,” says Annika. “So I thought I’d just get something cheap, but good. I got it on eBay for 75 euros (US$98).

I bought it to the bike shop and asked if there were any upgrades I could do so it would take me more or less to Asia. They laughed and said the bike wouldn’t make it out of the country.”

Roberto adds, “You can actually travel a long, long distance – I’m talking more than 5000km – with a normal, 7-gear bicycle if you take good care of it, and if you stay on the roads.”

Both feel cycling “strengthens social empathy”. To fund their travels, they write articles, a blog and e-books – Roberto’s guide to cycle touring, written in Spanish for Mexicans, and Annika’s on how to tour on a budget.

Annika Wachter and Roberto Gallegos in Siem Reap.

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“We’re also working on a project called Tasting Travels,” says Roberto, “Which promotes bike travel as a means to strengthen social empathy. We try to seek opportunities where we can promote this message, to show the possibilities of the bicycle.

“We think the bicycle is probably one of mankind’s best inventions because it’s healthy, friendly, clean and removes barriers. And it’s not only about the people, it’s about the environment – you feel the rain, you feel the sun. Inside a car, you’re isolated from those things.”

Roberto says their travel has led them to believe the bicycle can “stitch relationships.”

“We have so many examples of how bike travel has given us the opportunity to make new friends,” he says. “Also I think that every time we enter a country, we become something of it. In China our pace was probably a little fast, but when we entered Cambodia everything was more relaxed.

With cycling, you take on a little bit of the country, it’s in you. That’s how we feel.”

The two cyclists say they have been won over by Cambodia, after entering the Kingdom in the north at Steung Treng.

“The route was very close to the Mekong so it was village after village with the kids waving and shouting hello,” says Roberto.

“There’s an image I’m going to take with me my whole life. We were cycling and there was this group of kids who were very excited. And then I saw this little girl on top of a bicycle, she was saying hello, and she only had one leg.”

“But I barely noticed it. I looked at her face, and saw her happiness and that’s it.

That just teaches me that sometimes you want to see what you want to see.”

Annika and Roberto go tandem in Xi'an, China. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Seeds the inspiration for new jewellery range

By Miranda Glasser

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recious metals and gemstones do not feature in Siem Reap designer Rany Som’s gleaming jewellery collection – instead, she uses over twenty different kinds of seeds found growing locally to create delicate, intricate necklaces, bracelets and much more, recently branching out into clothing and home-ware.

Som founded her company, Graines de Cambodge, in 2011 after returning to Siem Reap after living in India for four years with her ex-husband. She always had an artistic streak and loved being creative but, as the oldest of seven children, had never had the opportunity to go to art school or study design.

On her return to Cambodia, times were tough for Som as her parents disapproved of her divorce and did not welcome her back into the family home. She moved out of the house, but struggled to find work.

“One day I was driving my motorbike and I was so sad in my life, so lonely. I saw some seeds on the road so I stopped and collected them,” she says.

Som thought they were pretty and immediately saw potential in the small, colourful seeds. She thought perhaps she could thread them together to create some kind of jewellery, but initially struggled to put her ideas into practice.

“I had no idea how to make a hole, so I borrowed a drill from a neighbor,” she says.

“The seeds were very hard and I cut my hand. I couldn’t do it so I paid a guy but he only worked for me for one day. He said it was very hard,

Designer Rany Som with some of her marvellous creations. MIRANDA GLASSER

Seeds, seed-pod and jewellery made from the ‘flamboyant' plant and the red 'jambie' seeds. MIRANDA GLASSER

Rany's staff making seed jewellery at her workshop.

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that it was a girl’s job, and didn’t want to do it.”

Reluctant to give up, Som persevered and slowly worked out how to drill the tiny holes, eventually producing a pair of ear-rings.

Som gradually built up a modest jewellery collection and started showing her work to friends at her birthday party. They were impressed and urged her to make more.

Now Som has a staff of seven girls who hand make the products at her small workshop and showroom behind Wat Damnak, which is

surrounded by trees producing many of her seeds, such as the tiny white ‘Mary’s Tears’ and the brilliant red ‘jambie’ seed.

She designs all the jewellery herself including large statement-piece necklaces worthy of the red carpet, and long pendants made of smooth brown lotus seeds – Som’s favourite. In keeping with their botanical nature, they gleam with a rich gloss achieved not from varnish but being rubbed with coconut and lemongrass oil, which also gives

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them a pleasant aroma.

The selection of seeds is a painstaking process – each one has to be the perfect size, shape and symmetry to fit Som’s designs.

“At the beginning I went out and found the seeds myself,” Som says, “But now I go to the villages and they know what I want. They collect them for me.”

On the accessories side, Som produces small handbags and boxes made from the ‘flamboyant’ plant. She uses every part of the plant: the dry husk forms the main body, then it is studded with long, thin seeds while as a finishing touch, a shiny round lotus seed is used as a buckle. The intricate bags can take up to four days to make.

Som is quietly modest about her success. “It just started from word of mouth,” she says.

“Then I started putting my jewellery in hotels.”

La Residence d’Angkor and concept store Wa Gallery at FCC Angkor now sell Som’s products, while the new boutique hotel in town Sala Lodges recently commissioned her to make seed-covered lampshades for the bathrooms.

There is also a Graines de Cambodge stall at the monthly Made in Cambodia market.

Som has sold jewellery to customers in Hong Kong and the US, and has plenty of ideas for the future.

“I would love to create something artistic,” she says. “One idea I have is to do something with rice husks, I want to make some art with that. In the future I would like to have a small piece of land in the countryside and to have a proper workshop with all my plants, so I can show people what I do.”

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Entertainment

THE PHNOM PENH POST Siem Reap insider JUNE 28 - JULY 4, 2013

What’s on FRIDAY 28 PRESENTATION: MINORITY LANGUAGES AND ANCIENT HISTORY IN CAMBODIA Presentation by Professor Gérard Diffloth, associate researcher at the École Française d'ExtrêmeOrient (EFEO). The talk will be in English.

EFEO, River Road Friday June 28, 6.30pm HAPPY HOUR Happy hour with live music The Mouy Resto & Lounge, Prince d’Angkor Hotel Friday June 28, 8pm KNOCK OUT POOL COMP Free entry, winner takes home a $30 food and drinks voucher.

Jungle Junction, High School Road Friday June 28, 7.30pm PARTY NIGHT Elements Bar, Pub Street.

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

Friday June 28, 10:30pm LADYBOY REVUE The Station Bar, Street 7, Old Market area.

Friday June 28, 9:30pm LIVE MUSIC WITH CANAPES Victoria Angkor Resort and Spa Friday June 28, 5pm to 7pm

SATURDAY 29 CHARITY GARAGE SALE Local charities and individuals will be hoping you’ll find a bargain at their stall in our garage sale.

Support the community and enjoy a BBQ (vegetarian option available) and a special cocktail with or without alcohol.

Under Construction, Wat Bo Road Saturday June 29, 3-7pm OPENING RECEPTION OF SEEDLINGS: A MULTI-MEDIA STUDENT GALLERY Multi-media exhibition by students at the Ponheary Ly Foundation.

Using digital media, budding Cambodian storytellers take you into fields, schools and behind closed doors at home to reveal day-to-day life in the Siem Reap countryside.

Hotel 1961, River Road Saturday June 29, 7pm GIU’LLERY ONE DAY SALE For one day only, your chance to snap up unique contemporary handmade jewellery by Giu’llery;

lava stone, glass, skulls and 8 balls galore.

Rosy Guesthouse, East River Road, Saturday June 29, 11:00am – 5:00pm BRITISH AND IRISH LIONS V QANTAS WALLABIES Watch the second game in the series live. Can the Wallabies beat the British and Irish Lions to make it 1-1 going into the final game?

Rosy Guesthouse, East River Road, Saturday June 29, 5pm LAUNDRY BAR PRESENTS: THE GROOVY FUNKY NIGHT With Island and Matoo Brothers.

Laundry Bar, Old Market Saturday June 29, 9pm SUPER SATURDAY 50% discount on food Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Saturday June 29 12 – 8pm LADIES NIGHT Free glass of sparkling wine Elements Bar, Pub Street.

Saturday June 29, 7:30pm LADYBOY REVUE Linga Bar, Pub Street.

Saturday June 29, 10:30pm SHOW SPECTACULAR Show spectacular featuring ladyboys and Khmer comedy.

The Station Bar, Street 7, Old Market area.

Saturday June 29, 9pm

SUNDAY 30 WINE NIGHT Special offers for wine lovers.

25% discount on all wine, 50% on selected wines. encouraged to come meet and share ideas mingle and talk about what you're working on!

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Sunday June 30, 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 30, 4pm - 8pm

MONDAY 01 JULY 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 02JULY LIVE MUSIC AND OPEN MIC NIGHT House guitars available, all instruments welcome.

Fresh at Chilli Si-Dang, East River Road Tuesday July 02, 8pm LADIES NIGHT Complimentary glass of sparkling wine and free mini manicure or pedicure on the Soria Moria rooftop.

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Tuesday July 02, 7pm

WEDNESDAY 03 HAPPY HOUR With live music The Mouy Resto & Lounge, Prince d’Angkor Hotel Wednesday July 03, 6-9pm $1 NIGHT All drinks $1, all food $1.

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Wednesday July 03, 5pm – 10pm LIVE PIANO Asana Old Wooden House, The Lane, Pub St area Wednesday July 03, 7pm OPEN JAM NIGHT Open mic night, all welcome whether singing or playing a musical instrument. Free beer for participants X Bar, end of Pub Street.

Wednesday July 03, 8pm 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

LADIES NIGHT Free cocktail for all female customers.

Pyramid nightclub, National Road 6A Wednesday July 03, 8:30pm GOLDEN BUTTERFLIES LADY BOY SHOW The Station Bar, Street 7, Old Market area.

Wednesday July 03, 9:30pm

THURSDAY 04 THE BOSTON CHILDREN’S CHORUS CONCERT Proceeds will go towards supporting the children who live at the Museum Relief Centre. $3 for adults, free for children under 12 and Khmers.

Landmine Museum, 7km south of Banteay Srey Thursday July 04, 1pm OH MY BUDDHA! 50% off all food and drink, buy one get one free.

Soria Moria Boutique Hotel, Wat Bo road.

Thursday July 04, 12pm – 10pm LIVE! JAZZ IN THE CITY Saxophone, trombone, piano, guitar Happy hours at the cocktail bar.

Dining reservations 077 56 56 22 Heritage Suites, Beside Wat Polanka Thursday July 04, 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 July 04, 8pm ONGOING SWIM, SIP & SAVOUR Swim in our infinity pool in nice quiet surroundings, sip a cocktail prepared by our barman and savour a special dinner. $30 per person.

Sala Lodges, Salakomroeuk commune, behind Wat Damnak Every Sunday & Sunday, from 2pm SUNDAY POOL BRUNCH $20 per person, access to the pool included Victoria Angkor Resort & Spa Every Sunday, 10.30am – 2.30pm HALF PRICE SPECIAL 50% 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 SEEDLINGS Multi-media gallery by students at the Ponheary Ly Foundation Hotel 1961, River Road Ongoing until Aug 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 RIVER GARDEN CLASSES: Pilates ($5) Monday and Thursday, 6-7pm 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) 12-5pm: Bloody Mary for $3. Menu special: Bacon butties and chip butties available Soccer Sunday, 6pm till 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 Friday, 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

Food and wine tasting feast served up

By Post Staff Angkor W Group of Restaurants held its annual food and wine tasting at Champey Cooking School last Friday. The afternoon was sponsored by Warehouse and Fine Star, and provided the opportunity to sample products by pasta company Barilla, French cocktail syrup brand Teisseire, and McCormick spices.

“We invited all the general managers of five star hotels,

chefs and tour agency operators and we focused on showcasing all those products,” Angkor W public relations manager Clem Balasoto said. “Patricia Ho was here to represent McCormick and all the products were from Fine Star.”

There was a live cookery demonstration by two Angkor W chefs together with two chefs from Sala Bai, plus a barbecue using McCormick seasoning.

Warehouse wines were available, as well as mocktails

made with Teisseire syrup.

“We are also promoting Champey Cooking Class,” Balasoto said. “We get a lot of bookings from tourists who are interested in discovering Khmer cuisine. In the morning when they arrive they go to the market to pick out some vegetables.

Then they cook typical Khmer dishes like fresh spring rolls or amok, and they eat lunch afterwards. ” The Angkor W Group owns seven restaurants: Amok, Champey, Banana Leaf,

Cambodian BBQ, Madame Butterfly, BBQ Suki and Khmer BBQ. It also runs a catering service, Angkor Pic Nic, and is opening three new restaurants as part of the King’s Road Angkor project later this year.

“We will have two restaurants next to Hard Rock Café and one on the other side,” Balasoto said.

“In one of the restaurants the concept will be an open kitchen.

We will have two chefs and we’ll be showing everybody the kitchen and how they work. It

Angkor W public relations manager Clem Balasoto at the cookery demonstration. MIRANDA GLASSER

will be one of the most unique restaurants in Siem Reap, so we’re very excited about that.”

Michelin-starred French chef Gilles Choukroun is coming to

Siem Reap in September to train head chefs Kimsann Pol and Kimsan Sok, and Angkor W is planning a gala dinner to mark the occasion.