Where to buy children’s books in Phnom Penh
A round-up of the best places to buy new and used English-language children’s books in Phnom Penh, from picture books and fairy tales to textbooks and boxed sets. Continue reading
Books & Movies
We review books and movies that are about Cambodia, are set in Cambodia, or have some relevance to your life as an expat in Cambodia.
The 10 best movies set in Cambodia
Today’s blog post is from Phnom Penh cinema buff and film critic, Niall Crotty, who for many years ran a Phnom Penh movie house. Film was once a hugely important and respected medium in Cambodia, with no less than King … Continue reading
Read: Interview with Robert Carmichael, author of When Clouds Fell From the Sky
With When Clouds Fell From the Sky, a book released earlier this year, journalist Robert Carmichael gives a compelling account of a Cambodian diplomat who disappeared in Democratic Kampuchea, and his family’s decades-long search to find out what happened to … Continue reading
Read: A Clash of Innocents by Sue Guiney
This month, the Siem Reap Women’s Book Club is reading A Clash of Innocents by American author Sue Guiney. Somehow the book, which is about the lives of Cambodia expats, didn’t make it onto my radar when it was published in … Continue reading
Read: Working in Cambodia by Jenny Pearson and Leng Chhay
Working in Cambodia: Perspectives on the Complexities of Cambodians and Expatriates Working Together by Leng Chhay and Jenny Pearson is a deceptively slim volume released by VBNK, an NGO that works to promote capacity development in Cambodia’s social development sector. … Continue reading
Year 33: An upcoming film about Cambodia’s burgeoning arts revival
In many ways, the Cambodian art scene is still in its infancy, but draws on a long and powerful history of traditional Khmer arts. The Khmer Rouge period destroyed much of that history, but today young artists are working to … Continue reading
Read: Down and out in Sihanoukville with Alex Watts
After doing stints in some of the UK’s most prestigious kitchens including Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, British journalist cum chef Alex Watts thought that he had experienced all of the challenges that the cheffing world had to offer. That is, … Continue reading
Cambodia’s fading history of hand-painted signs
As the country develops more quickly than seems technically possible, Cambodia’s landscape is increasingly filled with glitzy billboards for Korean products and commercial electronics ads. Even so, you’ll still find a dwindling numbers of traditional hand-painted signs all over the … Continue reading