THE META MAGAZINE
THE META MAGAZINE

It’s not a gun
Those who get around the traps regularly would recognise photographer Steve Porte, whose work is hard to escape if you are a Phnom Penh musician.

Tea with the Colonels
I am in Mae Sam Laep, a small frontier post on the Thai side of the Salween River, eight hours by elephant from Ban Houei

Musik Unter Palmen
Als Folge des 2. Weltkrieges gab es von 1949 bis 1990 zwei deutsche Staaten. Im Jahr 1969 war Kambodscha das dritte Land außerhalb des Ostblocks, dass das kommunistische Ost-Deutschland (“Deutsche Demokratische Republik” / DDR) anerkannte.

Modern women and their new code of conduct
Even if your dream is to be a full-time housewife, or to become a photographer, an engineer, work towards having the chance to make choices.

Honecker, Hallstein and Pol Pot
The Berlin Wall may have fallen in 1989, but nostalgia for communist East -Germany lives on in the hearts of approximately 4000 Cambodians who took refuge in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the civil war of the 1980s.

Foreign Familiar
Although the Vietnamese ended the genocidal Pol Pot regime in 1979, they did not bring complete peace and security for Cambodia. Cambodia was isolated from Western countries until the “Paris Peace Agreement” in 1991, which brought diplomatic and economic relations with the USA, European Union and the rest of the world