History

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 Pho, which is downriver from Mae Sariang. The village consists of a dozen bamboo houses, a coffee shop and a general store. I’ve … [Read more...] about Tea with the Colonels

WIE OSTDEUTSCHLAND KAMBODSCHAS KLASSIKER AUSBILDETEAls 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 … [Read more...] about Musik Unter Palmen

By Nico MesterharmThe 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 … [Read more...] about Honecker, Hallstein and Pol Pot

When Modernity Came to CambodiaAlthough 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” … [Read more...] about Foreign Familiar