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source: The Phnom Penh Post - Sun, 20 May 2012 17:52:14 GMT+0700

Racing against her personal best

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120518_07a Photograph: Joseph Pocs/Phnom Penh PostAt 6:30am Chan Seiha is already at the Olympic stadium and stretching out before her morning training session. ..

Brush aside conventions

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120518_08 If a child asks to study painting in Cambodia, the usual reproach from their parents is lack of employment. “The only job you’ll get is painting the Buddha’s story on temple walls and with a finite number of temples your career and income will be very limited,” they say. ..

Un-masking Cambodia

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120518_06aThe Cambodia Mask Project opens on Thursday May 24 at 6pm at the Plantation Hotel (28 Street 184, between Norodom Blvd and Street 19). A silent auction runs through June 3 and the masks can be viewed at http://www.cambodiamaskproject.org/..

Vintage tells a multilayered story

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120518_06b Clothing tells a story. If you have the time, interest and money to invest in it you can create an elaborate tale, with vintage clothing providing perhaps the most twists, subplots and multilayered interpretations...

Comic shifts in news

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120518_05a Gary Eck impersonates a kangaroo caught in the headlights of an approaching vehicle. Photograph: Calvin Yang/Phnom Penh PostA Canadian comedian due to perform at Pontoon last Monday had a panic attack at Singapore’s airport, which sparked erratic behaviour on his part that was interpreted by security guards there as a possible security threat...

NOVAambition

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120518_05b Despite having its name plucked from a dead language, Nova may succeed in becoming one of the capital’s livelier venues after its grand opening next month. Photograph: Joseph Pocs/Phnom Penh PostAnother watering hole has materialised in central Phnom Penh, on Street 214, and it may reduce rather than increase the spasms of choice anxiety that are accompanying the mushrooming of venues...

Press and bad reaction

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120518_04a Photograph: Photo SuppliedAfter I heard that the primary clientele at Sayana Rumdul was backpackers, I was a bit reluctant to touch anything. So too, it seemed, was my masseuse, who began the treatment with what felt like reluctant taps that meandered in a painfully confusing direction that left me – at first – wanting to scratch my head rather than relax. Perhaps it was my height, or my directness, that incited what felt like a slightly absurd vendetta against me.  ..

Restaurant review: A taste of Bali

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120518_04b Warung Bali is at No 25 Street 178 (between Street 13 and Sothearos Blvd). Dinner for three with drinks is $15...

Strawberry Delight

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120518_15 Photograph: Nina Loacker/Phnom Penh PostAs an English woman in Cambodia at this time of year, I sometimes find myself pining for the green and drizzly summers back home: Wimbledon, cricket, rainy picnics and, of course, a bowl of strawberries and cream...

Dubbing Hunger Games

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120518_03b From left: singer Sapon Midada, actor Pen Chamrong and actress Mak Sensonita at a press event earlier thisThe Hunger Games has become the first Hollywood film to be dubbed into Khmer by local pop stars, according to an executive with West-Tech Media. The blockuster about a post-apopolytic world borrows the voices of singers like Sampon Midada and Sok Somavortey, and actors Pen Chamrong and Mak Sensonita, among others, Bun Chan Dararoth said...

7 Questions: Sisovath Sereyvuth

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120518_03a Sisovath Sereyvuth holds one of his most popular books, How to be a Lyricist. Photograph: Sreng Meng Srun/Phnom Penh PostOne Cambodia’s leading poets and song writers, Sisovath Sereyvuth– also a lecturer at the Khmer Poets Association and Cambodia International Institute – discusses how he began writing Khmer poetry, what it takes to be a poet and how to get the younger generation interested in the classic art, with reporter Sou Vuthy...

Swiss tourism students tour rolled out in SR

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120518_sr01 Gadzooks! Swiss tourism student Liby Christen gets hands on experience with a bloody big spider. Photograph: Michael Scholten/Phnom Penh PostA Siem Reap-based travel agency organised a ten-day Cambodian research trip last month for sixty students from Switzerland’s Tourism School, a member of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts...

Blow-drying to save the world

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120518_sr2a From left to right: Katrijn Calleeuw, Fabio Palazzini,  and Esther Nieremeijer relax after deep and meaningful cutting and tinting. Photograph: Photo SuppliedSo you’ve heard of Reporters Without Borders right? Now a new organisation, with the same ethos, has found a different way of going about things. They are Hairdressers Without Borders. And they’ve made Siem Reap the first destination on their quest to change the world, one snip at time. ..

Man About Town: 18 May 2012

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120518_sr02b La Paix garden courtyard.HYATT HATE CAMPAIGNAs everyone knows, Park Hyatt is to take over management rights of  the much loved Hotel de la Paix, and the company’s emergence into the Siem Reap market  is causing considerable  angst among some expats, along the lines of  the ’Big Brother is Coming’ variety...

Mourning villagers flee

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120518_01 A soldier speaks yesterday to villagers being evicted from Kratie province’s Chhlong district, the site of a deadly shooting incident on Wednesday. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh PostHundreds of people fled in fear yesterday from the village in Kratie province where a bloody security forces crackdown the previous morning left a 14-year-old girl dead. ..

Strikers told they have it good

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120518_05 Workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s SL1 and SL2 factories hold a strike yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh PostAbout 4,000 workers from two garment factories protested in Phnom Penh  yesterday for better working conditions – but bosses told them their 7.5 hour working days and free meals meant they had it pretty good...

Teachers to take leave and work in election

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120518_02b A woman casts her ballot at a polling station at the base of the Preah Vihear temple in July 2008. Photograph: Reuters/Phnom Penh PostTens of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out of classrooms this month and take jobs working as officials in commune elections, campaigning for which begins today, says the National Election Committee...

Cops say pay docked for party politics

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The ruling Cambodian People’s Party has been accused of cutting the salaries of national police officers to help fund its political campaign ahead of the country’s commune elections on June 3...