I am currently reading Brother Enemy: The War After the War by Nayan Chanda. It is a brilliant historical expose about the years following the fall of Saigon in 1975. He argues heavily that age-old nationalist and ethnic divisions in South East Asia (including China) drove the politics of the post-war period rather than ideology. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cambodia’
South East Asian Communism Post-1975
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambodia, commuism, khmer rouge, laos, pol pot, saigon, thailand, vietnam, vietnam war on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambodia, ieng sary, khmer rouge on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its mind-boggling to me that the Khmer Rouge leaders, almost thirty years after the fall of the regime, still haven’t been brought to justice.
I’ve been watching on the news about the trial of Former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary. Proceedings are slowly continuing in Phnom Penh as we speak.
Isn’t it bizarre that if you [...]
More Journey Photos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambodia, chiang mai, thailand on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally got around to posting a whole bunch of new pics from my travels around Chiang Mai and to see Amy in Cambodia. Here’s a taster. Click the link for more.
Asian WWF?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambodia, television, wrestling on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting in the guesthouse in Phnom Penh I flicked to this intriguing match-up. It seemed to be an Asian version of World Championship Wrestling.
Now here I was stupidly thinking that only the Yanks plus one Craig Schwarze went for this stuff.
I caught the tail end of a trans-pacific tag team match-up between two big hairy [...]
How Should We Respond to Beggars?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aid, cambodia, charity, chiang mai, christianity, phnom penh, wat phnom on June 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
After my recent sojourn to Cambodia this difficult emotional and theological and issue came up afresh for me. In leafy Northern Thailand poverty is hidden, in Cambodia its exposed in broad daylight.
As a general rule I have never given money out willie-nillie to beggars. In fact I have can only really recall giving money to [...]
Amy (oh, and Cambodia)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambodia, phenon penh on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have wondered why I have gone completely silent on the bloggie for over a week, I’ll let you have one guess what could have dragged technosexual Jono away from his laptop for that phenomenal length of time.
I’m in Cambodia seeing Amy for one busy, fun, exciting week!
We’ve had a great week together, before [...]
