The understated version: Unfortunately, I went to sleep with a spider on Thursday night -- the eight-legged kind -- and at about 4 a.m. we had a bit of a falling out. She started it, but I finished it, and if you think I look bad, you should see the...

And there were rice farmers living in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flooded paddies by night. A cousin of the prime minister appeared to them, and the glory of the Hummer shown around them, and they were afraid. But the man said to them,...

I've been thinking about this long and hard, and I've decided that it's time to start writing less about Cambodian culture and more about what's happening in the country. As someone employed to sit in a Phnom Penh newsroom all night, reading about and...

OK, I can't possibly write about all the alien behavioral and lingual phenomena I encounter here, but over the past week or so I've been compiling a few of the more notable and/or amusing peculiarities. (Note: I do not wish to mock Cambodians for...

Typhoon Ketsana drifted over Cambodia this weekend and dropped a lot of water. A lot a lot. Siem Reap's tourist hub was reportedly inundated, and tens of thousands in the north were reportedly displaced by the deluge. The spinoff we caught in Phnom...