Occidental Oriental
With China investing heavily in both Southeast Asian nations, will Laos and Cambodia ever form a union that provides the PRC with a direct route to the Gulf of Thailand?
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The true story of a story that never was (and the mysterious Ou Runyi)
Simon Ostheimer
May 30
On 17 April 1975, young French photographer Roland Neveu found himself on the streets of Phnom Penh as the Khmer Rouge made their final push on the cap…
Simon Ostheimer
Apr 26
A week ago, my dad died.
Simon Ostheimer
Mar 24 1
How a day trip upriver to visit a village of silk weavers turned into a rumination on the realities of the past, and an unexpected face-to-face confron…
Simon Ostheimer
Mar 15
Famed as the 'Cambodian Riviera' during the heady days of the 1950s, the sleepy seaside town of Kep has yet to regain the charms that saw it labelled K…
Simon Ostheimer
Mar 1
The story of how a French family turned their back on providing rides around Angkor, and instead allowed them to roam Siem Reap's largest elephant sanc…
Simon Ostheimer
Feb 1
The story of how Kimhong San came to set up Antique Cambodia in Siem Reap, and why his collection of old radios, vinyl and boomboxes is much more than …
Simon Ostheimer
Jan 1
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