It is a tragedy when a nation is at war. Is it just a natural disaster when Indonesia’s Java island hit hard by this recent earthquake? According to several online news sources, more than 5,700 Indonesians were killed in the wake of the earthquake.
How to Help Indonesia Earthquake Victims
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My journey into a jungle to Preah Khan, a temple dedicated to King Jayavarman VII. From Phnom Penh to Tbeng Mean Chey, provincial captial of Preah Vihear province.
Leaving the Cambodian capital city, I visited, for the first time, some of the most mysterious ancient temples, built in the pre-Angkorian period in Preah Vihear province. Geographically [...]

Ein mörderisches Erbe
by Kerstin Kohlenberg
DIE ZEIT
16.03.2006
traslated by Stefan Ehrentrau
“… in contrast, Tharum Bun will remain in Phnom Penh. And maybe Tharum Bun is really all the future Cambodia has. He is 23 years old and gentle like a girl. He wears black flip flops, jeans and a short-armed shirt, like everybody here. He stands out [...]

A buddhist pagoda (Wat in Khmer) along the river bank of the mighty Mekong.

Already fragile relations between Cambodia and Thailand have been put to the test once again by the release of the Thai movie “Ghost Game,” which revisits Cambodia’s bloody Khmer Rouge past. ThaRum Bun gauges the reactions by Cambodian bloggers and reminds us that just a few years ago the “Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh was [...]