Rohrabacher to Cambodians: Free Tibet! Peace out!
That green blur you saw Sunday morning wasn’t The Riddler. It was the surfing congressman–Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), in a grassy herringbone-patterned suit (hold the tie)–making a flying appearance at the fourth annual Cambodian New Year Parade on his way to Santa Monica. Thanks, brah!
But let’s hope you [...]

There’s a lot of Cambodia-related news right now, including the trial of a Long Beach accountant on charges of allegedly spearheading an attempted coup seven years ago in Cambodia; and the fourth annual Cambodian New Year Parade, which happens Sunday morning on Anaheim Street.
Also, if you’ve got the cabbage, you can buy the King of [...]

Opening statements were yesterday in Long Beach accountant Yasith Chhun’s trial on charges of allegedly spearheading a coup attempt in Cambodia, and jurors got a chance–so the Assistant U.S. Attorney said–to go inside Operation Volcano.
The Press-Telegram’s story today is from Greg Risling of The Associated Press.
Operation Volcano is reportedly the name of the group Chhun [...]

A great man is gone: Cambodian-born photographer and reporter Dith Pran, whose personal story of escaping the enslavement and genocide of 1970s Cambodia under dictator Pol Pot became the film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
Dith, 65, is credited with coining the terrible term “killing fields,” according to The Associated Press, whose obituary [...]

Petitioners say “Not the Cambodian deputy prime minister!”
The 2008 Cambodian New Year Parade isn’t until some time in April–so far off that folks in the Mayor’s office say they haven’t even set a date. But already tensions are mounting over plans by Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to attend the parade.

‘Holly’ takes us on a guided tour of what’s crappy about Cambodia
For a movie about the child sex trade in Cambodia, Holly is mercifully easy on the stomach. Guy Moshe’s film is shot on location, sometimes in actual brothels, but doesn’t aspire to verisimilitude. Instead, it focuses on the adventure of a 14-year-old Vietnamese girl [...]

Dengue Fever ten steps higher

The Cambodian Rocks CD compilation was such a mystery when it came out in 1996—anonymous but rabid ’60s garage rock like the wildest Norton reissues, orphan songs from a nightclub culture annihilated when the Khmer Rouge declared Year Zero in 1975. As it turned out, the mystery wasn’t even necessary. When [...]