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Labour Day

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

1st of May: Labour Day… No authorised demonstrations in Phnom Penh? So here are a few pics I took on May the 1st over the years… Well not EXACTLY May 1st… In fact I typed search for 1/05 in my database. And the 11/05, the 21/05, the 31/05 came up as well… BELGIUM. Ieper. 11/05/1980: […]

About power…

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The hot season only just started and air cons are purring all over the city (in the well-off areas that is)… The result is half of Phnom Penh, me included, is struggling with power cuts. The pattern seems to be 9am to 11am and 3pm to 5pm. A call to the power company reveals that […]

Year of the rat

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

It’s Chinese New Year… The Year of the Rat… Obviously not the Year of the Chicken roasted to celebrate…   Happy Chinese New Year to all… 

Safe for the next 3 years.

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

You weren’t able to access my website for the last couple of days? No wonder: The payment for my domain name was not renewed… It was done by Matthew at Magnum until now. Matthew has left Magnum so no more domain name renewals it seems. I’ll take over from here… So everything should be OK […]

Seasonal Stuff

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

My story on handicapped volleyball has made it on Magnum’s homepage.  I did spend some more time at Dey Krohom. And I had to change shirts  several times due to collateral damage caused by poorly aimed plastic bags of  gook thrown at the thugs trying to evict the inhabitants.  AND I finally managed to get […]

Khmer Chronicles Issue 4

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

As it seems impossible to use email properly with Martin Fuchs I put the six pictures for the Khmer Chronicles/ Issue 4 for the Magnum blog on the Paris ftp server in the JOHNVINK folder.

Khmer Chronicles

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Sent 6 pictures and a text to Martin Fuchs for issue nr4 of the Khmer Chronicles on the Magnum Blog.