Thailand’s tenuous support of democracy questioned

Sam Rainsy, Cambodia’s opposition leader and former finance minister, is not a man you would want your sister to marry.

Myanmar president rising

It is now clearer than ever why the popularity of Myanmar’s President Thein Sein is soaring while that of the iconic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is tumbling.

Democracy not in retreat

They always say you wait an hour for a bus and then two come along at the same time.

Suu Kyi: where is she?

The recent disappearance of Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, is the saddest news for a long time

The struggle for Johor

It has been said that the definition of frenzy is a group of women working in a fish-processing plant.

The reluctant winner

Winners can also be losers. So it proved last month when Sukhumbhand Paribatra was re-elected governor of Bangkok.

A sadly forgotten Muslim visionary

He was Abdul Razak, later known simply as U Razak, and he helped lead a student boycott aimed at opposing the British colonial education system.

Finding technological solutions to society’s toughest challenges

EARLIER this month, March 13-14, I had the pleasure of hosting the first TechCamp Phnom Penh, a program under former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Civil Society 2.0 initiative – an effort to use the technology community to assist NGOs. Thanks to the official partners of the US Embassy and Open Institute, and sponsors EZECOM and Norton University, the workshop brought NGOs, civil society groups and technology professionals together, creating an educational forum for discussion and advancement.

Laxness or ineptitude?

Last week, Singaporean Foreign Minister K Shanmugam dashed to Washington to try to staunch the spreading fallout from an espionage-linked tragedy involving the death of an American
research scientist.

Restaurant to bring the latest concepts of modern hospitality

I WAS at a meeting in the area on Sothearos Boulevard, opposite the Phnom Penh Center, and decided to stop by a new eatery in town called, “The Duck”. Dah Lee, founder of Phoenix Hospitality, mentioned that the beginning of this month was the grand opening of the café eatery. Well, it’s business as usual in Cambodia and when construction workers say it will be completed in a month, add another month to it.