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Picturing poverty
March 23, 2015
Most people who know me would, I imagine, say that I'm pretty laid back; relaxed and even placid, on the whole. But if there's one thing that is practically guaranteed to bring me to a paroxysmal rage, it's Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.
The Daily Mail website is now the world's biggest news site, although I use the word 'news' in its loosest possible sense. A quick look just now shows that it is currently running hundreds of stories, almost all of them about people whom I don't know: boy band singers, soap actresses, reality TV people: most of them have either split up with someone or have left the house wearing something that the Mail finds comment-worthy – too revealing, too tight and so forth.
As the New Yorker put it recently, in a highly amusing takedown of the paper and its attitudes, apart from its usual right-wing UKIP-ish tirades against immigrants, the Mail is full of "a beguiling lineup of novelty stories (the girl who eats nothing but chicken nuggets), animal stories (the surfing hippopotamus), personal essays ("I married a skinflint!"), barely disguised press releases (cranberry-cheese-flavoured crisps on sale at Tesco), recipes, gossip, crosswords, obituaries, amusing pictures, and heartwarming fluff. The Mail is the place to go if you want to see a house that looks like Hitler, or a tabby with its head encased in a slice of bread." The piece is worth a read.
I also like the Daily Mail headline generator website – I just got "Are Muslims Stealing From Pensioners?" and "Will The Euro Give Drivers Swine Flu?"
Out in Cambodia, we don't see many Mail journalists. It's only when a British tourist dies of a heroin overdose on holiday or a remote tribe are discovered to have unusual sexual mores that a Mail hack will turn up, churn out a few hundred words and then stand everyone drinks for a night on his fabulous expenses. Which is fine.
But I was thrown into a spittle-flecked rage the other day by a piece on photography in Cambodia. The Mail had got hold of a photojournalist in Siem Reap who objected to tourists taking pictures of poor people. The photographer, a Spaniard called David Rengel, sputtered to the Mail: "What disgusted me, what I didn't understand and what I don't think is understandable is why these tourists visit places where children work, or visit orphanages where children have lost their parents."
Obviously, disgust is a hallmark of the stuff the Mail wants to cover, to make us all feel equally queasy.
But Rengel went on: "It seems awful to me that tourists and people with money take part in this, from their position of privilege, show such contempt towards the inhabitants of the countries they visit and towards their human rights. What is the most contemptuous, what we shouldn't allow under any circumstances, is that they use children like a some kind of entertainment, violating all their human rights in the process."
Rengel, of course, has a point. But the piece is liberally illustrated with his pictures. Which are, naturally, of children working in a dump outside Siem Reap. The pictures are huge, and gorgeous. But they are pictures of extremely poor children, working in appalling conditions. I expect Rengel got paid for them. The hypocrisy makes my head spin.
So is Rengel just stupid, or is he actively mendacious? "While I was taking photos to demonstrate the realities of child labour, I realised tourists were arriving to visit, sometimes in buses and other times in tuk-tuks … I thought it was horrible, and it should be reported." Right, reported in the Daily Mail…
It's difficult to take pictures of people in Cambodia that don't have an element of poverty to them. Most people in the country are grindingly poor. But they are also dignified and beautiful human beings, and deserve better than to be turned into grist for the Mail's hypocrisy mill
Working, even tangentially, with charities in Cambodia, poverty porn is a constant issue. We at CamKids get lots of visitors who want to see what we do. But you can't show them gleaming classrooms and happy and well-fed children, hard as we strive to provide them. So it's a delicate balance – people have to see the harsh realities, so they understand the scale of the task, but you can't exploit the children.
I'm not sure that there are really any hard and fast rules as to who should be allowed to take pictures of poor people. But I am entirely sure that as a discussion, it shouldn't be left up to the picture desk of the Daily Mail to decide.
In the end, perhaps the final word should go to some of those who usually only appear in the pictures. The Cambodia Daily talked to several workers at one of Phnom Penh's dumps: "First I wondered why they came to take pictures of us, but then I realised that maybe they took pictures to show their friends in other countries the young Khmer people living in the rubbish," said one, adding that he hoped the pictures would help to rally international aid.
Another said foreign visitors were an interesting novelty. "I have little education, and I was happy when I saw many people interested in me," he said. "They're strange people."
From Russia with love
February 18, 2015
Following on from my last post, about uppity foreigners getting kicked out of Cambodia, there is a bunch of barangs who seem to be in no danger of getting expelled, and that's the Russians who live in the grubby little coastal town of Sihanoukville. Quite why Sihanoukville attracts so many dubious Russians is beyond me, but the local authorities certainly don't seem to discourage them.
A major feud, between two well-known Russian figures in Sihanoukville, began in late November last year, when another Russian, one Denis Valov, was jailed for killing a high school student while driving drunk. Valov reportedly worked for a locally based businessman and biologist called Nikolai Doroshenko.
Doroshenko reportedly took a phone call at the end of November from an unidentified Russian-speaking man, who wanted him to give Valov $1,000. Doroshenko sent his son Ostap to pick up the money: instead, he was badly beaten up by three Russian-looking men, and had to be airlifted to Thailand for treatment.
Ostap Doroshenko, despite being Russian, is a captain in the provincial Cambodian immigration police, and drives a Porsche. His father Nikolai runs a questionable restaurant and zoo in Sihanoukville, called Snake House. (I went there once, and ate a rather uncomfortable chicken Kiev on a glass-topped table with a large python underneath. It gets poor reviews on Tripadvisor, except from Russians.)
Nikolai Doroshenko has been embroiled in a dispute with a flamboyant Russian ex-billionaire called Sergei Polonsky. Forty-two-year-old property developer Polonsky, who was once one of the richest men in Russia, is wanted in Moscow on charges of embezzling $180 million. He is on Interpol's Most Wanted list. Cambodia's courts have repeatedly rejected requests for his extradition.
So the elder Doroshenko, and Polonsky, have been arguing for several years about the ownership of four islands near Sihanoukville, one of which Polonsky lives on, and where he conducts business seminars for backpackers when he's not making his Cambodian workers jump off boats at knifepoint in the middle of the night.
Doroshenko has directly accused Polonsky of having his son beaten up; Polonsky responded by suing Doroshenko for $800,000. The case is proceeding at a glacial pace.
But the latest sighting of the Russian mafia in Sihanoukville occurred this weekend, when a group of Russian men demanded protection money from another Russian man who is the official tour operator for what is known as the KaZantip music festival, to be held on an island near Sihanoukville for 10 days, starting this week.
When he refused, they attacked him with guns and knives, he said. "They said that they know where I live, where my wife lives, they know about my children, and then they said that even the president of KaZantip will pay them, so why am I not paying them?" he said. He added that KaZantip organisers had been asked to pay the group $45,000 but refused, according to the Cambodia Daily.
He identified the leader of the group that attacked him as an employee of Nikolai Doroshenko. "The first one who start to shoot, he works for Mr. Doroshenko … because I saw him many times and he presented himself as chief of security for Mr. Doroshenko," he said. Two Russians have been arrested, and the police also confiscated three air-powered guns made to look like real pistols, three Tasers, knives and steel pipes.
The KaZantip festival, usually held in Ukraine, is 'notoriously debauched', and the government has been considering banning it. For some reason, though, they have finally decided to allow it, perhaps because of the estimated 100,000 likely attendees. Or perhaps they just like Russian ravers. Who knows? But what we do know is that gangs of armed Russians and international fugitives are wreaking havoc in a sleepy coastal town, while environmental activists who want to conserve Cambodia are getting booted out of the country. Confusing, eh?
Dammed if you don't
February 15, 2015
As someone who has been threatened with deportation from Cambodia for speaking out about the preservation of the country's resources, I feel very strongly about a story that has popped up in recent days.
Cambodia's Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered the authorities not to renew the visa of a 34-year-old Spanish environmental activist called Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, which expires next week.
Gonzalez-Davidson works for an NGO called Mother Nature. I've never met him, but he seems a thoroughly balanced, sane and committed man. He has been in the country since 2002, and speaks fluent Khmer.
His NGO is trying to stop the Cambodian authorities building a hydroelectric dam in the Areng Valley in the Cardamom Mountains in the southwest of the country.
The Areng Valley, in Koh Kong province, is in the country's last pristine natural forest. The valley is home to some 1,300 members of the ethnic Chong community, who have lived in the area for centuries. Besides their livelihoods, the Chong would lose their ancestral spirit forests and burial grounds if the area is flooded
The Areng Valley also contains the habitats of at least 30 rare and endangered animal and fish species, including the Siamese crocodile, of which there are thought to be fewer than 300 in Cambodia.
On the other hand, the hydropower project would supply some 108 MW of power. It is to be built and operated by a notably wonderful Chinese firm called Sinhydro.
"The population would be forcibly displaced to a place which, judging by the standard relocation sites we have seen in this country so far, would be equal to abject poverty and total squalor. No water, no fertile land, no access to markets, without access to traditional sources of medicine, food, construction materials," Gonzalez-Davidson said recently.
He also dismissed Hun Sen's promise of jobs for the families if the project went ahead. "One only has to take a visit to any of the under-construction dams in Cambodia to see that most of the jobs actually go to outsiders such as migrants from other parts of the country and hundreds of Chinese nationals … not to the population living nearby."
But it looks as if Gonzalez-Davidson is going to be removed from the fight. Sok Phal, the director-general of immigration, said that the decision not to renew the Spaniard's visa was made after local authorities in Koh Kong lodged a complaint about his activities.
When asked if it was because of his environmental activism, Sok replied, "Don't ask me that. I can't comment on it; I only do technical work."
Koh Kong provincial governor Bun Leut said: "Alex made trouble with local authorities in Thma Bang district. He took the car of his NGO to block my deputy governor's group who went to visit the villagers in the Areng area." Which sounds pretty bad to me.
Ruling Cambodian People's Party lawmaker Chheang Vun has been gunning for Gonzalez-Davidson for several months. "I am taking up measures with competent authorities to check whether that foreigner is permitted to operate in Cambodia, confront the authorities, and animate people to jostle with authorities."
He went on: "Cambodia is too lax, it's too easy for a foreigner to make an entire region socially unstable, and he excuses his actions by saying he is protecting the people like this or like that," the National Assembly member said.
Gonzelez-Davidson said that there was "no doubt" that the decision to deny him visa renewal was related to his anti-dam activism. "They will have to deport me. I will throw as many eggs as I can at their face," he said, vowing not to leave the country before his visa expires.
As award-winning Cambodian filmmaker Kalyanee Mam has said: "this is not an 'anti' Areng dam movement, but more a movement to protect Cambodia's natural and spiritual heritage."
Work permits
February 4, 2015
One of the great things about Cambodia, for a foreigner, is that it is very easy to come here, and live and work. Basically, you turn up at the airport, get a $30 business visa, and you're all set. Within a month, you get somebody to extend your visa for 12 months for $300 or so, and repeat indefinitely. That's why there are so many expats here, and more arriving every day, starting businesses and investing in this great little country.
But not any more. The government has decided that all foreigners here now need to have a work permit. This is causing a great deal of consternation amongst expats, as, with typical brilliance, the government doesn't actually seem to have thought this through.
The basic, inalienable rule seems to be that if you're here on a business visa, you need a work permit. So that's practically everyone, except diplomats (probably). Volunteers with NGOs. Children of people working here. Retirees. Researchers. Freelancers.
The laws on work permits have been on the books since 1992, but it seems that the imminent implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of this year has pushed the government into enforcing cross-border rules to bring it into line with the rest of ASEAN. And the famously incorruptible tax department is relishing the chance to rake in more filthy lucre.
But even the government seems confused as to how it's going to work. Asked about it, Ministry of Labour spokesman Heng Sour seemed confused, and was forced to finally admit that he didn't know: "I am not the head of every department," he said.
The work permit laws say that securing a permit involves an application, photos, passport and visa copies, proof of insurance and a medical certificate issued by the Labour Ministry's Health Department.
The health certificate has to be done by the Ministry of Labour, and has provoked a great deal of hilarity across the foreign community here. People have reported their height has been measured at six metres, their eye colour as 'none,' and the head of the medical department has admitted that blood tests are being conducted to detect syphilis. Which is odd.
So life may well become considerably more difficult here in the near future. Of course, you could pay off someone, which I'm sure many people plan to do. But not me, being an upright sort of chap. But living here without an employer is going to become increasingly tenuous. Watch this space.
Burning up
January 30, 2015
I was going to write about going to a Burns Night Supper last weekend.
I thought that I could get an elegant little piece out of it about the cultural dissonance involved in being in Cambodia and watching a bunch of men in skirts loudly declaiming about "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beasties" and "Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face/ Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!" while eating a sheep's stomach filled with lungs and entrails. But, on reflection, I decided that it's a pretty weird thing to do wherever you are: even in Scotland. And, to be honest, my memories of the event are a little hazy. (I was apparently found at the end of the evening with my head on a table, fast asleep.)
A somewhat more troubling import from abroad is an admiration of the life and work of Adolf Hitler.
Cambodia's National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha attracted justified criticism after he told his subordinates at a meeting in Phnom Penh last week that he "learned" from the Nazi dictator.
Sokha's comments were apparently made amid speeches defending the authorities' deadly crackdown on protests last January, which saw five people shot dead.
Sokha quickly backtracked, saying said his comments had been misunderstood, and that while he acknowledged that he "raised the name of Hitler" and said that he learned from him, he said the lesson was far from inspirational.
However a tape of his remarks quickly surfaced: "Speaking frankly, I learned from Hitler. Germany, after World War I, was not allowed by the international community to have more than 100,000 soldiers, but the Nazis and Hitler did whatever so they could wage World War II.
This is the first thing.
"Secondly, I learned from the Vietnamese guerrillas to take small numbers to fight against the big, but that cannot be for winning, but to destroy them. If we want to win, we have to take big numbers to fight against the small—to fight them until they are frightened and it is finished. This is what I can say; it is not accidental, it is not boastful. My thoughts and methods are to achieve this."
I leave it to you to decide what you think about his attitude. I think I prefer Burns.
Having twins
January 14, 2015
Phnom Penh is getting a new twin city. I kind of like the idea of twin cities. I like the interchange of ideas and cultures, the reciprocal visits and the fostering of friendship and understanding between different peoples. But I'd always thought that the concept of twinning involved some degree of concordance between places: capital cities, like Phnom Penh, should probably twin with other capitals. But no, our latest twin is … drum roll … Lowell, Massachusetts.
Now, I'm sure Lowell is a very nice place. But, really? Obviously there are good reasons for Lowell to twin with Phnom Penh, the main one being that there are 10,000 Khmers living there, after they fled the Khmer Rouge, making it the second largest centre of Cambodians in the United States. You can see why the mayor, Rodney M. Elliott, who is currently visiting Phnom Penh, would want to lock up as many Khmer votes as he can by smiling and being nice to Cambodia. But I'm not convinced.
So I went and looked up some of Phnom Penh's other twin cities. And it's an odd list. Vientiane, Ho Ch Minh, Hanoi and Bangkok seem fine. I guess I can live with Shanghai, and Mandalay, Bristol and Incheon. In the US, Long Beach is in for the same reason as Lowell. But Providence, Rhode Island, and Cleveland, Tennessee? And Can Tho, Vietnam, Iloilo City in the Philippines and Changsha in China?
I think Phnom Penh is selling itself short by twinning with minor cities. Cleveland, Tennessee, wonderful as it may be, has a population of only 40,000, and is ranked as the fourteenth largest city in Tennessee. It may be famous for Tall Betsy, the Official Halloween Goblin of Bradley County, and for its annual apple festival, but less than one percent of the population is Asian. I don't know what they were thinking.
Some other people who seem to have left their thinking caps at home were three foreign tourists who were deported yesterday, after being caught riding motorcycles in Kandal province while completely naked. The trio, two men and a woman, from Scotland, Italy and Finland, also shot video of themselves doing it, and posted it on YouTube.
"Their actions have seriously violated Cambodia's integrity, the beautiful customs and culture of Cambodia, and Cambodian law," said a police spokesman.
"We cannot allow them to commit pornography like this in our country."
We all know that backpackers are clueless and badly dressed dickheads, but seriously? They're spoiling it for the rest of us.
Roads to perdition
January 6, 2015
I used to be a big fan of Cambodian drivers, marvelling at their bravery, their willingness to exploit every inch of the road, and pavement, to get to their destination, their haughty disregard for basic road safety, their devil-may-care attitude to drinking and driving. But I'm beginning to rethink this. I have now decided that Cambodian drivers are lunatics.
I say this after having spent nearly three years negotiating Cambodia's roads, mainly from a precarious perch in the back of a tuk-tuk. What I initially thought of as ingenious ways of driving cooperatively, turn out, on close inspection, to be merely impossibly selfish ways of trying to screw everyone else out of road space.
I've written about road traffic accidents before and how they're the leading cause of death in Cambodia. They're not, as it happens: that distinction goes to our old friends influenza, pneumonia and heart disease. RTAs come in at number 15, according to the WHO. But at least seven people die every day in car and motorbike crashes, and scores more are injured. Everyone here has a terrible story about awful accidents, and the lack of enforcement, that means that if you can afford an SUV, you can afford to pay off the police if you kill someone. And everyone also knows that if you're involved in an accident, not to hang around, as you have a good chance of being beaten to death by angry onlookers.
The son of an acquaintance was nearly sideswiped recently by a huge black SUV at 0300hrs as he crossed a major road in Phnom Penh on foot. He had the temerity to slap the vehicle as it sped by, whereupon the car stopped, a bodyguard got out and chased him into a nearby restaurant and shot him through the buttocks. So don't do that, either.
Another friend of mine borrowed a Porsche Panamera last weekend. (Porsche is opening a dealership here, because what this country really needs is more 160mph high-status SUVs for a population that doesn't have to take a driving test) When he got back from a day-trip to the coast, he looked as if he'd just done six rounds with Mike Tyson. Even in a $300,000 car, driving in this country is terrifying. And he got home before dark.
But my annoyance with Cambodian drivers stems currently stems from last Sunday: I had been around the corner having a soothing sundowner at Zeppelin, and was making my way home at dusk, when some idiot on a motorcycle ran into me from behind. I'm guessing he just misjudged a gap. He shunted me several feet into the air, but luckily I managed to remain on my feet, and just have a lot of bruises on one side of my body. The idiot boy racer just managed to stay on his bike, and took off, minus half his bike's fairing, which was lucky for him, because I had very much wanted to have a quiet word with him.
It's a useful reminder that you can't be too careful here, and you can't take anything for granted. I don't drive here; I don't have a motorbike, and I don't even ride a pushbike. And still, I came within a whisker of being badly hurt on the roads. Ah, what fun!
'Tis the season
December 18, 2014
It's that wonderful time of year in Cambodia when the temperature drops below insanity-creating levels, and it feels like you live in a sensible city. Some website tells me it was only 28 degrees here today, which is, to be honest, a bargain. Last night, I slept under a sheet. This is something that is not possible for 50 weeks out of the year.
But, for anyone who has read this blog for a while, they'll sadly recognise this as happening at precisely the same time as last year. Seasons: ho, hum.
But it is wonderful, to walk the awful dog while not sweating to death. That's something we have to look forward to, even at six am, next April and May (and June and July).
I've just finished reading Sebastian Strangio's Hun Sen's Cambodia, and, despite him being a friend of mine, I'm happy to say that it is a wonderful book. If you want a brilliantly well-told account of why Cambodia is how it is, now, then you need to read Strangio's book. This is the best book that's been written on Cambodia in the last 15 years. I've toyed with the idea of a decent book on modern Cambodia: Strangio has beaten me to it.
And, finally, in what is a fairly random collection of thoughts, the big story in the country this week is the discovery that at least 106 people in Battambang have been infected with HIV, after being treated (stuck with needles) by an unlicensed doctor.
In a statement headlined "HIV cases in Battambang", the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, Unicef, the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia and the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention say they are investigating "an outbreak."
The "doctor" went on the run after the story broke, but, not being an important business figure, was quickly tracked down and arrested.
Blame is also being directed towards a system that enables people to get away with working as unlicensed doctors.
"From now on, I will stop believing in all doctors. They do not pay attention to the patients; they think about only themselves," a local figure told a newspaper.
Early reports point to the reuse of needles as being the source of the infection.
This is especially unfair on the people who have contracted the disease: one of the few areas where Cambodia has done well is bringing down the AIDS transmission rate. Of course, it would be a lot lower if people stopped treating bar girls as sex toys, but this rash of case involves people aged between three years old and 82 years old.
Despite this, Prime Minister Hun Sen, quoted in a local newspaper, said he was "99 per cent" sure that the results are wrong. "Right now, 99 percent, I don't believe its AIDS," he said. "They might have a virus, but it's not AIDS . . . Can an 80-year-old person get AIDS? And can young people who do not know anything get AIDS?"
That's a good question.
Shooting pains
December 8, 2014
As Cambodia slips back into its usual state of torpor after the excitements of last year's elections, local journalists are scratching around to find much to write about. At least until two weeks ago, when a local businessman was shot to death on the street, a shooting which has captivated the nation.
Businessman Ung Meng Cheu was shot six times outside a fruit shop in central Phnom Penh on November 22 and died at the scene. Security camera footage of the shooting was circulated widely, and can be seen below. However, if you don't enjoy watching someone getting gunned down and actually dying, then I'd advise against it.
The police, moving unusually quickly, named another local tycoon called Thong Sarath as the man behind the shooting. As well has his business interests, Sarath is a deputy cabinet chief at the Ministry of Defence and one-time member of the government's Brigade 70 military unit.
Countless allegations have been levelled against Brigade 70 since its inception, including claims of murder, fatal crackdowns and political arrests, which critics say were carried out with impunity. A 2007 report by environmental group Global Witness accused the unit of running a logging and contraband trafficking operation worth more than $2 million a year.
But Sarath has disappeared, with rumours saying that he's fled to Vietnam. No one expects him to surface any time soon.
The police have arrested a number of his bodyguards, and charged them with the murder, after raiding a number of his houses.
In a bizarre press conference just hours before the raid, his mother, Keo Sary, defended her son from allegations of involvement in the killing.
Dripping with expensive jewellery, boasting about her family's wealth and even at one point counting wads of banknotes, which she later handed out to journalists, Sary said her son had gone into hiding to escape arrest over a crime he did not commit.
But last night, both parents were remanded on charges of gun possession, and could face up to three years in jail.
Before their remand, Sarath's parents emerged from questioning to apologise to Phnom Penh's police chief, whom they had threatened to have fired for investigating their son.
This story will run and run. Local journalists are delighted.
Wardrobe malfunction
November 19, 2014
I bought some new clothes the other day. Well, actually, Blossom bought me some new clothes. And it wasn't half bad.
Back in the UK, I used to dress quite nicely, I thought. Decent leather shoes, French cuffs and cufflinks on my Jermyn Street shirts, flamboyant silk squares peeping out of my jacket pocket, and so on. But since moving to Cambodia, things have gone a little, er, downhill.
For a start, it is far too hot to wear a jacket, so my handmade linen suits sit hopelessly in the wardrobe. It is also too hot to wear cufflinks.
Secondly, this country is filthy. For much of the year, it is incredibly dusty, chokingly turbid. I used to think that travelling on the Tube in London was bad for leaving a ring of grime around your collar: Cambodia trumps that. I can't go to the shop on the corner without coming back without a patina of sandy orange dust caked into my pores. Most public surfaces are caked in crap: you pretty quickly learn to wash your hands if you touch any surface in this country, unless you want to die of leprosy.
So at the end of the day, my once lovely shirts are stained and unappetising. We have a washing machine, brand new, but it doesn't seem to use hot water, so shirts and trousers come out looking only marginally better than when they went in. Which isn't great. Weird grey stripes seem to flourish on sleeves, and collars – well, the less said the better. And then added to this is the recent addition to our household of the Brindled Beast of Chaos, or Harley, who delights in swinging off sleeves and taking random high-speed chunks out of passing trouser legs. Then there's our former maid, who liked to wash clothes in bleach, and the fact that the country seems to be full of random sticking-out nails. Oh, and you can wear flip-flops to the office? Hell, yeah! Anyway, it all makes for an eventually pitiful wardrobe.
But, as I say, Blossom prevailed upon me to buy some new clothes. And it was great. I hadn't found anything to wear in the shops here: not being the size of an anorexic 12-year-old, sadly. I'd had a few shirts made here, from tailors who really weren't all that inspiring, with sleeves that came down to my knees and wonky collars. But Blossom took me to a shop called Ambre, which was fantastic.
Housed in a beautiful old colonial villa, it's run by Cambodia's best-known fashion designer, a woman called Romyda Keth. Most of the shop is women's clothes: dramatic gowns and blouses and that kind of stuff, but there is a men's section, and I could have bought practically everything. Of course, none of the stuff on the racks would have fitted anyone larger than Peter Dinklage, as far as I could see, but they offered to make anything I liked in my size, Normal Human, for no extra cost. It was the last time I can remember enjoying shopping.
So I had a fitting, and two days later picked up a couple of shirts and a couple of pairs of trousers, which fitted perfectly, all for the same cost as a single one of my shirts from London. And they are all things of extreme beauty, beautifully cut and stitched, in vivid colours and wildly stylish. So now I'm getting back to a reasonable level of sartorial elegance, I think. Or will be, if I ever actually unpack them, Because they're almost too beautiful to wear. Ah, more problems.


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Using only thread as her drawing tool, Belgium artist Elodie Antonie illustrates big structures and industrial landscapes carefully by hand. Cranes, electric pylons, bridges and even nuclear landscapes are represented simply using only the humble material, and they are brought to life by traditional lace-making techniques that add some femininity to their depictions. Where the overbearing, man-made structures meet the delicate craft, Antonie has found a space to celebrate the hidden beauty of the monstrous in an unusual way.
Using a continuous line drawing method, Elodie Antonie creates black and white landscapes of desolate nature. Combining straight and organic lines with thread knots in a balanced way, the Belgium artist gives life to some fantastic large-scale monuments.
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undeadbydawn April 6, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Minor note:
the thick plumes emerging from those fat towers – as seen in the first, main image – are clouds. As in literally water vapour, containing no pollutants whatsoever.
this is one of the many things people in general don't know about nuclear generation.
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Writers: Veronica Roth, Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor | Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney
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The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
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Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.
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8. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
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A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.
Writers: James Gunn, Nicole Perlman, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning | Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana
9. The Imitation Game (2014)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
Writers: Andrew Hodges, Graham Moore | Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech
10. Gone Girl (2014)
R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Writer: Gillian Flynn | Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
11. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
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Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.
Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, J.R.R. Tolkien | Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett
12. The Following (2013– )
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13. Unbroken (I) (2014)
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14. American Sniper (2014)
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Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
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15. A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
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Writers: Nick Hornby, Cheryl Strayed | Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman
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When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing.
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18. John Wick (2014)
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Writers: Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort | Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey
20. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.
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21. The Maze Runner (2014)
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25. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
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The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Writers: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn | Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy
31. The Hunger Games (2012)
PG-13 | 142 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.
Writers: Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray | Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci
32. Inception (2010)
PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A thief who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.
Writer: Christopher Nolan | Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe
33. Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy
20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.
Writers: Sean Anders, John Morris, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bennett Yellin, Mike Cerrone | Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle, Laurie Holden
34. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
Writer: Lars von Trier | Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf
35. Pulp Fiction (1994)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary | Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
36. Family Guy (1999– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy | Active
In a wacky Rhode Island town, a dysfunctional family strive to cope with everyday life as they are thrown from one crazy scenario to another.
Creators: Seth MacFarlane, David Zuckerman | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis
37. The Equalizer (2014)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her.
Writers: Richard Wenk, Michael Sloan, Richard Lindheim | Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour
38. Predestination (2014)
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The life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
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39. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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Writers: Gaston Leroux, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joel Schumacher | Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
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Autobots must escape sight from a bounty hunter who takes control of the human serendipity: Unexpectedly, Optimus Prime and his remaining gang turn to a mechanic and his daughter for help.
Writer: Ehren Kruger | Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci
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By Deal W. Hudson and Rev. Mr. Keith A Fournier
9/30/2012 (2 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
When a politician's own ordinary is willing to make such a statement in support of a seated political representation from his own diocese that, in effect, more than offsets the criticism coming from any other bishop.
By Deal W. Hudson and Rev. Mr. Keith A Fournier
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
9/30/2012 (2 years ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
Keywords: Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Catholic Vote, Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Bishop Robert Morlino, Social teaching, Social justice, Deal W. Hudson, Deacon Keith Fournier
WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - From the moment Congressman Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney's running mate, the Obama Catholic supporters have been flogging him for a letter sent by two individual bishops to members of Congress critical of his 2012 GOP budget. From the coverage, you would think that Ryan, a Catholic from Wisconsin, had been universally condemned by the bishops' conference.
Not only is that wrong - and a complete misrepresentation - the Ryan story was told without any mention of the problems his counterpart, Vice President Joe Biden, also a Catholic, has had with bishops over many years.
A recent article by Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, sets the record straight. Donohue, writing at Newsmax, lists 15 instances of bishops' criticism being directed at Biden.
To provide one example stemming from the 2008 presidential campaign, Biden made some inaccurate comments on Meet the Press about Catholic doctrine on the beginning of life.
Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William E. Lori, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Doctrine, issued a joint statement "to correct the misrepresentations" of Church teachings advanced by Biden. Indeed, they argued that "the senator's claim that the beginning of human life is a 'personal and private' matter of religious faith, one that cannot be 'imposed' on others, does not reflect the truth of the matter."
Archbishop Chaput, who was still in Denver at the time, considered it such a serious matter he stated, "I certainly presume his good will and integrity and I presume that his integrity will lead him to refrain from presenting himself for Communion."
It should be added that while Ryan was, in fact, criticized by two bishops, he also received a public letter from the president of the USCCB, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, praising him for his application of the Church's social teaching to the budgetary process. In fact,
Perhaps even more importantly, Ryan's own bishop, Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, WS, published a column clearly intended to offset the growing chorus of criticism. Bishop Morlino could hardly have stated his support for Ryan more plainly, without, of course, endorsing him:
"It was no shock at all for me to learn that our diocesan native son, Paul Ryan, had been chosen to be a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States. I am proud of his accomplishments as a native son, and a brother in the faith, and my prayers go with him and especially with his family as they endure the unbelievable demands of a presidential campaign here in the United States. It is not for the bishop or priests to endorse particular candidates or political parties. Any efforts on the part of any bishop or priest to do so should be set aside. And you can be assured that no priest who promotes a partisan agenda is acting in union with me or with the Universal Church".
When a politician's own ordinary is willing to make such a statement in support of a seated political representation from his own diocese that, in effect, more than offsets the criticism coming from any other bishop. Case closed!
Speaking of our friend Bill Donohue, he has a huge fight brewing in his home city of New York which may quickly morph into a political hot potato for the Democratic party elites of that city. Donohue is well known for taking on needless, reckless, and deliberate attacks on the Church and the Catholic faith -- this time it's another "exhibition" by Andres Serrano, called "Piss Christ". (Friends, we have come a long, long way from the days when artists, even those who did not believe, used as their subjects the great characters and narrative of Sacred Scriptures and the stories of the saints.)
Donohue, believe it or not, was not allowed to enter the exhibit at the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery on W. 57th St. -- in direct violation of his First Amendment rights. Here is what happened in Donohue's words:
"When I entered the lobby, I was stopped by a man who works for the building. He asked for ID and requested that I sign in. I said okay, and then asked if I could go to the gallery. He said the gallery and the building are two different entities, and that I had to ask the men from the gallery; they were right in front of me in the lobby. I then asked them if I could enter, and they said no, without explanation. At that point I turned to the crowd behind me explaining that my First Amendment rights were being censored by the same people who were proudly displaying Serrano's crucifix in a jar of urine.No one else was barred from entering the gallery. Just me. We have all of this on tape, and the quality of both the audio and the video are excellent. Stay tuned".
When Bill Donohue says, "stay tuned," you better believe it! Such an egregious slap in the face of a national Catholic leader who is seen and heard in major media every week could become an issue in the campaign, and become particularly tricky for the Obama-Biden team which always courts the money and influence of the arts community.
The story we broke at Catholic Online a few days ago about the "push calls" being made to Catholic voters by the Obama campaign continues to gather momentum. Peter Roff, writing at US News & World Report, combines that story with one about a leading Obama supporter in the Diocese of Cleveland being allowed to lead seminars on "Faithful Citizenship," an attempt to repeat the tactics of 2008 when "Faithful Citizenship" was cherry-picked to make it appear the bishops didn't mind if Catholic voters voted for pro-abortion politicians.
When the bishops added a "New Introduction" to their document "Faithful Citizenship" this past November, they were asking that such liberties should no longer be taken with their intended meaning.
Here is what the administrative committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' wrote:
"Although it has at times been misused to present an incomplete or distorted view of the demands of faith in politics, this statement remains a faithful and challenging call to discipleship in the world of politics. It does not offer a voter's guide, scorecard of issues, or direction on how to vote. It applies Catholic moral principles to a range of important issues and warns against misguided appeals to 'conscience' to ignore fundamental moral claims, to reduce Catholic moral concerns to one or two matters, or to justify choices simply to advance partisan, ideological, or personal interests."
Deal W. Hudson is president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Networks and former publisher/editor of Crisis Magazine. Deacon Keith Fournier is the Editor in Chief of Catholic Online and a constitutional lawyer who is currently writing his dissertation for the PhD in Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America.
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12th March 2013
Advertisers shun James Franco over gay films 25
11:52 AM — Actor James Franco has revealed that he's lost advertising deals - including one with a car company - because of his involvement in films featuring gay sex.
2nd March 2013
Richard Wilson: Magazine gay list 'blatantly outed' me, but I don't mind people knowing I'm gay 39
5:45 PM — Actor and director Richard Wilson, has opened up about being gay in a new interview, after he was named by Time Out in a list of influential gay people.
28th February 2013
Turkish trans actor's mother denies death threat rumours and says family supports him
5:28 PM — The family of a Turkish trans man actor, who recently came out in an interview have denied rumours that he received death threats, and said they fully support his decision for gender reassignment.