Phnom Penh

It’s cold outside in Sweden — (But also beautiful)

December 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Four minutes is all I can take. It’s not jetlag. Or culture shock. It’s just hot. I’m in a sauna. In Malmoe, in Sweden. […]

BLOG: Experiencing intriguing Cambodia on our own (Part 2)

December 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly Some travel guidebooks state a Frenchman discovered the ruins of Angkor, Cambodia, in 1860. That claim irks some Cambodians and foreigners. It’s the same […]

BLOG: Adventures in Cambodia — Six reasons why you should visit Cambodia (Part 1)

December 10, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly “Why go to a backward country?” my friends reacted when they heard that my husband and I were going to Cambodia. “Are you crazy […]

Essentials for a Phnom Penh visit — History, markets, culture

November 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kristi Eaton Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Bigger. Taller. Fancier. Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh is undergoing a staggering period of development 40 years after the […]

The Village Report — Bugged in Phnom Penh

October 3, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly “That was what I was most worried about when we got here,” Bicycle (yes, that is his name) confessed tonight, up on the terrace. […]

Top woman leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge dies at 83

August 30, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sopheng Cheang Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Ieng Thirith, a Khmer Rouge leader who was the highest-ranking woman in the genocidal regime that oversaw the death of […]

The Travel Report — Navigating through weather and nostalgia in Cambodia

August 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly The rainy season in Cambodia is definitely moody, but to the point. It’s punctual, at times, but always loud. Irreverent. It doesn’t give two […]

Not boxed in — Ki Chong Tran can take a punch

July 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly “DON’T BOX,” said Ki Chong Tran’s grandmother, worried what would happen when he moved to his mother’s native Phnom Penh. “Boxing is for peasants.” […]

A tisket, a tasket — Letters and loss

June 12, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Midday. Overcast. Reading Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung. That and looking over a few photographs of rural Ireland, plus notes I made in […]

Cambodian Son

April 24, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly “Cambodian Son,” produced by Anida Yoeu Ali and directed by Masahiro Sugano, tells the story of Kosal Khiev, a Cambodian poet and spoken-word performer […]