Cambodia around the web

Pol Pot survivor Chum Mey with author Steve Mariotti

• Everyone's talking about poop in Cambodia
• The Daily Traveler offers an insder's view of Cambodia, were you can watch history happening
• That bizarre re-creation of Angkor Wat is still going up in India, says Huff Post Religion, and it will be the world's largest religious monument
• Cambodia's marching monks don't want a dam built, says Al Jazeera
• An Australian house inspired by Angkor Wat temples

Want to learn more about Cambodia, its history, culture and people? Come along and hear me speak about my new book, "Destination Cambodia," at Cronulla Library:

 
Walter Mason - Author Talk

When: 6:30PM, 19 Nov 2013

Where: Cronulla Library 38-60 Croydon Street, Cronulla,

Curating Cambodia November 2013

A roundup of interesting things Cambodian from the www:

Ruins along the Thai-Cambodian border

• Zadie Smith's new book is called The Embassy of Cambodia. Not quite sure what it has to do with Cambodia yet.It's about badminton, according to The Independent.
• Next year there will be a 42 kilometre marathon around Angkor Wat. I have ambivalent feelings about this. Call me a killjoy, but I don't think it's a very sensitive use of what is a sacred site. What next? Weight-lifting championships in St. Paul's Cathedral? Judo in the Duomo? Still awaiting royal approval, according to the Phnom Penh Post.
• Hard questions being asked about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
• The Asian Human Rights Commission says the lack of human rights in Cambodia is the West's fault.
• A nice diary account of a trip to Angkor Wat. And another very brief, and wonderfully personal, account of a 3 day trip.
• There's a magic boy healing people in Cambodia, and the Gulf Times says he is blessing hundreds of people a day.
• Cambodians are famously unwilling to talk about sex. 
• Noozhawk brings us a lovely story about an exhibition of photographs taken by Cambodian orphans.
• The whole Malaysian Cambodian maids thing seems to have been fixed up, at last.

If you want to know more about Cambodia I am giving a talk about my  new book, Destination Cambodia, on Saturday November 16 at Katoomba Library. It is a free event, starting 2pm, and I would love to see you there.