Myanmar is still in a havoc. Riots on the streets, violence, fat political game. Good time for investments, bad for democracy. Old scenario, the boring variant, without American troops marching on but still tempting.

YANGON, Myanmar – Demonstrators on Tuesday tried to mount a new protest against rising prices, but marched only 30 yards before […]

As a result of various conflicts over the last thirty years or so, Cambodia is one of the most heavily landmine and UXO contaminated countries in the world. The Landmine Impact Survey completed in April 2002 revealed that the number of areas contaminated by mines and UXO is about 30% higher than estimated in […]

… another week on MyanmarMike, forums are filled with spammers and no soul seems to contribute seriously, well we’ll wait, we’ll wait …
… just excerpts, the rest you can easily figure out by yourself
Prostituted girls, most of them aged 15 to18 years of age, are found in the Svay Pak red-light district of Cambodia. […]

They quality of the recordings isn’t perfect, but the music is still able to get under your skin by being creepy, high-pitched, and distorted by the poor recording quality. And if you think about how this was the sound of a city emptied at gunpoint, the sounds of children spying on their parents, the sounds […]

In this picture, U.S. soldiers survey the Cambodian town of Snuŏl after it has been almost completely flattened by U.S. bombers.
The United States dropped three times the quantity of explosives on Cambodia between 1970 and 1973 than it had dropped on Japan for the duration of World War II. Between 1969 and 1973, […]

During my “Holidays in Cambodia” I remember myself hanging out in Batambang with some locals. I had a stupid attention this time to visit brother number two, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s left hand. He was parting the peaceful and quite life of the elderly pensioner surrounded by his beloved family and charming grand-sons in the […]

“In Thailand there are around four million Muslims within a total population of
62 million - 80% of whom live in five southern provinces (Songkhla and
Satun are the other two). Despite violence in the south of Thailand hitting
the headlines in 2004, there has been ongoing dissatisfaction with the
Thai government, in terms of lack of development, cultural […]