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From Reading to Nakhon Nowhere
B Magazine, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 06/05/2018
» For the past 39 years, Roger Crutchley's weekly Postscript column has kept Bangkok Post readers smiling, taking a light-hearted look at life through the eyes of a long-time expat as well as being a welcome respite from the regular angst of crime, local politics, demonstrations and coups that often filled the rest of the paper.
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Catching the long end of the stick
Spectrum, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 31/01/2016
» In the 1970s one of Thailand’s most famous exports was the super-strong strain of marijuana known as Thai sticks, and now a five-part documentary and a television series are to be made on the illegal trade and the people who smuggled it to the Western world.
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Expressionist Coles changes tack for latest work
Life, Published on 14/01/2016
» American expressionist painter Chris Coles is better known in Thailand and Cambodia for his neon-like work featuring bar girls and their customers, but now he's gone green.
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The world's oldest radio DJ spins his life story
Alan Parkhouse, Published on 06/12/2015
» "I was going really well until I hit 99," said Jim Davison, who celebrates two special occasions Sunday - his 102nd birthday and starting his new job.
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The search for Camp 32
Spectrum, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 25/10/2015
» Bunhom Chhorn was only six when the Khmer Rouge separated him from his family and sent him to work in the countryside outside Battambang at a place then known as Camp 32.
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The day the nightmare started
Spectrum, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 19/04/2015
» April 17, 1975, is a date that sends shivers down the spines of all Cambodians. It was the day the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh and took control of the country after years of bitter fighting in the countryside.
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US 'handed Cambodia to butcher', ambassador recalls
Published on 17/04/2015
» PARIS — Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and US Marines, breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia's besieged capital. Residents believed the Americans were rushing in to save them, but at the US Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept.
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Capital to ghost town: 40 years since Phnom Penh's fall
AFP, Published on 17/04/2015
» When black-clad Khmer Rouge soldiers first charged into Phnom Penh they were welcomed with cheers, remembers Chhung Kong, a teacher in the Cambodian capital during the 70s.
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Cambodia marks 40 years since evacuation of Phnom Penh
AFP, Published on 17/04/2015
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodia on Friday will mark 40 years since the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh, ending a civil war but heralding a terror that left a quarter of the population dead and turned the capital into a ghost town.
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Dark sounds from the Cambodian soul
Life, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 18/12/2014
» Few bands in the region do "noir" music as well as Cambodia's Krom, who will be playing in Bangkok tonight as well as Friday and Saturday.
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