Dog found - is it yours?

From the expat advisory forum: Who owns that dog?

If you think you know who she may belong to, please email Geoof, who found the dog. His email address is geoff.roberts(at)gmail.com

Fire in Phnom Penh

Fire in Phnom Penh
Originally uploaded by thomaswanhoff

That fire was not very far from the place I live... I am just trying to get some news. We had a lot of fires in the last days in Phnom Penh.


UPDATE: Got some information from KI-media: A Phnom Penh fire destroyed as many as 40 homes Wednesday afternoon, in what officials attributed to faulty wiring.

Fire in Phnom Penh

Fire in Phnom Penh
Originally uploaded by thomaswanhoff

That fire was not very far from the place I live... I am just trying to get some news. We had a lot of fires in the last days in Phnom Penh.

Fire in Russei Keo district

Balinese Dance

Balinese Dance
Originally uploaded by thomaswanhoff

At Art Café Phnom Penh, during the opening of Karina Putri Hariyano Exhibition.

Have you seen this girl (or boy)?

The story:

For Maria Elfversson, news that her missing six-year old had been seen safe and well with her father just days before she arrived in Cambodia - and had then disappeared once more -was bittersweet. The distraught mother of Alicia Elfversson, allegedly abducted by her father, says only a mother can understand the relief she felt when she heard recent news of her daughter during a visit to Sihanoukville this week after nine months of waiting.

But there was more disturbing news, too - the witnesses knew little Alicia as a boy called Al, and said the man she was with who identified himself as her father, Norwegian Torgier Nordbo, had cut her hair short and was dressing her in boy's clothes, possibly in an attempt to disguise her.

This is the suspected father:


The whole story on Expat Advisory

If you see this girl and the father, please call police!

Power cuts and the economy

We have now nearly daily a power cut. It takes between one and two hours, on average we are loosing two hours a day on work time. Just count this for the whole economy, and then please tell me where the boom is?

I can not see any progress in Cambodian power plants, but I can see more and more buildings and companies coming up. Imagine a six hours work day instead of 8, and then think about return of investment in 8 instead of six years.

Just some thoughts.