Siam Reap is a sleepy place, relaxed, sleep and unhurried. Apart from the amputee beggars who demonstrate a remarkable turn of speed and crutch clacking agility as they race to catch up with the Barang that they've spotted. The Tom riel river runs

Pattaya to Aranyaprathet/Poipet to Siam Reap.I was glad to leave the utter debauchery of Pattaya, into which I had so willingly and mindlessly plunged. My soul needed shrieving, I had never slept with so many different beautiful women in such a short

Two years on.Iraq is a burning mess, its hospitals barely able to cope with the daily influx of gunshot wounds, violent muggings and lacks the basic drugs to deal with the injured. What there is of the economy is in tatters; there is little regular e

We've all been there - the long haul flight from hell. Here's something I wrote after a particularly bad flight from London to Bangkok.I mean what is it? I remember flying to SF some years ago on business and had the headphones on, listening in to so

'They claim that "the top enlisted Marine in Iraq has called on his troops to commit war crimes against the tens of thousands of remaining residents" of Fallujah. But they completely ignore the fact that coalition troops have uncovered mass

It really is amazing how deluded some people can be. Believe it or not, there are some in the US that believe the media is mis-representing the war in Iraq. Here's a little parody to a neo-conservative that wrote the following: Like Kerryâ€

 With global warming officially recognised and only America and Australia refusing to acknowledge the fact, I've dug up an article from last year. It is rare that one reads something that makes one stop and think. It is rarer when that wisdom

It is Tết, the Vietnamese lunar new year, which has been celebrated every winter or spring (depending on the lunar calendar) for over 4,000 years. This coming year is the year of the rooster, an inauspicious sign, for the rooster is largely

Last Thursday the great American evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, who was dubbed the Darwin of the 20th century, died aged 100. Just a few days later he must already turning in his grave. This week, a Kentucky school is to teach creationism alongsi

Well I didn't get up this 'morning', in fact it was two in the afternoon, following Wales narrow victory over England in Rugby Union. It was the first time that Wales had beaten England since they defeated them at Wembley, England in 1999, and the

An English teacher recieved from his book club a demand for $0.00 which he ignored. He subsequently recieved increasingly aggressive demands for payment, and even though he wrote letters and phoned the company, nothing stopped the flow of threats of

'The cascading allegations of prisoner abuse long ago demolished Bush's claim that only a few bad apples were responsible. Yet as reports of unexplained deaths, humiliations and depravity across the services multiply, Bush has remained silent. Soldie

There's been an incredible amount of nonsense spoken and written over the last few days concerning the recent Iraqi elections. Once again, news feeds like CNN have abandoned rationality and embraced cheerleader journalism as they whoop, kick their un

There's a lot of aggresive pedlars here in Saigon, everything from newspapers to books to sunglasses to cigarette lighters. The newspaper sellers gather yesterdays papers and try and sell them to you. They don't seem to understand that, 1) They're ye