So I'd been in Phnom Penh for nearly a month, it's nearly a month since I last saw Thi - where has all the time gone? Lazy days to be sure, usually at the Riverside or the FCC for lunch, catching up with old friends and making new ones variously. I'd

There are hundreds of 'ghost' detainees being held by the Americans around the world from Abu Ghraib in Iraq, to Baghram in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba.America practices 'rendering' where prisoners are deliberately transferred to countries that

It was yet another afternoon whiling away the time at the Riverside restaurant, waiting it seemed like forever to get my visa approved. The day was hot and muggy, hotter than I remembered it before, several months ago when I was last here. The rains

From the desk of ace Welsh reporter Roy Rubberplunger!Last week an article in Newsweek sparked off riots in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere. Some 17 people were reported to have died in the anti-US riots. They were caused by claims

Two weeks earlier my Vietnamese girlfriend Thi and I had arrived tired, hungry and exhausted at an old haunt of mine in Phnom Penh, the Riverside restaurant. Run by an avuncular German, Andy, the food was Western, reasonably priced, had decent wine a

Just a short entry, to let people know I'm fine despite being in a shooting incident, thanfully I sustained only a minor injury (scratches from flying glass) and nobody else was seriously hurt.It's been a strange week with robbery, visa woes, s

A little over a week ago the British public in their infinite wisdom elected Tony Blair's New Labour party to office. They did so but only after giving Blair a bloody nose, largely over lying to the country on the urgent necessity of dismantling Iraq

Sixty years after the war ended in Europe, incredibly there are some revisionist Americans that believe they and they alone won the war in Europe. They forget that the US was complicit in aiding the construction of Nazi Germany, with companies like G

Today is the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. It is a time for reflection, a time to remember that we had hoped never to see the spectre of war again, a hope, as it turned out, that was forlorn and naive, even as today we wage bloody war upon I

To mark the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII, I thought I'd resurrect a few articles and thoughts, in no particular order. There were many reasons why the Nazis were ultimately defeated; the economic might of America, the stubborness of the unyiel

Happy slappy!A new craze is sweeping Britain, know locally as 'happy slappy'. The idea is for a gang of youths to ambush an unsuspecting victim and then take a photograph of them with mobile phones. The photos are then sent to the perpetrators friend

It's odd indeed that America cannot seem to move on from the war it lost in Vietnam 30 years ago this week. Revisionists are busy re-fighting the campaign with ludicrous claims that they never lost the war. Do they ever look at a map? Meanwhile, the