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WEEKLYThe
THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 25, 2016
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Around Town
The best listings in townPAGES 8 & 9
FILMS, EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Q&AIan Croft on Chubmet
Festival and local music
PAGE 3
Deep WebConnecting the Kingdom
PAGE 4
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Cambodian TVs displayKorean models, so itsa good way to attractyoung Cambodians tobuy the products.
Unnatural BondA new exhibition looks at
forced marriagesPAGE 5
K-BeautyCambodias Korean
obsessionPAGE 6 & 7
FlavorsA unique style of
French pastaPAGE 11
A teenage girl at her home near theJapanese Bridge in Phnom Penh
FabienMouret
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An 11-hour block party on one of the citys busiest backpackerstreets? Well, ok! Top Banana, Club Love, Duplex and PhnomPenh Underground have organized a smorgasbord ofentertainment that is scheduled to last into the wee hoursof Sunday. Among the highlights are Conrad Keely, theSoundtrek Project, Phnom Skor, Tiny Toones breakdancing,beatboxing, re dancing and much more. The event is freebut proceeds go to the NGO Pour un Sourire dEnfants.
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addyCrowell
Q: MC: How did the ideafor the festival get
tarted?
I set up a recording studio
with a guy called Clive a year
ago, so thats really how I cameo get more involved in the
music scene here. For a long
ime Ive had a view that Siem
Reap is a really nice place for a
estival, it just feels like its the
ight place. For me I wanted to
make it all about Cambodian
music.
Q: Whats the point inspending your budget
o bring in bands from
overseas?
I have no issue with theexpat bands here, but we put
ogether the schedule more
with the intention of providing
omething interesting people
dont always know about.
Because my job as the owner of
a music studio is to be aware of
he music scene here, of whats
happening here.
Q: In organizing thefestival, were you
earching for a particular genre
of music to work with?
No. In the festival weve
ried to provide variety. The
opening night was traditional.
The second night was Battle of
the Bands. Wednesday night
was Dengue Fever, but we did
a second event over on Pub
Street. I think its important
to engage the Cambodian
audience more, and theyre not
necessarily going to come hereso we did an event with Kampot
Playboys and a barang band
from Phnom Penh.
For example, weve got Kong
Nay, a blind musician, whos
the greatest blind musician
playing the chapey-dong veng,
along with an old Norwegian
musician.
So what were trying to do is
make people think about what
is music, what is entertaining.
I think the privilege we have
coming at this is to come at it
from an artistic viewpoint andseek to challenge people a little
in terms of what is music and
arts. Its not about the big lights
or the big stage.
Q: The idea of a musicfestival is very Western.
Youve got Primavera Sound,
Glastonbury, Coachella, Burning
Man, Lollapalooza attracting
tens of thousands each year. Are
you trying to bring some of these
themes into Cambodias music
festival?
Maybe some of the concepts,
yes. But not the music. Even
someone like Dengue Fever,
who is the big name of the
festival, their lead singers
Cambodian. This jazz unit
were featuring tonight, theyre
actually here in Cambodia for
two weeks with Cambodian
Living Arts working with
schoolchildren.
Q: Do you feel theres ahole in the music
scene here that needs to be
filled?
Yeah, maybe a little bit.
Weve really tried to bring in a
lot of bands who dont play here
regularly, bands from Phnom
Penh and Kampot.
Q: How did you recruit ordiscover the Cambodian
musicians?
We found them. Weve
been running workshops for
[Cambodian Living Arts], and
I wanted to get them involved.
Kong Nay was a real privilege
bringing in he hadnt been
to Siem Reap for five years.
For Battle of the Bands, we
were scouting around a lot of
different venues, talking around
and scouting on foot. But I think
we kind of struck gold there,
some of the bands were really
good.
Q:What will you change
for next year?
We have a film festival here,
theres an art festival, a puppet
parade. But theres not so much
around music and arts. I think
well go back to the drawing
board for a little bit and think
about what is the right structurefor next year. Should we do
more or less? Were doing six
to seven hours of music on the
main day. I dont know, maybe
we shouldnt do that!
Q: For you, what is thisfestival about?
Yeah, I mean for me I wanted
to do something with variety
thats inclusive. I want to bring
things that people wouldnt see
to them. Yeah? New Cambodian
artists have never played on abig stage like that before.
So thats what were trying to
do which is quite difficult. Its
quite difficult in the messaging.
Because I can say, Come
to my concert and youll see
something youve never heard
about. And youll say, Well,
why is that cool? And you
wont know until you go there.
But that element of surprising
people, of taking people to
something, its never been done
here before.
Q: Do you feel like the musicscene is Cambodia is
changing?
I think its grown. And I think
its changing fast. Theres a
strong push away from copying
Thai music or Chinese music.
There are still foreign influences
but influence is one thing
copying is another. Theres amovement away from copying.
Here were trying to approach it
differently. Make it interesting
and get people to think outside
the box as to whats enjoyable
and fun as music.
Q: Is there any clash, asyou see it, between
preserving traditional Khmer
music and modernizing?
My personal view is theres
a need to modernize. At some
point in the early 40s or 50s,someone put pickups in the
guitar, and people started doing
fun things with it. [Laughs]
Same with the violin.
I think the traditional stuff
has its place, its part of the
culture, its just like we have
our philharmonic orchestras
back home. I think as well, a lot
of the modern influences come
from the 60s and 70s, which is
fine, its logical. Every era sort
of comes out of the last era.
Cambodia missed a big era. So
its natural to look back onthose eras, rearrange them,
change something, speed
something up, slow something
down.
Ian Croft, onChubmet Festival
and Cambodiasevolving music
For five days last week Siem Reap hosted the first-ever Chubmet Festival, featuring musicians playing in venues throughout the city. The Chubmet festival is one of
he first attempts to integrate Cambodias disjointed music scene on such a large scale. In five days, the festival boasted a sampling of jazz, rock, traditional Khmer, pop,
hip hop, international and included both big and small name bands among them Master Kong Nay, Dengue Fever, Kampot Playboys, Miss Sarawan Duo, Heng Pitu,
Khong Khoy, The Cutters and Batbanger Band.
The Weeklys Maddy Crowellsat down last week with Ian Croft, the head of recording studio Road Studios and the fest ival organizer , to discuss the festival and it s
plans for the future.
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Among visitors, Tuol
Sleng GenocideMuseum, or S-21,
has a reputation
as a stark, moving reminder
of the atrocities committed
by the Khmer Rouge. It is
unapologetically spare and
unobtrusive, with little in
the way of explanation. But
Director Chhay Visoth, who
took over two years ago, sees
room for tweaking this formula,
by becoming a more active
museum and chronicler of the
periods history.
Weve just let it be, hesaid, referring to the museum.
Because even though weve
been open more than 30
years, in terms of the way of
management we didnt use
many museum skills.
One project at a time,
Visoth is trying to teach his
staff how to make the museum
a more engaging place to learn
about this dark period. After
putting on an exhibition last
year, Visoth and his team are
preparing a new show on the
impact of forced marriageunder the Khmer Rouge. It will
be one part of ongoing research
into the experience of women
under the Khmer Rouge. With
AN UNNATURAL
BOND
DocumentationCenterofCambodia
financial support from the
German governments Civil
Peace Service, the museum
has compiled the stories of six
women and one man and theirmarriages during the Pol Pot
era. The exhibit opens next
Tuesday.
Together we can give a
voice to the couples, Visoth
said. Because it doesnt only
have an impact for women.
Under the Khmer Rouge,
all previous familial ties were
broken and a new social
structure was established.
According to one study on
forced marriage published
in 2014 by the Transcultural
Psychosocial Organisation,the organization arranged
mass marriage ceremonies
and would pair up couples in a
largely arbitrary manner, with
little previous research taking
place.
Often, they would have
no prior knowledge of each
other. In the days following
the ceremony, the couples
were expected to consummate
the marriage, with severe
punishment if they refused.
They [the Khmer Rouge]wanted to have a labor force,
Visoth says, as an explanation
of the strategy. Thats why
they called the children who
were born during that time
The Children of Angkar.
Theyre not the children of the
parents.
The women whose stories
are on display are surprisingly
open, despite the gruesome
details of their married lives.
All but one, who says that her
husband continues to abuse
her, agreed to use her real nameand have her portrait taken.
One woman, Sao Sek, said that
she refused to be married in
a mass ceremony. Because of
this, she was re-educated
several times before being
arrested.
Two women cadres
supervised while her new
A new exhibition examines forcedmarriage under the Khmer Rouge
The wedding of Nun Huy aka Huy Sre (left) andProk Khoeun aka Prak Samuth (right). The two
are not featured in the exhibition.
By James Reddick
At first, I could not share
without crying and losing
my breath, she says. Now, I know
how to calm my mind.
husband raped her. Before
his death in 1994, she had five
children with the man.
You needed to pretend to
love each other as husband andwife or else you would be in
trouble, Visoth said.
Alongside the exhibits
normal text placards, Visoths
team are also taking some risks.
To highlight the traditional
importance of the wedding
ceremony in Khmer culture,
the exhibit will feature a display
of the objects used during a
ceremony.
There will also be hanging
linens with printed quotations
from the victims. They
will create a tunneleffect for the visitor
designed to show the
claustrophobia of the
period, and the lack
of choice for these
couples.
Despite the
hardship of the Pol
Pot era, the couples
interviewed ended
up staying together
after the Vietnamese
invasion, which was
not uncommon.
This has meant thatbroaching the subject
of sexual violence and
forced marriage has
been difficult in the
nearly four decades since the
Khmer Rouge.
Not in public, but at the
monastery some of them share
their story, Visoth explains.They try to cope.
On one of the placards, a
woman explains the therapeutic
effect of sharing her grief. At
first, I could not share without
crying and losing my breath,
she says. Now, I know how to
calm my mind.
The Sorrow and Struggle of
Woman - Forced Marriage
during the Khmer Rouge Period
opens on March 1 at the Tuol
Sleng Genocide museum.
Som Raiya prepares the exhibit at theTuol Sleng Genocide Museum.
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he light will be
produced by lasers
sent along a fiberoptic
cable that runsrom Kuantan, Malaysia to
Sihanoukville, delicately laid on
he seabed by a specialized cable
hip. The 1,300 km underwater
cable will be the first to connect
o Cambodia, and is scheduled
o make landfall later this year.
Once plugged in, the
Malaysia Cambodia Thailand
MCT) cable will be able to
ransmit 30 terabytes of data
per second. That means that
,363,600 people connected to
he MCT could stream a 1080p
video at the same time, withouthaving to wait for it to buffer.
Laying this cable is not
Wikimedia/Ntech3
A submarine beroptic cable isinstalled at Poti naval base inGeorgia, on the Black Sea.
Think plugging an Ethernet cable into theback of your computer is hard? Trystringing that cable across , km ofocean floor.
By Jonathan Cox
cheap, and Cambodian ISP
EZECOM is paying Chinese
telecom giant Huawei Marine
about $80 million for the task.
Huawei has installed more
than half of all undersea fiber-optic cables around the world,
and the technology it uses to
do this is the stuff of Internet
infrastructure nerd fantasy.
Read on for details.
The Cable
American Senator Ted
Stevens became a laughingstock
when he called the Internet
a series of tubes, but the
infrastructure of the Internet
is just that a series of tubes.
Laying these tubes is no simpletask, though: it requires shark-
proof cable housing, specialized
DEEPWEB
ships, and deep-sea robots.
Undersea cables have come
a long way since 1858, when the
first undersea telegraph cable
was laid between Ireland and
Newfoundland. An underwaterfiberoptic cable today is about
the width of a garden hose,
but that is mostly plastic and
metal sheathing, built to protect
the hairs-breadth fiberoptic
filaments inside.
Although the ocean floor
may seem calm, these cables
and the millions of megabytes
of data they carry are often
in peril. They can be snagged
and broken by ships anchors,
twisted by earthquakes on the
ocean floor, or even bitten by
curious sharks (look it up).Hence the protective sheaths
of metal and plastic, which are
designed to make the cable last
25 years or more.
These cables are kept in
giant spools in the belly of
specialized cable ships, built
for the single purpose of laying
fiberoptic cable on the bottom
of the ocean.
The Ships
These expensive fiberoptic
cables cant just be unspooledoff the back of a fishing boat.
It takes a special cable ship to
do the task. Cable ships come
equipped with cargo bays that
hold the spools of electrified
cable. They also have machinery
on board that enables engineers
to fuse connections between
the delicate cables. Inside the
boat are banks of computers,monitors, and sonar scanners to
map the sea floor and watch out
for obstacles that could break
the cable. Special underwater
propellers fore and aft enable the
big boats to maneuver precisely
around these obstacles.
A lot of planning goes into
the route the ship takes. The
cable boat cannot simply take
the shortest route between two
points, since protected reefs or
different ocean floor hazards
might lie along the way. A route is
planned in advance that weavesaround any sensitive ecosystems
at the bottom of the ocean, and
makes sure the cable will have as
few obstacles as possible.
At shallower depths, even
the smartest route wont put
the cable out of harms way.
So ships come equipped with
machines that automatically
bury the cable.
The Robots
To minimize the possibility
of having their multi-milliondollar cable damaged, cable
ships use a remote-operated
underwater plow to bury it
under the sea floor, until the
cables reach a depth where their
chance of being disturbed is
slim. Though it is known as an
underwater plow, these multi-
millions dollar machines have
little in common with anythingthat would be pulled behind
a tractor. They are equipped
with sonar, sensors, and can be
used to install cable, repeaters,
or cable splice boxes. Theyre
tough built to withstand the
bone-crushing pressures at
1,500 meters under the ocean.
Once connected across the
ocean floor, each tiny fiberoptic
filament is worth millions of
dollars. But if the fragile glass
strands are broken, theyre
completely worthless. So if
things go amiss, Huaweis cableboats are equipped with Atlas-
class submersibles that can
descend to 2,000 meters and
inspect the damaged wires. The
boat can then lift the wire back
to the surface for repairs.
TheResult
Once the MCT cable is
connected to Cambodia, the
countrys ISPs will no longer be
reliant on Internet bandwidth
borrowed from ISPs in Vietnam
and Thailand. And when youopen a YouTube video in 2017,
youll have a high-tech
underwater series of tubes to
thank.
The 1,300 kilometer Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand cable, scheduledor completion later this year, will be the rst undersea beroptic
cable connected to Cambodia
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T
he Revlon Store on
Preah Sihanouk Blvd,
one of Phnom Penhs
busiest streets for
shopping, was empty when Iwalked in and asked, perhaps a
bit aggressively, if they sold any
Korean skincare products.
The smile on the managers
face faded.
No Korean skincare. We sell
US products only, he told me.
He quickly pushed a Revlon Age-
Defying skin sculpting mask kit
towards me, running through
the quick three-step process,
and promising that I would have
smoother skin if I used it.
The US products are better
than Korea, he added. Itsounded like a routine hed been
through before.
But when I asked why, he
shrugged.
I dont know, we dont
sell any other products, he
explained apologetically. But
US has the best products.
The shop was unsurprisingly
barren compared to ten of the
other skincare shops I visited
that day, and the manager
explained most of their clients
came from the US or Europe.
But in a country dominatedprimarily by South Korean
skincare products, shops selling
strictly European or American
products have a hard time
keeping up with their highly
solicited Korean counterparts.
In 2015 alone, South Korea
exported roughly $2.64 billion
worth of cosmetic goods
roughly $1.6 billion more
than in 2014. And according
to a recent BBC report, South
Korean women spend two
times more on beauty products
and make-up than Americanwomen. (South Korean men, on
the other hand, spend more on
skincare than any other country
in the world.)
Its no secret that South
Korean beauty products, also
known as K-beauty, have
made their name loudly acrossthe world stage. Products like
BB cream became popular in
2011 when the product was first
launched in the US. By 2014, the
BB cream market was worth $164
million. Other major brands
like Soko, Erborian, Neogen,
and Amorepacific started
dominating foreign beauty
markets. The largest importers
of Korean skincare products
are now China and Hong Kong,
followed by the US. The product
boasts smoother, softer skin and
is often more affordable thanhigh-end products like La Mer.
In 2013, the Korean skincare
craze reached Cambodia.
Within the first quarter of the
year, Cambodia was importing
$9.9 million worth of Korean
skincare products.
But in Cambodia, the sales
approach is slightly different
from the West. Women are
looking less to rejuvenate
and refurbish their faces
(though this inevitably plays
a role). Instead, theyre
looking for a product towhi ten thei r sk in.
Most of our customers
prefer Korean products. It
makes the skin whiter, theres
an anti-acne and an anti-aging
cream, explained Sopha Pech, a
salesmen at Ahmed Cambodia, a
clinic that describes itself simply
as: Ahmed: Aesthetic and Anti-
aging.
Because were Asian, we like
to use Asian products we have
the same skin, Pech explained.
Cambodian women like the
whitening cream, and to makefaces look young.
Pech showed me the clinics
top selling product Neogen
skincare imported fromSouth Korea. Small bottles
sell for roughly $60 - $66 and
included different skin routines:
whitening, anti-aging, cleansing,
pore-reducing and moisturizing.
The products are also sold
primarily online from a website
called RichandYoung.com,"
which is plastered with photos of
young women with flawless, pale
skin. RichandYoung advertises
the promise of a scientific skin
that uses a process described
online as bio-convergence,
fermentation, and extraction ofphytoncide.
Women love this product.
When they use it, it works for
their skin; its good for the skin.
Its the same quality as Japanese
or Thai products but cheaper,
Sopha explained.
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M
uch like K-pop,
the popular
term for world-
famous Korean
pop, K-beauty has infiltratedbeauty stores around the world.
But much of the global
infiltration of K-beauty is rooted
less in the business model thanin the fact that aesthetics, and
a fascination with appearance,
plays a major role in South
Korean culture. Between one-
fifth and one-third of women in
Seoul have had plastic surgery,
and according to a BBC poll fifty
percent of the women are in
their twenties.
In an article for The New
Yorker last March, Patricia Marx
explained why South Korea
has become a world-famous
plastic surgery capitol. Marx
visited Seouls ImprovementQuarter a neighborhood with
500 clinics and hospitals with
names like Reborn, Wannabe,
4 Ever, Cindarella, and Center
for Human Appearance,
where a patient explained:
When youre nineteen, all
the girls get plastic surgery, so
if you dont do it, after a few
years, your friends will all look
better, but you will look like
your unimproved you.
Marx cited a South Korean
television show, Let Me In,
which gives contestants nameslike Girl Who Looks Like
Frankenstein, Woman Who
Cannot Laugh and are judged
by beauty experts based on theirphysical features. Parents are
brought onstage to apologize to
their children for giving them
bad genes. At the end of the
show, the audience applauds
the new faces of contestants
who have undergone plastic
surgery. Its one of the most
popular shows in Korea.
One factor is that, in contrast
to Western cultures, the external
aspects of self (your social
status, clothes, gestures, and
appearance) versus the inner
aspects (thoughts and feelings)matter more [in Korea],
Eunkook Suh, a psychology
professor at Yonsei University,
in Seoul told Marx.
But unlike the West, which
has feminist academics like
Adeline Koh praising Korean
beauty products for teaching
women to view beauty
products as a form of self-care,
in Cambodia and much of
Southeast Asia K-beauty has
become a fashionable way to
imitate the wild popularity of
South Korean trends.Cambodia is not as
developed as a culture, Mr.
Sreang Heng, a Professor at
Cambodia's
Korean
obsession
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K-Beauty
Pannasastra University ofCambodia told me by phone.
Therefore when the Koreans
come [the Cambodians]
eel accepted. Many young
generations are looking up to
he stars.
Much of Sreangs research
nvolves the infiltration of
Korean culture in Cambodia
an influence he ascribes to
Korean television.
We call it modernization,
he influence of Korean
elevision dramas and soap
operas, he explained. The TVdramas attract people, especially
young women, and so do the
advertisements. Cambodian
women see Korean women as
pop stars, and think that theyre
beautiful, and therefore Korean
products have become very
popular. Young people want to
ook like the TV stars.
And according to Sreang, the
nfluence is spreading.
So much of Korean
culture is now in Cambodia.
Cambodian TV's display Korean
models, so its a good way toattract young Cambodians to
buy the products, Sreang said.
Another reason the products
are so popular is that the Korean
makeup is for Asians. Theres an
Asian way. The way the Koreans
dress, their hairstyles, makeup,
Cambodians feel similar, they feel
accepted.
*****
Inside the Ahmed Clinic,
plush purple violet
cushions seat young
women thumbing through
beauty magazines. A television
screen plays fading images of
Korean models touching their
faces above a Buddhist shrine.
Beauty products are sold along
the walls, but thats not why
most of the women are there
most are there to receive botoxand other forms of plastic
surgery.
The clinic advertises as the
world-class aesthetic clinic
where beauty lasts forever, serve
your perfect appearance with
the latest hi-tech and modern
technology mixed with Korean
technique by a professional
doctor team. Were proud to
present every hi-class service
in private zone where you feel
luxury in a dream.
I visited in mid-afternoon,
and the clinic was wildly
popular. Women in heels visited
with their boyfriends, and were
escorted into backrooms for
various skin treatments. I asked
Sopha who their main clientswere.
Cambodian, he said.
Rich Cambodian. He excused
himself, apologetically. The shop
was busy, and he had customers
to tend to. I asked Mr. Sreang on
the phone if he saw K-beauty as
a threat to Cambodian women.
Modernization we cannot
stop, he said. But it can
become a problem if it gets in
the way of improving our local
culture.
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Nav, 23, an employee at Nature Republic, shows off the Korean skin products on offer.
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@ Show Box Bar, #11 Street 330,4:00-11:00 PM
Reggae chill-out session withKaztet D and friends, alongwith a Caribbean BBQ
@Pontoon Pulse, 80 Street 172House Sensation : DJ Sha-man playing Deep FunkyHouse music.
Mon, Feb 29PULSATION@Pontoon Pulse, 80 Street 172
Rob Bianche Playing TechFunk Breaks
Tue, Mar 1SOUL SONIC GROOVE@Pontoon Pulse, 80 Street 172
Alan Ritchie dropping old-school Hip Hop, Soul Funkand B-Boy breaks.
TuesdayBLOCO MALAGASY@Farm to Table, 16 Street 360,7 PM
This youth percussion groupfrom Madagascar, who playa mix of samba and reggae,
continue their SoutheastAsian tour to promote re-sponsible tourism.
Wed, Mar 2OPEN MIC FEATURING JOEWRIGLEY & THE JUMPINGJACKS@ Show Box Bar, #11 Street 330,7:30 PM
Joe Wrigley and the JumpingJacks with a 30 minute pre-open mic set with their newlineup. Open mic at 8 PM.
EXHIBITIONS
GERMAN-CAMBODIAN ART@Meta House, #37 SothearosBoulevard, opening at 6 PM:
The German artist AlfredBanze presents 2.5 Street,Together with students andlocal artists he created largedrawings and video clips withthe theme: Rise and fall of aCommunity Art Space.
Tue, March 1SORROWS AND STRUGGLES:WOMENS EXPERIENCE OFFORCED MARRIAGE DURINGTHE KHMER ROUGE REGIME@Tuol Sleng Museum (Building
A), Opening at 3 PMThe exhibition is based onsurvivor oral histories re-counting personal experienc-es of forced marriages duringthe Khmer Rouge regime.
Wed, March 2THE ALTERED MIRROR: RE-FLECTIONS FROM GUATEMALA
AND CAMBODIA
@Bophana Center 64 Street 200,Okhna Men, Opening Receptionat 6:00 PM
Erick Gonzalez, renownedFranco-Guatemalan artistresident in Phnom Penh since2015, exhibits his latest cre-ations consisting in objects,installations and paintings.
ONGOING:ARTS FREEDOM@The Insider Gallery at Inter-Continental Phnom Penh, 296Mao Tse Toung Boulevard, UntilMarch 13
Featuring the works of EmReam and Takakazu Yamada
EVENTS
Thur, February 25@Pontoon Pulse, 80 Street 172NO PROBLEM DISCO
DJ Jack Malipan playing
Sexy Funky Disco HouseTRIPPY THURSDAYS@Meta House, #37 SothearosBoulevard, 9 PM:
Berlin special: expect aeclectic mix of trippy 1970s /1980s Berlin electronic music
99-99 ARTS GROUP@ Show Box Bar, #11 Street 330,7:30 PM
The band will be combiningits gothic lounge music with avideo backdrop of images ofthe NYC streets in the 1980s
SOUNDTREK PROJECT@Cloud, 32 E0 Street 9, 7:30 PM
An 11-piece student brass
band from France
DANCE PARTY@The Room, 10 Street 246, 8 PM
DJ Nils Andson (France), halfprice cocktails for ladies
Fri, Feb 26PULSE THE HOUSE@Pontoon Pulse, 80 Street 172
Alan Ritchie, Dj Shaman &Special guests Tim Coatesplaying upfront House &Techno.
LIVE MUSIC@French Institute, 218 Street184, 6:30 PM
An ensemble between theMezcal Jazz quartet andthree local musicians from
Cambodia Living Arts. Origi-nal compositions and tradi-tional Khmer songs.
BOX HOUSE PARTY@ Show Box Bar, #11 Street 330,8:00 PM
DJ Celine (House)
DJ PARTY@Meta House, #37 SothearosBoulevard, 9 PM:
Soundz of Berlin
LIVE ACOUSTIC@Cloud, 32 E0 Street 9, TimeTBD
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARYPARTY@The Room, 10 Street 246, 8 PM
DJ B Fox
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARYPARTY@Farm to Table, 16 Street 360,6-9 PM
Joe Wrigley & the BlueberryMoonboys (acoustic)
LIVE MUSIC@Alley Cat Caf, 42 Street 19z, 7PM-10 PM
Road to Mandalay
Sat, Feb 27BUFFET
@Himawari Hotel Apartments
Oyster Restaurant, 6 PM-10 PM
Every Friday and Saturday.Fresh seafood and meats.$21++ per adult, $10.50++per child. For reservations call023 214 555 ext. 63
OSKAR SATURDAYS@Oskar Bistro, 159 SisowathQuay
DJ Jack Malipan, 50 percentoff house spirits, cocktailsand local beer from 10:30
PM-Midnight
GOLDEN STREET PARTY@Street 278, 5 PM-4 AM
Massive street party withlive bands, including Con-rad Keely, Phnom Skor, TheSoundtrek Project and manymore.
NERD NIGHT 5 YEARS!@The D22, 445 Monivong Boule-vard, 8 PM
A party celebrating NerdNights fifth anniversary, witha yearly awards ceremony
HERBAL HEALTH NIGHT@Meta House, #37 SothearosBoulevard, 6 PM:
Liberal Initiative Forum for Ed-ucation with an introductionto herbal food supplementsfor weight loss, available inCambodia.
LIVE PERFORMANCE, 9.30 PM:Music, poetry, visual arts andexperimental presentation.Feat. Audio Mainline, RobertoTraina, Warren Daly, ScottBywater and Chann Dina.
LOTUS LEAF WORKSHOP@N o w h e r e, 3e0 Street 312, 10
AM-1 PM, $60Lotus leaf oil painting lessonsfrom Hien Do from Hanoi,Vietnam, who learned thetechnique from the master inBangkok.
TECHNPHONICS SPECIAL@Pontoon Pulse, 80 Street 172
Special guest DJ from Austra-lia Matt Abstraxx with regularsDJ Flo & Rob Bianche.
Sun, Feb 28JAMBOX
DO WE HAVE YOPlease email all details to James.redd
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ZEPPELIN CAF, STREET278 (LOOK FOR THE DRYCLEANERS SIGN JUSTNORTH OF STREET 57)
After eight years on Street 51, the
beloved Zeppelin Caf moved earlier
this month to Street 278. The old
Zeppelin was lled with charm, from
the retro 50s diner-esque furniture to
the rock posters and ags to the tiny,
Hot Spottattered and vandalized restrooms in
the back. Whereas the old Zeppelin was
cramped when busy and had no hopes
of fresh air, the new place could not be
any more breezy.
Made up entirely of a second-oor
patio, Zeppelins has managed to hold
on to its charm despite having sacri-
ced some of its grit. Theres a brand
new pool table, yet-to-be defaced
bathrooms (separated by gender!) and
surprisingly tasteful hanging lamps. For
the old timers, certain things have not
changed. The prices seem to be exactly
the same, and still ridiculously cheap
($2-2.50 for cocktails).
There are still classic rock posters
on the wall. And most importantly, the
owner, Jun, is still in the back corner
of the room spinning classic rock and
heavy metal records night and day. If
hes going to spend so much time back
there, you cant begrudge the guy want-
ing some fresh air.
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FUTUROGRAPHIES: CAMBODIA USA FRANCE@Sa Sa Bassac 182E SothearosBoulevard, ongoing until March26
The exhibition visualizesand materializes multivalentaspects of the Cambodiandiaspora experience in andbetween Cambodia, USA,and France.
N/VISIBLE@Meta House, Meta House, #37
Sothearos Boulevard,Photographer Ann-ChristineWoehrl focuses on acid at-tack victims from Bangladesh,Nepal, Cambodia, Pakistan,Uganda and India. The venuewill also screen films aboutacid victims from Cambodiaand other countries.
ROAM!The Plantation, #28 Street 184,until March 5:
A collection of 15 charcoal
Cambodia Dreams plays atMeta House on Saturday.
drawings on craft paper,depicting the impromptuparties held by moonlight inthe Cambodian countryside,near Kampot, where VincentBroustet lives.
THE DISAPPEARANCE, FREEJava Cafe, 56 Sihanouk Boule-
vard, until February 28The Disappearance is a bodyof work by Nicolas C. Greyusing pen, ink, collage andfound photographs and ob-jects. The exhibition has beencomposed as an installation each work is experienced inrelation to the other.
FILMS
Thu, Feb 25
@Meta House, #37 SothearosBoulevard, 9 PM:The Berlin Wall (2003, 60 mins),
4 PM:The film reviews the dauntingdevices within the so-calledDeath Strip - one of thedeadliest obstacle coursesever.
The Best shorts From Interflm
Fest 2015, 7 PM: Presented byHeinz Hermann
Fri, Feb 26
@French Institute, 216 Street 184Next Time Ill Aim for the Heart(2014, 111 mins, FR with EN sub-titles), 5 PM:
For several months during1978-1979 inhabitants of Oiseregion live in fright and terroras a serial killer disturbs thepeace and quiet.
@Meta House #37 SothearosBerlin Hasenheide (2010, 90mins), 4 PM:
Nana Rebhan is sheddinglight on one of Berlins mostinfamous parks. Hindus, nud-ists, joggers and dog walkersand Hindus build up a quirkymix of humorous situations
Cambodia Dreams (2009, 90mins), 8 PM:
The parallel lives of onefamily, half of whom went toone of the refugee campsin Thailand, while the otherhalf stayed in their village inCambodia.
Sat, Feb 27
@Bophana Center, 200 Oknha
MenCambodia: Between War andPeace (1992, 65 mins, KH withFR subtitles), 5 PM
Shot at the end of 1991 at thetime of Norodom Sihanouksreturn to Cambodia, this filmasks questions of the Cam-bodian people, explores thehorrors of the Khmer Rougeand their effects on them, andspeculates as to what futurethey may look forward to.
Casablanca (1943, 102 mins), 2PM:
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bog-art), who owns a nightclub inCasablanca, discovers his oldflame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman)is in town with her husband,Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid).Laszlo is a famed rebel, andwith Germans on his tail, Ilsaknows Rick can help themget out of the country.
@French Institute, 216 Street 184Belle And Sebastian (2013, 104mins, FR with EN subtitles), 10
AMA six-year-old boy and hisdog look to foil a Nazi effortto capture French Resistancefighters.
Hold Back (2012, 78 mins), 5 PM:Dorcy, a black Christian,and Sabrina, an Arab, wantto marry -- but their com-munities frown on interracialmarriages.
Sun, Feb 28
@Meta House, #37 SothearosBoulevardLast Days in Vietnam (2015, 98mins), 4 P:
A surprisingly fresh and heart-wrenching perspective on theend of the Vietnam War.
Red Wedding (2011, 52 mins),7PM:
One womans tale of herforced marriage under theKhmer Rouge.
Ingredients
Palmello Juice Blue Curacao Lychee liqueur
As a drinker of dark
spirits, I generally try to
steer clear of drinks that
glow, but when Sopheak,
the bartender of Tokyo
Saka Bar, recommended
the China Blue I fgured I
would give it a shot.
Normally I try to make
drinks for ladies, he
explains. So I made this
one for them. Turns out
it is not just for a female
palette. China Blue, which
is actually a very neonshade of aqua, is perfect
if you want a drink with
just a hint of sweetness.
Made with Paraiso lychee
liqueur, palmello juice and
curacao, it is surprisingly
well balanced and light.
As the name suggests,
Tokyo Saka Bar has an
extensive selection of
sake, as well as Japanese
scotch. The cocktail list
is dizzyingly long, though
drinks are a bit expensive.
The China Blue set me
back $5, while a frozencocktail is $6.
China Blue @ Tokyo Saka Bar,89EO Street 63
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Just outside
Vietnam's ancient
imperial capital
Hue is a tiny fishing
town known as the City
of Ghosts, where the dead
live in more opulent style
than the living.
The spectacular tombs
of Vietnam's former
emperors are a well-
trodden stop on the tourist
circuit in UNESCO-listed
Hue, the country's capital
for some 140 years starting
in 1802.But in nearby An Bang
village, local fishermen are
taking the tomb tradition
into the 21st century.
Families in the rural
community are pouring up
to $70,000 into elaborate
final resting places for their
kin -- an astronomical
cost in a country were the
annual per capita income
is $2,000.
Though Vietnam is
VIETNAM'S CITY OF
GHOSTS, WHERE THE
DEAD LIVE IN STYLE
By ran Ti Minh Ha
HOANGDINHNAM/AFP
officially an atheist state
thanks to its communist
rulers, the country hasbeen deeply influenced by
Confucius and Buddhist
thought, and many people
take ancestor worship
seriously.
But the practice is
being taken to new heights
in An Bang.
"Our cemetery
is unique," retired
fisherman Dang Thien
told AFP proudly as he
gave reporters a tour of
his family's enormous 400
square metre tomb."It is for the children
to be able to pay their
respects to the ancestors,"
he said, adding that a
well-cared for tomb will
also bring the family good
fortune. "It will be there
forever."
Thien's family plot
was one of the first to
be renovated in 1994,
when locals first started
investing heavily in the
centuries-old cemetery.
Yet the ornate structure
-- six meters high andcovered with colourful
dragons carved into pillars
-- is now dwarfed by more
recent additions.
Some new tombs in
this 250 hectare site, set
next to a white sand beach,
rise up to ten meters
high, with every inch
meticulously decorated.
Unlike nearby
Hue, where UNESCO
regulations are in place to
preserve the 18th and 19th
century buildings, localsin An Bang have been free
to let their creativity run
riot.
From Buddhist-style
temples to Gothic tombs,
with a hefty sprinkling of
Roman-esque columns,
the cemetery's aesthetic
is: anything goes.
While traditional
Vietnamese dragon
carvings are popular,
some graves also appear
to draw inspiration from
Hindu imagery, with
others featuring Christianor Islamic symbols.
A few of the tombs
stand empty -- villagers
have built them in
advance of their own
deaths, including one
that was completed in
2005 and is waiting for its
owner to shuffle off his
mortal coil.
According to local
policeman Hoang Khang,
the lavish graves are
largely bankrolled by
relatives of the villagerswho live abroad, mostly in
the United States.
"Being well-off, they
send money back home,
which is invested in
building tombs, graves,
and the village temple,"
he told AFP.
Hue lies close to
the line that divided
Vietna m's commu nist
north and US-backed
South during the
country's bloody war,
and the area was battered
by bombs during thedecades-long conflict.
In the years after
the fall of Saigon and
reunification in 1975,
hundreds of thousands
of people fled communist
orthodoxy and grinding
poverty in hopes of better
lives overseas.
Many of the so-called
boat people died at sea
and others ended up in
camps in Hong Kong.
But some of the more
fortunate found their wayto Australia or the US.
In An Bang, an
influx of foreign cash
from such relatives has
triggered something
of a competitive tomb
building spree, with
families eager to build the
most extravagant grave in
the plot.
Policeman Khang said
the tombs are getting
taller, wider, and more
ambitious every year.
"According to
traditional customs, ataller tomb gives the
ancestors a better view,"
he said. As the cemetery
has grown, it has become
increasingly famous
throughout Vietnam,
-- putting the local
communist leadership in
a tough spot.
"Local authorities
don't encourage giant
tombs," said local
official Hoang Dinh
Xuan T hin h.
Authorit ies have runmultiple "communication
campaigns" to discourage
locals from expanding the
graves, but to no avail.
When AFP visited,
construction work was
ongoing on a two-story
high tomb.
"Personally, I think it's
a waste of money," said
Thinh.
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An artisanal
pasta-maker in
n ort h e as t e rn
France is
truggling to meet demand
after adding a crunchy,
protein-rich ingredient tohe noodles: insects. "The
name of the ingredient
may be a turnoff, but it's
eally delicious, especially
with game meat," smiles
Alain Limon as he spreads
cricket-flavoured fusilli on
a drying rack.
Limon, 52, is the only
employee at the Atelier a
Pates (Pasta Workshop)
n Thiefosse, northeastern
France.
His boss Stephanie
Richard began herhomemade pasta
business in 2012, and is
now hiring again thanks
o the success of her latest
creations made from
insect flour.
"The insect is the
protein of the future,"
Richard says. "It's protein
of high quality that is well
digested by the body."
In fact, a 2013 by the
UN Food and AgricultureOrganization (FAO) noted
the "huge potential" of
insects, for feeding not
only people but also
livestock.
Insects are already a
common food in many
developing countries
across Asia, Africa, Latin
America and Oceania.
Some European
cheeses also contain or
use insects, like France's
mimolette, whose grey
crust is the result ofcheese mites intentionally
introduced to add flavour,
or the Sardinian casu
marzu, which contains
live insect larvae.
'Kind of nutty' -For
Richard's unique pastas,
she uses pulverised
crickets and grasshoppers,
sometimes mixing the
two, and sometimes
mixing ground cepes with
cricket flour."There's a kind of nutty
taste thanks to the cepes,
making it taste more
like whole wheat pasta,"
Richard says.
She was developing
a high-protein pasta for
athletes when an insect
distributor in eastern
Lyon contacted her.
Sold on the idea, she
began producing pasta
made from insect flour
in time for the December
holidays, and around500 packages flew off her
shelves.
"The product piqued
the curiosity and had great
success," says Richard,
who is also a part-time
French teacher.
Whole eggs are added
to a mixture of seven
percent insect flour to
93 percent organic spelt
wheat flour, producing
a brownish pasta that isshaped into radiatori,
fusilli, spaghetti and
penne. At first Richard
made plain fresh egg
pasta before diversifying
her production while
keeping it strictly within
the culinary traditions of
the Lorraine region, using
wild garlic, nettles and
safran, for example.
All of her ingredients
were from Lorraine
except durum semolina,
which Richard says isincompatible with the
climate.
Four years on with the
addition of insect flour
to the mix, "it's working
so well that we will soon
be able to hire a second
person," Richard says,
proud of her weekly
production now at some
400 kilos (880 pounds).
And she does not
plan to stop there: she isworking on a new recipe
using Maroilles cheese
from northern France,
and plans to start making
stuffed pastas.
At a little over six
euros ($6.60) for a 250
gramme (about half a
pound) package, insect
flour pastas are more
expensive than standard
kinds, but Richard notes
that they can replace
meat for vegetarians
-- or for people whoprefer crickets. "People
with iron or magnesium
deficiencies will also eat
these products," she says.
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An employee of the factory "L'Atelier apates" ("The pasta shop") makes a specialpasta with insect our made with locusts or
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