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Around Town

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FILMS, EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

Q&AIan Croft on Chubmet

Festival and local music

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Deep WebConnecting the Kingdom

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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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Golden Street Party

@Street 278, 5 PM-4 AM

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.

SATURDAY

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This youth percussion group from Madagascar, who play amix of samba and reggae, continue their Southeast Asiantour to promote responsible tourism. Coinciding with Farmto Tables weekly, Craft Beer Tuesday, local beers are $3.50and $6 for 2.

Bloco Malagasy

@Farm to Table, 16 Street 360, 7 PM

TUESDAY

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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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T

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.

*****

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

Crazy For

By Maddy Crowell

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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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tech3

Nav, 23, an employee at Nature Republic, shows off the Korean skin products on offer.

7WEEKLYthe

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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

Supplied

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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