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...travel brochure. But recreating Captain Willard's mythical journey has been impossible for decades due to civil war in Mekong and tourist restrictions in communist Laos. Until now. Although not yet officially announced, the Mekong border crossing has been reopened to foreigners, allowing river travel from the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to southern Laos for the first time in half a century...
...Buddhist New Year. In ages past this was a time for spiritual cleansing, bathing elders and washing Buddha statues. But the oppressive heat of the dry season has prompted a revision to tradition. Now April 14-16 will see the world's biggest water fight as Southeast Asians from Phnom Penh to Phuket soak each other in three days of liquid lunacy, accompanied by dancing, feasting and singing. In Rangoon, stages erected along the streets are used to spray passersby. In Thailand, residents of Chiang Mai in the north are known as particularly enthusiastic celebrants, while Khon Kean...
...product name. But Shanghai radio sexologist Chen Kai - his business card features a pop-up penis - recently gave on-air advice to a housewife who wanted to know if it was safe to pleasure herself with a frozen cucumber. (Chen's tip: thaw it first.) In backwater Phnom Penh, the ankle-length sarong is starting to get shorter, and sex educators say some 50% of high school boys are having sex with girlfriends, often in fast-sheet hotels charging $1 an hour. At the Rainbow Pub in Hong Kong, where homosexuality was prosecuted until 1991, openly gay men rest their...
...fact, the country once had a vibrant film industry, with studios churning out 50-plus films a year for local audiences. During the 1960s reign of cinema-loving Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom Penh had more than 30 theaters, mostly showing local movies. Sihanouk himself, now the country's King, was an enthusiastic producer, director, scriptwriter, star and music composer. One of the era's classics was 1960's Puos Keng Kang (The Snake King) by director Tea Lim Kun, which retold a Cambodian legend of a peasant woman seduced by the king of the snakes...
...conquering Khmer Rouge. Hundreds of actors, writers and directors were executed. When the regime finally fell, the theaters slowly reopened and a brief renaissance followed, but the industry soon faced another threat: cheap Thai videos and television soap operas. Five years ago, the last commercial movie house in Phnom Penh closed...