Heard of coronavirus, or as the cool kids say COVID-19? Here are our top 7 coronavirus photos. Oh, it only seems like yesterday that everyone was laughing at us here in China, what with our face-masks, and being quarantined! Well, my word hasn’t the world changed. Please understand this is far from a flippant blog,…
Cambodian New Year gets cancelled in a move even the grinch would flinch at. Cambodian New Year, or as the locals call it Khmer New Year, which takes place from April 14th – 16th, has mostly been cancelled due to the giant elephant in the room that is coronavirus! During Khmer New Year, migrant workers…
While you may have been in your home these last few weeks watching Narcos from the beginning again, internet warriors from Thailand and China were engaged in a war, possibly a prelude of Asian geopolitics in the future. Last week the Thai actor, Vachirawit Chivaaree aka Bright, retweeted something which made reference to Hong Kong…
Things have gotten so bad that the Philippines cancelled crucifixions over coronavirus fears. There a plenty of people not taking COVID-19 seriously, like Boris Johnson, beach-going Spaniards, and US of A, but you cannot say that about Duterte and the Philippines. For the first year in living memory, no one will be nailed to a…
A man driving in Urumqi city located in the northwest of China decided to drive up a pedestrian bridge over a highway after missing his exit. His SUV which is capable of off-road terrain made it 6 meters to the top without any issues until he discovered this route wasn’t going to work out for…
Dictator Swagger:On This Day Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003: With the help of U.S. troops, Iraqi civilians tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad. In a display of insensitivity, a U.S. marine draped a U.S. flag over the head of the statue, which reportedly stunned the crowd and drew ire from Arab…
Stranded Brits in Cambodia arrange their own charter flight after the embassy refuses to talk to them. There’s all that much that is funny about the coronavirus, or as the cool kids call it COVID-19, but there is a shit ton of irony in the fact that Boris Johnson is in ICU, with his stand-in…
At around 8 pm on February 22nd, 2019, Damon Simms was detained by police at Gabbi Guest House in Ta Phul Village, Svay Dangkum Commune, Siem Reap Province. Damon Walter Nelson Simms, to give him his full name is a 39-year-old Australian-Irish dual citizen who was running the hostel with his mother and wife. His…