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The emissions of Elvis Presley pouting

and rocking atop a warship were meant
for the jungles north of Ho Chi Minh
Citybut, says Samley, Phnom Penh
caught them, too. And Samley himself,
sixteen and two years into playing the
guitar, caught fire.
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Presence and Power
ince Amy Cuddy, a Harvard

Business school professor and
social psychologist, has been in
Cambodia, her new book has
made it to bestseller lists. Called Presence:
Bringing your Boldest Self to Your Biggest
Challenges, the book is a continuation of her
research on body languagefor example how
your shoulders hunch or your hands fidget
and its correlation with power. Cuddy is most
known from her Ted Talk in 2012, which has
now been viewed more than 30 million times,
in which she detailed her unusual findings on
how body language impacts not only others
perceptions of us but also how we feel about
ourselves.
After conducting a variety of studies,
she found that people who adopt power
poseslike a confident, hips open, handson-the hips stancebefore stressful situations
are likely to perform better because the mere
act of doing so lowers cortisol levels and
increases testosterone. She believes that
doing such exercises, and training oneself
to be confident in such situations, allows for
the possibility of presenting ones true self,
without the filters of anxiety, insecurity and
concerns about judgement.
Since the beginning of the month,
Cuddy has been in Cambodia with her

students at the Harvard Business School.
While they have been working with local
small business owners, as part of an annual
project in emerging markets to develop
business plans, she has taken some time to
meet the Kingdoms female entrepreneurs.
She presented her research to nearly two
dozen of them at an informal session earlier
this week, and came away surprised at their
unflinching confidence.
The Weeklys Sotheavy Nou and James
Reddick sat down with her this week to
discuss her new book and her impressions of
womens standing in Cambodia.
You mentioned that Mu Sochua gave you
one of your first impressions of Cambodia.
How did that happen?
Last year I had spoken at the Aspen Ideas
festival and Mu Sochua was speaking on the
same panel. It was women and leadership. I
spoke first and she was on the panel and I
said this is amazing. She has an incredible
presence so she didnt have to say much
about what people should do. Sharing her
story alone with that kind of courage and
poise, people went oh, I can do stuff too. I
Amy Cuddy speaks to a group of

businesswomen in Phnom Penh
on January 9.
was totally inspired by her and I had always

been really interested in Cambodia. Then I
met her and thought I have to come here and
talk to the people. We got to rank our places.
The students are all over the worldin twelve
different citiesand I ranked Cambodia
number one. So I was really glad to get here.
From speaking with women here, what
has been your initial impression?
One of the things that is really surprising
about Cambodia is thatI dont know
structurally how many are in leadership
positions but women seem almost more
outspoken than men. And the students are
having the same experience in business
where they go out to villages and the women
are sort of the community leaders or ideas
people. So the women in this group were
really brave. Theres an apologetic quality
that I see in young women wanting to be
leaders. I didnt see that in these women.
I dont want to make too many assumptions.
Cambodia feels like a strange paradox of
haunted and hopeful. And because of that
theres a space for new things to take root. I
dont want in any way to be misrepresented as
saying heres the silver lining, cause Im not
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saying that. Im saying theres some fertile soil

turned over in the last maybe decade of things
changing and young people coming up.
There must be some kind of cycle of regrowth.
It seems to me that Cambodia is asking whats
our identity?, What are we going to be? And
whats going to have meaning for us? And
what do we want to represent to the world? I
feel like these women have an opportunity to
shape that.
Maybe they dont have the power to do
that but they believe they do. Most social
psychologistsand thats my areafind that
if you believe you do, you do. If you have the
personal power youre able to acquire formal
power.
Can you give any specific examples that
give you that impression?
I watch people present, often. Thats one
of my things. Watching them get upwhen
they introduce themselves and watching their
body language even. The women who spoke
werent fidgety. When people are feeling
afraid and powerless they start fidgeting
and touching their necks and wrapping
themselves up. They werent doing those
things. They werent rushing. They werent
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Presence and Power
Sotheavy Nou
from page 03
So you approach power in a positive

sense?
Amy Cuddys new book Presence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest
challenges, published on December 23, 2015.
apologizing. They werent in awe. They
were proud and happy to be there. And you
felt that. It was a strong optimism. They really
carried themselves with poise and pride.
Can you tell us about your book?
It just came out in December. Its started
strong, which is weird because Ive been
here. Im a social psychologist so its research
based but its kind of a combination of the
research and the stories Ive heard from all
the people who wrote to me after the Ted talk.
Thats been viewed like 30 million times so
you can feel present in these moments? In

these challenging situations you most need
to be present, because if youre not you cant
interact with these challenges that are being
thrown at you. You cant hear them. All youre
hearing is sort of narration in your head or
this voice over about what you think they think
of you and youre usually wrong about that.
The psychology of power looks a lot to
me like the psychology of presence. When
we feel powerful, it activates what we call
the approach system, so you see challenges
as opportunities instead of threats, you feel
optimistic instead of pessimistic, youre
risk tolerant, you feel much more open to
competition in a good way. Youre not as
thrown off by failure. All these things that you
need in order to feel present.
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Ive received tens of thousands of letters and

phone calls with stories and people come up
to me in airports. From over 100 countries,
men and women, young and old, powerful
and powerlessthere are a couple themes,
one is that everyone faces these challenges,
where they feel socially anxious. Theyre so
afraid of being judged negatively that they
end up choking and then they leave with that
sense of regret. They talk less about things
like I didnt get the job than how they felt.
They dont say I lost, they say I felt like I
didnt show who I am and thats universal.
How can you control those fears so that
Totally. Its about personal power over the

self. Not social power over others. I think you
can have personal power and have no social
power. I really believe that powerlessness is
as likely to corrupt as is power. I think people
act out when they feel powerless in ways that
are destructive to the self and others.
When people feel powerful theyre not
presenting a socially constrained version of
themselves. Theyre presenting their true
selves. And when its personal power I think
that self tends to be good. Im pretty hopeful,
and I think the research is clear. Certain
situational cues when they interact with us
can bring out bad but the default is good.
So how did this relate to the women

who you spoke with the other night?
Some of them talked about how do they
inspire other younger women? That was their
challenge. How do you get people who feel
hopeless to feel powerful? Some talked about
work situations where everything is shifting
constantly so you dont know what is coming
next. How do you get yourself prepared
for the unexpected? How do you deal with
hierarchical power? When you dont have
that power, how do you bring that powerful
self forward and actually feel confident doing
it?
How do you define presence?
I think its about being attune to your true
and best values and skills and knowledge
and personality traits. Attune to and able to
access them. Power is about controlling
resources. Personal power is about
controlling your own resources. So you have
them. Theres a story I tell in the intro about
a woman I met in the coffee shop. She was
an Iranian immigrant who had come to the
US, which made her an outsider and
insecure. She said she wanted to go to
medical school and was scared to take the
MCAT. She saw this talk and said Im going
to do this. Im going to talk and take this test
and she nailed it. I love that story because
she didnt fake the knowledge. The trick for
her was accessing it and unlocking it. So that
to me is what presence is. Its those moments
when you can unlock yourself and be there
without fear and with openness.
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By Aisha Down
alf a century later, and Hong

Samley still recalls how he first
heard rock and roll. He was
living in Phnom Penh, the son of
a diamond seller and a man born among the
salt fields of Kampong Som. It was the early
sixties. America was at war with Vietnam and,
off the coast of Kampong Som, the Seventh
Fleet of the U.S. Navy had a mission: boosting
the morale of beleaguered troops by hosting
concerts from Americas finest and loudest
rock and roll musicians. The emissions of Elvis
pouting and rocking atop a warship were
meant for the jungles north of Ho Chi Minh
Citybut, says Samley, Phnom Penh caught
them, too. And Samley himself, sixteen and two
years into playing the guitar, caught fire.
Samleys career as a guitarist and rockand roller in Cambodia lasted nine years,
from when he joined the group Baksey Cham
Krong in 1963 to the year he fled for Paris,
1972, three years before Phnom Penh fell,
and the Khmer Rouge swept all spark of tune
and beat from the nations streets.
He started when his mother died. My
father brought my brother an accordion and
me a guitar. He wanted us to make Khmer
music to remember her.
Before Presley arrived on the sweltering seas
of the Gulf of Thailand, says Samley, he loved
jazz: Nat King Cole and Edith Piaf, the sort of
tunes that Sinn Sisamouth was already crooning
over Khmer national radio. But Presley and his
moves shook Samley up, and, as he began to
learn bass lines and melodies, he found himself
closer to the footsteps of the King.
Presley I admired the most because
Presley danced, says Samley. The others?
Billy Harvey? They stood still all the time.
Presley was singing and dancing.
Samley wasnt the only one who felt

compelled to move. It was a time when
Cambodia was falling in love with rock and
roll, he says. Back in the 60s, there was a
wide field next to the Royal Palace, on the
Phnom Penh riverfront. During the daytime,
the place, called Veal Menh, was used for
royal ceremonies. At night, it transformed.
Cambodias young musicians set up a stage,
and crowds of up to five thousand would
come to flirt, dance, and watch them rock.
Khmers loved to dance to rock and roll,
says Samley. We loved to dance to anything,
really. Old people and young people both!
Everyone came.
Cambodian culture is a culture of music
and dance, says Samley. He starts to clap out a
beat. Rhythm, he says, is in Khmer blood.
After two years as a guitarist for Baksey
Cham Krong, Samley joined Bayon. In the
years to come, recalls his friend Vit Ouk, he
played everywhere, parties and cabarets. He
sang French tunes from 45 vinyls Ouk brought
from Paris, as well as Khmer and jazz standards
and his own compositions. Sometimes, he
says, he played even for the king. When asked
further about the royal view toward rock and
roll, though, Samley grows agitated. There
are a lot of things that he doesnt want written.
It was a different situation back then, he
says at last. Norodom Sihanouk played music
himself, he played and sang. The prince. He
put us singers in a class with him.
Of the current situation, the years that
have seen the acid attack on Tat Marina and
the murder of Piseth Pilika, he is unwilling
to speak publicly. There is little government
encouragement of the arts, he says. Musicians
are in the bottom ranks of society.
Golden-voiced Sinn Sisamouth, says
Samley, was too loved and established to
leave the country when the danger came.
He died in the killing fields in 1976. Ros

Sereysothea, queen of the Cambodian love
ballad, disappeared in the late 1970s after a
forced marriage to an assistant of Pol Pots.
The marriage went violent, and the star, just
29 years old, was never heard from again.
Samley survived. In 1972, he fled
Cambodia for Paris. He did not return to
Cambodia until 2000, 28 years later. Eight
of his brothers and sisters died during the
Khmer Rouge era. His parents, he says,
starved in the forest. He cannot tell the story
of how he left, or why not everyone came with
him. When asked, his voice tightens, and
he jumps subjectsfrom current politics to
Cham drumbeats. He breaks into pressured
assertions, into metaphors.
No one listened to me, he said. No
one listened, no one listened. They didnt
want to. How did he know to leave? I knew
journalists, he says. I was a singer. I knew
journalists and ambassadors, and I listened to
what they told me. Vietnam was a house on
fire. It had burned for ten years. Cambodia
was a house next to it. What do you say if
you live in a wooden house, you live in it ten
years, and you look, and the house next to
yours is still burning?
He cannot tell his story, but nor can
he leave it, once opened. After the war in
Vietnam, he says, after Americas war with
Vietnam or during it, there was a man called
Sin Savith Sereymath. He went to Angkor Wat,
and from Angkor Wat he called UNESCO. He
was afraid theyd destroy all of our temples.
He saw people stealing stone lions, saw them
cutting the throats of the apsaras. He called to
UNESCO for help. They never came.
When I heard this story, from an
ambassador, maybe the German ambassador,
then I knew that I had to leave.
What is left of stardom in exile? When
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When the Rest Is

Gone, There Is Music
he came to France, says Samley, he had no
diplomasnothing but his music. For twenty
years he worked as a color printer, for eleven
as a deliveryman. When asked about his life
in France, about his feelings, he doesnt say
anything for a long pause. He flips his palm,
face-down, face-up.
After a time, he says, It was like this. It was
difficult. We had no money, we just had ideas.
When I think about myself, it was alright.
When I think about my children, my wife?
Some Cambodians, he says, cant
stop missing Cambodia. They think it is the
original country. The place where they were
born. And they find adjusting to France
difficult, very difficult. Samley will not say
if he is one of these Cambodians. Theres
music, still, though Samley said that he didnt
try to become a star in France. He played
with Portuguese immigrants in clubs and
restaurants in Paris. He loves Latina rock, he
says, and he names Santana as one of his
favorite guitarists alive.
The Portuguese have fun, he says. They
know how, more than the French do.
He even plays with a prince, too, these
daysNorodom Sereyvuth, who can play and
sing, but, princely as ever, says Samley, does
not wish to be a star. He shows a picture of
the two of them at a piano in a green French
garden, grinning and sunglassed.
He has concerts in Phnom Penh, one
upcoming at the Titanic on the 16th. He plays
an old acoustic guitar. When he begins to
strum out a line, hes serious, but midway
through the tune, the sound draws him in
he flashes a rock and roll grin, and shakes
and growls in his seat.
I continued to play, he says, suddenly,
speaking of the years. Every week. I could
never stop. If I stop playing music, I dont feel
good, you know. I hurt.
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Whats ON
EVENTS
@Cloud, #32 EO Street 9, Tonle Bassac,
6:30-7:30 PM
Are there many Khmer words you wanted to
know but never dare to ask your teacher?
If the answer is YES, join this Wednesday
at Cloud for the very first Khmer Street
Language Class! Teacher Thida will
educate you on Cambodian slang words
and expressions. The class is FREE and
suitable for English and French speakers.
Moreover the draft beer is only $1.
Ladies Night
@Oskar Bistro, 159 Sisowath Quay,
Enjoy our 1-for-1 deal on all drinks and all
night! It doesnt get any better than this.
Kok Thlok:
@French Institute, No. 218, Keo Chea (St.
184), 6:30 PM:
Rock band Kok Thlok reinterprets the
signature sounds of Khmer rock from the
1960s and 1970s with a modern twist. They
play in the bistro at the institute..
Open Mic
@ Show Box Bar, #11 Street 330
Weekly open mic event
Princesses of China night w/

Scoddy Bywater
@Chinese House, 45 Sisowath Quay:
Live music by Scoddy Bywater, buy one get
one free for ladies after 6 pm
Super Smash Bros Tournament

@Eluvium Lounge, 205A Street 19, 7 PM
warm ups, 8 PM tournament:
1st place will receive a bottle of house wine
(or some equivalent). 2nd and 3rd will get 1
or 2 free cocktails. Tournament entry is free.
@ #13 Street 456, Tuol Tom Poung, 7:30-9:30

A co-ed sport for expats and locals to throw
balls at each other
Karaoke Night
@Eluvium Lounge, 205A Street 19, 6 PM11 PM
Grab a free beer or soda for jumping on
stage.
Sothearos
DJ TRIP DESIGNER, NICOMATIC

FRIENDS! $1 beers & cocktail specials.
&
Friday 15
th
Oskar Club by Creem and Absolut,

Oskar Bistro
DJ Saint Vincent will warm you up with his
secret eclectic electro set and the fresh
Cambo Disco Club duo until late, late,
late... Late.
Come early and enjoy 50% OFF on your
drinks from 10pm to midnight.
Free Fries Friday

@Eluvium Lounge, 205A Street 19, 5 pm:
Free French fries after 5 pm and $2 cocktails
before 8 pm
Asian Beats
@Chinese House, 45 Sisowath Quay, 9 PM:
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Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard, 9 PM:

Electro Jam with ELECTRIC UNIVERSE; DJs
MR. BROWN & ANDY FREAK.
Digital Archives and Forensic

Aesthetics in Contemporary Art
@Bophana Center, #64, Street 200, 6:00
PM-7:45 PM
Presented by Sa Sa Art Projects and SA SA
BASSAC
Organized by Vetika Brovoat Selapak: Art
History Forum
Art historian Brianne Cohen considers new
forms of digitally based documentation
in recent artwork. The speaker examines
the concept of forensic aesthetics in
relation to two pieces: Sarah Vanagt and
Katrien Vermieres The Wave (2013) and
Effi & Amirs The Vanishing Vanishing-Point
(2015).
Oyster Restaurant buffet

@The Oyster Restaurant at Himawari
Hotel, 6 pm-10 pm
Expect fresh seafood, barbequed meats,
local Khmer delights and international
favourites. Call 023 214 555 ext 63 to
reserve. $21 per adult, and $10.50 per
child between 6 12 years old.
Saturday 16
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Back to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s:

@Eluvium Lounge, 205A Street 19, 8 PM10 PM:
Favorite songs and romantic ballads from
the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, the golden age
of the music industry.
Pastis & Rose & Petanque

@Chinese House, 45 Sisowath Quay, 1 PM:
Rock the Bells // DJ GANG / DJ ILLEST
Hip Hop Marquee

Showcase:
All
A chance for pups & owners to meet in

a friendly, relaxed setting. Aspirational
dog owners also welcome to join in the
socializing!
Acoustic Sunday Brunch with Grego

Patrick Marino
@Chinese House, 45 Sisowath Quay,
from 11 AM.
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard:
Wilfried Taschners Partydaemmerung,
7 PM:
Taschner presents his novel. Only in
German.
Tuesday 18th
Eric W. Davis Deathpower: Buddhisms
Ritual Imagination in Cambodia, 7 PM:
The author discusses his new book,
presented by The Mekong Review, in
association with Monument Books and Meta
House.
French institute, 6:30, (FR, EN, KH):

Buddhist monasteries of Cambodia:
Dominique et Danielle Guret
What happened to the Buddhist monasteries
in Cambodia since the American bombings
between 1968 and 1973? How many of
them have been destroyed, abandoned, or
used for storage, or even as prison during
the Khmer Rouge regime? Dominique and
Danielle present their work for the first time
here in Cambodia.
exhibitions
Thursday 14TH
6PM: EXHIBIT OPENING SEA OF THE
ANCESTORS by Swiss photographer Beat
Presser takes the viewer on a unique journey
from Sulawesi to Madagascar travelling
with boats and ships on the Indian Ocean.
Friday 15th
@Pontoon Club, #80, Street 172

Girl
@Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard,

9 PM:
Featuring MC Lisha, DJ Pink, Serey a.m.m.a.
Come out and support the growing
Cambodian hip-hop scene and its original
Khmer artists.
The Place Pool Party
Trippy Thursdays DJ, 9 PM:
Pontoon 5 Year Anniversary
@Farm to Table, #16, Street 360, 4 PM-6

PM:
Pontoon 5 Year Anniversary
Dodgeball
Live set by DJ Shaman
DJ CUT KILLER
Music by DJ Saint Vincent
Thursday 14th
#37
Sunday 17th
Darkside Techno DJ and Live Music

Party:
Khmer Street Language Course
Meta House,
Boulevard:
@Pontoon Club, #80, Street 172
Pontoon 5 Year Anniversary // DJ CUT

KILLER
Wednesday 13th
@The Place Gym, #11 Street 51, 5 PM-9 PM

Work Hard! Play Hard! Event is to recognize
members for their loyalty. DJ spinning,
performances, a lucky draw and many
other activities. Beach wear is encouraged.
Ongoing:
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Institut Francais du Cambodge, #218,
Street 184, until January 16
French-Cambodian graphic novelist Tian
will present an exhibition on his trilogy
LAnne du livre (The Year of the Rabbit),
in which he traces the story of his family
during the Khmer Rouge regime.
The Disappearance, Free

Java Cafe, 56 Sihanouk Boulevard, until
February 28
The Disappearance is a body of work by
Nicolas C. Grey using pen, ink, collage and
found photographs and objects.
Phnom Penh Underground 2nd

Birthday Festival:
Landscape of Time
SIMONE ART, BOEUNG LAKESIDE, Street

93, in the courtyard:
Sa Sa Bassac, #18ED2Sothearos Boulevard,

until February 6
An open-air celebration of the citys DJ talent

in aid of Devleop Boeung Kak Art
With
Landscape
of
time
(2015),
photographer Vandy Rattana continues
his work visiting sites around Cambodia
where the living and the dead were buried
in unmarked graves during the Khmer
Rouge regime lands that are also host to
fecund rice paddies, vegetable and fruit
plantations, and construction.
Body painting/workshops/live projection/

photo exhibition with eight Phnom Penh DJs:
DJ Sequence (Phnom Penh Underground)/
Cambo Disco Club /B-Fox (Kimchi
Collective) /Tim Coates/ Dj Donabelle /
Nora Haidee/Dr WahWah spinning House/
Techno/Drum&Bass/Jungle
Entry is free but donations will be taken
for Develop Boueng Kak - a grassroots
organisation that improves the lives of
the community around the Boeung Kak
Lakeside.
Shifting Geographies
Bophana Center, until January 22
Artists:
Lydie
Jean-dit-Pannel,
Kvay
Samnang, La Le Bricomte, Daphn Le
Sergent, Patrick Nardin, et Vandy Rattana.
Moving Geographies provide explorations

of a territory raising questions about
limits, boundaries, memory of places
beyond codified figures which produce
a disembodied vision. What is happening
between the places and how to make
them visible? How events that are socially
repressed can resurface in the field of art?
Orchids and Tattoos

The Insider Gallery at InterContinental
Phnom Penh, 296 Mao Tse Toung
Boulevard, until February 7, 2016
French artist Thomas-Pierre presents a
series in which orchids are the leitmotiv of
the compositions. The artist combines colors
and tattoo graphics.
filmS
Wednesday 13th
Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard
Finding Fela (Documentary, 2014, 119
mins), 4PM: The riveting story of Fela Kutis
life, his music, and his social and political
importance.
Sima Documentary Festival Day 4:

From the Same Soil (2014, 28 mins), 7.15
PM: Nicky Newman portrays the lives of two
gay men and one transgender woman who
left their African home countries because of
discrimination and persecution.
Vessel (2014, 88 mins), 7.45 PM: Rebecca
Gomperts sails a ship around the world,
providing abortions at sea for women with
no legal alternative. Vessel is Rebeccas
story: of a woman who hears and answers a
calling, and transforms a wildly improbable
idea into a global movement.
Flicks 1, #39b, Street 95:

The Lobster (2015, 118 mins), 4:30 PM:
In a dystopian near future, single people,
according to the laws of The City, are taken
to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find
a romantic partner in forty-five days or are
transformed into beasts and sent off into
The Woods.
A Walk in the Woods (2015, 104 mins),

6:30 PM:
After spending two decades in England, Bill
Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides
the best way to connect with his homeland
is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of
his oldest friends.
45 Years (2015, 95 mins), 8:30 PM:

In the week leading up to their 45th
wedding anniversary, a couple receive an
unexpected letter which contains potentially
life changing news.
Flicks 2, #90, Street 136:

A Walk in the Woods (2015, 104 mins),
4:00 PM:
After spending two decades in England, Bill
Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides
the best way to connect with his homeland
is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of
his oldest friends.
The Killing Fields (1984, 141 mins), 6 PM:

A photographer is trapped in Cambodia
during tyrant Pol Pots bloody Year Zero
cleansing campaign, which claimed the
lives of two million undesirable civilians.

The Woods.
continue on page 07
Films
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, 142

mins), 8:30 pm
Friday 15th
French Institute, No. 218, Keo Chea (St. 184)
Vincent (FR and EN, 2014, 78 mins), 5 PM:
Vincent is a quiet, unassuming man. Who
happens to have superhuman powers when
exposed to water. He lives a life that keeps
him away from others for the most part.
Then he meets a girl. Then his powers are
discovered. And his life changes
Les Souvenirs (FR and EN, 2014, 96 mins),

7 PM:
Michael Cod's 'Ruin'is playing at Meta House on Saturday, January 16
DO WE HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED?
Please email all details to James.reddick@khmertimeskh.com by Sunday at 5pm

from page 06
Romain is twenty-three years old. Hed like

to be a writer, but, for the moment, hes
a night watchman in a hotel. One day,
Romains father turns up in a fluster. His
grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she
kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her,
somewhere in his memories.
filmS
Wednesday 13th
45 Years (2015, 95 mins), 4:00 PM:
life changing news.
Chef (2014, 114 mins), 6:30 PM:

A chef who loses his restaurant job starts
up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his
creative promise, while piecing back
together his estranged family.
Burnt (2015, 101 mins), 8.30 PM:

Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) is a chef
who destroyed his career with drugs and
diva behavior. He cleans up and returns
to London, determined to redeem himself
by spearheading a top restaurant that can
gain three Michelin stars.
Thursday 14th
Burnt (2015, 101 mins), 4:00 PM:
diva behavior. He cleans up and returns
to London, determined to redeem himself
by spearheading a top restaurant that can
gain three Michelin stars.
The Killing Fields (1984, 141 mins), 6 PM:

A photographer is trapped in Cambodia
during tyrant Pol Pots bloody Year Zero
cleansing campaign, which claimed the
lives of two million undesirable civilians.
Lars and the Real Girl (2007, 106 mins),

8:30 PM:
A delusional young man strikes up an
unconventional relationship with a doll he
finds on the Internet.

Chef (2014, 114 mins), 6:30 PM:
Lars and the Real Girl (2007, 106 mins),

6:30 PM:
A delusional young man strikes up an
unconventional relationship with a doll he
finds on the Internet.

The Woods.
Flicks 1, #39b, Street 95:

45 Years (2015, 95 mins), 4:30
life changing news.
Chef (2014, 114 mins), 6:30 PM:

Burnt (2015, 101 mins), 8.30 PM:

diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to
London, determined to redeem himself by
spearheading a top restaurant that can gain
three Michelin stars.

Enemies of the People (2009, 93 mins),
4 PM: A personal journey into the heart
of darkness by Cambodian journalist Thet
Sambath, whose family was wiped out
under Pol Pot.
SIMA DOCU FESTIVAL DAY 5:

Sunflower Seeds (2013, 87 mins), 7 PM:
Sayid is trapped in Greece, a country
plagued by a financial crisis, rampant
xenophobia, and racist violence.
Borders (2013, 87 mins), 8 PM:

Border by border, Jacqueline van Vugt follows
the route from Nigeria to The Netherlands, a
route taken by many immigrants.
The Empire, #34, Street 130:

Fargo (1996, 98 mins), 6:30 pm
Regarding Susan Sontag (2014, 100

mins), 4 PM: An intimate and nuanced
investigation into the life of one of the most
influential thinkers of the 20th century.
Sima Documentary Festival Closing:

Vital Voices: Tep Vanny (2013, 3 mins),
7:15 PM:Profiles briefly the Cambodian
activist.
Noise Runs (2014, 18 mins, 7:20 PM:

The story of young Haitian journalists and
their radical newspaper
Poverty, Inc. (2014, 90 mins), 7:45 PM:

Drawing from over 200 interviews filmed
in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. unearths an
uncomfortable side of charity we can no
longer ignore.

Les Souvenirs (2014, 96 mins), 5 PM:
Romain is twenty-three years old. Hed like
to be a writer, but, for the moment, hes
a night watchman in a hotel. One day,
Romains father turns up in a fluster. His
grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she
kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her,
somewhere in his memories...
The Empire, #34, Street 130:

City of God (2002, 125 mins), 6:30 pm
Inception (2010, 148 mins), 8:30 pm
Saturday 16th
Bophana Center, #64 200 Oknha Men
The Crocodile Men (1974, 125 mins, KH)
Kraithoang and Chharavan wish to learn
magic and they find a hermit who imparts
his knowledge to them. Charavan ignores
the masters advice and secretly learns the
magic necessary to transform himself into a
crocodile. Later on, they become enemies.

Ai Wei Wei Never Sorry (2012, 91 mins),
4 PM: The first feature-length film about the
internationally renowned Chinese artist and
activist, Ai Weiwei.
Ruin (2013, 90 mins), 7 PM: Michael
Codys impressionistic fable - the story of
Phirun and Sovanna - two young lovers
inexplicably drawn together who escape a
brutal and exploitative world of crime and
violence in modern day Cambodia.

Knock on Wood (FR and EN, 1981, 95
mins), 5 PM:
The daughter of the rich businessman
Bens has mysteriously disappeared while
vacationing in Mexico. As Marie is known to
be extremely unlucky and accident-prone,
her father sends someone equally accidentprone to find her, along with detective
Campana.
Approved for Adoption (FR and EN, 75

mins), 10 AM:
Since the end of the Korean war, more
than 200.000 Korean children have been
adopted all throughout the world. This
movie tells us the story of Jung, born in
1965 in Seoul and adopted in 1971 by a
Belgian family: the orphanage, his first time
in Belgium, his family, his teenage years.
Sunday 17th
The Last Days in Vietnam (2015, 98 mins),
4 PM:
As gripping as it is inspiring, a surprisingly
fresh and heart-wrenching perspective
on the end of the Vietnam War.
Dogora (2004, 80 mins), 8 PM:

A film without a narrative, weaving a
sensorial tapestry of existence in and
around early 21st-century Cambodia.
Patrice Leconte glimpses the people and
the elements of the landscape that make
Cambodia so culturally specific.
Monday 18th
Sima Documentary Film Festival Day 2
From Gangs to Gardens (2014, 14 mins),
7:00 pm
JLove Calderons mini-doc follows organic
gardener and vegan chef DJ CAVEM. Hes
an award-winning international recording
artist and activist who uses Hip-Hop culture
to inspire young people to connect to the
earth by teaching them how to grow food,
and cultivate healthy eating habits.
Food Chains (2014, 82 mins), 7:30

About the human cost in our food supply
and the complicity of the supermarket
industry. The narrative of the film focuses
on a highly lauded group of tomato
pickers from Southern Florida the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers who are
revolutionizing farm labor.
Tuesday 19th
Racing Extinction (2015, 90 mins), 4
PM: With The Cove, former Nat Geo
photographer Louie Psihoyos tackled the
controversial issue of dolphin hunting with
extraordinary, edge-of-your-seat results. In
Racing Extinction, he widens his lens from
ocean life to all life, crafting an impassioned
call to action for the future of the planet.
Wheel of Time (2003, 80 mins), 9 PM:
Celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog turns
his attention to one of the largest Buddhist
gatherings in the world.
Eluvium Open Air Cinema, 205A Street

19, 8 PM:
I, Robot (2004, 115 mins)
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Tech
The bomb
Fabien Mouret
factory
Samach Dim puts the finishing touches

on a model explosive at the Golden
West Design Lab in Tuol Kork.
By Jonathan Cox
im Bush pulls back a safety pin and

rams the firing pin into the detonator.
Under normal circumstances this
would be a very reckless thing to
do. But instead of detonating, the bomb he is
holding gives out a small click.
Bush is demonstrating a model explosive,
3-D printed by the Golden West Design Lab
in Phnom Penh and used by bomb disposal
trainees around the world. Its bright colors
make it look like a toy, but it was not built to
entertain: it is part of the Advanced Ordinance
Training Materials (AOTM) training kit, used
to train bomb disposal technicians.
The AOTM set is also one of the first
technical products to designed, built,
and manufactured by Cambodians for
international export. Bush, the engineering
technician who helped lead the team that
built the AOTM, said the set of bombs he
helped engineer has been in the spotlight for
the last two weeks as one of the honorees in
the Tech for a Better World category at the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Bush is in Phnom Penh, far from the
showroom floors of Las Vegas, but he could
still barely contain his excitement about CES.
Its so awesome, he said. I never would
have thought that Id do this kind of thing, but
now to have a lot of people know that were
working on this...its very exciting.
There are an estimated 5 million
unexploded bombs in Cambodia, and
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hundreds of people employed to safely

remove them. The AOTM kit contains 10
models of the explosives that these disposal
teams could expect to encounter in the murk
at the bottom of a river, in a rice paddy, or
in a farmers field. By exposing their inner
workings, with all the parts colored to indicate
their function, these fake bombs make it
easier to defuse the real thing.
The AOTM model bombs are a big step up
from traditional training materials. Despite the
dangers of their job, bomb disposal trainees
often lack even basic training materials.
Many demining trainees use engineers draft
drawings to learn about the different types of
explosives they will encounter on the job. If
they are lucky, they get to work with disarmed
bombs. But few have the chance to see the
inner workings of the explosives.
The AOTM training materials make it easy
for novices to understand the inner workings
of bombs, giving them a better chance of
disposing of them safely.
Allen Dodgson Tan, the Director of Applied
Technology for humanitarian organization
Golden West, and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) professor J. Kim Vandiver
came up with the idea of building these 3-D
printed explosives to help train new deminers.
Using a computer-aided design (CAD) model
of a Russian landmine to print a prototype,
they were able in 2013 to get funding from
the United States State Department to build
more models.
Start-up funding came from the US
Fabien Mouret
How 3D-printed bomb replicas are helping

deminers and putting local tech on the map
An Advanced Ordinance Training Materials kit at the Golden West Design Lab
at Tuol Kork laboratory.
government, but now Golden Wests Phnom
Penh lab is paying to keep the printers running
with revenue from selling the AOTM kits. For
the last year the lab has been designing and
producing the kits to send around the world.
They are now used to train bomb disposal
squads in the American military, the United
Nations, and several countries including
Japan and Sweden.
The training materials arent just a victory
for demining trainees they are a victory
for Cambodias infant tech sector. A team of
Cambodian engineers, led by chief design
engineer John Wright, are responsible
for designing the blueprints of the model
explosives. They have replicated more
than a dozen different types of grenades
and explosives, and are already receiving
commissions to build more.
This is the first time a Cambodian product
has been on display at CES, and is one of the
first pieces of technology produced in the
country to be exported to an international
market. Im not aware of any other product
[from Cambodia] that would have been
competing, much less winning, in an event of
this caliber, said Mr. Tan.

Cambodias tiny tech sector has lagged
behind its powerhouse neighbors in Southeast
Asia, but Mr. Kim said he thinks that AOTMs
success will inspire other Cambodians
interested in tech to try producing new
products in their home country. I think more
students in Cambodia are getting interested
in this kind of thing, he said.
While still in its infancy, technology
like 3-D printing gives new companies the
chance to manufacture products on the
cheap. The AOTM team doesnt have a giant
factory with banks of 3-D printers. Instead, the
different pieces of their model bombs are all
manufactured in a house in Tuol Kork, using
$1,400 hobbyist printers pushed to their limits
by the engineers.
Mr. Tan said the low barrier to entry can
encourage Cambodians to try production
with 3-D printers. Youre limited only by your
skill level with the engineering and modeling
and your imagination, he said. Some kids
with a few thousand bucks can set up a shop
and start selling stuff. Its a game changer for
places like Cambodia.
A pillar of New York Citys

Cambodian community rebuilds
Feature
A Pagoda Grows in Brooklyn

V
enerable Bunthoeun Thor brushes

his copper-tinted robe out of the
way before silently lighting a candle
and a stick of incense in front of the
towering Buddha statue covered in flower
petals and sashes.
He sits back onto his heels and closes
his eyes, pushing his hands together as he
recites chants quietly to himself.
This is a scene you could probably find
at any pagoda across Southeast Asia. Less
so almost 9,000 miles away, in a standard,
American-style home just south of the largest
park in Brooklyn, New York.
Since 1983, Watt Samakki-Dhammikaram
has primarily served the Cambodian
community in New York and New Jersey. Ven.
Thor said about 350 families, 200 of which
live in Brooklyn, attend the pagoda regularly,
and they often get visits from recent Southeast
Asian or Chinese immigrants looking for
a place to pray or just to get a taste of
something similar to their homeland. They
often coordinate events and celebrations with
a pagoda in the Bronx, the only other pagoda
in New York City.
For the last five years, newspapers have
said the Cambodian community in the city is
shrinking at an increasingly rapid rate. Many
Cambodians fleeing the civil war came to
New York City in the 70s and 80s, some of
the worst years for the city in terms of crime
and violence. As recent immigrants began
to realize how difficult it was to live in New
York City, more and more left for bigger
Cambodian hubs in Lowell, Massachusetts

and Long Beach, California.
All of this history has led up to now, where
the Cambodian community in the Bronx,
which once even had an area dubbed Little
Cambodia, has all but disappeared. But this
little pagoda in a house on a side street near
Prospect Park is doing all it can to fight this
narrative, pushing the Cambodian families in
the borough to make their ties even stronger,
and foster a closer-knit community than ever
before.
Under the guidance of Temple President
Kenny Seng and Treasurer Mean Mak,
the pagoda has undergone a whirlwind of
changes in the last four years. The pagoda
and organization behind it fell into disrepair,
but Mr. Seng and Mr. Mak have worked to
renovate the building, set up legitimized
fundraising and build back a community
that was once a hallowed member of New
Yorks vibrantly diverse patchwork of ethnic
communities.
During the last four years weve been
busy with the repair and renovation jobs for
the Temple because the previous team did
not do a thing to improve it. It was in a very
bad shape, Mr. Mak said.
In 2014, the community managed to
raise more than $100,000 to help with
repairs to the pagoda, and last year they
raised over $80,000, giving the organization
more flexibility in terms of planning events
and helping Cambodians in need. Mr. Mak
emphasized that the new leadership of the
pagoda has prioritized trust over everything
else. Many of the Cambodians in the
community separated themselves because of

the disorganization and lack of transparency
within the pagoda.
We have more and more people joining
us during our major events, so, in other
words, everything is unprecedented for this
Temple, especially for it to do this well, Mr.
Mak stated. I can see a brighter future for
Watt Samakki. The culture of accountability
that Kenny and I put in place makes many
of our small community members see that
things are a lot more different than they used
to be.
Although the pagoda tends to attract
the older members of the Cambodian
community, Mr. Mak and Mr. Seng have
made it a priority to reach out to younger
members, creating a Facebook page and
holding events on Khmer holidays to not only
connect young Cambodians, many of whom
see themselves as Americans first, with the
rest of the Cambodian community in New
York, but also with their traditional Khmer
roots in Cambodia itself.
Some members of the pagoda have
banded together to create the New York City
Cambodian American Association (NYCCAA)
in an effort to attract young professionals with
no previous connections to the community.
Arun Rith, a recent Cambodian immigrant
living in the pagoda and a member of
NYCCAA, said the community is small but is
becoming closer-knit by the day.
The pagoda lets me stay here while I
study electrical engineering at City College,
he said. They have been so supportive of me.
That was something I did not find in Lowell.
Only two years ago, Mr. Rith moved

from Kampong Cham to Massachusetts after
receiving a scholarship to study in the US. He
eventually left Massachusetts for New York,
and the pagoda supports him as he studies
with housing and a small stipend.
Ven. Thor is also a recent arrival, as
the community brought him over from
Cambodia to assist the other monk at the
pagoda and expand the organizations
outreach to the community. Hailing from
Takeo province, 26-year-old Ven. Thor said
he has been a monk for six years, and spent
time in Phnom Penh studying for his current
role.
His youth was part of his appeal. The
pagoda leadership wanted someone who
could connect with a new generation of
Cambodians and give them some sense of
what Cambodia was really like.
Im not sure how long I will stay, he said.
But more people are coming to the pagoda
these days. If they stay, Ill stay.
Tim Patterson
By Jonathan Greig
Tim Patterson
Bunthoeun Thor, resident monk, inside

the Watt Samakki temple.
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Music
By Shaun Tandon
AFP / NIKLAS HALLE'N
New York (AFP) When David Bowie sang

on British television in 1972, the newly famous
rock star stretched out his arm and wrapped it
around guitarist Mick Ronson.
Yet this was not a macho display of male
bonding of the sort seen among sports teams.
Bowie, his hair dyed deep orange and
wearing a bright multicolor Lycra jumpsuit,
gazed into Ronson's eyes and for a brief
moment oozed sensuality.
Bowie, who died Sunday at age 69 after
a secret battle with cancer, had said he was
gay. Then he said he was in fact bisexual.
In the end, he offered his era's equivalent of
checking "none of the above."
Bowie's refusal to conform to neat boxes
made Bowie an inspiration for successive
generations of LGBTQ people, many of
whom only recently have seen society
accept more fluid concepts of gender and
sexuality.
Bowie was able to chart a new identity
because his persona was, literally, alien.
Fascinated by space, Bowie took
on the alter ego of Ziggy Stardust, the
androgynous rock-and-roll messenger for
extraterrestrials.
Bowie was in character as Ziggy Stardust,
performing "Starman," during the 1972
appearance on Britain's "Top of the Pops."
Bowie's death reminded many LGBTQ
people of "that moment when we were all
younger and alone without a sense of what
other worlds were possible out there," said
10
Karen Tongson, an associate professor of

English and gender studies at the University
of Southern California.
"It was David Bowie and his chameleonic
persona, his shifting identities, who allowed us
to imagine being an alien between genders,
being a goblin king, or whatever else."
Bowie contributed to "the sense of being
queer -- of inhabiting, and moving fluidly,
through a range of identities that aren't
necessarily solidified, or even a strict set of
desires," she said.
- Boy or girl? -Bowie, a trailblazer in
music, film and fashion, also embraced
androgyny in his lyricism.
On one of his most famous songs, 1974's
"Rebel, Rebel" which closed his glam rock
phase, Bowie sang: "You've got your mother
in a whirl / 'cause she's not sure if you're a
boy or a girl."
Bowie kept up the gender ambiguity
later in his career. In the hard-driving "Hallo
Spaceboy," off the 1995 album "Outside,"
Bowie sings, "Don't you want to be free? /
Do you girls or boys? / It's confusing these
days."
On his final album "Blackstar," released
on his 69th birthday on Friday as he was
quietly dying, Bowie sings one song in Polari,
the slang of the gay underground in late
Victorian England.
Yet despite his iconic status for many in the
LGBTQ community, Bowie was rarely overtly
political in advocating for rights in the fashion
of some of the artists he heavily influenced
such as Madonna and Lady Gaga.
AFP
As bisexual alien,
Bowie broke barriers
British musician David Bowie during a press conference on his "Glass Spider Tour"
in Munich, southern Germany, in 1987.
He was married twice, both times to
women, with his relationship with Somaliborn supermodel Iman lasting until his death.
While pop stars such as Elton John and
George Michael played down their sexuality
as they built their careers, Bowie hailed from
a very different cultural space.
Bowie enjoyed massive success and
influence but was always proudly a figure
Crowds gather to read and place floral tributes beneath a mural of British
singer David Bowie, painted by Australian street artist James Cochran,
following the announcement of Bowie's death, in Brixton, south London.
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of the avant-garde rather than a mainstream

entertainer.
He launched his career just as the gay
liberation movement was picking up steam,
with sex between men decriminalized in
Britain in 1967.
- Defined by image -Yet for many people
who idolized Bowie, his significance lay not in
his statements but his aesthetic.
"David Bowie's importance -- at least
in my life, and probably in the lives of most
people -- is, in a way, more important than the
entire gay rights movement," said songwriter
Stephin Merritt, who is best known as the
frontman of genre-spanning indie rockers
The Magnetic Fields.
"Bowie is about the freedom to have any
identity you want, not just gendered," Merritt,
who is gay, wrote in Out magazine.
"I didn't grow up with a father at all; I
didn't have a father figure telling me how
to approach gender, so I thought David
Bowie was a perfectly good model of how to
approach gender. And I still think so."
Yet Bowie's androgyny also influenced
generations of straight male singers from
synthpop to metal who aspired to a less rigid
form of masculinity.
Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan,
who is straight, has described a dreary
working-class home until he saw Bowie on
television.
"Bowie gave me a hope that there was
something else," Gahan later told a
biographer. "I just thought he wasn't of this
earth."
Flavors
Fabien Mouret
Thai street staple

Jim Jum a popular
draw in Phnom Penh
Fabien Mouret
came out to just $6.

Perhaps the most distinctive thing about
Jim Jum is the artwork. A bizarre painting on
the wall, which is also visible from the street,
depicts Angelina Jolie, Beyonce, Barack
Obama, Adolf Hitler and Kim Jong-Il happily
sharing a meal together. While having several
mass-murderers looking down on diners

may be understandably unappetizing for
some, the intentions behind the painting
seem pure. Its for fun, Sy Sok Kayo said.
The meaning is to believe in peace. All
these leaders can have a great dinner
together.
Jim jum clay pots sit in front of the restaurant on Street 252.
By James Reddick
Restaurant: Jim Jum
Location: Street 252 and Street 63
Hours: Approx. 3:30-11:30 PM
t has been four months since Jim Jum

opened and on any given night the place
is packed. A new entrant to the mid-scale
street food scene, the restaurant is open
about its limitations: it serves one kind of soup
and, apart from some meat skewer options,
that is all. But it does that very well.
Jim Jum (also sometimes spelt Chim
Chum) is both the name for the distinctive
clay pots that sit atop a charcoal base at the
table and for the soup served inside it. The
soup hails from the hot flatlands of the Isaan
region of Thailand, which borders Laos and
Cambodia. If you have traveled to Thailand,
no doubt you have encountered this style of
hot pot, which is also all over Bangkok. That
is how Phnom Penh native and restaurant
owner Sy Sok Kayo and his mother Phirum
Sok Kayo got their first taste while traveling to
and living in Thailand.
The origin story of the idea to bring it back
to Cambodia differs depending on who you
ask; Sy said it was his idea and he learned
the recipe while traveling in Thailand. Phirum
said that while her sons were studying in
Thailand she took the opportunity to take a
two-week cooking course to learn this style of
cooking. I found the [table] setting beautiful
and a different kind of food than Khmer, she

said. When Cambodians see something
new, they want to try it. Since Phirum was the
one working in the kitchen this week as tables
started to fill, well take her word as resident
expert.
The recipe is fairly simple; Phirum cooks
the broth with beef bones, adding garlic and
basil and sugar palm, which gives the broth
a distinctive sweetness and lightness. On the
side is a sauce called Nam Jim, a heavenly
sweet chili sauce that should be added to the
broth. Sy says that most people order beef
and fish to add to the broth, which is cooked
over charcoal at the table.
With that, you can add morning glory, mint
and a vegetable resembling bok choy whose
name remains a mystery. On the advice of
the owner, cook the vegetables first to burn
off any potential bacteria before adding the
meat, which cooks quickly. Traditionally, glass
noodles are eaten with Jim Jum, but Sy said
that instant noodles are more popular with the
local crowd.
If you go with glass noodles, be warned
that they will stick together. Fear not: scissors
are provided to cut them when a crisis
emerges.
In all, the restaurant provides a delicious,
no frills meal, and the soup is lighter and more
refreshing than one would expect from a hot
pot. Its also quite cheap, with just about every
side on the menu at just 2000 riels (.50 cents).
In all, a hearty meal for two with several drinks
WE RESPECT TRADITIONS,
THE OLDEST ITALIAN TRADITIONS.
- IL FORNO RESTAURANT & WINERY #11 STREET 302, BKK1
+855 10 66 05 15
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Princesses of China night w/

Super Smash Bros Tournament

@ #13 Street 456, Tuol Tom Poung, 7:30-9:30

DJ TRIP DESIGNER, NICOMATIC

Oskar Club by Creem and Absolut,

Free Fries Friday

Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard, 9 PM:

Digital Archives and Forensic

Oyster Restaurant buffet

Back to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s:

Pastis & Rose & Petanque

Rock the Bells // DJ GANG / DJ ILLEST

Hip Hop Marquee

A chance for pups & owners to meet in

Acoustic Sunday Brunch with Grego

French institute, 6:30, (FR, EN, KH):

@Pontoon Club, #80, Street 172

@Meta House, #37 Sothearos Boulevard,

The Place Pool Party

Trippy Thursdays DJ, 9 PM:

Pontoon 5 Year Anniversary

@Farm to Table, #16, Street 360, 4 PM-6

Pontoon 5 Year Anniversary

Live set by DJ Shaman

Music by DJ Saint Vincent

Darkside Techno DJ and Live Music

Khmer Street Language Course

@Pontoon Club, #80, Street 172

Pontoon 5 Year Anniversary // DJ CUT

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 2016

@The Place Gym, #11 Street 51, 5 PM-9 PM

The Disappearance, Free