'Hot Off The Press'

The Art House Revolution

Cambodia's new generation of artists are abandoning traditionally successful subjects such as the apsara and Angkor Wat and striking out into the great artistic unknown.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0107/art-house-revolution.php

A Fighter's Chance

Canadian photographer Ian Taylor explores the rural Cambodian fight game (with online preview).

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0107/ian-taylor.php

The Warmth of Jo Wan

Korean-born photographer Jo Wan captures an alluring Cambodia, rich in contrasts and colors, shrouded in myth and mystery (with online preview).

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0107/jo-wan.php

Headlines From the Phnom Penh Post

Bad year for the KR Tribunal

The year has not ended well for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The last months of 2006 have been problem-filled: November began with a series of acrimonious exchanges between the Cambodian Bar Association (CBA) and the ECCC. The month ended with the failure of the plenary session to approve the court's internal draft rules. December heralded the reopening of high-level negotiations between Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and the United Nations.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0107/ppp1.php

Lucky Samnang evades the pot to meet his match

When Samnang, a shy and generally sweetnatured southern serow, wandered out of the deep woods and into a village, did he know he was on the narrow path to love?

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0107/ppp2.php

Great Supreme Patriarch

The Venerable Tep Vong's cellphone rings with a generic tone-almost retro. He has two sleek modern mobiles stacked at his right side, next to an ornate offering urn, a bright red lighter and a pipe. When the top phone rings in mid-sentence, the Supreme Patriarch of the Mohanikay Order of Cambodia flicks it off, distractedly.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0107/ppp3.php

Calendar of Events

> FCC Phnom Penh

Cambodia, photographs by Ian Taylor, January 19 through February 31, 2007. Opening reception with the photographer January 19, 6 p.m.

> FCC Angkor

Warmth and Purple Photography by Jo Wan, through January 31, 2007

Artisans d'Angkor An ongoing exhibit of sculpture.

 

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