May 2008

'Hot Off The Press'

Casual Elegance Comes to The Quay

The FCC's newest hotel venture, The Quay, opened the doors over Cambodian New Year, quietly establishing a new benchmark in riverfront luxury.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0508/the-quay.php

Paul Ubana Jones returns to the FCC

New Zealand singer-songwriting powerhouse Paul Ubana Jones returns to the FCC Phnom Penh for a special two-night engagement.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0508/paul-ubana-jones.php

Southern Coastal Revival

Even as Cambodia's peaceful southern coast holds fast to its sleepy, old-world ways, the boom of development creeps ever closer.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0508/southern-coast.php

Happy Hour at The Quay

Happy Hour at The Quay from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Enjoy half-priced juices and cocktails and $1 Tiger Draft beer.

Headlines From the Phnom Penh Post

Nude photo snub costs needy

Cello-playing Swiss pediatrician Beat Richner has declined a $91,000 donation to his Kantha Bopha children's hospitals which came from the sale of a nude portrait of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new wife, former model Carla Bruni.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0508/ppp1.php

Anniversary of Pol Pot's death throws spotlight on KR tribunal

April 15 marked the 10-year anniversary of Pol Pot's death. The former Khmer Rouge Brother Number One died on April 15, 1998, allegedly from heart attack, in the former KR stronghold of Anlong Veng. He was unceremoniously cremated under a pile of rubbish and tires.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0508/ppp2.php

Phnom Penh safer than London: report

Phnom Penh is now a safer city than London, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Buenos Aires, although crime rates are still high in rural areas, according to a new report.

http://www.fcccambodia.com/newsletter/0508/ppp3.php

Calendar of Events

FCC Phnom Penh

Paul Ubana Jones New Zealand singer-songwriter, May 2 & 3, 9 p.m.

FCC Angkor

Saturday Premier league football
Sunday night movies

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