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