Ek Chhuon

@sstrangio In the Khmer dictionary, it is marked as a loanword from French. បារ. = 🇫🇷 (Mazout)

Interesting - this is very similar to the Khmer word for diesel (ម៉ាស៊ូត, 'ma-soot'). Maybe an Arabic loanword?

Today’s update 🇰🇭 08.03.2025

Hello.

@OBvlogs They must have smuggled it to Cambodia.

"Gas Crisis in Thailand: Why Cambodia's Tanks Are Full While Thailand Runs on Empty! 😂"

@Nara39162720538 Evil citizens create evil leader.

@ekchhuon Evil leader

And it works. Congratulations, sir!

Stupid

Base on their logic. Cambodia was born in 1953 🇻🇳Vietnam 1954 🇱🇦Lao 1953 🇲🇲 Myanmar 1948 🇮🇩 Indonesia 1945 🇵🇭 Philippines 1946 Idiot logic.

It’s funny a country w/o a real culture lecturing others about culture.

Thanks for the video! I hope the Cambodian government is serious this time!

Vape isn’t allowed in this country.

If you let your hard earned money go into the pockets of scammers (online n offline), you’re a part of it. Fix yourself. Fix your greed & foolishness.

@jacobincambodia @sstrangio Next to that there’s a Khmer banner roughly said “Clean and ethical business drives sustainable development.”

@sstrangio A friend sent this photo and didn’t notice. I can see the edge of another banner to the right, but not sure if it’s related.

Spotted in Phnom Penh. "Together, let us make the Kingdom of Cambodia free of trafficking in persons and free of online scams."

I first met Steve years ago when I needed immigration advice for my older son, who is Cambodian. I have always found him level-headed and well informed. He has lived in Cambodia for 30 years and works closely with economically disadvantaged families. While I do not always agree with his approach, I take this video seriously and believe him. Regardless of the border dispute, Thailand forcibly displaced thousands of people from the Chouk Chey Village area in Banteay Meanchey. Prior to the renewed fighting, joint surveying was underway, a peaceful process for resolving disputed areas. Now unexploded ordnance has made the area unsafe, leaving thousands unable to return home, many permanently, following Thai aggression. "My youngest daughter's name is Pearl, or "Srey Kuit" in Khmer. Yesterday, I was in a village that I have worked in for many years helping CMAC locate unexploded bombs. There I met another girl name Srey Kuit who shared with me a video of her nearly being killed by a mortar round shot by Thailand on December 9. The video is shocking to watch. She did live. It is not safe for her to live in her village yet, but she is too poor to not go to work at a nearby factory. There are still 150,000 people who are unable to return to their villages simply because Thailand has taken over their homes and destroyed them, or there are unexploded bombs all over their village making it unsafe to live there."

Years ago China imported almost no oil from Venezuela due to a lack of heavy crude refining facilities. Since the establishment of a strategic partnership between the two nations, China invested tens of billions to strengthen cooperation. Specifically, in 2023, the China-Venezuela Petrochemical Plant (中委石化) was built in Jieyang, Guangdong (广东揭阳). This 20-million-ton-per-year integrated refining and chemical project is the flagship of the China-Venezuela strategic cooperation (referred to as the "China-Venezuela Project"). It was designed specifically to refine Venezuelan Merey-16 heavy crude. By 2025, it was expected that Venezuela would provide 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the Jieyang refinery, accounting for over 90% of Venezuela's total exports. ​Now that Trump has taken control of Venezuela, he has "killed two birds with one stone." The U.S. military has already secured Venezuelan shipping ports (such as the Port of Jose). Consequently, the China-Venezuela Jieyang plant has been cut off from its supply; facing a total lack of oil to refine, the facility is now at risk of becoming obsolete. ​By securing this supply, the U.S. can not only feed its own refineries—satisfying their "hunger" for heavy crude—but also intercept the flow of Venezuelan oil to China. This effectively "throttles" Chinese refineries, delivering a precision strike against China's core heavy oil import strategy while simultaneously seizing control over global heavy oil pricing power. ​Well, yes, President Trump has offered reassurances that he will guarantee China’s heavy oil supply, but who knows how much will be supplied and under which condition? This "guaranteed supply" will become a strategic bargaining chip for America likely used to pressure China into "oil-for-debt" or "oil-for-tariffs" swaps. Furthermore, while Venezuelan oil was previously purchased using Chinese currency RMB (Yuan), it will inevitably return to USD settlement, ensuring dominance over petroleum finance. China is a big loser, this is for sure.

@SojeanTheGreat Everyone sitting in there seems so peaceful!

@ekchhuon I was thinking that, too. We Khmers will ride in anything.

This might be ironworkers delivering metal structures. In Cambodia, it’s common for ironworkers or construction crews to deliver metal gates, fences, or enclosures with workers riding on them for convenience. Anyway, verification needed.

@jacobincambodia I think they’re ironworker they are heading to install or deliver it to their clients.

An unverified video circulating on Chinese social media shows several people of unknown nationality sitting inside a metal cage being towed through public traffic near the Bavet border area. Some posts claim the scene involves scam operations transferring or selling people, paired with the line “Cambodia never disappoints.” There is no confirmation. Authorities have not verified the footage, the identities of those involved, or the purpose of the transport. An act this public would be unprecedented. While coercion, confinement, and trafficking linked to scam compounds are well documented, this specific incident remains unverified.

@connyb @jacobincambodia It could be that.

@jacobincambodia To be honest I think it’s just a couple of workers hitching a ride on a regular livestock (=dog) transportation trike. I’ve seen people/staff ride in all sorts of cages. Doesn’t mean it’s space transport. I love Cambodia because of how relaxed people are about practicalities . 💚

What’s he carrying?

Thailand 🇹🇭 says the Thai Army didn’t loot Cambodian property. Really? So what’s the second guy doing? What’s the third guy searching for? What’s in that bag? Just… collecting light bulbs from schools for fun?