Tag: Kantha Bopha Hospital

Doctor Beatocello

July 17, 2015

If you are interested in Cambodia then you definitely need to know about this guy, whose real name is Dr Beat Richner.  He is a Swiss paediatrician who first travelled to Cambodia as a young graduate in 1974 with the Red Cross.  He left when the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975.  In 1991 he … More Doctor Beatocello

Being Barang

July 3, 2014

When Minnie picked me up at Dili Airport in October 2012 and drove me to their home near the centre of the East Timorese capital I was agape the whole way, at the sights of overcrowded vehicles, casual road rules, animals in traffic, etc.  I kept pointing things out to her in case she hadn’t … More Being Barang