Chinese New year is coming....

Many of you surely had noticed the obiquitous red shirts on yellow-repainted motorbikes roamin' continuously around town. No, they ain't cell-phone providers' salesmen, they are the staffers of M'lop Tapang, patrolling the streets at any time of the day outreaching for children at risk and checking red-light areas. On their shirts you can find an hot-line phone number to call in case you should notice a situation in which a children is at risk.
It's good to know they are around.

It is also good to know that the blue shirts ( Khmer traffic cops) are mobilized in force these days and set up roadblocks at night searching for weapons. It is known that the period between the Chinese and the Khmer new years is the one with the higher number of robberies and thefts.

the top of the tourist hi-season has been already reached, we noticed a net decrease of foreign tourists and an increase of Khmer tourists, especially during the New Year eve of december 31, when the beaches around town were full of people dancing, drinking and having fun, thousands of fireworks were lit and the town's clinics were working around the clock to bandage and stitch the hundreds of intoxicated Khmer ( and Barangs) victims of road accidents.

Prosit !

GONG XI FA CAI ! Happy Chinese New Year from your webmaster and his assistant.