You don’t have to go to an up-market spa or beauty parlours to be pampered. As AsiaLIFE discovers, one small shop close to the Independence Monument is continuing the traditional skills of a Khmer barber.
Several years ago, when my wife was living in Phnom Penh, a neighbour borrowed US$1,000 from the local loan shark to buy a mobile phone. That might seem like a lot of money for a phone – this was when the U.S. dollar was worth actually something – but he bought a very fancy and advanced phone, at a time when most phones were still used merely to call people.