New members of the Cambodia forum, introduce yourself here

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Hi my name is George,

I am a commercial and editorial photographer, I have also been known to write on occasion (I wrote a column on desktop publishing and digital photography for the Bangkok Post for over 10 years), and I operated a computer graphics and typesetting business (A3 CompuPrint) in Bangkok from the mid 80s to the turn of the century.

The first time I crossed the border into Cambodia was in 1979, while on assignment for the UNHCR as a photographer. In June of 1980 I was captured by Vietnamese forces (and released about five days later), unfortunately this made it impossible for me to get a Visa for either Cambodia or Vietnam for the next ten years.

Around 2000 I started visiting Cambodia again and by 2007 I started using Siem Reap as my base in South East Asia. I did return to the US for several years recently but have now returned to Siem Reap and am looking for both short and long term assignments in Cambodia and the rest of South East Asia.

Thank you, George Mann

Hello, My name is Bob and I am planning to retire in Sihanoukville in about 9 months. Looking for tips regarding a 1 bedroom rental, banking and activities. thanks, Bob

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Hello, My name is Bob and I am planning to retire in Sihanoukville in about 9 months. Looking for tips regarding a 1 bedroom rental, banking and activities. thanks, Bob

Hi Bob  and welcome to the forum

I suggest you read through the many posts on the forum and you will get some information.
Other members will probably answer your post soon too,.

Hello,
My name is Emir.
I am from Turkey and living in Phnom Penh.

Hi Hiram

Great post was, you sound more Australian than American.

My name is billy will be moving to Cambodia soon 😀  planning on doing business in phnom Penh.

Regards
Billy

Hi Lucia

Hope you are having a great time over there. Are you from sydney? I am planning to go on a business trip within December might see you there if you around Phnom Penh 😊

Regards
Billy

Hi all!

I have traveled extensively in Latin America and worked in business and NGO. I am now living in Phnom Penh for 1 year and am looking to work with a local NGO, or possibly teach English at an outstanding school. Please contact me if you know of any opportunities.

Thanks!

Nelson

My name is Suren and I had a profile here, a few day back, under the same name. I do not know why I cannot access it.
Anyway, I am planning my move to Cambodia, as an English teacher or in any other trade field (am a German citizen and trained in Germany as a specialist in International trade). I have 13 years experience in English teaching and 13 years experience as a Freight Forwarder (airfreight) and eight years therein as a Trade Lane Manager (India: for Germany and Switzerland).

Regards
Suren

Hey everyone,

I am from Jakarta and currently is working in a foreign bank in PP for almost a month.
Anyone wants to meet up tonight for drinks? Am tired of drinking alone...

Regards,

---just an update: if everything goes right, I am planning to fly there between November and December, this year. Any help will be welcome, as I am new. Any help with getting a decent accommodation, so that I can lay my head down and then go on a job hunt. My plan is to be there for about two weeks and then returning to Germany. If I am luck to land a job, I shall be returning as fast as possible (say within a week or two after my arrival back in Germany). My goal Siem Reap.

Regards
Suren

surenpillai wrote:

---just an update: if everything goes right, I am planning to fly there between November and December, this year. Any help will be welcome, as I am new. Any help with getting a decent accommodation, so that I can lay my head down and then go on a job hunt. My plan is to be there for about two weeks and then returning to Germany. If I am luck to land a job, I shall be returning as fast as possible (say within a week or two after my arrival back in Germany). My goal Siem Reap.

Regards
Suren

Please read through the many posts in this section of the forum for any information that may assist you.

Hey!

I am looking into a long trip and perhaps even a stay with work to Cambodia quite soon and would really like to hear from anyone doing this or interested in doing it. Please drop me a line on here or by e-mail to jd5558@gmx.com

Thank you!

Hi, my name is Dina. I like traveling and making friend.

surenpillai, you may consider  Aseana Angkor Residence run by Rudolf Knuchel is here on this blog under housing. It is about 2km outside Siem Reap. I live there. Also connect with Lucky Tuk Tuk. I can get you his number in a private message here. Okay?

Hello Community!

My name is Alicia. I am America, raised in Dallas, and living in the Washington, D.C. area for the past 10 years. I have worked in mortgage finance and risk analysis for the past 10 years. Looking for a career change and a move to Asia!

I am planning to move to Cambodia in about 12 months and hope to find work as an English instructor or yoga teacher, and eventually hope to work in the tourism industry. I lived in Paris from 2010-2011 and loved living outside of the United States. Now I'm just spending time saving and researching and hoping for a smooth transition to my new Cambodian life!

Nice to meet everyone!

Captnw4 wrote:

surenpillai, you may consider  Aseana Angkor Residence run by Rudolf Knuchel is here on this blog under housing. It is about 2km outside Siem Reap. I live there. Also connect with Lucky Tuk Tuk. I can get you his number in a private message here. Okay?

Thank you very much and I am sorry for the late reply. Please send me a pm. I do not want to put in the forum, what I have experienced.  I am still in Germany, but I need to soon take the plunge.

Kind regards
Suren

Hello, My Name is Bobby J... I am planning on coming to  Siem Reap Cambodia in Feb, or March 2015,  as I am a retired person , I will be looking for lower priced places to stay, My first choice at this point is Guest houses to begin with. however any advice at this point would be appreciated , I have Questions concerning Internet  , cell phone set ups ,  safe places to stay etc....

Hi!

I´m a Swedish guy moving to PP next year to start my own business and I´m looking for any kind of job opportunities for my Philippina girlfiend.
She speaks good english and has an unfinished education in tourism so far.
I understand it´s hard getting a job that doesn´t require Khmer language skills and I´m just looking for any information to help us find a job for her. We will also try to find a university to finish her education.
On the social side I'm a Manchester United fan and we both like playing volleyball, but getting into any kind of ball game team would be great.

Sincerely
Kalle

Hello and greetings, I am planning on going to Siem Reap after the first of the year , I would very much like to meet, up with expats living there in Siem Reap, As I am a retired senior. I will be looking for a nice safe place to stay  with an opportunity to meet expats that might give me pointers as to traveling, site-seeing etc....

hi everyone,
I'm Nasuada. I would like to move to Cambodia for business in the future. I need supports from you. I work in garment and textile. Also I hope I can get many local friends here.
Thanks

Hello There! My name is Olympia and I am interested in traveling Cambodia to do business.  I am trying to locate a company there that sells Raw Cambodian Hair. I believe it is in Phnom Penh in one of the markets. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help me locate the company. I have pictures of the place and can forward if you're willing to help. Thanks a million!

Hi rmdecast, You're always welcome. i love making new friends

Hi guys we are new to Expat.com and also new to Phnom Penh.
My wife and I are from Australia and would love to meet up with some Expats in Phnom Penh.
As we will be living and hopefully working here for a while would like to meet up for a beer and a chat.

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I've been spending at least two months a year in Cambodia since 2007 when I toured some of the countryside, not ALL or it, by bicycle. I went from PP to Kompot, then to Kep (only 26km), back to Kompot for a night, and then the longest leg of my trip: Kompot to Sihanoukville—about 120km. I forgot that the last five km or so into S'ville is uphill.

Along the way I met so many friendly people. Monks invited me to stay with them twice and private citizens took me in sometimes when I was lost. Many people helped or encouraged me, making that experience something I'll never forget.

After Sihanoukville I cheated and took my bike by bus back to PP for a few days rest. Then I followed the river northeast, making it as far as Kratie before my vacation time was running out and I had to return to Japan.

Why did I use so much space to brag about the bike trip, besides Red Bull? One reason was simply to brag, but the other is the real reason. I learned that the country people of Cambodia are some of the warmest I've ever encountered in my travels. We couldn't always communicate well using words, but we DID communicate.

So if you start to get angry with pesky tuk-tuk drivers, or get fed up with the big city in general, take a visit to the countryside.

I retired from teaching in 2012 and get a pension from the Private University Pension Fund of Japan.

I  am currently looking for a part-time job or freelance jobs, preferably with an NGO or similar organization. My skills, besides teaching, are writing, editing, copywriting and related work. I did these jobs in Japan while teaching full-time. I also wrote three books while in Japan and wrote book reviews for The Daily Yomiuri. You can see my full profile on LinkedIn under the name ProvoJohn.

After learning more about the country and about charitable organizations here, I hope to start a small org to produce very low-cost housing for deserving Cambodians. By "deserving" I mean each head-of-household, or a member of that household, would be expected to learn how to build the houses through OJT, and then pass that knowledge to others who would learn to do the same.

The houses I hope to build were designed by the NGO, Architecture Commons. It won a contest for best design of a house for US $300 sponsored by the magazine Fast Company. When I asked Architecture Commons for permission to use their design in Cambodia, they not only said, yes, but volunteered to send a team to build a few of the houses for me. They thought I was already an NGO and kindly explained the best way to begin starting one. I'd be happy to carry out the project under the umbrella of an existing NGO or similar org.

I got permission to use the house plans a year before I retired and now I'm still looking for land. I have the design and people to build them and teach me to build them, but I need land, not to own, but to use semi-permanently. If you know of an organization that might help, please let me know.  I'll be researching this topic since I plan to be in Cambodia for the long haul.

When I contacted one org that sometimes funds projects like mine, I spoke to a woman in the US who told me, "No one would want to live in a house like that with mud brick walls." How  many people in Cambodia have you already met or seen, who would love to have a roof over their heads? I told her, "You should meet the two women who work at my regular restaurant; they live in an alleyway." Clearly she had never been to Cambodia.

Sorry to be so long-winded but I was only following instructions to "introduce myself." Hope to meet some of you around town.

very nice post,  I plan on coming to Siem Reap  in February , I have been reading a lot of nice things on the net about it , I also am retired, never been out of the States, but am looking forward to it... best wishes..    ..........Bob  Johnson

Hello Everyone,

I am an emerging markets specialist with a specialization in Marketing Communications. I have worked in various emerging markets like Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, China & Qatar. I am seeking suitable opportunity to move back to Cambodia.

I have had the pleasure of working with MNCs like Group M, BEI, JWT for clients like Unilever, Pepsi, Coke, Millicom, Orascom, Ooredoo, Phillip Morris etc.

Would appreciate any and all assistance in this regard.

Best Regards,
Nabeel Saeed

Hi All

Travelled to Cambodia 4 times this year and decided its where I want to be . So house in UK is rented plane ticket is booked and I will be their in two weeks . I would like to meet both expat and locals so please feel free to get in touch .

I have some work arranged for January in Hong Kong but I would like to be able to earn a living in Cambodia . I am a boat builder and work on super yachts both in construction and fit out .

Is there a boat leisure industry in Cambodia ?

Thanks for reading I hope to meet as many of you as I can very soon :-)

Andy

I'm Mark, I've been doing volunteer work in villages around Siem Reap for last three years. I've been asked to design a sustainable project in Siem Reap and looking for respectable architectural fee hourly rate to charge? Anyone have any experience this field or hired an architect? I return portion of fee to volunteer efforts.
I'm looking at living there for 6-9months of year.
Respond to innovdes@earthlink.net.
Enjoy Life!

Hi

I may be able to assist ,

Send me the pic andycarroll01@aol.com

Hello Friends,

My name is Polycarp Ambe-Niba (my friends call me Poly). I have been living and working in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the past four years as conference interpreter (French-English). I recently visited Bulgaria and fell in love with the country and its people whom I found very friendly, unassuming and down-to-earth. I bought an investment property in Bourgas and am now looking forward to buying a holiday home for myself and my family preferably in a Bulgarian village. I am happy to join this forum.

Cheers

Poly

Hi Guys many https://www.expat.come to Cambodia as tourist and explored as good place to work and live, I have three friends have been living in Cambodia for more than 3 years, they seem have happy work and life in Cambodia. Many places for relax, 27 days of public holiday per year.
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Thanks
Sithsophary

Hi, Staying in Sihanoukville for the winter months , 3rd winter here, and enjoy reading the posts and getting some good info. I hope to have something to contribute in the future. Have a great day

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Hello expats!

We are a portuguese couple and we have been traveling for 2 months with  2 motorbike across Vietnam. We want to continue our trip and go to Laos and Cambodia, but we have heard conflicting information about the input and output of motorcycles (Vietnamese).

We would like to know if we can cross the border from Vietnam to Laos and Laos to Cambodia without problems?Alternatively, following Vietnam to Cambodia and cross the border to Laos (and eventually across the border to Thailand always with the Vietnamese bikes) would also be an option to consider.

Thanks for your help!

Nuno and Ana

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Hi, my name is Chris, I'm 53 years young and I am looking to move to Cambodia to live and hopefully run some type of business and would like to hear from anyone who has already made the move. Cambodia is a growing marked which I feel in the next five years will catch up with Thailand which is a place I considered until I found how hard they make it for you to stay long term there.

Thanks in advance for any kind replies.

Hi to all, I'm quite sure that there are a few countries that are not given visa's and I'm sure syria is one of them? hope I'm wrong.

Best wishes

Hi everyone! Just arrive in Cambodia and interested in meeting new friends here