It’s happy hour at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh, where half-price cocktails are plentiful but foreign correspondents are few. The FCC has the look of a century-old watering-hole and safe haven for war-weary reporters. Despite the name, and to the surprise of at least some customers, it hasn’t been used by foreign correspondents for more than 15 years. It ended contentiously, with Phnom Penh’s foreign correspondents distancing themselves from the premises and rebranding as the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia (OPCC) in 2002. We had to keep it on the quiet because we were afraid they’d go out and nick our new name too.”There are up to 70 foreign correspondents in Cambodia at any one time, Hunt estimates.

Source: The Irish Times January 22, 2018 06:00 UTC