Tasty Dog in the Kingdom: This Cambodian Life #39.  Cambodia has 25 national holidays, and this week there is Visak Bochea day and then the Royal Ploughing Ceremony.  Delilah also welcomes a guest in orange to the show, the Venerable Somnieng gives an overview of Buddhism, the two traditions of Buddhism and describes how Buddhism is really integrated into Cambodia’s past and present.  You hear about Noble Paths and Noble Truths, though enlightenment isn’t covered.  Nirvana is elusive, isn’t it? 

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I think you need some chanting monks to open up this special Buddhism edition. 

Tasty Dog in the Kingdom: This Cambodian Life #38.  Yet another titillating episode of a day in Cambodia awaits you.  Trying to encourage some interactivity among the audience, Delilah encourages you to send your ideas for the new tourism Cambodia campaign to the communication guy at the Ministry of Tourism (marketing@mot.gov.kh).  In her excitement about having garbage collection in Phnom Penh, she also covers the garbage story, and a new, perhaps temporary, law that has some lasting effect on a strange visitor.   

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Your daily fix of Cambodian music is Ros Sereysothea singing about the Night That We Met.  Apparently, it’s also a bit of a folk song from Battambang, but it does make me want to get some white go-go boots. 

Tasty Dog in the Kingdom: This Cambodian Life #37.  Kept at work because of the onset of the rainy season, Delilah makes good productive use of her time recording a show and launches into staffing issues, sharing a few anecdotes about the good, the bad and the corrupt.  You have to laugh, or else cry and despair.  And find out who said, “It’s International Women’s Day and I am a woman.  Can I have a bonus?â€?.  

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Preap Sovath sings to you, sweetly, after a rock hard guitar, flute and drum machine introduction.  It’s cheesy as hell, but makes the girls melt. 

Tasty Dog in the Kingdom: This Cambodian Life #36. Delilah Marie shares more stories of Phnom Penh.  Your lesson starts out with some statistics on life expectancy and population, but if you find that too dry, stay tuned for the ultimate status symbol which Delilah does not have, then options for Phnom Penh living quarters from squatting in shacks to shacking up in a thoroughly insulated, guarded community on the outskirts.  Make it to the end and you get some advice for driving drunk, furnished by Mr. Sushi.    

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Sen Sisamuth greets you again with his smooth-as-butter voice, singing a song called 3am last night.  I’m sure his intentions, and his words, are pure as the driven snow. 

Tasty Dog TV #5.  A trip to the temples.  With Delilah as your untutored tour guide, she takes a spin through four levels of the Bayon, starting at the top, where the 150+ carved faces of Jayavarman VII (aka J-7) stare over groups of tourists, and ending up at the bottom to try to get some perspective, after a few stops in the middle levels to see some of the centuries old carvings that adorn the walls.  

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