About Me

Sebastian Strangio is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Since 2008, he has reported widely on politics, human rights, business and environmental issues from across the Asia-Pacific.
Posts tagged "Sport"

Gold Tower 42

Like Saigon, Phnom Penh is booming, and the Cambodian nouveau riche — as nouveaux riches are wont to do – is busily casting about for new ways to flaunt its wealth. To service this new demographic, an old government hospital at the intersection of Sihanouk and Norodom Boulevards has recently been flattened to make way...

Come back, Nate!

I arrived back from Lancefield on Sunday afternoon to learn the disturbing news that Nathan Ablett had walked out on the Geelong Football Club. The younger Ablett was always a reluctant AFL recruit, and it appears as if this year’s premiership medallion may have finally snuffed out his ambition to continue playing at the top...