Peripheries » The indecent driving force of globalisation

Phnom Penh, May 2006. Standing at the intersection of Moniwong Boulevard and Charles de Gaulle I watch the traffic, oblivious of where I am. In the hot and sticky weather of this month of May I only want to cool down in the shadow of a building. Hypnotized by a never-ending flow of Hondas, I barely noticed David Beckham looking at me from the other side of the boulevard. I suddenly realized that I am not in London or Bangkok, but in Phnom Penh, a town that was forcedly abandoned thirty years ago after falling in the hands of the Khmers Rouge on April 17, 1975.

And I then though, what does David Beckham know about Cambodia?