You've heard the old song about the pub with no beer? Well, how about the press club with no hacks? The new Foreign Correspondents Club in Siem Reap, tel: (855-63) 760283, is minimally elegant, fronts a leafy reach of the river, does a mean wood-fired pizza and boasts the coldest gin-and-tonics in town. But, admits manager Benoit Jancloes a trifle sheepishly, it currently doesn't have any actual newshounds among its members. "We're mainly for tourists," he says. Discounts for members of its venerable sibling in Phnom Penh, however, are sure to tempt the odd old Asia bore to...
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