Hummer SUV

Hummer SUV - Chris Coles

It's so wide. how does it even get around, much less without crushing people, tuk tuks and the millions of 50cc motorcycles......it makes the Big Man inside feel good...powerful, immune, rich and in charge....

Saint Tropez Lounge Phnom Penh

Saint Tropez Lounge Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

There's still a bit of France in Phnom Penh, a few cousins or aunties from Paris, a love of pastry....and now Saint-Tropez Techno Lounge, the latest trendy nitespot for the spawn of Cambodia's Big Men.......

Wedding Island Banquet Hall Entrance

Wedding Island Banquet Hall Entrance - Chris Coles

The entrance to the wedding banquet palace is alive with action, big SUV's, Mercedes, BMW's, Khmer ladies dressed in silk and chiffon, their hair done up like movie stars, tons of fresh flowers, the drifting notes of the band and singer, a lot of bowing and waiing as the precise social hierarchy of the arriving Big Men and their wives and children is dealt with and sorted out...........

Wedding Island Palace Phnom Penh

Wedding Island Palace Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

Every Friday and Saturday night, the palaces on Phnom Penh's Wedding Island are packed, all 15 of them, a thousand people each......and parked all around, hundreds of Big Man SUV's, Mercedes, BMW's, the wealth of the assembled, the privileged elite of the new Cambodia, on full display.........

Toyota Land Cruiser SUV Phnom Penh

Toyota Land Cruiser SUV Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

It's big, expensive and has got its name on each side just in case the driver hits someone....everybody knows Land Cruisers belong to Cambodia's "Big Men"....their drivers can park wherever they want, ignore stop signs and red lights, pass anyone they desire at whatever speed and run over whomever they wish without consequence....

Phnom Penh Nightclub

Phnom Penh Niteclub - Chris Coles

Off-duty police and army guys watch the doors and parking......inside Expats young and old, fat and slim, handsome and ugly, some with jobs, some with NGO's, some on the loose, a few of the entitled children of Phnom Penh's "Big Men", and plenty of Khmer girls, fresh from the countryside...

Cadillac Escalade

Cadillac Escalade - Chris Coles

Big and shiny, costing more than the average Cambodian's lifetime income, this gigantic SUV Escalade carries a Cambodia's "Big Man", his wife, children and girlfriends, from here to there and back again.....