By Mike Eckel
Villa Souane Chbar (“garden villa” in Khmer) sits along the Mekong River, 30 minutes by car outside of Phnom Penh, off a dirt road marked with shacks, an open-air pool hall, stray chickens and a Buddhist temple. In the morning, the warm breezes and the soft put-put-put of fishing boat motors drift up from the river.
The four-bedroom house offers Beatrix Latham, a 68-year-old French-born woman, a haven from the crowds of Bangkok, where she li…(Read more)