It's more the upscale crowd who goes there, more difficult to get connected to. Someone I did connect to was a UN employee responsible, amongst other things, for getting the election material to the 11,699 polling stations all around the country. Amongst the stuff are seven tons of indelible ink - one of the ways to make sure no one votes twice. This ink had to be flown in from India via Thailand, he explains, while we were sitting in the large armchairs of the Club. Yesterday morning, however, there was no ink in the Thai airplane arriving at Pochentong airport.
Today is the deadline.
If he couldn't manage to get the ink to Phnom Penh by today, the election could have been postponed, he says. He phones the Thai ambassador, who phones the Thai Prime Minister, who phones the CEO of Thai airways. The PM makes clear to the CEO that the ink is going to be on the plane. Going to the FCC has something colonial in it. The first Canadian election observers have arrived.