Several weeks ago I was excited to hear this had arrived: Cambodia's most respected dictionary, as a searchable Khmer Unicode program. Produced by Open Institute and organized by the Buddhist Institute, this brings new readers to an old classic. I was pipped at the post (literally) by dead tree blog ...
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A host of happenings in Phnom Penh for Environment Week! (And hey, nice web site!)
http://www.environment-week.org
Participants are a veritable who's who, from nonprofits to businesses and student groups.
WWF
AFD and Melon Rouge
East West Management Institute
Fauna and Flora International
Indigenous Cambodian Support Organisation (ICSO)
Children at the Wat Phnom
Environment Film Festival (CCF)
Australian embassy
Bophana Center
WWF ...
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the web as we get more and more signups for September 20th's BarCamp. Great to see some new faces here, I'll revise this list as things progress.
There used to be just a handful of bloggers in the Kingdom when I started out. Now you could spend days trying to ...
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Posted in Twice Up, visual art on Sep 11th, 2008
I was getting on a pickup truck taxi once, and listening to the passengers talk:
"He's from America."
"But he's not fat."
Thank goodness heroin chic never caught on in Cambodia. They've tried starvation chic and it's just not cool.
Art above by Pal Poursith, based on a real-life story. In preparation I asked ...
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Posted in jazz, music, Photo Wednesday on Sep 10th, 2008
'...takes my blues away.' One of the great things about living in Cambodia; little surprises like this.
Cambodian Jazz does exist - from the Khmer Fusion project to Jean-Marc Padovani.
The Korean owner probably took the name of this karaoke bar from Carole King's classic 'Jazzman', but she's not generally slotted ...
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