Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2007
Hugo Award for Cambodia Story?
Geoff Ryman's short story 'Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter' (published in the October/November issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine) has been nominated for a Hugo Award.
(Curiously, his recent Cambodia novel, 'The King's Last Song', is still awaiting the go-ahead to be printed in the USA.)
You ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2007
Kumomo Tree Charity Project
[Courtesy Tharum]
In rural Cambodia, hundreds of villages are still deprived of functional primary and secondary schools. American Assistance for Cambodia (AAfC) founded the Rural Schools Project in 1999, has led the effort to construct over 300 primary and lower ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2007
Séra Workshop
Khmer-French comic artist Phouséra ('Séra') Ing will be teaching a Workshop on Comics, aimed at young professionals.
Phnom Penh Dates are April 9 to April 12 - and after a short break, continuing/concluding April 18 - April 20th.
Séra is currently conducting a workshop at Phare Art School in Battambang.
Workshop Application ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2007
...and blogging freshens your breath too.
A host of posts in reaction to bloggers in the Cambodia Daily and Cambodia Weekly; they are 'beautiful' and 'more attractive'. Let's not get carried away here, OK?
http://detailsaresketchy.wordpress.com/
2007/03/27/beautiful-bloggers
http://www.vuthasurf.com/
2007/03/27/cambodian-bloggers-more-attractive
http://www.phnomenon.com/
index.php/cambodian-food/meta/bring-the-noise
http://deedeedoll.blogspot.com/
2007/03/cloggers-cambodian-bloggers-on.html
I will say the 'personal information technology' workshop participants deserve some real props for volunteering their time over ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2007
Couches and Controversy - Cambodia
Freshome's feature on Peace of Art's products has inspired numerous positive and negative reactions, from "a peaceful end" to "ugly and useless".
Anything related to guns seems to make Stateside readers go ballistic.
http://freshome.com/2007/03/21/
furniture-from-weapons-a-peaceful-use-of-weapons/
also: 'Make' picks up on the meme. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/
2007/03/gun_sculpture_photos_from.html
The 'Peace of Art' Project seems ...
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