Painted signboards are still in use in Cambodia today, and during the more austere socialist era of the 1980s, they were one of the more effective tools for public media.
Today they are mainly used by nonprofits and the government. (Businesses use more slick photo billboards.) This particular sign bears the ...
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Jason Rosette, the muscle behind Cambofest has set up a new video portal: CAMBOTUBE.
I highly recommend Dean's 'Moto Cambodia'/Commute video.
Puts the podracing scenes in Star Wars to shame. http://www.cambotube.com/play.php?vid=93
Tags:video,cinema,cambodia,khmer
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"Plus ca change, in some ways, but yes, the city has become a teeming metropolis, which it never was before. "... "I miss the almost somnambulistic Provencal quality that the town had in the 1960s, when Phnom Penh was probably the prettiest city in Southeast Asia."
Go and ...
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November is NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month, an offshoot of NaNoWriNo - National Novel Writing month.* I'm going to see if I can keep kosher by posting small daily bits and blurbs.
Early last year, I was off to Malaysia for a conference. I pinged BlogsMalaysia.com to see if anyone ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2007
ASEAN Clan, a growing groupblog promoting regional community, takes a look at the classic Cambodian tale "Preah Ko Preah Kaew", with some charming illustrations by Indonesian cartoonist Li Julian. http://aseanclan.blogspot.com/2007/11/lord-keo-and-cow-god-cambodian-folktale.html
Tags:cambodia,thailand,indonesia,asean,folktale,cartoon
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