Posted in cambodge, cambodia, cambodia blog on Nov 20th, 2012
(Siem Ream opens its arms to you!)
Friday, November 01:
I hop a bus at noon from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. In earlier days I'd be taking a speedboat. These days it's a 4-5 hour jaunt via bus. One of the small but deeply important changes in Cambodian life since ...
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Fire up Google Translator!
Today, Le Monde, tomorrow The World.
Open Development Cambodia gets a mention in a French newspaper, http://data.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/09/20/un-hackathon-pour-le-developpement-et-la-cooperation/
and now, in Swedish Development agency SIDA's web site. http://www.sida.se/Svenska/Lander--regioner/Asien/Kambodja/Program-och-projekt/Open-Data-Cambodia/
It's been challenging work this last year, and it's gratifying to see the enthusiastic reaction to what is ...
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A pleasant morning surprise: Kuy Tiew with the tireless Stephane Janin, reminiscing about making "Jane for Change" t-shirts.
He's in PP for another week, and has an exhibition at Meta-House this coming Friday (Aug 24)!
(More details soon).
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or: "We Lost The Lake, But Can We Free The Fifteen?"
In 2007 numerous advocates were concerned about Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake. It was being filled in with sand, yet actual information about the company doing it was very hard to find. Unlike some communities facing eviction, this was a ...
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Posted in academia, cambodge, cambodia, cambodia blog, current events, more stuff, music, puppetry, theatre, visual art, weblogs on Feb 19th, 2012
A brief response to the frequent assertion that there isn’t much choice in places to go, things to do or people to meet in Phnom Penh.
I began blogging about things Cambodian in 2002, initially from Siem Reap.
I wrote about nearly everything that took my interest because if I didn’t ...
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