Opinions

On my way to the United States, which is actually my first-ever encounter to the place, I met two Cambodian women and spotted many young Cambodian girls at the Phnom Penh International Airport – I thought they were teenagers. They were pretty and well-dressed. Different from my last flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where many […]

When people think about Phnom Penh, they remember the past when Phnom Penh was considered the “Pearl of Asia” and one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina. But, with the race to build the highest building in Phnom Penh for the past 10 years, the skyline has changed quickly and will surely change at

Coming to America has always been a dream of some Cambodian kids back home. Every year, many Cambodians sort out various ways to come and reside legally in the United States of America. And, that makes me wonder why more and more except Cambodian students who come here for studies are willing to leave their

When I first received false information about the collapse of the ‘exit’ bridge at Diamond Island – Koh Pich in Khmer – due to a large crowd and such a small sized area where festivities were usually held, I thought that this would happen anyway. Maybe I was too skeptical about any urban development in

Early Marriage

By Kounila Keo & Colin Meyn Coming to terms with the loss of life in the stampede on Koh Pich’s north bridge in the final hours of this year’s Water Festival has made for particularly trying times in the capital city of Cambodia. 351 people died and hundreds more were injured in the crowd of

I don’t know if anybody else has had the same experience. Every time I fill in applications or forms sent from abroad, I have to google for a postal code for where I live. This has occurred more than often, making me fed up sometimes. So I decided to post all the Phnom Penh Postal

I was browsing through online around 11 pm while suddenly my phone rang. It’s not the only call I got. Many friends called me to ask what was happening at Diamond Island, a small island where people enjoy holding festivities. The first number of the dead a friend told was only “13” but a while

After spending four days in October in Ho Chi Minh City attending a workshop called Foss Asia 2010, I reached the conclusion that open source software could be the answer to copyright issues on software or computer technology in developing countries such as Cambodia and Vietnam, where many poor people were under-paid and pirated copies