Believe me, I didn’t plan this weekend getaway. As soon as a friend of mine offered a free hotel room and a free ride to Kampot province about 4 hours’ drive from Phnom Penh, I knew that would be just right for me. 😛 After staying overnight at Rabbit Island, my friends and I headed […]
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If you would like to travel from Phnom Penh to Saigon/Ho Chi Minh, I recommend reliable bus companies like Mekong Express Bus, Sapaco, Capitol Tours, Mailinh, Phnom Penh Soriya Transport but do consider Virak Buntham Express Travel for its night bus services, though the staff can throw their attitude around you at times (contact details
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I asked an Italian photographer two years ago what an Italian mafioso looked like, and whether they had a favourite dress code. He chortled over my ignorance, and said, “Ha, he or she does not look any different from you.” That’s my first joke in Italy. I was in Italy for almost a month, but could learn a
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This is a guest post by Prum Seila. Although Nokia has just opened it representative office in Cambodia last year, their phones have already been here for more than 10 years ago. I was growing up seeing my family and friends use Nokia phones most of the times. Nokia has been very popular in Cambodia. Some
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I was sent this article into my email. It’s such a beautiful piece of writing by Ms. Theary Seng, co-founder of Centre for Cambodian Civic Education (CIVICUS), that I don’t want to miss out on publishing it on my blog. Enjoy her strong views! But then, there is another counter-response from Sambath Meas on this
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Recently, the Cambodia Daily, one of the English news publications in Phnom Penh, featured an article about Cambodian blogging or “Khlogging”—sorry, I just invented it as I go–on one of its Saturday-Sunday publications. Wahh, one of the pictures on the page looks familiar to you, right? That’s what I thought when I first got a
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I’d like to share with you a piece of my mind. Oops, just a piece of me. ———————————- One of the pioneer bloggers in the Kingdom, Kounila Keo is the author of blueladyblog.com. Seth Emmanuel Rinoza finds out what motivates Keo to write. Photo by Conor Wall. Kounila Keo was born with a mindset to share her
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This is the video production that I struggled to make in 2010. The research phase started in October 2009 till March 2010. Anyway, the video itself took about 3 months to finish. Earlier in this post, I talked about my experience related to the making of the video but I haven’t yet mentioned a debacle
In Cambodia, Kon means “films.” Wherever Cambodians go, they can hardly forget the golden era of Khmer Kons between 60s and 70s. Everything including cinemas and professionals such as movie stars and film-makers were banished and exterminated within four years of civil war. Anyway, this is the past. Gone with the wind. TODAY, despite all
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I don’t so much like taking a long-distance flight while on a short trip, but I still love travelling no matter. Sometimes I arrive at the final destination completely lost, drained and oblivious to the new surroundings, but I understand that’s a price one has to pay when she/he wants to go farther in life
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