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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

FossAsia: Afternoon Session

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Love, peace, war and skin colour. The common thread between these issues is their consistent impact on the society, economy and politics of all civilisations since the beginning of human history. A perfect example of how skin color has caused social upheaval is the civil rights struggle in the United States during the 1960s, when

Young people under the age of 30 make up 70 percent of Cambodia’s population of more than 14 million, according to a survey conducted by the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Today’s trend towards issues affecting young people is the result of the baby boom that followed in the wake

This is the article that helped me win 15,000 Ringits (Malaysian) in early October, and well with thanks to the Ministry of Tourism in Penang and all the friends that supported me all the way through. By Keo Kounila My story began with misery, and would probably end very much so. Who would have thought

The flawless Apsara women lining the walls of Angkor Wat, representing the virtuous female, have never ceased to amaze me, but at the same time my jaw drops thinking of the paradox that exists in the present-day Cambodia. Women are asked to achieve perfection but often held back as they strive towards self-improvement. The role