(This blog post was also published on WheninPhnomPenh blog.) Pailin, a province in western Cambodia, holds a special place in my heart. When my mother was a teen, she was forced to go to Pailin with a big group of other young women to take as much as food as possible back to Battambang base where she […]
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I spent almost 10 days in India in October 2013. I travelled to Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh State of India and Imphal, the capital of Manipur State. There are certain areas in India such as Arunachal Pradesh which you cannot just obtain a visa from an Indian embassy and go to. You will need to
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My impressions on Indonesia I love Indonesia for several reasons. And, one of them is that Indonesian people are calm, friendly, relaxed, and helpful. The list goes on. I felt completely at home in Bali, Jakarta, Bandung, Solo and at small corners I had Nasi Goreng and some fried spiced chicken with basil leaves. The
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Vietnam is addictive to travel to, and there is so much to write home about. But shockingly, $50 was all I had left after Dalat trip. I had really longed to go to Mui Ne, a coastal resort town, in order to see Doi Cat, a vast area of sand dunes in Vietnam, and I was
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Khmer New Year falls between 13th-17th April every year. It is not just new year for Cambodia but also for several countries such as Thailand (Songkran), Laos (Songkran), Myanmar (Thingyan), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese New Year), and some parts of India such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu…ect. Because it was strangely boiling hot (40 degrees celsius or more)
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(Note: this is a delayed post from early March. I just found the time to rewrite and post it here.) Yay! I was invited to Malaysia Social Media Week 2013 (26 Feb – 3 March). A good friend, Blogie, introduced me to the organizers. Blogie attended the event as a speaker in 2012, and found
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Date: January 25th, 2013 I’m fighting sleepiness in a quiet dorm room in Bangkok after 15 hours’ bus ride from Phnom Penh to Bangkok. Phnom Penh to Poipet takes 9 hours, and Pp to BKK is 6 hours, the max. I’m writing this blog post seeing that even if its not my first time to Bangkok,
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Date: January 23rd, 2013 I spent nearly 13 hours in Prey Veng and Kampong Cham province today. Visiting an almost isolated village in KC, I met an old grandpa who looked gently at me and held out his hands. “I only wish to see better roads built so that little girls and boys can go
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Now when we talk about social media in Cambodia, Facebook always comes at the top, followed by Twitter and recently Google Plus. The current number of Cambodian Facebooks has surpassed a half million according to Social Bakers website. What is even more reliable in terms of the exact number of Facebookers in Cambodia is the Facebook
Big shots & social media in Cambodia Read More »