My little sis and her husband have set up an animal farm in the backyard where they raise rabbits, hamsters, geese, ducks, chickens, and white mice. I still remember the smell that lingers around my bedroom. You know the kind of smell that is so typical of an animal farm … 🙂 They were planning […]
Who says travelling is not a big deal? Henner Lei, a young man from Germany, says that he’s been travelling to different countries for several purposes. One of them is to find containers which might have “a few coins, a watch, a pen, and if lucky, some money.” If you wonder how, I’ll tell you
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From the social-media powered revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya to unfulfillable struggles in some Middle East countries, all of which have been coined as “the Arab Spring”, there clearly is a need to consider the power of social media tools they give to people. So far, some governments have freaked out and looked for ways
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It’s nice to be back home in Cambodia, though I miss the whole Seliger2012 team in Russia! This Wednesday (25th, I will be speaking for 5 minutes about being an online journalist and blogger for some 5 years at the Meta House, a place where movies and events are usually screened and held. I will bring along my
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I have heard people tell me “I love your life”, “Your life is exciting, so can I have yours?”, “I’m jealous.” Most of the time, I don’t know how to respond when friends confront me but keep pondering how. Maybe I’ve done something different from what my people have, but the fact is that I
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As a result of my earlier blog post, a friend helped post the article ina Campro mailing list popular among Cambodian professionals and the other friend suggested the article to one of the English language newspapers “Cambodia Daily.” Oh boy, I didn’t expect it because it was just a piece full of frustration. It has
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This is a blog post from 2012. Apparently, not all information in the post is valid anymore. Please contact your travel agent or friends to find out or go to the passport office to get your passport! This post was published on the Cambodia Daily. (Note: I wrote this article because I wanted to bring
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After reading this oath, I thought that the witness would be left feeling scared shitless and wouldn’t dare to even think. =) So, I’ve been to a court before, and I’ve seen how judges, prosecutors and lawyers make their own points in the courts but never a witness take an oath.
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The Cambodian government has chosen civil society representatives to attend the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh next month sparking outrage among civil society groups who have come to regard the selection process as unfair and voice-stifling.
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China is pouring money into Cambodia, but will the political cost be even bigger than the interest bill? PHNOM PENH (10 February 2012) — A multi-million dollar “no strings attached” loan by China to Cambodia has ignited debate in the kingdom about the economic, political and social costs of its rising dependence on the world’s
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