Guest blog by Anirudh Bhati This article was updated at 1230 hrs on 9 August 2013. The Reuters News Agency reported yesterday: A quorum of 120 out of 123 lawmakers was needed to launch a new national assembly before the approval of a new cabinet, said attorney Sok Sam Oeun, executive director at Cambodia Defenders Project, an organization […]
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As promised, I tried keeping tweeting with this hashtag #electionskh with my Cambodian friends. The foreign correspondent and press also used #electionskh within today. It was an interesting day indeed, because there was so much shared from one person to another. As of the late evening of July 28th, it was 68 seats for CPP
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Updated While I am writing this, the midnight has already passed, and today is July 28th, 2013 (Sunday). To a lot of people, today is a day of hope because they can go and cast their votes for the leaders they have a strong conviction that will change the future of Cambodia and rescue the
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Interview with Kounila Keo, founder of Blue Lady Blog Kounila Keo is one of the top 5 Cambodian bloggers. She gave us an interview regarding to the actual situation in education and opportunities for students in Cambodia. Kounila in Ethiopia on a reporting tripAs Kounila Keo – founder of www.blueladyblog.com – is titled as one of the
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Dubbed as Asia’s first cinema heritage film festival, Memory! Film Festival kicked off from June 1st with the presence of His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni. It was organized by Bophana Centre which has been spearheaded by Rithy Panh, a world-famous Cambodian French filmmaker), Technicolor, Cambodia Film Commission, and others (as seen/listed in the pic below).
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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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Clockwise: (1) my name tag on the panel desk, (2) audiences including Cambodia’s minister of information, (3) Phnom Penh Post’s editor in chief Kay Kimsong, (4) my notes made from my notebook paper, (5) other panelists including Pen Samithy, Pen Bonar and Kevin Doyle and (6) finally my picture printed and displayed at Himawari Hotel
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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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