ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

I Will Always Remember It

June 29th, 2005

Back in 1988 I was a young boy and so enthusiastic to go to primary school as older ones. That year I entered Chey Chum Neah primary school, Victory in English, where a number of the pupils were selected to be supported by Aspeca, a French not-for-profit organization. I was one among them. I was [...]

The Flute Player

June 27th, 2005

“If the Khmer Rouge had not taken over Cambodian in 1975, Arn Chorn-Pond probably would have carried on his family’s legacy and become an opera star. Instead, at the age of nine Arn was thrust into the darkness of Cambodia’s ghastly Killing Fields. For four long years Arn struggled to stay alive amidst torture, murder, [...]

Cambodian Culture, Over Two Decades Later

June 21st, 2005

In these recent years the countrymen are too good at reproducing rather than producing and inventing. Once I read a French published newspaper, Khmer edition, Cambodge Soire. It is said that it takes up a year or so to compose new songs and release a new album in western countries. It is far different from [...]

Dozens of foreign children held hostage in Cambodia

June 16th, 2005

A 3-year-old Canadian boy was shot dead June 16 when four masked men held 28 kindergarten students and five teachers hostage for seven hours at the Siem Reap International School.
Have your says:
Interesting places where local people and foreigners living in Cambodia have their say on the recent tragedy.

Sweet Cucumber
BBC News: Your Reaction

After the tragedy:

SIEM REAP, [...]

Campaigning for better health in Cambodia

June 14th, 2005

“Taste of Life is the major new TV drama spearheading the World Service Trust’s mass media health campaign in Cambodia.
Set in ‘Friendship Hospital’ the series follows the stories of the young doctors and nurses as they confront the health matters thrown up in their working lives.

The media campaign integrates vital HIV/AIDS information with other [...]