ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Promoting Literacy in Cambodia

October 27th, 2005

Consider a Donation to the Pookai Book Project
The primary mission of the Pookai Book Project is to help the restoration of Cambodia by gathering funds and need-specific books for the Angsoeng Library in rural Takeo province. These donations will promote literacy, accelerate education, speed economic development and empower Cambodians to take their place on the [...]

No SARS, Not Tsunami, but Bird Flu

October 25th, 2005

Cambodia, beyond agriculture sector, also rely greatly on tourism, which is creating business opportunities and jobs to a lot of people. In recent years, the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has reduced number of tourists to Asia. There was no single case reported in Cambodia however. And fortunately we were not victims of [...]

Development of Cambodia Wikipedia

October 20th, 2005

Although we have a resourcefulness of Cambodia Wikipedia in English language, free-content Cambodia encyclopedia, more efforts in further development of Khmer-language of Cambodia Wikipedia is vital. For the time being the comprehensive English version of the encyclopedia has been made available, but there are only 19 articles in the Khmer version. To get involved, please [...]

Who’s behind Khmer-language version of Harry Potter?

October 17th, 2005

Lately a reader has commented on my previous entry about how Khmer-language version of Harry Potter hit the markets in a very affordable price in Cambodia.
…In early 2004, he wrote British author J.K. Rowling urging her to allow a cut-rate, Khmer-language version of Harry Potter. “Children in Cambodia simply haven’t read since the days of [...]

What’s new in Phnom Penh ? Popil PhotoGallery

October 14th, 2005

email from Linda Saphan

What is new in Phnom Penh? Le Popil photography gallery is now open. Stephane Janin is a photograph who came to Cambodia since 1990. He is opening a beautiful space dedicated to photography. If you have time to check it out, it woth it. Look at the attached file for information.
Yours,
Linda

Bonjour,
Quoi de [...]