ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Pagoda in Cambodia

February 24th, 2006

One day I went to my favorite Internet cafe on Monyvong Boulevard. There, for the second time, I met foreign weblogger Steve Goodman. I read most weblogs in Cambodian blogosphere, including his. One of the main things I find it interesting to follow up is his adventure to make photo documentation of pagoda, Watt in [...]

The Memory of Cambodia

February 19th, 2006

A feature article ‘The Memory of a Nation’ about renowned filmmaker Rithy Panh who builds a home for Cambodian history was the front-page of the Cambodia Daily in this weekend issue.
Talking to Michelle Vacho and Kuch Naren, the news reporters, Rithy Panh said that the future of a country is not built overnight, as if [...]

Authors of Global Voices Online

February 18th, 2006

Courtesy of Boris Anthony, Global Voices Online web architect
The photo was originally uploaded by Boris, and weblog posted by Ethan Zuckerman.
In September 2005 I joined Global Voices Online, a non-profit global citizens’ media project, as an author. The project is sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard [...]

Angkor Photography Festival

February 15th, 2006

An email from Stuart Isett
Subject: Angkor Photography Festival
Tharum,
The inaugural Angkor Photography Festival was held in October, 2005 in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and was the first of its kind organized in Southeast Asia. The goals of this international annual gathering are both artistic and humanitarian. We’re really hoping Flickr will be a way to make [...]

Cambodia: The Shadow of the Past

February 14th, 2006

In 1970 a boy of ten Nhem En joined Khmer Rouge. He was sent to study photography in China, and six years later became a photographer of death at Tuol-Sleng genocide museum, the site of S-21. He told journalists in 2001 about his past work that “they [the prisoners] always believed that after the Khmer [...]