ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Three is Company

January 21st, 2007

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954); first of three volumes in The [...]

Meme: More but not much

January 20th, 2007

Bangladeshi-born Rezwan, now in Germany, puts me on his plate by pretending it’s a game of playing or not. Ignore it, I would be someone arrogant. However, Rezwan, whom I met in Delhi, India, in December last year was demanded to do the same by David Sasaki, a gentleman I met in London in December [...]

No $100 Laptop to Cambodia?

January 12th, 2007

It’s cheaper than a 2 GB iPod Nano of Apple, one of the most popular music players. No hard drive, but with four USB ports available for external storage such as flash drives, the $100 laptop with Wi-Fi capability of the One Laptop Per Child project will change the way we educate children in the [...]

In which digital citizens talk

January 6th, 2007

No suit and no tie — very ordinarily informal. About a hundred digital citizens traveled from every corner of the planet to Delhi, India, with only a few things, computer laptops and digital cameras, for Global Voices 2006 Summit.
In T-shirt and jeans, the ladies and gentlemen had some interesting discussions, what they have done to [...]

The new urban Cambodian woman: Keo Kalyan

January 2nd, 2007

22-year-old Keo Kalyan is a hopeful ambassador of Cambodia’s newest generation of leaders. In a country where only one girl attends secondary school for every three boys, Kalyan already holds bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Tharum Bun sat down with the young scholar to find out more about [...]