ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Not global Great Depression

April 19th, 2008

According to an online English dictionary, ‘depression’ refers to the condition of feeling sad or despondent. Psychologically it leads to reduction in activity or force. In economic, however, there is a way to express a period of drastic decline: Great Depression.
It took all my fully-charged battery cellphone to read a feature article (8 web pages), [...]

Happy Khmer New Year

April 11th, 2008

Happy Khmer New Year [Sousdey Chhnam Thmey!]

The rub and the pencil

April 2nd, 2008

Months ago, at a book launch I had a brief conversation with Norbert Klein, an editor of Cambodia’s Mirror. As an affiliated member of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), he’s also a key player in contributing to Information and Communication Technologies in Cambodia, where he resided since 1990. Norbert also assisted [...]