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), [...]

To Be Dot Asia Pioneers?

July 15th, 2007

An email announcement to Global Voices Author list from Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online co-founder and Assistant Professor at University of Hong Kong:
I’ve been informed by Edmon Chung, who runs a new top-level domain, “.asia,” that they are launching an innovative new program to ensure that great domain names go to people in Asia who [...]

Man’s Move

June 24th, 2007

The new Asia Prime Minister?
“Getting involved in the football club in England or in Premier League will allow another window open for the younger generation in Asia,” said former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a press conference of his £81.6m takeover bid for Manchester City. This is one of the most rhetorical statements I’ve [...]

Picture I Photographed in Radio Free Asia Website

June 9th, 2007

A folk at Radio Free Asia (aka RFA) is kind enough to feature one of the pictures I shot in Ratanakiri (with attribution the work of mine) in its news article.
Also, a news editor at South Eastern Globe, Cambodia’s English Magazine, contacted me to obtain information about some pictures I took in Kampong Cham province; [...]

Search ‘Musings from Cambodia’

May 1st, 2007

I’ve been experimenting with Google Co-op, a platform that enables users to search my site and my other writings on Global Voices Online. Integrated at the bottom of this site, the box is a customized search engine.
My next step is to have the result page displayed as part of this site, rather than on a [...]