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BarCamp Phnom Penh [3] coming up tomorrow

September 24, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
Inform, LIVE Blogging

After spending about one month meeting with organizing members, BarCamp Phnom Penh [3] will be hosted its first day by tomorrow, Saturday, September 25, 2010 and will be finished on Sunday.

The two-day event will be started from 8o’clock in the morning and finished at 5:15 in the afternoon. Everyone can join this event for free. To take the most from Barcamp, you should prepared yourself with ideas, topics, laptop, electricity extension (optional), your NAME CARD and other things in order to share with other barcampers.

I’m sure that all of you will get a lot from this event since there will be around 90 topics this year and there will be two panel discussions: “The future of Cambodia software industry – Putting your power of intelligence and creativity to work” & “Tech Startup and IT Business in Cambodia”. Other benefits are:

  • Networking
  • Photo contest and creative logo contest with prizes
  • Free cool Barcamp T-shirts (first in first served)
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Free coke or water with sandwiches (limit)
  • Get give-away stuffs for free
  • Lucky Draw
  • Games
  • And more…

So hope to see all of you tomorrow at University of Puthisastra (UP), Phnom Penh…Please see the below map in case you need:

BarCamp Phnom Penh 2010 Venue / by: Barcamp

BarCamp Phnom Penh 2010 Venue / by: Barcamp

For official Website of BarCamp Phnom Penh [3], Click Here
For another article related to BarCamp Phnom Penh [3], Click Here
by: Dara Saoyuth
24/09/2010

NOKIA Concert

September 19, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
Inform, LIVE Blogging, Technology
1 Comment

This Sunday 19th, I was invited and given two tickets to join the Nokia Concert performed by Cambodian Top Singers including Khemarak Sereymon and Meas Sok Sophea.

The concert started from 6pm at Olympic stadium and it is the culmination of a campaign ran from August 08 to September 07, 2010. During this period, consumers purchasing Nokia 2220, 2690, 2700, 5130, 5230, 5233, X2, X3, X6 8GB, C6 or E72 receive a free entry ticket coupon for the event and a prize draw ticket giving them a chance to win one of the fabulous prizes – 4 Yamaha Fino 2010 motorbikes, 15 Nokia X3 mobile phones and 20 Nokia headsets.

“ By organizing this Nokia Concert, we are committed to enriching Cambodian consumers’ entertainment experiences. At Nokia, we invest deeply and for the long term in the markets in which we operate.”, said Mesbah Uddin, Business Development Manager for Nokia Cambodia and Laos.

Below are some photos I’ve shot during the concert.

Cheers,

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by: Dara Saoyuth
19/09/2010

Hi Saoyuth,

You are invited to join the Nokia Concert this Sunday 19th, performed by Cambodian Top Singers including Khemarak Sereymon and Meas Sok Sophea, at 6pm at Olympic stadium.

We have two tickets for you (pls contact SeangHeng Lim).

The concert is the culmination of a campaign ran from 08 August to 07 September 2010. During this period, consumers purchasing Nokia 2220, 2690, 2700, 5130, 5230, 5233, X2, X3, X6 8GB, C6 or E72 receive a free entry ticket coupon for the event and a prize draw ticket giving them a chance to win one of the fabulous prizes – 4 Yamaha Fino 2010 motorbikes, 15 Nokia X3 mobile phones and 20 Nokia headsets.

“ By organizing this Nokia Concert, we are committed to enriching Cambodian consumers’ entertainment experiences. At Nokia, we invest deeply and for the long term in the markets in which we operate.”, said Mesbah Uddin, Business Development Manager for Nokia Cambodia and Laos.

Hope to seeing you there.

Regards,

noy

Photo Exhibition on “LIFE ALONG THE RAILS”

September 16, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
Inform, LIVE Blogging, Personal Interest/Experience
Showing his interest, a visitor is looking closely at the photo / by: Dara Saoyuth

Showing his interest, a visitor is looking closely at the photo / by: Dara Saoyuth

Spending almost a whole day in front of my computer screen made me headache, so this evening, I hurried to go out after I was invited by my friends to join a photo exhibition under the theme LIFE ALONG THE RAILS.

As soon as I arrived the place, I saw photos by a 31-year-old Conor Wall from Ireland was printed in large size and stuck to the walls of the room, and many people mostly are foreigners gathered around to see the photos.

Visitors gathering around to see the photos and some are communicating with people who have the same interest / By: Dara Saoyuth

Visitors gathering around to see the photos and some are communicating with people who have the same interest / By: Dara Saoyuth

In the exhibition, there were around 20 photos to be displayed and all of them showed the daily lives of people living along the tracks.

“I first became interested in the lives of people living along the railway tracks two years ago when I used to walk along the rails in Boeung Kok. I took photos of locals there, going back again and again to shoot more and return prints to those in the pictures. I never really had a plan to publish or exhibit those shots. I was just doing it because I enjoyed it,” said Cornor Wall, who first came to Cambodia in 2004.

Who know the purpose of showing these photos?

Actually, I don’t have answer to the question, but I think that he wants us, especially human right activists to pay more attention on people over there since the government is working on the reconstruction of the railway tracks. More people might face eviction from their home, so on the railway, we won’t be able to see vendors selling or children playing on it anymore…

To know more about Conor Wall and his Photography and Story Portfolio, check his website by CLICKING HERE
by: Dara Saoyuth
16/09/2010

Motor Cycling in the City (part II)

September 2, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
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This is the second time of our traveling, which is usually started after lunch time and often finished around 2pm. Members in the group are the same (Tivea, Makara, Pheaktra, and Me), and our goal is not different. We all want to meet each other and find some new places or interesting scenes together because during our intern period, it’s hard for us to meet since we all work in different organizations.

Today, we drive along river side and cross Chroy Changva Bridge to shoot some photos at the other side of the bridge called Trey Makhang. Some photos from the trip are posted  below for all my visitors. Cheers,

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Related Story: Motor Cycling in the City (Part I)
by: Dara Saoyuth
02/09/2010

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

September 1, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
Inform, Personal Interest/Experience

Tonight, I am very lucky to have watched “Burma VJ” from the start till the end of the screening time at Meta House.  This is a documentary film which you should not miss if you are interested in journalistic work.

The film shows a group of young video journalists who try to bring news about the protesting in Burma in 2007 to the outside world. For them, capturing news out to the world is more important than their own safety because sometimes they have been arrested by the police officers that they don’t want journalist to broadcast news about the protesting. Some parts of the film was shot on hand-held cameras and the footage was smuggled out of the country mainly by internet and was later broadcast back to Burma and the world via satellite.

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For official website of Burma VJ movie, Click Here
By: Dara Saoyuth
01/09/2010

First Barcamp III Volunteers Meeting

August 28, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
Hot news, Inform

Barcamp III started it’s first meeting with volunteers this afternoon since 3pm until 5pm. This first two hours meeting cannot enable all volunteers from various backgrounds to know each other well, but at least all of them know their positions and know who will be the leaders of their teams.

The best event can never be the best if it is lacked of good preparation, so hopefully it is not too late for Barcamp III since we have decided to start our first meeting from now on in order to discuss about the two day events which will be held from 25th to 26th September, 2010.

Barcamp III will be celebrated in the campus of University of Puthisastra (UP) after it was held at Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC) in 2008 and at Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC) in 2009.

For more information, please visit BarCamp Phnom Penh website by Clicking Here
by: Dara Saoyuth
28/08/2010

Surprising Trip to “Phnom Penh Evolution”

August 28, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
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Walking about five minutes through a narrow street surrounded by old tall buildings and some small shops, we (Me and two other friends) started thinking that it wasn’t the place where our friend recommended us to go. Lots of eyes from some strange people standing on the sides of the road were staring on us like we were aliens from mysterious world and this made us more inconvenient in walking through.We felt more strange after we had arrived the spot because everything around us were not mentioned in our friend’s description and even the stairs connected from one floor to another were wet so that we had to be careful as we walked to the upper floors.

For me, it is hard to imagine that a lot of wonderful photos were showed in a small room in the second floor of an anarchy building, but it did. Actually, in a new painted room on that floor, there was 10 people inside already and there was a screening of some photos that will be showed in the upcoming photography exhibition at Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center. We are lucky to have chance watching the photos before someone else and learning some techniques of shooting photos from those photographers.

“Phnom Penh Evolution” is the photography exhibition on the ongoing transformation of Phnom Penh. All photos were shot by Cambodian photographers who have strong interest in social changing though some of them don’t have a modern camera to shoot it.

Below are the summaries of what each person have done (Taken from a poster given during the screening this afternoon):

WALKING ON GOLDEN LAND, by: TITH Narith

… In 1979, Borei Kela was the former place where sportsmen lived; it was where people came to stay and build small huts that were affordable to live in. they started their living by growing vegetables and feeling fish, and hence, buildings were built in accordance with the development of the country…

DOUBLE CITY, by: PRUM Seila

… In the early 2000s, Phnom Penh became a booming city where the price of property sky rocketed. Hundreds of flats were built, and as a result, the city dwellers had to adjust to a new lifestyle. Now, Phnom Penh has become a city within an old one…

WRAPPED FUTURE, by: LIM Sokchanlina

… The memory of one particular place becomes surrounded by developing areas marked by the boards. A few persons know, but most of the people do not know exactly what will happen here. For myself, I am wondering too. Will there be a skyscraper? A park? Or a private area? Worry is mix with appreciation of what will happen to that particular area…

ALIGNED CUTS, by: PHA Lina

… Phnom Penh is the heart of Cambodia. This city became a paradise for me since I saw it for the first time, 18 years ago. I was choosing the subject concern “Phnom Penh’s street” so that I could focus on taking photos of the city’s streets…

The Photo Exhibition on Phnom Penh Evolution will open on Thursday, September 2nd 2010, at 6:30pm at Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
For Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center website Click Here
For more information about the exhibition Click Here
by: Dara Saoyuth
28/08/2010

Flash Flood Warning

August 24, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
Inform
Map of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia / Source: Wikipedia

Map of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia / Source: Wikipedia

Dear my visitors,

I just recieved a mail from one of DMC students about disaster in Cambodia.

Below is the original content in my inbox:  So pls everyone be careful and stay prepared with the disaster and inform to your relatives who live in province, epecially the family living along the Mekong river including Svay Rieng, Prey Veng, Kandal, Kampong cham, Kratie, Steoung Treng,,,,,….and ones living along Tonle Sap river…

Stay alert and prepared…..

Best regards,

To read the formal statement, go to the website of Mekong River Commission by clicking here

Posted by: Dara Saoyuth

24/08/2010

My first article at AFP

August 20, 2010
Dara Saoyuth
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Cellphones help Cambodian students — to cheat is my first article to have released by Agence France-Presse (AFP), where I have spent my intern period. Though there are only a few people with me everyday here, I feel warm and I know that I have learnt a lot from them, especially about journalistic works. He (my editor) showed me techniqes of interviewing different sources for different stories and I always observe the way he interview people both on phone and face to face interview. Amazingly, he always be able to interview all kind of sources.

For my first article, I’d like to thank to Patrick Falby, the former AFP bureau chief for in Cambodia, that he accepted my story idea in the first day I came here. I also thank to Mr. Suy Se (I usally call bong Se since he’s still young), an AFP correspondent in Cambodia, who help me in editing and giving lots of comment about this story. Moreover, thank to Mr. Tang Chhin Sothy (I also call him bong Sothy because he’s still young), a professional photographer here, for shooting wonderful photos to suit with my article.

I am happy to know that some media organization have posted my article. To all my beloved readers who always support my blog, all of you can see the story by clicking on the link below: 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100819/tc_afp/cambodiaeducationcorruptiontechnology

Dara Saoyuth

20/08/2010