Below are some photos of today activities in preparing for the upcoming event, BarCamp Phnom Penh [3].
Cheers,
[slideshow] by: Dara Saoyuth 24/09/2010Tag - Asia
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
For official Website of BarCamp Phnom Penh [3], Click Here
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by: Dara Saoyuth 24/09/2010A 50-year-old British man has been arrested for a second time in Cambodia on suspicion of sexually abusing underage girls, one as young as 11, police said on Monday.
Michael Julian Leach, from London, was arrested at a guesthouse near Phnom Penh on Sunday, said Keo Thea, chief of the capital’s anti-human-trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
“Police had followed him from Phnom Penh because we knew in advance that he would go to find children in Kandal province,” he told AFP.
Leach, in Cambodia as a tourist, was being held for allegedly soliciting sex from two girls aged 11 and 13, Keo Thea said, adding that three Cambodian people were also arrested for procuring the girls.
Leach was first arrested in Cambodia 2005 – when he was working as a doctor at a children’s organisation – for allegedly having sex with three underage girls, police said.
He was freed after the court dropped charges against him, citing a lack of evidence.
Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-paedophilia push in 2003 in a bid to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
by: Dara Saoyuth Edited by: Mr. Suy Se, Cambodian news correspondent for AFP, and AFP editors This article is under AFP copyright06/09/2010
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.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08EBWQLzyU&fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1]For official website of Burma VJ movie, Click Here
By: Dara Saoyuth 01/09/2010Walking 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
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by: Dara Saoyuth 28/08/201013/08/2010, Phnom Penh – It’s about 12:30pm after I’ve finished my lonely lunch. Don’t wanna rush back to the office, so I decided to call 3 of my friends (Tivea from the Phnom Penh Post, Makara and Pheaktra from the Economic Magazine) to leave their offices to ride around the city. Thanks them to have spent their time enjoying a trip under a cloudy sky together. Let’s see photos we get from the trip. Thanks Tivea for shooting those wonderful photos for me while I’m riding…Cheers,[slideshow]
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