Stories about Cambodia from September, 2005
Cambodia: What, no laptops?
Beth Kanter asks what happened to a much-vaunted scheme to provide hand-cranking laptops to children in Third World countries, and whether Cambodians will benefit from it.
Blogging in the Cambodian Language
NIDA, National Information Communications Technology Development Authority, is the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. The Cambodian Government's ICT Policy encourages the development and deployment of Open Source software. The implementation partner is Khmer Open Source Project, an Open Source Software Localization project to customize Khmer-Language versions of...
Cambodio: New King online
ThaRum reports that Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has followed his father's example and set up his own Web site.
Cambodia: Imported labor
Just how much, wonders Phnom Penh-based ThaRum, does Cambodia need expats?
Cambodia: Katrina Aid
ThaRum and Cambodia4Kids both point out that even one of the poorest nations on earth has offered money for Katrina victims.
Cambodia: Land crisis
There is a major land crisis in Cambodia, a leading United Nations human rights official said. Rich and powerful interests were grabbing land, leaving thousands of people dispossessed.
Cambodia: Khlog & Clog
Drupal, an open source content management system, will power the KhmerOS project and blogging tool that enables Cambodians to blog in own Khmer language based-weblog. It's going to be Khlog and Clog – the former stands for Khmer Blog, weblog in Khmer language; and the latter for Cambodia blog, weblog...
