PISETHCompetition Outline: SEADocs – The Southeast Asian Student Documentary Award is a competition to encourage the art of documentary filmmaking in the region as a platform to engage with pressing social and environmental issues. The 2011 competition invites students aged 18 – 28 in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to submit a portfolio [...]
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FRIDAY, 30 APRIL 2010 THA PISETH AND ELLIE DYER Koh Kong The Thai/Cambodia border crossing near Koh Kong city. Many Cambodians choose to enter Thailand illegally to seek work and often become victims of human trafficking. Above Prom Norada, 52, is a motobike taxi driver who has been trained to identify potential victims of human [...]
HUNTING THE POACHER WHO EMPERIL CAMBODIA’S ENDANGERED WILDLIFE
Posted: July 4, 2011 in UncategorizedELLIE DYER AND THA PISETH Koh Kong Province STRIDING through the remote jungle of the Cardamom Mountains, surrounded by gun-toting Cambodian military policemen, former paratrooper and professional kickboxer Franck Morin stops dead. The 40-year-old French wildlife ranger has spotted what he came to seek out and destroy: 21 illegal hunting snares intended to entrap rare [...]
TRADING HER NOTEPAD FOR A CAMERA BY THA PISETH and KEO KOUNILA (The Phnom Penh Post: Wednesday, 11 November) Paon Phuong Bopha explains how she became Cambodia’s most recognised female director Paon Phuong Bopha is passionate about developing Cambodian cinema and to educate youths on social and political issues. If asked to name the most famous filmmaker [...]
THE PHNOM PENH POST FRIDAY, 18 JUNE 2010 15:03 MAY TITTHARA COMMUNE officials in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak lake area are intentionally inflating the number of families affected by a massive development project in order to pocket compensation payments, Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema alleged Thursday. In a meeting with provincial governors addressing controversial guidelines [...]
BY THA PISETH Former International Co-prosecutor Robert Petit wanted to do investigation finding six other Khmer Rouge leaders for the process of the trial, but the process has been done unsuccessfully. There are several interferences that the purpose of the international Co-prosecutor to investigate was done unsuccessfully. Political Interference? Cambodian leader expressed his disagreement of [...]
BY LACH VANNAK AND THA PISETH A Khmer proverb – “If the culture dies out, so does the nation and if the culture spreads out, the nation also grows ” is often used to teach all Cambodian people to love, maintain and spread their culture so that their nation will be heard and seen by [...]
BY THA PISETH In the early 1990s, Norbert Klein was the Internet in Cambodia. “To send e-mails, users had to call my phone and connect to modem,” he explained to Lift. Despite the relatively high price for these transactions – US$5 a minute – Klein says that his phone was ringing off the hook with [...]
BY THA PISETH Cambodian National Volleyball League (Disable) (CNVLD) is preparing for a competition that will hold on December 24, 2009 in India in order to achieve fame for Cambodia. CNVLD hold a national competition on 24 to 25 July, 2009 to seek for outstanding volleyball team players who are good enough to be the [...]
Phnom Penh, 23 May- Despite apparently slow progress in the trial of Kaing Guech Eav, survivors of S-21 prison say the proceeding remain important to them and the participation of foreigners helps make fair trial standards. “Only the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) can seek for fairness for me as well as other survivors,” said Van [...]
