Mobile in Khmer, Cambodia Language

by: Cheng Lita ( My Phone )

Finally, the last few years; Cambodia has the mobile phone in its language for the people. We Cambodians are welcome the phone for years. At the time that the investors see the huge market in country. However, it might not help because most of that mobile is very possible in Khmer has the reasonable price with a limited function between 20 – 150 USD. The Khmer mobile to not appear in Khmer, no much entertainment, less function, and it is just a phone to talk. If we look on the price, I do not see any value for Cambodian young people because they exactly want something cool than this kind of mobile. Yet, the expensive mobile that they can appear in multi-language choice could not be in Khmer. I hope to see more development in the country, so we will see iphone in Khmer. Even we hope Microsoft in Khmer language. Wait to SEE!

Nokia N8 and C7 Launch

Phnom Penh: Nokia N8 and C7 that officially announced its appearance in Cambodia market since Thursday, 28 October. The whole country is available for the two N series smart-phone. The two latest N8 and C7 are a powerful combination of internet, video, photos, and music with Symbian operating according Nokia.

William Hamilton-Whyte give remark during the Nokia N8 and C7 Launch

William Hamilton-Whyte, General Manager of Nokia Indochina acknowledged that the new Nokia N8 and C7 will bring the people more value. “We understand the mobile phone customer’s needs in Cambodia and we aim to bring the latest innovation and technology to them. The launch of N8 and C7 devices today allows Nokia to deliver greater value and relevance towards the hi-end segment of the Cambodian customers.”

As the worldwide Nokia, it is about to bring more lifestyle for people in Cambodia and all over the world. William added that “Our commitment is to bring real value and relevance in all ot the markets where Nokia is present. This remains the goal and the promise of the Nokia brand that is to connect people in newer and better ways.”

According to Nokia the Nokia N8 has been designed with a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. Additionally, the Nokia N8 offers the ability to make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, you can enjoy HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. Not just a phone. N8 enables access to Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment; Paramount and National Geographic. You can update your status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar. Nokia N8 is a 3G phone which is available in five colors such as dark grey, silver white, green; blue and orange.
Available from November 2010 at a retailed price of US$500.

Nokia N8 Launch

The Nokia C7 is a beautifully crafted smartphone with excellent social networking and sharing capability. The 3.5 inch full-touch AMOLED display is ideal for getting live updates from Facebook and Twitter directly to the home screen via the dedicated Social Client. It also enables easy messaging through many popular email accounts including Ovi, as well as quick access to the latest apps from Ovi Store, millions of tracks through Ovi Music and free voiceguided navigation with Ovi Maps. The Nokia C7 will be available in black, metal and brown at an estimated retail price of US$450 plus.

Nokia C7 Launch in Phnom Penh

Mohammed (Md.) Mesbahuddin, Business Development Manager for Nokia Cambodia and Laos stated that “Cambodian market is on the move with 9 active telecommunications providers. Nokia N8 & C7 are the first Nokia smart-phone based on the Symbian^3 software, and we believe it is a great devices for people in Cambodia who want to create amazing content, connect to their favorite social networks and be entertained with the latest on demand Web TV program and Ovi Store apps,”

Nokia, is the only first mobile possible in Cambodia since late 1990s. Moreover, Nokia try to have a very convenience for its customer with a free website of everything, music, game, etc. Cambodian use Nokia almost everywhere in the country, they use the cheapest Nokia which it is just a phone to call in and out. However, besides that market, Nokia try to have more technology mobile for young Cambodia while the HTC and iPhone, smart-phone series is very competition nowadays.
Not only a phone to talk, but every single person likes to have a phone which has every function in it; especially, people now would like a touch phone.

Holding a Nokia C7

Law Education CD room free sent to Urbun Citizen

Recently, Cambodia lawer unit coperated with United Nation, Human Right Unit; had produced a pocket of Cambodia law education in CD room to the citizen for free. This activity is suppected to improve the justice issue in Cambodia. People in remote have very few knowledge about law, so when they have problem to go for justice, they did not, and they feel to waste money on justice in Cambodia.
Eventhough, the CD room is for free to people, but expert said they will not matter because the law is so complicated to understand, they did not believe the lack-educated person will understand the track. Added that the law program appear on TV or Radio is much more better to improve the law education for those who have lack of education.

The Ministry of Justice, located in Phnom Penh

RFI, Radio France Internation missed one night on air!

I am a fan of Radio France Internation (RFI). I and lots of people thought that RFI is the best news radio program in Cambodian language in the kingdom through many of them. But I could not hear the program yesterday 13th October 2010, the FM 102 said the staffs on the protest, so the program could not broadcast tonight.
Recently, a France newspaper, Comboge Newspaper; the only newspaper in France; had closed due to the lack of fanancial.

However, tonight it was broadcasting. And, it was not talking about the reason why it closed for one day.

Radio France Internation in Cambodian Language
Webside: http://www.khmer.rfi.fr/

Three killed in the Heavy Rain, disaster managment is still limited in Cambodia

According Radio France International in Cambodian language, three dead during the heavy from 10th. However, the expert said the big storm rain will stop at 13th. The rain which is harmful to 13 provinces already in Cambodia. Expert said that there would be another heavy rain from 14th to 18th on the area and the area near the sea.

I think the national department of disaster is not so active in spread the information to people in the province, or remote area. Even, people in city could not know how the rain is. So the disaster management in Cambodia is still very limited. Many people did not know before that the rain will come. The government should have inform the citizens before the harmful thing happens.

A schoolgirl carry her bike from school to home

Three-day raining in Cambodia

A woman cooking at her kitchen while it is flooding

Phnom Penh – After the raining for three days from 10th to 12th October 2010 in the whole country, the rain leads to flooding in several provinces in Cambodia, Siem Reap; 14 house collapsed, 4 people injured of the collapsing and school forced to stop due to the flood, Pursat; the strong rain from Acadom mountain, Kampong Speu; villagers staying on the water and rice field was full of water. A strong storm in Sihanouk province on 10th that is still losing three tourism ships and fisherman ships. Expert say the rain will continue untill 13th of October.
Phnom Penh which is a city of flooding everywhere after the rain. I do not know if the rain continue, will the city will in the real flood or not.

The continuing rain was not stated a reason yet for the non-stop rain. Everybody are worry and still being wonder what is the reason of the rain.

Three Hot Spots to Get Free INTERNET

Access to the Internet is a must for university students and young professionals alike. While there is always the option of going to an Internet shop to do your online research, communicate or play games, a growing number of students are going to coffee houses and cafés to get on the information superhighway. You can get a fast connection and a cup of coffee for about the same price as you would pay to use the many Web shops that dot the city (as long as you drink your coffee really slowly). Here are our choices for the three best Wi-Fi spots in Phnom Penh.

Royal Coffee:
Besides its super-convenient location for students at Royal University of Phnom Penh, Royal Coffee has a lot of things to keep customers coming back. Any customer who orders a drink or food can get a slip of paper with the online password and unlimited access to the 1GB connection. Drinks cost around US$1, and there is no limit to the amount of time you can spend on the net. Nov Savavery, the operations manager of Royal Coffee, says that the broadband is large enough that even when the cafe is filled with students, the connection remains fast. There is a steady flow of students throughout the day, so if you get bored with talking to your friends online, there is sure to be someone there who you can talk to in person.

ICafe:
The Internet policy at ICafe is the same as Royal Coffee’s – when you buy a drink, you get Internet access, but the price and the speed are different. A cup of coffee only costs $0.75, but in return you get a much slower Internet connection.
ICafe manager Sokhem said that because they have just recently opened, the connection is only 128MB, but that as more people come to the cafe wanting to use the Internet, they will expand the width of their broadband. “Customers can still download files and watch movies,” Sokhem said. If you want to save some money and you aren’t in any rush, ICafe is the place for you.

Café Sentiment:
For about $1, customers can get both a drink and free access to Wi-Fi service. “Here, customers will get a very fast Wi-Fi with 1GB, if they order a drink or food in the shop,” said Tiv Chhun, the general Manager of Café Sentiment.

3 HOT SPOTS to use the Internet
Check out these coffee houses for yourself:
ICafé: No 701, Kampuchea Krom (St. 128)
Royal Coffee: No 128, Russian Blvd, in front of RUPP
Sentiment: No 64, Kampuchea Krom (St. 128), Corner of Monivong Blvd and
No 307-309, Street 271, Sovanna Shopping Mall, Phnom Penh

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Tiny Toones – the first Hip Hop center for Cambodia

Tiny Toones is the first Hip Hop center for Cambodia. Tiny Toones provides education’s elements of Hip Hop including break-dancing, rapping, and DJing. Moreover, teaching to produce own music. Also, Tiny Toones is like a public school, here providing Khmer and English knowledge to children, Computer skill, education on HIV/AIDS and drug prevention on outreach sites. Tiny Toones Cambodia is about to provide a safe, good environment for youth who are at risk in social problems, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse, to challenge their energy and creativity into arts and education, empowering them to build self-confident, for better employment opportunity, and feeling to hit their dream.

Nowadays, Tiny Toones has hundreds of Children who staying and studying at the center located in Phnom Penh, and thousands more on the outreach sites.
Romi Grossberg, the Programs Manager in Tiny Toones Center said: “We have thousands of outreach students, and we also hundreds of student in the town (Phnom Penh).”

KK, real name is Tuy Sobil, is a Cambodia born in Thai refugee and moved to live in American in 1981, California; is the founder of Tiny Toones Cambodia. KK started break-dancing in his early eight in Long Beach, California. He then united with Tiny Toones who he won a great battle, and they united as a Ground Force Crew. Later, Ground Force Crew and KK’s life took into a wrong road, they involved with drugs, gangs, and crimes. KK was in and out jail for several times. And finally, in November 2004, KK was deported to Cambodia. When he released in Phnom Penh, and he just learn his language again, Khmer (Cambodian language) as he was in the United States several years. Throughout he had enrolled many workshops and classes in HIV education, drug abuse, peer-to-peer gang and his imprisonment experience, he got a job as a health and drug harm reduction workers in Phnom Penh. Due to he is a good break-dancing, a few kids approached him to be their dancer teacher, and he spent times to taught those kid at his free-times.

Then, 2008 when gaining financial supports from Mcknight Foundation of Minneapoils, the East Asiatic Company Charitable Fund of Copenhagen, and Arts Network Asia of Singapore, KK now is able to devote himself full-time to Tiny Toones. The health educational training he receive is became the foundation of the Tiny Toones, via his past mistake and old stories of growing up on the street of Long Beach attracts thousands of at-risk youth into Tiny Toones.

Most teenagers of the Tiny Toones Center are from grassroots level. Most of them come from broken families, have sibling that are active in drug abuser, or parents who works as sex-workers due to their humble economic status, they cannot afford to further education, and half of this children dropping one by one from school to work in factories in order to support their family, they are facing laboring in unhealthy condition. However, Tiny Toones welcome everyone to this center.
Romi Grossberg added that: “We welcome everybody to study in Tiny Toones Center.”

Children from the center now, most of them working as staff, a teacher the new kids, and some of them have their jobs out-side the center.

Once a month on Thursday night at Pon Toon Night Club, the Tiny Toones Hip Hop performance is available over there, the exciting night of Hip Hop from Tiny Toones. And also, once of the golden opportunity Tiny Toones group might join internation performance at oversea. In next step, they will perform a ten days in Singapore accompany KK also.
Through the name of Tiny Toones Center is popular for its Hip Hop dancing, yet it is about to give education of HIV/AIDS and drug to children, and giving the way to children to have better life via better career. “Well, we are not only teaching the kids, the break-dancing but also teaching them having responsibility, breaking them to be confident, making them strong enough to survive and work to have family and do what they want to be.”

RiverSide in Phnom Penh

Coming to Phnoom Penh, just do not forget to hung around a long the RiverSide, Phnom Penh walk night road. Enjoy walking, enjoy drinking and eating snack a long the popular road you walking.

However, do not be hesitated to see local people dancing because people here thinking that dacing is a kind of aerobic excercising. You can really be able to watch even camer this actities to bring your family, this amazing video.

Attention!!!! You want to enjoy pubbing!!!??? Do you??? Sure, you can pubbing or clubbing, enjoy dancing until midnight of the darkness. A lot of clubs and pubs nearer the RiverSide, I am sure. Moreover, hotels are restaurants also available along the road you walking passed, so be welled looking to avoid using a bad hotel or eating a bad restaurant.

Enjoy your TIMEs but do NOT forget about your SECURITY Please!!!!

LEt’s Voice to the GOVERNMENT

The radio programme Talkback: Our life, Our society, on Radio National Kampuchea (RNK) that facilitates open conversation
between government officials, nongovernmental organisations, citizens, businessmen and anyone who wants to call in to debate equality, good governance and development. The programme has been an ongoing effort by RNK, with support from AusAID, to engage people from all walks of life in conversations about how to improve their country. Initially the program was part of the AusAID sponsored Radio Development Assistance Project (RDAP). But beginning last year it began to receive funding from Demand For Good Governance (DFGG), an AusAID and World Bank initiative through ABC Radio International that will continue until 2013. The success of the programme over the past five years encouraged AusAID and the World Bank to contribute additional funds, said Rath Nheata, the team leader of DFGG. “In the new project, the focus is on good governance, natural resource management, national financial management, exploitation, as well as centralisation and decentralisation.” In the past five years, “Talkback has been getting better and better. First it was an hour a week, then three hours a week, now five hours a week from Monday to Friday 11:00am to 12:00am,” said Tan Yan, co-director of RNK. While the change in the show’s focus is more in line with the goals and values of DFGG, it has not been generating the same level of audience feedback. “During the first project, RDAP, there were more than 100 callers within an hour of the programme, whereas now we have only 40 or 50,” said Lim Sok Khon, team leader for Talkback Our life, Our society, who suggested that the drop might be due to a lack of understanding about good governance and related topics. However, many listeners say they feel that Talkback is very valuable. “Talkback is a bridge between people and vernment. The need of citizens cannot reach the government all at once, but through Talkback we can work together with the government,” said a student at Chamroen University of Technology in Phnom Penh. One of the things that is keeping Talkback from reaching its full potential is the fact that the format requires transparency from the government, and the Cambodian government has long been hesitant to talk about issues of public importance. “Talkback is still very challenging,” said Rath Nheata. “We cannot invite the highranking government officials here to debate about equality
with our listeners.” Lim Sok Khon added: “When a topic is relevant to the national economy, we cannot bring on the right person from the government because they are afraid to say things that would shed a negative light on the government.”
While Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith acknowledges that the government is not perfect and that feedback is
needed in order to straighten out in a good way. But according to Rath Nheata, “the practice of having [balanced input]
is still limited.”

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