Archive for August, 2006
Photo: Foreign Tourists in Phnom Penh
Mototaxi drivers are surrounding foreign tourists in order to convine them to ride their transportation at the reverbank of Mekong in Phnom Penh Capital, Cambodia.
Political Professor fired from University
According the Daily’s publication, political philosophy teacher, Tieng Narith, 30, was dismissed from Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University on August 25, 2006 for teaching his own textbook without permission.
Textbook’s content is allegedly strongly criticizing senior government officials including the murder of popular dancer and movie actress Piseth Peaklica, the 1997 grenade attack outside the National [...]
What happens after raining?
After heavily raining, there are the difficulties travelling on the public streets in Phnom Penh because of flooded streets and traffic jam. Flooding is cause by drainage stystem full with wasted material threw by residents. On the other hand, new buildings are booming throughout the capital but the developers are not likely to care about [...]
Hot Line for emergency assistance
Recently, Phnom Penh Municipality created emergency telephone line and letter box for recieving complaints and information from people and then find solution for them. There are four hot lines for serving public service including: 012 379 147, 023 430 727, 011 375 367 and 016 398 607.
Initiative is to fight corrupt offials and handle problem [...]
Help CIC Webportal up
Leaving the project of Community Information Center Webportal Cambodia (CIC webportal) of Open Forum of Cambodia for 2 months after working contract were terminated. On August 28, I came back to Open Forum to help new director about CIC Portal in an attemt to make it up. News and information were not regularly updated since [...]
BBU Virus spreads cross Phnom Penh
According to the Cambodia Daily, this is ever first-virus made by Cambodian student between 2004 and 2005. And it infected computers throughout Phnom Penh and some provinces. It’s name is BBU Virus, which stands for Building Bright University.
BBU virus was invented by Ngov Seng Vannak from Kampong Chhnang province. Nowadays, he is studying Computer Science [...]