New Training program for Cambodian New Generation

Free Training Blog Conducted by Open Forum of Cambodia, Open Forum of Cambodia (OFC), a leading NGO specialized in information technology and website management, is to play necessary roles in promoting and strengthening people’s share of ideas and expression in democracy process through the high-tech web site development training (Blog Training) for beginner to a professional and will provide the full support for participants, including technical support, free hosting for life (sub domain), free internet access, free of charge training class and awards.

We sent some information to other partners and Universities. This programs is a new program for Cambodian New Generation access own idea and expression process through the high tech website development, Visal Said. He is a training coordinator, Blog Training Project.

The training will cover on: How to create and use Blog; The benefits of Blog in the high-tech globe; How to make money from your Blog; How many people make money from Blog and how they do?; How to use Khmer language in the Blog; How to write down the interesting information into Blog; How to post your idea into Blog and make them much interesting; Writing skill provided by professional information journalist reporter.

CIC webportal Move to new domain

CIC webportal:www.cambodiacic.info
Congratulation for Community Information Webportal Cambodia is reopen but it is change to new address as www.cambodiacic.info

CIC website is the popular Khmer language website and provides Cambodia information to many people such as Democracy, Human Right, Economics, Gender, Education, Health, Agriculture, Environment, Tourist, History, Cultures, Job announcement and Especially Cambodia Hot News.

Access information is the best way for the people could knows about their news countries.

Friend’s Wedding Day

this is me and both kalyan.

That’s a great day for my friend, His names Be Chatra is my former colleague at Open Forum of Cambodia and now he has been working at Open Institute.

On 21st January, i joint Be Chantra’s wedding ceremony with some of my friend, such as tharum, vutha, small kalyan, big kalyan, makara, tacam, sony and Khmer OS team. Thanks Vutha for took my picture, he is my former Project coordinator at Open Forum of Cambodia responsible as CIC Web portal Project Coordinator.

It is nice after we were eating and drinking, we started dancing Khmer traditional dance, Rom vong, Saravan, Maxixoun, Maxixoun dance requested by Kalyan.

Vista/ Vs 2005 Developer Day

Vista/ Vs 2005 Developer Day, January 19th 2007 at Intercontinental Phnom Penh Hotel, I am not a Information Technology developer but i just want to know What’s going on in my country such as Information Technology upgrade.

This event is Vista/ Vs 2005 developer day sponsored by Microsoft; they are introducing about Window Vista.

Some of participants from IT developer of other NGOs, Company and Students... . The second time for Microsoft works directly with Cambodia, first Microsoft donates to ECCC (Khmer Rough Tribunal Project) and second is promoting Window Vista to Cambodia.

Last night meeting with GYC group

Last night for our group, it’s sad and happy night because we started party and travel on the boat. We started it on 6.30pm and our participated from Other NGOs such as staff of YRDP, KHAMRA and our human right workshop group. It’s great we were on the boat and saw some natural city in Phnom Penh at night on the Chaktomouk River, is the streams flow into each other such Mekong River, TonleSap, and TonleBasac, the front of Royal Palace.

The boat on the middle Chaktomouk River, we started eating with break, piece of paper cake ( Baychhav) and drunk a win, coke and fresh water. We are eating and talking as close friendly and after eating we went to dance looks like happy. Other one Delegation from United State shows the dance style as their country Disco Hit Hop. It’s 9.15 pm we got certificate from Ms Navin she is program coordinator of Global Youth Connect (GYC) and Mr. Sokha he is Executive Director of Youth Resource Development Program (YRDP) then we continues our dancing.

It’s terrible we got a new information, some of our group will be get a marriage on the end of this month in Prek Eng District Kandal Province, is Navin and Rattana are marry.

we finish our travel on the boat about 10.00pm, So it’s dark night for cambodian woman difficult to come back home because they worries about their home, Such as their parent will be blame them ( This is khmer traditional).

Khmer Newspapers Editors were arrested

Cambodian newspapers journalist were arrested by police.

The Phnom Penh municipal court will decides the charge of khmer newspaper journalist of attempting to extort money from Ms. Va Srey No, a karaoke actress, by claiming they had a video of her having sex with foreigner.

Last Work Shop with GYC

We start at morning on 8.30 am today was so late time because this day is last day work shop for us. Today we prepared some letter for send to Khmer Rough Trial ( ECCC). We spend a long time for prepared the letter for ECCC until lunch time.

After lunch time we play some game for reduce some tired and relax. We started continues our lesson and talk some problem in society and take a resolved it ( Ex. Land issue, Economic Exploitation, Health Care and Corruption).

That’s great for this work shop because we talk and resolved it and give some comment.

The Finally, it is time for finish the work shop and the give some evaluation about this workshop, so every body have some their impression, like get more knowledge about this work shop and will share this experience to other person, will be keep and touch to each other forever and delegation participant, she said that miss Cambodia participant and cannot forget all every thing in here.

My impression said thanks for facilitator as Navin, Rattana, and Dara to give me a chance to joint with them and cannot forget all every thing with them, delegation participant and Cambodian participant.

Visiting, Toul Slang Museum

Victims Grave in Toul Slang Museum

We started meeting at Toul Slang Museum and Visited at there, we have no guide for introduce us but we try to known some thing from other guide and by our self, read some information about Toul Slang Museum.

Toul Slang Museum is most of the killing center in Khmer Rough Regime, set up a prison to detain individuals accused of opposing ANGKAR, located in Toul Svay Prey Quarter Cham Karmorn District, south of Phnom Penh, covers an area of 600 x 400 meters.

According to documents discovered by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), S-21 was established at Toul Slang in May 1976.

The victims in the prison is were taken from all parts of the country and from all walks of life. They were of difference nationalities and included Vietnamese, Laotians, Thai, Indians, Pakistanis, British, Americans, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians, but the vast majorities were Cambodian. The civilian prisoners composed of workers, farmers, engineers, technicians, intellectuals, professors, teachers, students, and even ministers and diplomats. Moreover, whole families of the prisoners, from the bottom on up, including their newly born babies, were taken there en masse to be exterminated.

After we came back from Toul Slang Museam we had a guest speaker, he came from CJI Local NGOs, his presentation about Khmer Rough Trial Law and then some of the participant asked some question about the law of khmer rough trial and they suggestion to this trial should be a good judge, fair,……..


After lunch time we continues our lesson about the human right and we talk some thing and shared to each others.

Day 1 Work shop with GYC

Our workshop started 3 days full day, on 8 O’clock we start the work shop, all the participated from others state in the United State of America and others Local NGOs such as CCHR,CYA,YRDP, YCC, Open Forum of Cambodia….Our topic is the Human Right.

That’s great this work shop because we discuss to each other about Human Right, The first step we are introduce to our self, where they are come from and school? And then the facilitator of our group give us some document about human right law is fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Right. The other one we give the definition the basic of human right, some example relative with the human right, talk to each other about building a common understanding of human rights.

What’s do you think about Human rights? We separated the word of Human right:
H U M A N R I G H T, Example H: health care…

That’s good for our lunch time, some participants are eating without saying and some others eating and saying about some thing like joking and funny.

After lunch time we continue our lesson about building a common understanding of human rights we give some topic related with human right ( such as violence, economic….) and we are present our short play.

Visiting, Documentation Center of Cambodia

Second meeting with GYC, afternoon at DC-Cam on 04/01/07, we watch the movie about Khmer Rough Regime, the movies show some thing about Khmer Rough activities at S-21 and now they called it that Toul Slang Museum,

The presentation by Mr. Chhang Youk, he is the director of DC-Cam, he explains about his organization what they do? DC-Cam has many document relative with Khmer Rough Regime, and they have a relative with Khmer Rough Tribunal ( ECCC, location in outside country) and other one is the center for researcher about Khmer Rough Regime and all of this is the evidence for Khmer Rough Trial.

And then we visited a round in DC-Cam office, that is the nice place for work because has a fresh air, good environment like near the independent monument, travel place, riverside.

PRESS INVITATION

PRESS INVITATION
Workshop on “Assessment of Decentralized Commune Governance in Cambodia”

Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL) in
collaboration with Khmer Institute for Democracy (KID) and Pact Cambodia
(PACT) has the honor to invite national and international media to make news
coverage over the Workshop on “Assessment of Decentralized Commune
Governance in Cambodia”.

This Workshop is to present the finding of the studies and lessons learned
from activities of civil society organizations concerning to the topic.

Venue : IMPERIAL Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Date : Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Time : From 7:00-11:30 am

For further information, please contact
Tel: 023 884 150 or 012 471 324.

Sincerely yours,

Media Section
COMFREL

Friendly day with Group of GYC (Global Youth Connect)

The first meeting with GYC, they come from others state in The United State. They came here were to change our experience, traditional and culture to each other. It is nice dinner for all together, we met some of delegate from American Student and friendly talking. When we started the eating we show and introduce our self, about name, school....etc.

It is the nice food!!!! We started the small meeting at the Khmer Traditional Restaurant they call Khmer Kitchen, the location in Boeng Keng Kong I Chamkarmon District. We started eating and talk friendly.

The World Bank Group in Cambodia II

by: world bank

The World Bank started operating in Cambodia in 1992 to support the development of the country. The Government has received a total of $659.2 million in loans and grants from IDA, and $99.7 million in grants from Trust Funds. The following sections describe 29 policy studies, as well as 12 projects under implementation that are supported by the the World Bank in Cambodia. The results of 11 projects that have already been implemented are also presented in this brochure. Youth and Small Grants Programs, and the programs implemented by the IFC and the Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF) in Cambodia are also described here.

Worlk Bank Group in Cambodia

By: world bank

World Bank Group in Cambodia working for a Cambodia free of poverty. The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of funding for the developing world. Its primary focus is on helping the poorest people and the poorest countries. It uses its financial resources, its staff, and extensive experience to help developing countries reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve their quality of life.

Small Party

Some of my friends are drinking a khmer wine, they call it “Sra Peang”, we took it from Stung Treng Province is a northern province of Cambodia about 300km from Phnom Penh and 40km south of the Laos border. On Pchum Ben Season we had a small party with the former staff at Cambokids Association, but now they are working in other NGOs or Company. Especially when we had a holiday, we were called to each other to join a small party with all together.

Pchum Benh Season in Cambodia

Pchum Benh ceremony season, pagoda, the name of pagoda is Kien Svay Krao located Kien Svay district. Some cambodian people go to pagoda and prepared food for monks. On other days, some of my friend went to Kien Svay District Kandal Province, in ordered to offer food to the monks on Pchum Benh Season. Kien Svay district is in Kandal Province located east of phnom penh about 15 kilometers, National Road One.

Necessary of playing

The children are playing in the fishing baskets;

the raise water area they are using it for fishing .

they are fishing for cook at the dinner

Cambodia's former king to return

Cambodia's former king, Norodom Sihanouk, is due to return to the country on Friday ( 26-May-2006) after an absence of almost a year.

He has been receiving medical treatment in China, and has also spent time in North Korea.

Primister Supports, Opposition no use 3G

Cambodia says 3G phones spread pornography

Heeding a request from his wife, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday banned the latest generation of mobile phone services in Cambodia to curb the dissemination of pornography.

Bun Rany, along with the wives of several other senior government officials, recently urged Hun Sen to prohibit the use of third-generation, or 3G, phones in the impoverished country because they can be used to spread obscene images.

Royal Ploughing Ceremony

On 16-May-2006, Cambodia's traditional ploughing ceremony took place in a park near the Royal Palace, in the front of Phnom Penh's National Museum (Viel PreahMen) in the presence of King Noromdom Sihamoni