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Happy New Year from cambopedia editor

I wish you a happy new year ??????????????????????? ?????? Les deseo un feliz año nuevo ???????????? Je vous souhaite une bonne et heureuse année ??? ?? ??? ??? ??? ?? ????? ??? Chúc các b?n m?t n?m m?i h?nh phúc ? ?? ? ?? ??? ????? ?????????????????????????? Vi auguro un felice anno nuovo ??? ???????...

Exhibitions: Meul Khniom and Neak Mean thmey

To start this new year, the Centre Culturel Français du Cambodge invite you to attend the opening of two exhibitions on Thursday, Jan 6 at 7PM. Meul khniom (Look at me) by Thang Sothea a young architect and self-taught artist, invites you to discover his second painting exhibition and to follow the progress of his...

For geeks and nerd in Phnom Penh

It’s as if there is a place for computer geeks and nerds to hang out not in a bar for beers. HackerSpace Phnom Penh has just been established: We’ve been talking about this for a long time,but we’re finally here. Cambodia now has its very own HackerSpace and it’s our hope that it’s a place...

US$1040000 for Phnom Penh streets’ signage

The Phnom Penh Post’s Buth Reaksmey Kongkea reported that Phnom Penh is currently home to more than 260,000 families. And soon every family would be required to pay US$4 each to cover the costs of labelled numbers, made of aluminum, for their houses. The overall cost is approximately US$1040000. A Chinese company, Chung Hong, has...

Cosy Coundown

Cosy Coundown at Yisang Chaktomuk

Yumi, a Japanese Bistro in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Naomi Lindt wrote on the New York Times: Mr. von Hofmannsthal opened Yumi in November 2009, turning a garage into a sleek, ambient bistro with recessed lighting, entered through a leafy terrace edged in funky fortified vines. “We let the ingredients speak for themselves,” Mr. von Hofmannsthal said of the recipes that he and his...

The Beleaguered Cambodians: book review

Margo Picken wrote: More than thirty years after an estimated two million people died at the hands of Pol Pot’s regime of Democratic Kampuchea, trials of senior Khmer Rouge leaders and those most responsible for the deaths are at last taking place in Cambodia. On July 26, the first to be tried, Kaing Guek Eav,...

Java Café & Gallery presents two exhibition openings for the New Year!

• Stolen Narratives by Chath Piersath at the Main Gallery (1st fl) • Know-it-All by William Graef at the Lounge Gallery (ground fl) • Opening 6 – 9pm Thursday, January 6, 2010 • Showing January 6 – 30, 2011 Java Café & Gallery 56 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Stolen Narratives Chath PierSath (Cambodia) Chath...

“LADIES NIGHT” with DJ Gang & DJ Blue!

The riverhouse lounge presents… “ladies night” with dj gang & dj blue!!! All ladies get 1 free cosmopolitan shot till midnight + every group of 5 ladies or more get 1 free carafe of blue frozen margarita!!! Dj’s gang & blue are in the mix…smashin up the best in hip-hop & all the other tracks...

Cambodian Space Project’s performance this week

Cambodian Space Project is to play at La Croisette tonight at 8pm today to preview their as yet unreleased debut album. Then they play Equinox tomorrow night.

Book launch: To Cambodia with love

It’s booked, it’s official, the “To Cambodia With Love” book launch will be held at Monument Books, Norodom Boulevard, Phnom Penh at 6pm on Thursday 13th January 2011. “To Cambodia with love” will be on sale at Monument from…TOMORROW. Yes, tomorrow. So get along and buy a loved one a Christmas gift to cherish.

Man sent to jail after sharing website material

December 20, 2010 The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) condemns the groundless conviction of United Nations’ World Food Program national staff Seng Kunnaka by the Phnom Penh court on Sunday morning, December 20, 2010. Seng Kunnaka was arrested on Friday before noon by the Russei Keo district police. The...