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Archive for August, 2013

What Are Social Media Good For?

Friday, August 9th, 2013

Well, at least for the following: Some time back I received a message through my Twitter account: “@vinkjohn I’m not sure how much you recall of the Evelio Bonilla Ayala incident as it was 24 years ago, but do you have more pictures” And later on: “@vinkjohn of that incident that are not published on […]

Opposition Party Rally Using Freedom Park…

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

The opposition CNRP (Cambodia National Rescue Party) staged a rally at ‘Freedom Park’ in the aftermath of the contested results of the July 28th parliamentary elections. CNRP President Sam Rainsy and Co-President Kem Sokha (see also here) addressed a crowd of some 3000 to 4000 supporters. The word ‘yuon’ was pronounced quite a few times. […]

Catching Up With The Messiah…

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Sam Rainsy, President of the opposition coalition CNRP (Cambodian National Rescue Party) visited the Boeung Kak Lake community (see here and here). Having spent a few years in self-imposed exile to avoid a jail sentence for having uprooted a border post, Sam Rainsy was, with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s blessing, pardoned by King Sihamoni and […]

Somewhere Else Is Home…

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

The flight is over and the jetlag persists. I hate the travelling part to be somewhere else. Somewhere else is home now. Back in Phnom Penh, time to catch up with what’s up…

The first one was a Kodak Brownie…

Thursday, August 1st, 2013

A last visit to the Atomium, the place where I took my first photographs in 1958 with a Kodak Brownie given to me by my father, and I’m flying back to Phnom Penh today, trying to catch up with post-elections developments there. More on Belgium at these links: here, here, and here. And more recently […]