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Rainy Season Starts…

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Schoolchildren in the rain… I am supposed to do a story on this. But when it rains the translator I need is not there. And when the translator is there it doesn’t rain… I should start betting like the Chinese on the time the rain is going to fall.

‘Quest for Land’ tested

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

‘Quest for Land‘ was tested… and approved by Gareth Penpraze. Robert Starkweather will upload to Apple tonight… We are close, we are very close… Here below are the first three iPads which ran ‘Quest for Land’… And that is WORLDWIDE…

Into IT

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

Spent an hour or so at the IT fair on Koh Pich island. Catching up, catching up with the rest of the world… That’s what it’s a lot about in Cambodia…

Boeung Kak Lake Courting

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Boeung Kak Lake residents have been demonstrating out on the streets for most of this week. 6 of them received a summons to appear in front of the Municipal Court. A good occasion to target that building for a demonstration.

Boeung Kak Unchained

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Some 250 Boeung Kak Lake residents, 5 of them chained together, and accompanied by a number of residents from the evicted Borei Keila community, walked all the way from the lake to the Japanese Embassy via the US Embassy and the Senate to deliver yet another petition requesting that the authorities clearly mark the 12,44 [...]

A Time for Madison dancing?

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Right… So some 1000 kids broke the Madison Dance world record in front of Wat Botum last saturday. Great. They are happy. They are proud that Cambodians can achieve such an important feat which I am sure (am I?) will put their country on the front page of the News. And why not? It is [...]

Guinea Pig 2

Friday, April 27th, 2012

This time Chris Kelly has been going through the moves: swiping, tapping and scrolling through ‘Quest for Land‘ like a pro for his first confrontation with an iPad. Chris is a documentary filmmaker and he has been working on the same issues about land grabbings here in Cambodia for the last 3 years. We often [...]

The Guinea Pigs

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

‘Quest for Land’ is running on my iPad. I’m picking out people to show it to so they can test it before it will be submitted to Apple for approval. If you’re in Phnom Penh let me know and we can arrange a testing session.