Honouring the Cambodian garment factory worker…
Here, here and a multimedia here…
CAMBODIA. Chom Chao (Phnom Penh). 14/01/2011: Garment factory workers returning home in trucks after their shift at the Canadia Industrial Park factories. They are charged up to $10/month for trips up to 2 hours or 60km. They typically leave at 5:00am and return home at 6:00 or 8:00pm.
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 hectares promised to them for an on-site development.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/04/2012: Boeung Kak Lake residents in front of Psah Thmey, yet again demonstrating through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver yet another petition to the Senate and the US and Japanese embassies, requesting that the 12,44 hectares of land promised by the government for an on-site development be outlined properly.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/04/2012: Boeung Kak Lake residents preparing yet again to demonstrate through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver yet another petition to the Senate and the US and Japanese embassies, requesting that the 12,44 hectares of land promised by the government for an on-site development be outlined properly.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/04/2012: Boeung Kak Lake residents preparing yet again to demonstrate through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver yet another petition to the Senate and the US and Japanese embassies, requesting that the 12,44 hectares of land promised by the government for an on-site development be outlined properly.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/04/2012: Boeung Kak Lake residents on Monivong Boulevard yet again demonstrating through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver yet another petition to the Senate and the US and Japanese embassies, requesting that the 12,44 hectares of land promised by the government for an on-site development be outlined properly.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/04/2012: Boeung Kak Lake residents in front of the US Embassy yet again demonstrating through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver yet another petition to the Senate and the US and Japanese embassies, requesting that the 12,44 hectares of land promised by the government for an on-site development be outlined properly.
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 just that at the same time they were dancing, back in Kandal province, a Buddhist ceremony was held for the body of Chut Wutty, an environment activist. Mr. Chut was killed the day before with bullets fired by the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces while investigating illegal logging in Koh Kong province, together with two reporters from the Cambodia Daily.
There is something very wrong in the Kingdom of Wonder.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/04/2012: 'Looy9', a BBC fund program for the youth, organises a Madison dance to break the Guiness World Record detained by a French group of 450.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/04/2012: Onlookers when 'Looy9', a BBC fund program for the youth, organises a Madison dance to break the Guiness World Record detained by a French group of 450.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/04/2012: 'Looy9', a BBC fund program for the youth, organises a Madison dance to break the Guiness World Record detained by a French group of 450.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/04/2012: 'Looy9', a BBC fund program for the youth, organises a Madison dance to break the Guiness World Record detained by a French group of 450.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/04/2012: Taking souvenir photographs. 'Looy9', a BBC fund program for the youth, organises a Madison dance to break the Guiness World Record detained by a French group of 450.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 28/04/2012: Taking souvenir photographs. 'Looy9', a BBC fund program for the youth, organises a Madison dance to break the Guiness World Record detained by a French group of 450.
I continue showing around the ‘Quest for Land’ for iPad before submitting it to Apple. People never having used an iPad don’t seem to be lost in the navigation. We might have scored some good points here…
Guinea Pig Nr 5: François was an editor at the now defunct ‘Cambodge Soir’, left for France and came back, working for ‘Courrier International’.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 27/04/2012: François Gerles, Journalist at 'Courrier International', testing 'Quest for Land' on my iPad.
Guinea Pig Nr 1: Mathieu definitely was the first one to see ‘Quest for Land’ besides those having worked on it. And appropriately so. LICADHO is a real terrain NGO involved in land issues in Cambodia.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 6/04/2012: Mathieu Pellerin from LICADHO testing 'Quest for Land' on the iPad.
Ben Woods swiping and tapping ‘Quest for Land‘ on my iPad… Ben takes photographs too. He saw a lot of Reds (Thai Reds) the previous W.E. in Siem Reap for the Cambodia Daily.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 27/04/2012: Ben Woods, Journalist at the Cambodia Daily, testing 'Quest for Land' on my iPad at Java café.
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 met out there… He is now looking for funds to wrap up the editing. His blog is here (I have contributed a few posts there as well).
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 26/04/2012: Chris Kelly, Documentary Filmmaker, author of 'The Cause of Progress', testing 'Quest for Land' on my iPad.
‘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.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 22/04/2012: Robert Carmichael, writer, journalist and contributor to the iApp, testing the first release of 'Quest for Land' on my iPad.
The Bokor Mountain invasion story hit the Cambodia Daily last W.E.
Some magazines still publish pictures of mine. That’s a relief…
