Author: wheninphnompenh
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5 awesome facts that you never knew about K.E Cafe
By Chav An Chin Armed with a coffee in hand, there’s nothing you can’t conquer. K.E Cafe and Restaurant is somewhere between very new and popular if you have been observing the café shop industry in Phnom Penh. For most, K.E cafe would be described as one of the outstanding local coffee shops out there…
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8 best things about Salmon House
What’s the best restaurant in Phnom Penh that offers the most fresh salmon fish with reasonable prices? This is most likely the question asked by the local residents and travellers who miss the juicy, moist, and fresh salmon while constantly on the move. When in Phnom Penh writers sat down with Vutha Mao and his…
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10 things you should know about Seametrey School & Leisure Center
Seametrey leisure center (se’aa’metrey) is a hideaway about 30 kilometres, south of Phnom Penh (one hour’s drive and 3 hours’ bike ride). It is also 20 kilometres from the roundable of Takmao town in Kandal province. Located in Kandal Stueng district in Kandal province and bordering Tonle Bati lake, Seametrey Children’s Village was set up in 2003 by Ms. Muoy…
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Wikipedia Meetup Hits Town
The third Wikipedia meet-up will be organized this Saturday at 2pm at Emerald Hub at Phnom Penh International University (tentative). Greater Mekong Research Centre led byExecutive Director Anirudh Singh Bhati is behind this event. Since this will be about the English Wikipedia and how to create English Wikipedia articles, this event requires participants to have an Intermediate…
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Tech Ladies Bring Silicon Valley to Phnom Penh
Author: Chav An Chin Cambodians in Tech, just as it sounds, aims to increase the number of Cambodians in the tech industry through community, education, and inspiration. Thought it was set up in the Silicon Valley in the US, it is also a community which encourages a Cambodian in Tech to meet another Cambodian in Tech. Besides its…
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This viral Cambodian video changes your mind about owning a latrine!
If you watch Cambodia television, you might have come across this TV ad. The overall reaction to it is mixed. Some think that it is a disgusting ad because it invokes strong emotions towards our private part of our lives: of course, defecation. However, the main idea of the ad campaign based on the whole video…
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Maya Gilliss-Chapman on connecting Phnom Penh with Silicon Valley
Maya Gilliss-Chapman, a Cambodian-born American, came to our attention when she recently hosted a hackathon and challenge “Silicon Valley to Phnom Penh” in which more than 10 groups of young Cambodians in Phnom Penh participated by coming up with the best innovative idea. Back in Silicon Valley, the organization she founded a few years ago, Cambodians in Tech, aims at…
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Amazing things to know before you grab “A PROPER WOMAN”
To start with, the publishing industry in Cambodia has not taken off yet. Many Cambodians still do not read a lot of books, but that does not mean that nobody reads at all. The explosion of the popularity of social media saw many Cambodians jump to Facebook and other social media applications to communicate while the…
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Try a 48-hour weekend getaway in Kampot, Cambodia
How is New Year 2017 going for you? This might be a question we might not realize we ask ourselves pretty often . The New Year and the Chinese New Year have just flown by, and the Khmer New Year in April does not come fast enough. However, we believe that it is important to balance…
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Largest board game CAFE in Phnom Penh
A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or “board”, according to a set of rules. Some games are based on pure strategy, but many contain an element of chance; and some are purely chance, with no element of skill. Now, all the self-proclaimed geeks and nerds can…