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Tharum Bun

Contributor profile · 36 posts · joined 20 October 2005

Tharum Bun is freelance journalist, blogger, and digital media specialist. Blogging since 2005, he’s been a contributing-writer for Global Voices Online, Asian Correspondent, and several other print publications. His main interests are information and communication technologies for development and online media. Tharum’s base is Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s largest capital city.

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14 February 2006

Cambodia: The Shadow of the Past

Written by Tharum Bun · Cambodia

In 1970 a boy of ten Nhem En joined Khmer Rouge. He was sent to study photography in China, and six years later became a photographer of death at Tuol-Sleng...

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23 January 2006

Around Cambodia with Digital Citizens

Written by Tharum Bun · Cambodia

A blackout in the United States in 2003 made history and news headline, but not at all in Cambodia. In Stung Treng, while composing an email in a community Internet...

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8 January 2006

Development of Information and Communication Technologies in Cambodia

Written by Tharum Bun · East Asia

Since the computer made its debut in Cambodia, using Khmer-language characters has not been easy. Although different Khmer language fonts are available such as: Limon, ABC, Khek, Battambang, ABC-Zero-Space and...

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18 December 2005

Cambodia: Voices from Cambodian blogosphere

Written by Tharum Bun · East Asia

Ministry of Information has ordered all radio and television stations to stop reading news article of print newspapers. This move is considered as an attempt to maintain professional journalism in...

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22 November 2005

Cambodia: Euthanasia Websites, Water Festival, and More

Written by Tharum Bun · East Asia

Euthanasia Websites An American citizen who owned websites advocating ‘euthanasia tourism' in Kampot, a French-era beach town, has been sued by Kampot Province's governor for false information and defamation. “You...

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9 November 2005

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Killers Captured, Khmer-language Software and Phnom Penhers

Written by Tharum Bun · East Asia

Khmer Rouge killers have been captured after three foreign tourists were murdered a decade ago. Tan and Trev wrote that “an Englishman, and Australian and a Frenchman board a train…...

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