Phnom Penh (Cambodia), 23/02/2009. Young Cambodian woman checking her e-mail in an internet café (Photo: Vandy Rattana)02-03-2009
By Corinne Callebaut
Ka-set
They are young, free and feel like talking about anything without any taboo. These young people are Cambodian bloggers, also known as “cloggers”, the way they self-named themselves. Through the medium of a simple keyboard, they write what very few Cambodians can or dare express openly. Contemporary social issues, love, sex, political opinions, forced evictions... Cloggers will tackle any subject, sharing stories and chatting together without measure, making the most of the Internet, that so-called free space, almost exempt of censorship. The government is only slowly starting to take an interest in that space and would like to see it more regulated via a law, currently under preparation. But till then, the Khmer blogosphere, home to and incredible and surprising breeding ground of opinions, keeps organising itself like busy bees.
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7 comments:
Not good, young people should listen more than talk. Otherwise, they ain't learning anything, just like potato diggers oversea.
Well, there is just one simple thing to do really - and that is for you Viet leech, big time suckers to leave KI-Media and don't ever come back for more like you Viet leech have been doing, understood?
And you Viet leech can guess who I am...
thanks the people who invented the computer e.g. blog, etc... well, it's easy to write in an instant with a click of a button. glad that cambodia was given this excess to the world via the use of the internet. god bless cambodia.
of course, anywhere you look, you're going to have the elderly who are against new way as they were raised differently back in the olden days. however, with all due respect for the elderly, we, young generation do love the good, modern way of life, the conveniences, etc... god bless all.
Indeed, the young generation loves to have fun with internet and become a dumb slave as their occupation, just like Ah potato diggers oversea.
the problem with just listening is that you become more dumb like the previous writer on this post. But if you think and do for yourself you become dependent and able to think beyond the scope of just listening and doing. If someone told you to jump off the bridge with no water underneath would you jump? Blogging is a good way for young people to express themselves and have their voices heard.
Yeah, but then how come you people is nothing more than slave in the US where there is lot of PC in internet?
The Asian have a saying, when you listen, you learn something new, but when you talk, you only know what you already know. And young people doesn't know much.
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