PHNOM PENH: 1st November 2007 --
Social communication students from Don Bosco Sihanoukville visited The
Cambodian Daily,The Mirror and Globe Magazine in
the capital on October
30,
three of the most important of the print media in Cambodia. The boys,
who are
starting a two year program in social communication with subjects like
journalism, television, radio, Internet and social work, had the
opportunity to talk to "real" journalists and ask questions such as how
they get information, the risks of being a journalist, and many others.
The
visits to a newspaper and a magazine kept the attention of the boys
who noticed the big differences between the two print media: "While the
newspaper has to say what is happening now, the magazine has more time
to develop stories. Nobody buys yesterday's paper, but you can
keep a magazine and read it in the coming months", said Tassilo
Brinzer, the German Editor in Chief of Globe, a Cambodian
English Magazine. "Be honest, trustworthy and accurate", said Kevin
Doyle, Editor in Chief of The Cambodian Daily, one of
the most popular English newspapers in Cambodia. Doyle, an Irishman,
worked as
a volunteer for the Don Bosco Foundation in Cambodia before he went to
Dublin to study journalism and returned to work for
Cambodia. "When I was here during the 1990's there was little
information about what was happening in the world; Cambodians knew
very little about international news... so we produced this newspaper
so
Cambodians could be well informed about that", the journalist said. Open Institutions, on the other hand, is an
organization for
the
development of Free and Open Source Software for Cambodians in the
promotion of
the
Khmer language through the Internet, computers and E-Learning. Javier
Solá,
the Spanish Co-Director of Khmer Software Initiative, welcomed the
boys and showed them how Khmer Websites are being developed in
Cambodia today, and what E-Learning is, so farmers and people from
villages
can study without coming to the cities. He explained the use of Khmer
OS Fonts
so
Cambodians do not need to switch to English to access the Internet or
just use a computer. The organisation donated the package of Khmer Free
Software to the
section and promised to send an
instructor soon to Don Bosco Sihanoukville. _________________ AustraLasia is an
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