Chak Sopheap and “clogging”: “in the digital age, freedom of speech should be guaranteed”

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Clogger Chak Sopheap (Photo: Oso)
Click here to read Sopheap's ifocus blog

02-03-2009
By Corinne Callebaut
Ka-set

In 2008, KI-Media posted an article reporting about Chak Sopheap. To this article, an anonymous reader posted the following "warning/threat": "Would you like to lengthen your life expectancy? Stay away from politics. Would you like to shorten your life span? Keep practicing politics." Nevertheless, we are very glad to see Sopheap's blog thriving and that she did not back down from any intimidation. Thank you Sopheap for continuing to share your opinion! - KI-Media team

Twenty-four years old and born in the Kampong Cham province, Chak Sopheap was awarded a scholarship program to pursue a Master’s degree in International Relations, specialising in Peace relations, at the International University of Japan. Live from the land of the rising sun, she runs a blog on which she shares, without any taboo or waffling, her committed impressions on the new environment that surrounds her, and her homeland, Cambodia. Unabashed and free, she is now among the most popular “cloggers” on the Web and in the Cambodian media. Interview with Chak Sopheap... via the Internet, of course.