Cambodian Wedding

By: Chan Boran.

Since for a long time Khmer wedding was celebrated through our tradition that our ancestor has remained. Anyway, this implementation is still practiced until now. At the following is all the action of Khmer wedding that was divided into three part.

Part 1 Preliminary Discussion for a wedding

When the man had saw one woman then he loved her and want her to be his future wife.   After then the man’s side seeks the assistant of a respected lady to approach  the parents of the girl to obtain many personal detail of the girl including her birthday. Then this the lady seeks the help of the Lok Achar ( Fortune Teller ) to confirm the suitability of the two in getting married.   This is called Pithy Chechouv in khmer. When it compatible to go a head, a marriage proposal ( pithy sdei dundeung ) is made with the help a negotiator (chhamaha) or an older person. This may be done with one or more visit is made an offering of different gifts shall be sent to the family to establish an excellent and long lasting relationship. Finally ending with a Betel chewing ritual as testimony for an agreement. A negotiator with some followers including a well respected elderly person will assemble some distance from the Bride’s home and the group bearing hand carried gifts placed on trays will arrive before the engagement as well as the wedding ceremony. All this people will participate in the Betel Chewing Ceremony to seat the agreement. During the occasion the Bride’s parents will ask the Groom to stay to serve the negotiator and followers. Read more

2009
06/05
CATEGORY
Khmer Wedding
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Honouring Kampuchea Krom

AROUND 600 monks, opposition politicians and rights activists gathered in Phnom Penh on Thursday to mark the loss of Cambodia’s southern territories – Kampuchea Krom – to Vietnam.

The rally at Wat Botum park celebrating the 60th anniversary of the handover of Kampuchea Krom also aimed to draw attention to the human rights abuses still reportedly suffered by southern Vietnam’s ethnic Khmer residents, known locally as Khmer Krom.

“We are in sorrow. This date represents all our suffering since 1949, when we lost our land to Vietnam. Our rally today sends a message to the young generation of Khmer Krom to remember our sufferings and sacrifices,” said Young Sin, chief of the Khmer Krom monks from Phnom Penh’s Sammaki Raingsei pagoda. Read more

2009
06/05
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National News
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Cambodian Youth and Artists Join Hands in a Concert to Fight Corruption

As part of its ongoing activities to tackle the problem of corruption in Cambodia, the Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption for Equity (MAE) project of Pact Cambodia is staging, in cooperation with the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Against Corruption (CoCSOaC) its first ever Clean Hands Concert to unite youth and artists in the fight against corruption in Cambodia. An estimated 50,000 people attended the event making this the largest anticorruption concert in the world. The event commemorated the 1 year anniversary of the 1 Million Signatures Campaign that MAE initiated in 2008. The 2008 campaign collected 1 million signatures from Cambodians to show their support for the immediate passage of an anti-corruption law. Read more

2009
06/02
CATEGORY
Anti-Corruption
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Corruption Costing up to $500 Million a Year, Official Says

By Bethany Lindsay

Corruption costs Cambodia as much as $500 million each year in lost revenue, US Ambassador Carol Rodley said during a speech at an anti-corruption concert on Saturday at Phnom Penh Olympic Stadium.

In her speech, the ambassador pushed for the Cambodian government to pass long-delayed anti-corruption legislation, which first reached the National Assembly in 1994. She said that such a law could only help the country survive the global economic crisis. Read more

2009
06/02
CATEGORY
Anti-Corruption
National News
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How can creating an organization chart in Microsoft Word 2003?

To day my friend asks me. How can creating an organization chart in Microsoft Word 2003? I do not understand too. But I try to search in google. wow… I can see, and understanding about it.

Everyone can see images and description below:

Please go to on the Insert menu, point to picture, and then click Organization Chart.

Now you can see like those pictured

You can add more on button that you want create more on it. Please click like those pictured below:

2009
06/01
CATEGORY
New Ideas
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Neay Krin’s wedding

I would like to show everyone. These some of Mr. Neay Krin’s images. Krin mean in Khmer (short man) Name Neay Krin is not real his name, they are just call, because his high is short.

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2009
06/01
CATEGORY
Entertainment
Khmer Wedding
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Ministers confront Myanmar

SOUTHEAST Asian ministers Wednesday called out Myanmar over its treatment of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a senior regional minister said  at the start of a meeting of ASEAN and EU foreign ministers at Chaktomuk Conference Hall.

The confrontation came as  activists made fresh demands for the release of the democracy icon, whose trial for violating the conditions of her house arrest has sparked international outrage. Read more

2009
05/29
CATEGORY
National News
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Poverty and home in Cambodia.

Source: Phnom Penh Post.

Homeless people, like those pictured. He and his son sleep like this. Some  homeless people   in Cambodia sleep any place that they can. Such as on the road, public garden etc…Cambodian people are own land, but some of them they do not have land to live.

2009
05/28
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National News
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Smoking and Health

Cigarette is very popular in some countries, many people love to smoke cigarettes. Some of them do not know how cigarette affect their lives. Actually, it cause the serious problem to smoker and non-smoker around them. With this concept, many non-smoker said “Smoking should be banned”. So, how to deal with this debate. In my opinion, smoking should be banned. There are many reason that smoking should be banned.

The first main reason is smoking cause cancer to death. In the cigarette consists of nicotine, poisonous substance, that cause human have lung cancer and finally death. In the first time that they smoke, they will realize that there is no problem about their health because it just the starting period. After and after, they will notice that they have coughing.

The second reason is affecting people around them. Almost all of smokers have their own families and they live closely together. When they absorb the smoke everyday they will get sick to even they do not smoke. This problem is very popular in poor family.

Finally, smoking is wasting of money. Actually, smoking is absorb only smoking not physical food. After they absorb, they release out and get nothing. From day to day, they spend lots of money to cigarette and get nothing, but only disease.

As we have previously mentioned, smoking has many disadvantages to both smokers and non smokers such as lung cancer, waste money and other. So, if smoking is banned, the people will stay in comfort.

2009
02/03
CATEGORY
Health
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