Archive for January, 2009
Negative and positive comments on the half-naked Apsara
After local newspapers published the photos of half-naked Apsara designed by Reahu (now this website is down), then there are negative and positive points of view about the paintings. But the government’s leaders criticized strongly the impact of the bare-breasted illustration. I now just republish the comments from my blog readers as following:
Khmerbird expressed his [...]
Celebration of Lunar New Year 2009
The year of Ox will be celebrated next week by Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian-Chinese throughout the country. Historically, the linking between the kingdom in Cambodia- Funan, Chenla and Angkor- and China has existed since the beginning of history. According the history, Chinese envoy, Chou Ta-Kuan, visited Angkor Thom in 1296-7.
Decorating their homes with red lanterns, [...]
Stop or continue updating content of anti-corruption website?
So far, the Anti-corruption website created in Khmer and English reached one year under the management of content and technical by Open Forum of Cambodia. This website is ownership by more than 40 local NGOs under funding support from USAID through Pact-corruption. According to the monthly statistics, there are more than 3,000 visitors and 70,000 [...]
Dine out at Soup 69
Normally, a few friends of mine always have spent the evening time to eat soup and drink beer for relaxing stress. Last week, I and other friends, including Australian who is working voluntarily at my workplace, went to have soup at “Soup 69″. The kind of beer we like to drink there is Angkor Beer [...]
Khmer Poem still alive for Cambodian youths
All people always saw and heard the well-know Khmer Scholar, Krom Ngoy (1865-1936), aka “Phirum Ngoy” or “Ngoy the language master”. He usually performed “Chapei” at the various religious ceremonies and festivals by taking his meaningful poetry of form of rhyming “Chapei” songs. His poems are concerned with the moral issues and teach people about [...]
Cambodia made new tourism marketing
In order to attract foreign tourists to visit Cambodia, Cambodia government arranged new tourism marketing by conducting new tourism campaign and slogan “Cambodia, Kingdom of Wonder†which was adverted on international channels such as CNN, international television, and print media, featuring Angkor Wat alongside images of eco-tourism sites, Apsara dancers, beaches and shadow puppets.
Tourism industry [...]