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Traditional Khmer Wedding Ceremony

vutha — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:11:43 +0000

Traditional Cambodian attitudes to marriage are changing, as most people get married nowadays at a much later age than their parents and grandparents, except in the more remote rural areas. Many young women are postponing marriage in favor of a career. It is no longer unusual to meet bright and beautiful women who [...]

New theatrical play “Daddy’s Fatherland”

vutha — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:35:27 +0000

Former student of Royal University of Fine Arts, Im Kim Sour, whose Japanese name is Midori, formed new comedy troupe “Nouveau Comedy Theatre”. She produced new play “Daddy’s Fatherland”

“I created this group (Nouveau Comedy Theatre) as I saw that theatrical plays, especially Khmer traditional speaking dramas, have [...]

Two TV Channels raised nearly US$1.5 million for victims during water festival

vutha — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:50:04 +0000

By Friday evening, two local TV stations- Bayon and CTN – formed fund raising in order to help family members of the dead and the injured during the water festival, raising nearly US$1.5 million. Bayon TV had raised more than US$1.08 million and CTN had raised more than US$500,000.

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Rumor and superstition erupted after tragic incident during water festival

vutha — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:22:14 +0000

One day came after tragic incident occurred in the last day of water festival and left hundreds of revelers dead and injured on Koh Pich suspension bridge at the area of leisure where has been developing and became new-eye-catching destination of Cambodians across the nation. Cambodians throughout the nation felt that it was [...]

Feeling socked with thousands of death during water festival

vutha — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:24:25 +0000

I feel very shocked with thousands of Cambodian people’s death in stampede on Koh Pich Island Bridge (Diamond Island) during the final day of water festival ceremony (November 22, 2010) in Phnom Penh. At around 1:20am, my young brother called me about this tragic incident happening in Koh Pich Island while I was sleeping.

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Water Festival 2010 in Cambodia

vutha — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:55:49 +0000

The Kingdom of Cambodia organizes the Water Festival 2010 (Bon Om Tok) from November 20-22 by expecting 5 million guests to join the event. The government displayed more than 10,000 security forces in order to maintain people’s security. There are 420 boats joining boat contests and nearly 28,000 racers. Most of Cambodians [...]

Be careful of your kids and valuable belongs during water festival

vutha — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:40:10 +0000

There are a lot of people flocking from different places throughout Cambodia in order to celebrate annual water festival in Phnom Penh. And there are also different kinds of people in the period of this time. I noticed that happy goers always lost their valuable jewelry and money and sometimes their kids [...]

Waiting for the Water Festival 2010

vutha — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:05:51 +0000

After the national election 1993, Cambodia has restarted to celebrate the Water Festival Ceremony during 3 days annually taking place in October or November. And Most of Cambodian people flock from different provinces and cities into Phnom Penh capital in order to watch boat racings on Mekong River.

In the history, [...]

Service fee for taxi and bus doubles

vutha — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:06:46 +0000

It is notice that during the big festivals such as Khmer New Year and P’Chum Ben, most of Cambodians living in Phnom Penh always flood to countryside to meet their families and relatives. Therefore, the demand for taxi and bus service is higher than the normal day causing its price to increase doubles.

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Photo on my blog spotted on Newspapers

vutha — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:53:30 +0000

I felt surprised when I read Newspaper Reaksmey Kampuchear its title “Marriage Life…” yesterday and then I saw the photo of 6 Australian guys on its front page that strongly attracted readers’ eyes. This photo I posted on my blog on August 10 with title “Australian guys wear Khmer tradition wedding,” [...]

Happey New Year 2009

vutha — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:28:52 +0000

The old year will be replaced with the new year (the Year of Cow) approaching next week from 14 to 16 April. Most of Cambodian people who are working for private sector and NGOs staff will not work for a week in order to celebrate Khmer Year. Most of them like to visit countryside or [...]

Valentine’s Day by the numbers

vutha — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:18:19 +0000

New research on young Cambodian attitudes towards Valentine’s Day and sexual relationships has found that more than half the interviewees questioned were happy to engage in sexual intercourse. In fact, the research shows that many middleclass Cambodians are using Valentine’s Day not to celebrate their love but as a catalyst for sex.

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Reahu website blocked by government

vutha — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:40:07 +0000

Cambodian government sent letter to local Internet Service Providers to block access to controversial website â€œReahuâ€ last week. People within Cambodia cannot access this site after minister of women raged the pictures from site featuring bare-breasted illustration of Apsara dancers and one woman in the clothing of a Khmer Rouge cadre.

Minister of [...]

Negative and positive comments on the half-naked Apsara

vutha — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:43:35 +0000

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 governmentâ€™s leaders criticized strongly the impact of the bare-breasted illustration. I now just republish the comments from my blog readers as following:

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Celebration of Lunar New Year 2009

vutha — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:36:21 +0000

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 [...]

Khmer Poem still alive for Cambodian youths

vutha — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:33:14 +0000

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 [...]