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Trip to tourism site in Stung Treng province

vutha — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:18:06 +0000

It is late a little bit to tell you about my first journey during Khmer New Year festival this year. Normally, during Khmer festivals, I always have visited my parents living in Memot district’s one of villages every year. This year, I and my family visited eco-tourism site in Stung Treng province in [...]

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 [...]

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.

One day [...]

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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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, [...]

Angkor is the best World Heritage Site

vutha — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:31:30 +0000

As I remembered, I visited Angkor Wat in Siem Reap province at least four or five times until now but I really plan to visit it many time in the near future with my families. Siem Reap is the main tourism site in Cambodia where is attracting domestic and foreign tourists by Angkor [...]

Tourist resort in Kampi

vutha — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:53:11 +0000

During the Chinese New Year this year, I and my family visited natural resort, Kampi, in Kratie province. There are a crowd of domestic tourists flooding into the resort. Many local travelers from different provinces visited here during public holiday, especially Khmer New Year and other events.

Kampi is the kind of natural [...]

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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Cambodia made new tourism marketing

vutha — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:40:37 +0000

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 [...]

UNESCO has obligation to preserve temple

vutha — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:23:58 +0000

Following the clashes between Cambodian-Thai troops near Preah Vihear temple on October 15 by leaving three Cambodian and one Thai troop dead and more injured, the ancient Preah Vihear temple had been damaged by rocket during skirmish.

Meanwhile, Cambodia complained to UNESCO about the damage of a staircase and a sculpture done by [...]

Not see groom but white screen

vutha — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:19:24 +0000

That is the second time that I met and saw the wedding ceremony in which the groom was absent on the day of marriage celebration. In the last few months, I wrote blog post on Wedding Ceremony without Groom which the Cambodian-American groom missed being in his special day. And I posted [...]

Preah Vihear belongs to Cambodia, not Thailand

vutha — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:43:10 +0000

The controversial conflict over Preah Vihear temple between Cambodia and Thailand was resolved, with Thai government agreeing to back Cambodiaâ€™s application for the historic border temple to be listed as a World Heritage Site. International Court of Justice ruled the temple belonging to Cambodia on June 15 1962.

I strongly support [...]

Khmer Wedding Ceremony

vutha — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:21:21 +0000

A Cambodian-American groom and bride are holding hands in wedding hall in restaurant in Phnom Penh. Many questions were raised that why Khmer men love seeking Khmer girls in Cambodia? By the way, some people held fake wedding ceremony in the way to live abroad. Some complained that it is hard to live abroad because [...]

Khmer Instrument: â€œChapei Dong Vengâ€

vutha — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:27:22 +0000

The â€œChapeiâ€ is two stringed musical instrument that is plucked with the fingers in a manner similar to playing a guitar and is bringing to Cambodian audiences tunes that have not been played since the 1970s. By the way, this music is a more ancient art- a haunting style once heard within the temple [...]

Apsara Authority appeals to vote online for Angkor Wat

vutha — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:23:22 +0000

Recently, the Apsara Authority issued press release in an attempt to appeal to all Cambodian people inside and outside country to vote online on website www.new7wonders.com in support of Angkor Temple becoming one of the new seven wonder of the world. In the release wrote â€œFor the sake of the supreme [...]