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Valentine’s Day confused young youths’ mind

vutha — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:22:13 +0000

As I remembered, the celebration of Valentine’s Day has been made since 2000 after the first national election. Young youths always keep this event in their mind and regard it as the special day for their true love. In reality, this event is not Khmer culture. When I was at [...]

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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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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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 [...]

Gov’t officials criticized the half-naked Apsara dancers on Website

vutha — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:36:51 +0000

With publication of half-naked Khmer women dressed in the traditional clothing of Apsara dancers on the local-Khmer newspapers, government officials, political politicians and Cambodian people expressed concerns about the negative impact of the bare-breasted illustration on Cambodian women, culture and the country.

Reahu, owned by Cambodian-American, is the US-based website featuring [...]

Celebrating wedding during rainy season

vutha — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:19:06 +0000

Wedding is one of the most important rituals in Cambodiansâ€™ life. Yesterday, I went to join wedding ceremony of my uncle in rural village in Kompong Cham province. It is now rainy season. According to Khmer custom and tradition, Cambodian people never celebrate marriage during rainy season. At the present time, some families still [...]

Thai troop incursion into Cambodia not obstacle to July election

vutha — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:30:38 +0000

Within more than one week, Thai solders have been invading Cambodian sovereignty and territory at the border-hugged temple, Preah Vihear, since July 15. At the mean time, the general election day will be held on Sunday this week. Most Cambodian people and foreigners in the country and abroad almost forget election issue, by turning [...]

Big concert and rallies celebrated Preah Vihear

vutha — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:47:34 +0000

Yesterday evening, Cambodian Government held big concert with most popular singers and movie stars to sing and performance inside Olympic Stadium, presided over by Sok An, deputy prime minister and Head of Senior Cambodian delegation, in order to celebrate the big victory of Preah Vihear Temple listed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO at [...]

True or False on Preah Vihear

vutha — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:00:25 +0000

The priceless temple, Preah Vihear, which really belong to Cambodia and Cambodian people was listed as World Heritage Site on July 07, 2008 by UNESCO in Canada. At the mean time, all Cambodian people in Phnom Penh, including government and non-governmental institutions have celebrated the big victory.

After the inscription of temples as [...]

Celebration of Preah Vihear listed as Work Heritage Site

vutha — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:29:42 +0000

Yesterday, I joined with all government civil servants, led by Dr.Sorn Samnang President of Royal Academy of Cambodia; celebrating Preah Vihear Temple inscribed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO on July 07, 2008. I am former student from this school and nowadays working there as well. Besides working for government, I am working [...]

Preah Vihear really belongs to Cambodia

vutha — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:21:29 +0000

I really feel happy to get news that Preah Vihear temple has been accepted as World Heritage Site. I got this news when I attended workshop on â€œPolitical forum on Anti-corruption Law.â€ While Ms. Gek Galabru got message from Montreal via her mobile phone and then she announced quickly all participants about [...]

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 [...]

Cambodia is owner of Preah Vihear Temple

vutha — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:38:34 +0000

I got the same message from my friends and co-workers as saying below:

Based on Thai TV, NBT, The main Thai opposition party said that “Preah Vihear Temple is not belong to our Cambodia, they also don’t support our Cambodia to registered Preah Vihear Temple to world heritage and…etc.” do you agreed with [...]

More ways to live in foreign countries

vutha — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:38:57 +0000

For the last few months, the government had shut down the two South Korean companies for operating the match-making business in Cambodia and put a halt on processing the document for marriage of Cambodian women with South Korean by minimizing the exploitation and abuse of human. Why does not the government ban on illegal [...]

Ban on sexy photos on publications

vutha — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:44:37 +0000

Recently, the ministry of information banned the advertisement of photos of men and women in skimpy dressed printed on numerous magazines and tourist guidebooks in an attempt to protect the traditional values. Government said that the skimpy attire will enable tourist to get confused that Cambodia is a target for sex tourism and it [...]

Habit of collecting meal left at wedding party to home

vutha — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:02:39 +0000

Packing soft-drinks, beers in purse or pocket and collecting wedding meals left from wedding celebration are rarely seen in Phnom Penh and provincial towns but these always have sometimes happened in the countryside or remote rural areas in provinces. I always spotted some guests take a can of beer and soft-drink at wedding party [...]