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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.

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, [...]

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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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 [...]

Different point of views of 3G

vutha — Mon, 29 May 2006 08:23:57 +0000

Many different point of views are reacting to the ban of 3G mobile phone usage, proposed by senor government officials’ wives last week. This idea were agreed by prime minister. High technology has negative impact on Khmer culture and Society. So that, opinions have been published on the Cambodia Daily on May, 29 2006 [...]