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After years of a politically charged debate on how Cambodian schools should or should not handle the tragic past when the Khmer Rouge governed the nation, the Education Ministry has decided to move forward with an extensive program of teaching about what happened. The Ministry has authorized the Documentation Center of Cambodia to train 1,000 [...]

  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A French lawyer known for his provocative style and infamous clients has taken center stage at the tribunal for Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge leaders, challenging the judges and adding to the woes of an already troubled court. The aggressive stance taken by Jacques Verges at an appeal by former Khmer Rouge [...]

Date 2 Apr 2008 - 4 Apr 2008 Place Prasat Phanom Rung,  Burirum ProvinceA splash of sunlight penetrating an ancient temple cloister signals a distinctive celebration at Prasat Phanom Rung. Knowing the exact moment to witness a spectacular sunrise through the doorway of an ancient Hindu temple requires a detailed calculation. The most auspicious day is 3 April; the time, 0602.32 at sunrise, as the amber sun is perfectly aligned in the centre of the main doorway to a temple standing on a former volcanic mountain in northeast Thailand. Actually, the sun rays pass straight through 15  perfectly aligned doorways of Prasat Phanom Rung, a revered and ancient Hindu monastery, just four times a year -– two  sets of sunrises, in April and September, and two sets

TAKMAO District, Cambodia - As a gentle breeze wafts through the open space of the Khmer Arts Theater 15 kilometers south of Phnom Penh, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro glides effortlessly through a group of about 20 dancers. Drifting from one dancer to the next, the teacher softly adjusts an elbow, cocks a wrist and bends fingers, as [...]

Hi everyone! If you are looking for Cambodian blogger friends then here it is the list where you can easily find them on the blogger cyberspace at Bloggers from KH or you can click on the screenshot provided.At this time there are 2400 bloggers registered and use the blogger where hosts on blogspot. On the zone you may find your blogger friends and read their blog by just visiting them from their profile page.I hope you enjoy the Cambodia Friends on the Blogger's Directory from KH.However, i haven't find mine on the list yet sine i have very little time to go now. I hope to get back and check for my profile very soon in the next few days. Have fun and enjoy your time friends. I got to go now. Talk more later.

First the lost city of Johor, now the lost city of Pahang? The existence of seven pyramid-like hills near Lake Chini is believed to be the remains of a lost city - but could this city be part of the... Visit SEAArch to read the full story, and other stories about the archaeology of Southeast Asia.

I never try to search on the web search engines with my native language until today, then i found something amazing happened. Do you know what is that about? You probably knew what i am going to say here according to the screenshot provide on the left hand side where wrap by text paragraph.The story came like this. After a few search this morning i tried with khmer Unicode font to google on www.google.com.kh where i most of the time use google to google for information that i am interested to know or learn about.As it is said, Google Cambodia domain - www.google.com.kh - was launched [late in November 2006], according to an online article Google sends New Year gift to Cambodia written by Global Voices.That is good new for our cambodian student and those who want to search for information related by khmer language. Now, then you can try to make it by your own then you will surely see. According to the screenshot on the above, the result shown with my keyword search "human". That's some

Why do i choose the title of this post as "khmer adsense expert blogs"? Well, first thing that flow in my point of view is because i have seen it a lot over the cyberspace with khmer blogs guys that they embedded the adsense code to their blog as well as websites.That is very interesting to learn about and i also discovered that some khmer bloggers make real money out of this adsense program because they have real unique visitors to their blogs everyday.That's good new for blog publishers that google adsense offered a free of charge membership to join with their program. But publishers have to be a ware of the adsense policy once they have a blog or website to submit it to join the adsense system.It is very obvious that i saw in the this year that many khmer adsense bloggers publish their blog with adsense and some other affiliate program for money making purposes. It is cool to run this kind of stuff where it does not disturb readers anyway.At first i don't believe that people can e

Pakistan has released nearly 3,500 of the people detained since emergency rule was introduced, though another 2,000 remain jailed. A historic UN-backed tribunal is underway in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, where the first of several surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime is facing charges for crimes against humanity. The EU is cutting farm subsidies — one of many reforms of the Union’s increasingly unpopular, but original “pillars,” the Common Agricultural Policy. “But when the Bush administration came to power and the ‘war on terror’ began, he quickly came to realize that the scale of fraud spawned in its wake was of a different order of magnitude. More and more would-be plaintiffs began to contact his firm after hearing about it on the informal whistle-blowers’ grapevine.” For a more encouraging morning coffee — a fascinating Vanity Fair piece on employees of US government contractors in Iraq who are outraged at the fraud they

19 November 2007 (Earthtimes.org, Bangkok Post) - Preah Vihear, a hotly contested khmer temple that straddles between the Thai and Cambodian borders is to be renovated by a neutral party - the Archaeological Survey of India. The temple sits on a high cliff and rests on Cambodian soil; however, entrance into the temple is via the Thai side of the border. I’m not sure how this move resolves any diplomatic tensions over the site, however. The other interesting aspect of the two stories is the involvement of the Archaeological Survey of India, which has been active in restoring many Hindu temples throughout Southeast Asia. Notably, it had helped restore the Prambanan temples in Indonesia after it as damaged during last year’s earthquake as well as the Ta Prohm, another Angkoran temple. Creative Commons image by Hintz Family (more…)

23 September 2007 (Vietnam News, courtesy of chlim01) - The art of inscribing text on leaves used by monks in Cambodia is in danger of being lost as the sole monk with the skill takes a two-year break without finding any successor. The Cambodian version of the art is not old - only about 100 years old - but similar ancient traditions are found elsewhere in the region, for instance by the Cham in South Vietnam (see related story at the end of the post). I wonder if there’s a regional tradition of writing texts on leaves. Further south in Bali and Java there are copies of king-lists written on palm leaves. It occurs to me that the Malay word “buku” is a corruption of the English word “book”, but ancient texts surely existed before European contact. Today, virtually all textual sources of ancient Southeast Asia is based on carved inscriptions on stone. However, I would not be surprised if this region had a rich textual culture based on leaf-books such as the

Khieu SamphanKhieu Samphan, a former Khmer Rouge leader, shared his [very interesting] personal view on VOA Khmer Service relating to Khmer history. I find this precious for every Cambodians to pay a very close listening to. Read the inteview Or download and listen Please bear in mind that I'm not the one who supports the brutal regime who left nearly 2 millions Cambodian dead. But, aside from the notoriety, the Khmer Rouge had achieved something that I personally do appreciate.

Justice is finally catching up with some of these people: An ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief has been charged with crimes against humanity by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia. Kang Kek Ieu, also known as Duch, was in charge of the notorious S21 jail in the country's capital, Phnom Penh. Duch is the first of five suspects whom prosecutors have asked the tribunal to investigate over their role in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. ... Duch was not among the top level of Khmer Rouge leaders but he has become one of its most notorious members, according to the BBC's Guy De Launey in Phnom Penh. He ran S21, a notorious jail where a total of more than 17,000 men, women and children were thought to have been imprisoned, many of them brutally tortured. A museum at the site illustrates in graphic detail what happened to the inmates, many of whom were executed at the so-called Killing Fields outside Phnom Penh. Duch was also the Khmer Rouge cadre who took charge of French anthropologist Francois Bizo

As my friends and I were taking beer in a street café last night, a promotion girl came and asked us to buy her product(555 cigarette). The girl looked so beautiful and hot. Being endowed with good looking, my friends could soften a girl's heart from his smiles and sweet voice. Moreover, as a foreign scholars, they outpoint other men in the love affairs. In the conversations, a question came out "what is your nationality?". "we are Thais", I was really shocked with my friends' answer. Oh my Buddha! Why Thai, not Cambodian? I stayed calm, though. However, some questions aroused in my head as why we needed to answer like that? Is it ashamed to say we are Cambodian? Additionally, we were sitting in a high-class café, but why we had to honer the Thai instead?read more

Maddox (photo: his blog)Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, a son of Mr. and Ms.Smith, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, also spares his blank time telling us his thought, his daily activities... I don't know why everyone started reading my blog, but Worthington told me it was because I was really special. When Ange took me shopping the other day, everyone kept staring at us, and I knew they were really staring at me. Usually, they stare at Ange because she's really pretty and she's my mommy and she's really nice, but now that I'm famous, everyone seems to be acting weird.sourceread more

11 June 2007 (Bangkok Post) - The Preah Vihear temple which straddles the border between Thailand and Cambodia is the next site that the government of Cambodia hopes to be listed as a World Heritage site. The temple was built by Kings Suryavarman I and II between the 11th and 12th centuries. Ownership of the site was disputed between Thailand and Cambodia, and the International Court of Justice awarded the latter custody of the site. However, the temple is more easily accessible from the Thai side of the border. Cambodia asks UN status for border temple he Cambodian government has renewed efforts to have Unesco classify the ancient Preah Vihear temple (Khao Phra Viharn in Thai) as a World Heritage site, government spokesman Khieu Kanharith confirmed Monday. Kanharith confirmed reports in the Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper that the important 11th to 12th century temple, which lies in the far north of the country perched on the Thai border, should be recognised as a World Heri

07 June 2007 (The Economist) - The Economist reviews the Angkor: Sacred Heritage of Cambodia exhibition in Berlin and also touches on looted Cambodian antiquities. The looting of Cambodia’s cultural heritage has been touched on many times in this site; you might want to look up our podcast featuring Heritage Watch, as well as the more recent news of Angkor Wat artefacts put up for sale on eBay. Gods on display … There are two stories that unfold in the cool lofty rooms of Berlin’s 19th-century Martin-Gropius-Bau museum—a far cry from the sweaty heat of the National Museum of Phnom Penh, which has lent many of the exhibits. First, are the splendid sculptures dominated by a procession of the Hindu deities, Vishnu and Shiva, plus Harihara, who represents a mixture of both. One of the most striking is the serene face and upper body of Vishnu in a sleeping pose, an 11th-century fragment of what is believed to have been the largest bronze statue ever cast in Cambodia. T

At our dormitory, there's no girl. During big event like the Khmer New Year, only boys are responsible for everything. When boyz enter the kitchen :) Opss..! This video is currently working on Firefox only. Sorry for this inconvenience!The two old ladies are cook at our cafeteria--they're giving us a hand to avoid some accidentally badly-cooked meal :o)

Of course, it's indigenous to Cambodia and is most used by rural Khmer people (less in the city). However, the photos below prove that some foreign folks are also fond of the kind of scarf. His excellency Joseph Mussomeli, US ambassador to Cambodia delivering speech in a ceremony with Krama around his neck. You see, the Krama makes him look so gorgeous and familiar to the daily ordinary Cambodian life. (photo: AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy) My virtual Vietnamese friend, Trau, from Singapore, bought Krama from Cambodia during his internship to rural Cambodia. He bought for himself and for his friends. He told me that his friends could realize right away where the scarf was made in at the first glance. read more