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What P’Chum Ben means

Written by Sophan Seng

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Dear Editor,
Regarding your news item titled “P’chum Ben festivities kick off Sunday” (15 September). Among Cambodian annual festivities, P’Chum Ben is considered very significant.
Regarding Buddhist ethics, this festival offers a chance for all Cambodian Buddhists to pay gratitude to their deceased ancestors as well [...]

Sampling Strategies

Key Points:

Probability sampling is a mechanism for reducing bias in the selection of samples.
Ensure you become familiar with key technical terms in the literature on sampling such as: representative sample; random sample; non-response; population; sampling error; etc.
Randomly selected samples are important because they permit generalizations to the population and because they have certain known qualities.
Sampling [...]

Pride or shame ?

Tuol Sleng Museum applies for registration with Unesco intrigued the question that this initiative will bring shame or pride to Cambodian people? If we check in the listing numbers of world cultural heritages subscribed by Unesco, we seem not see any genocidal or brutal place being put as World Heritage. But if Cambodia can [...]

P’chum Ben: Its Significance

Among Cambodian annual festivities, P’chum Ben and Kan Ben are considered very significant. Literally, P’chum Ben means the gathering of the pieces of cooked rice to offer to the deceased. It culminates in 15th of full moon day and ends in 15th of waning moon day in lunar calendar of the 9th month or [...]

The Nature of Quantitative Research

Key Points:

Quantitative research can be characterized as a linear series of steps moving from theory to conclusion, but the process described is an ideal type from which there are many departures.
The measurement process entails the search for indicators.
Establishing the reliability and validity of measures is important for assessing their quality.
Can be characterized as exhibiting certain [...]

The Pursuit of Happiness

Abstract

The pursuit of happiness has been critical in human society. Essentially, many scholars have explored and defined it in various approaches. Some are theoretical, some are empirical, and some are practical.  Abraham Maslow has been considered the father of humanistic psychology and well-known for his conceptualization of a “hierarchy of human needs”.  But Manfred Max [...]

Hierarchy of needs & fundamental human needs

There are criticisms the research of Abraham Maslow associated “the issues of human needs”. Maslow elaborated the basic human needs categorize like a pyramid named “hierarchy of needs”. He divided into five categories from the most primitive needs to the least needs: 1. physiological (breathing, food, water, sex, homeostasis, excretion, sleep), 2. safety (security of [...]

Not-so Christian charity

Written by Sophan Seng
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
Dear Editor,
Your article “Proselytising amid poverty” (September 3) explicitly detailed the truth happening among Christian missionaries in Cambodia. Christian missionaries have been academically recognised as the coordinators of colonies.
Cambodia was first known to the world significantly by a Portugal priest San Antonio, who briefly described the beautiful cultural temples [...]

Reading Today: Social Research Strategies

Key Points:

Quantitative and qualitative research constitute different approaches to social investigation and carry with them important epistemological and ontological consideration.

Theory can be depicted as something that precedes research (as in quantitative research) or as something that emerges out of it (as in qualitative research).

Epistemological considerations loom large in considerations of research strategy. To a large [...]

The Beauty of Phnom Penh: the Pearl of Asia

Phnom Penh was named after the complete building of mountain dedicated to Don Penh who were the senior devoted Buddhist initiated to worship the important Buddhas consecrated on the top of this mountain. This Cambodian latest capital significantly attracted by its view in the conjunction of four main rivers: Upper Mekong, Lower Mekong, Thonle Sap, [...]


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