PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
December 24, 2008
Reflect on the good and positive
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D.
If you didn’t pay attention to the findings published in the British Medical Journal earlier this month — noted in my column last week — happiness is contagious; if you are connected to unhappy people, this is likely to increase your chances of [...]
Three Events Tell a Tale of Two Indias
David J. Karl (dkarl@pacificcouncil.org) is director of studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy and project director of the Bi-national Task Force on Enhancing India-U.S. Cooperation in the Global Innovation Economy.
The new Global Trends 2025 report by the U.S. National [...]
Working for Cambodia’s future
Written by SOVACHANA POU
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Why education is the only answer to Cambodia’s problems
Photo by: SOVACHANA POU
Cambodian students at Phnom Penh’s Wat Ounalum.
LIFE is calling. Cambodia is calling. Being back home makes me think in a different perspective. I feel as an outsider stepping into, [...]
Animals and Plants as National Symbols of Cambodia
December 12, 2008 by Chanroeun Pa
Photo: thavrakhuon.blogspot.com
1- គោព្រៃ= Kouprey (Bos sauveli): The National Mammal of the Kingdom of Cambodia
The Kouprey, an original Khmer species, has been recognized worldwide and named in Khmer version by international biologists even though English, Spanish and French call it Kouprey. Its scientific name is [...]
Thailand’s king and its crisis
A right royal mess
Dec 4th 2008 | BANGKOK
From The Economist print edition
Thailand’s interminable political conflict has much to do with the taboo subject of its monarchy. That is why the taboo must be broken
EPA
EVEN the most revered of kings, worshipped by his people as a demigod, is not immortal. Thais were [...]
Looking back to the history, Cambodia-China has longest tied relationship with each other. It is in both historical and contemporary co-operation. The name of Funan, an ancient Cambodian capital city, was literally coined by Chinese trader, and many other names of Khmer Kings during Funan period were entirely Chinese vernacular. The most significant notion is [...]
I appreciate the appealing for thorough investigation of the UN representatives to the death of Heng Touch (PPP: UN representatives call for investigation into prison death). This case is considerably not the first one of impunity happened in Cambodia. The legal frailty has strongly rooted in Cambodia and it has gradually become the “culture of [...]
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7spLHsRIF9Q
FEDA Cambodia – Ksach Poy
December 3, 2008
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News (Guam)
Once, Cambodia was a powerful empire that ruled areas of today’s Laos to the north, the former South Vietnam to the east, Thailand to the west and a portion of Malaysia to the south.
Imperial expansionism, wars, disease, mismanagement of state [...]
