Written by Sophan Seng Wednesday, 22 April 2009 Dear Editor, I am surprisingly impressed by the different blessings during the Khmer New Year celebrations during the Year of the Ox, 2553 B.E. It is a very important opportunity for Cambodian people to give good wishes and blessings to each other. Political leaders have also used
Written by Sophan Seng Tuesday, 31 March 2009 Dear Editor, I was deeply impressed by Noam Chomsky’s perspectives on political dissent [“Tribunal ignoring US role, says Chomsky”, The Phnom Penh Post, March 27, 2009]. In the US, Chomsky is well-known for his radical ideas about US foreign policy. He is a renowned linguist, but what
POLS 703 CAMBODIA: MEMORY, ATROCITY AND AFFECT by Alvin Lim In 2005, just as America was reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, I embarked on a line of flight from a quotidian life in Singapore, arriving in Phnom Penh to begin a new career as a philosophy lecturer at Pannasastra University. Several months earlier
