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Nationalist and Selfish Over Preah Vihear Temple

Yesterday 14 July 2008, H.E. Sok An and his delegation, just arriving Cambodia from Canada, met and spoke to hundreds of Cambodians at Olympic stadium about the listing of Preah Vihear temple into the world heritage. He claimed that this is another big achievement of the Royal Government of Cambodia of this third mandate of […]

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Preah Vihear Temple Is Turned to Border Disputes

What is the real issue over Preah Vihear temple? Thailand was talking about the listing of Preah Vihear temple into world heritage. Then some Thai people make it into political competition. Now, the same Preah Vihear temple becomes another agenda, it is about the scope of territory the Thailand may wish to control. It is […]

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Rumor Over Thai and Preah Vihear Temple

Yesterday night, I got a SMS from my friend who is working in Phnom Penh and his parents and relatives are living in Preah Vihear province. The message says Dear all, I just got information from Preah Vihear province today, there are four people died by eating fruits from Thailand. Please be careful and keep […]

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Kuntha Bopha Hospital for Children

Near Wat Phnom and behind Sunway Hotel and Ministry of Economy and Finance, you will see a Kuntha Bopha Hospital, the fourth hospital in Cambodia, provide hospital services to children. Every day from early morning till night, there are many and many women with their children sit along the hospital fence and they have to […]

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Politics of Preah Vihear Temple

That is very amazing in recent days with regards to Preah Vihear Temple, known as the temple of Cambodia worldwide. Many years since 1960s, the temple is widely under the territory of Cambodia and belongs to Cambodia. In the 1960s, problems had been made as the Thais also claimed as the owner of the temple. […]

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Election Campaign Starts at the First Day

Cambodia is to run a national election for the fourth mandate of the national assembly. Today, 26 June 2008, is the first day of election campaign, scheduled 30 days until 25 July 2008. The election day is Sunday 27 July 2008.

In the first day, main political parties organize election campaign and along the roads and […]

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Singatures of Political Parties in Cambodia

There are many signatures of political parties along the national and rural roads at public places and at house of political activists. The way each political party does is different from one to another. Here please enjoy with some pictures I shot while I traveled to province.

It is almost normal or simple which political parties […]

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When the gold mining is done at the expense of green gold

For two years, residents of eight municipalities in the district Roveang in Preah Vihear province, northern Cambodia, are chronically sick, their animals have a mortality rate abnormally high and vegetation is dying in some places. So when these villagers left in the forest, this is not always engage in picking fruit, hunting or the logging […]

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Corruption Sounds Joking within Family

Corruption is a serious issue and sensitive to some extents. I found that people rarely consider it as joke. To me, it is not a joke but it seems to be joking while I can see corruption in families. Wife, husband and their children commit corrupt. How do they commit corrupt?
To my observation and talk […]

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Me Now and Before

My face is not so different from about three years ago. This is my picture I just asked my friend to take today at my working office.

And this is my photo with Som Chanratana, currently National Advisor to the Asia Foundation in charge of trafficking, taken at Kirirom resort in 2004 while I and my […]

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