| Laura Mam and her band, The Like Me’s, are a new group that is fast gaining popularity in the US. The band is on a quick tour of Cambodia that ends with a free show Saturday night at Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island. Born in the US, 24-year-old Mam says she hopes her music will reach even more people in the homeland of her parents. |
| Among the more than 350 revelers killed in the pedestrian bridge calamity in Phnom Penh were 18-year-old Uch Sotheara and 25-year-old Uch Sophany. Their parents, Uch Yoan and Pa Sophat, marked their late November deaths this week on the 100th day with Buddhist offerings. They were grateful they have other younger children and that the government provided them financial support for their unexpected losses. |
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Like other families of stampede victims on Diamond Bridge, Leung Porn's family decided to hold the 100-day ceremony last weekend at a Buddhist clergyman's suggestion.
Leung Porn's wife, Tor Sophal, was one of the 353 victims killed in the stampede on the bridge during last year’s water festival. Leung Porn, who is 54 and now the single father of three children, said the ceremony will help his wife rest in peace. |
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Low-ranking Khmer Rouge cadre, 30 in all, will have their say and then some in a massive video installation opening this week in Phnom Penh.
The “Voices of the Khmer Rouge” exhibit contains 30 lengthy interviews with former Khmer Rouge now living in pockets along the Thai border, as men and women aged 38 to 70 give their reasons for joining the movement. And staying with it. |
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For five years now, Yin Narong has used a new method to plant rice. Instead of planting from the seeds of the previous year’s harvest, he buys new seeds from a local company.
The difference, he said in an interview, has been a boost in yield of 200 kilograms of rice each harvest on one-fifth a hectare. “Now with pure seeds we get up to 900 kilograms,” the 52-year-old farmer in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district said. |
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Cambodia’s low number of Internet users make a social-media fueled revolution here unlikely, an Internet researcher says.
Cambodia’s more than 200,000 Facebook users mostly use the website to connect with friends and maintain professional social networks, said Saray Samadee, who recently co-authored a report for the Cambodia Communication review. |
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In a remote corner of Preah Vihear province, an identity shift is under way. Here on the border, where the Mekong river spills over rocky falls from Laos into Cambodia, a younger generation is increasingly adopting a Lao way of life.
“Their parents only speak Lao with them,” said Neang Phann, an eldery villager in Kampong Sra Lao II commune, in Chaep district. “Some parents aren’t even able to speak Khmer.” |
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Internet service providers have received an e-mail from an official at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications reminding them to “take action” against several anti-government websites.
The e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by VOA Khmer on Thursday, is a follow-up to a Feb. 10 meeting between the ministry and service provider representatives. |
| Cambodian civilians who fled the fighting between Cambodian and Thai armies near Preah Vihear Temple are facing displaced shortage of food and shelter. VOA Khmer's Pich Samnang reports from Siem Reap. |
| The fighting on the Thai/Cambodian border is the most serious conflict ever seen between two Asean countries.
VOA Khmer's Pich Samnang and Men Kimseng report. |
