A high ranking official in Cambodia (L), a pretty woman whose life was cut short by hired gunmen (C), and the powerful wife of a Cambodian high ranking official (R). The royal astrologer predicts a "déja-vu" scenario for this year of the Rat.Cambodian royal astrologer says Year of Rat will bring angry wives
Sun, 13 Apr 2008
DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia celebrated its New Year's Eve on Sunday, with the royal palace astrologer predicting a troubled Year of Rat ahead, including poor crops, inflation and angry wives. Like neighbouring Thailand and Laos, Cambodia follows the Chinese horoscope, but celebrates its lunar New Year in April each year.
"This year's agriculture is not good, with half of the vegetable and fruit crop destroyed," royal palace astrologer Im Borin said by telephone.
"There will be many people killing each other, the good and kind will be looked down on by society ... the price of salt will increase, and wives of high ranking officials will be stewing in anger," he predicted.
Cambodia brought in a controversial monogamy law in 2006 which made adultery a criminal offence punishable by 18 months in jail. The law is believed by many have been devised under pressure from powerful and jealous wives of high-ranking officials.
However it has done little to curb the common practice of men who can afford to taking mistresses, or "second wives" and there has only been one successful prosecution so far.
One high ranking male official was even reported as endorsing adultery as a good way of relieving tension and spicing up a marriage in an interview with the English-language Cambodia Daily newspaper soon after the legislation was passed.
Cambodian wives have become internationally notorious for taking out the competition by hiring gunmen or dousing them with acid, making Year of Rat a year of living dangerously for many young Cambodian women if the astrologer is correct.
"This year's agriculture is not good, with half of the vegetable and fruit crop destroyed," royal palace astrologer Im Borin said by telephone.
"There will be many people killing each other, the good and kind will be looked down on by society ... the price of salt will increase, and wives of high ranking officials will be stewing in anger," he predicted.
Cambodia brought in a controversial monogamy law in 2006 which made adultery a criminal offence punishable by 18 months in jail. The law is believed by many have been devised under pressure from powerful and jealous wives of high-ranking officials.
However it has done little to curb the common practice of men who can afford to taking mistresses, or "second wives" and there has only been one successful prosecution so far.
One high ranking male official was even reported as endorsing adultery as a good way of relieving tension and spicing up a marriage in an interview with the English-language Cambodia Daily newspaper soon after the legislation was passed.
Cambodian wives have become internationally notorious for taking out the competition by hiring gunmen or dousing them with acid, making Year of Rat a year of living dangerously for many young Cambodian women if the astrologer is correct.
16 comments:
Thank you for the blessing, Lord Buddha!
We are sick and tire of westerner trained prostitute here, and finally come that time for them to live our holly soil.
Shut the fuck Vietcong bitch! All of your fucken Vietcong slaves who are in power right now including AH HUN SEN and the rest of the AH HUN SEN clan are all Vietcong trained by birth!
Does the Vietcong train your mother fuckers to throw acid at people too?
If the westerners are bad people in this world why you are go to west countries to get best education overthere. Why ?. Go to Hanoi and over there you will get best education for you. No more tell the westeners Cambodia need a lot of money for build country! Because is not good, DONG is good oe for you, Please enjoy Dong for you life-span. neutral viewer
soothe sayers are good for spiritual well-being, however, these believe can be override by the cynical people because not everybody are believers like this. mental ability are as strong as the human minds allows it to be. it's all in the mind. some changes in attitude can overcome all of these traditional beliefs. just look around the entire world in order to understand this. this kind of believe are very local and specific to certain individual and location of society on earth. however, it can not affect others who do not believe in them. this is why the world have so many cultures and tradition that are very specific to a nation or region. it won't have any power if people don't give it power. all about the mindset tied in with culture and tradition. i mean, it's not always bad, though; actually studies in psychology showed that cultural or traditional beliefs can actually cure mental illnesses in many indigenous cultures around the world. having said this, people should respect others' rights to believe or worship what they want as long as they don't try to impose it onto you, then leave those individuals who do believe in such spiritual healing alone as it is their rights as well as yours not to believe it. this is only fair to say.
Mee Ka-Heang!
Kheatkor pisith Pilika
i think one's traditional belief is only good gor the well-being of the mind, and it's not really good for development and invention as beliefs are too superstitious and too rigid and too sensitive, etc... so it's a good idea not to mix this kind of mind with anything to do with science and modern development concepts. leave them separate so not to interfere on other people belief or disbelief. this way, there is no problem when we know the boundary not to cross.
study social sciences, they are very interesting. plus, one will understand this very complex concepts of the human beings.
we had our poor brother to had veit nam wife ,not last in two year and a child and his wife stated to chang to fix the f?????to another big D and crew up over our people .
Hahahaha, Me KA HING again? Get out of town ME KA HING! Cambodian people got enough of you ME KA HING, okay?
Please god protect at all cost all srey lancee,kareoke singers expecially girls, because they are so precious to all of us here.Without them ,the world would be dull to death.
Can you take them to the US or something if you are worried?
Well, if they were Viet prostitute we could care less! They have like what? 80 millions? They could afford enough prostitutes for the entire world as this one Viet official in Hanoi once alluded to: the Viet girls are very very juicy and all muffable starting at age "sweet 16"?
Both of them are vicious. They are criminals commiting crimes against both individuals and the nation.
Never believe in anything hastily; what can harm one the most, a believe can do the same. The Buhhda said, "Believe nothing on the faith of tradition, even though they have been held in honour for many generations, and in divers places. Do not believe a thing because many speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages in the past. Do not believe what you have imagined, persuading yourself that a god inspires you. Belive nothing on the
sole authority of your masters or priests. After axamination, believe
what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto."
"One should honour only one's own religion and condemn the religions of others, but one should honour others'religions for this or that reason. So doing, one helps one's own religion to grow and render service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise one digs the grave of one's own religion and also does harm to other religions. Whosoever honours his own religion and condemn others'religions, does so indeed through devotion to his own religion, thinking 'I will glorify my own religion.'"
"One should not honour. . .
I really don't know about others people are thinking, but me i hate only a yuons pross proos, and i like pourk mee srey srey.
...even more dangerous!
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