A teenager reads a magazine at a news stand in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. The prime minister's wife, Bun Rany, has lashed out at magazines running ‘pornographic' photos of women in ‘sexy' clothes, saying it damages morality. (Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON)First lady rails against rise of racy images and fashion
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Written by Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post
Latest bout fits into Bun Rany's larger multi-front crusade against elements she says degrade country's social mores and popularise bad behaviour.
FIRST lady Bun Rany on Monday railed against the proliferation of racy images of women and blamed the Ministry of Information for failing to stamp them out.
"The Ministry of Information has to close magazines that have pornography in order to avoid letting them have a bad impact on readers," she said at the annual meeting of the National Committee on the Promotion of Morality, Women and Family Values in Phnom Penh.
"If we all cooperate, we can reduce problems in our country such as rape and banditry."
Bun Rany, who is head of the Red Cross in Cambodia, also said film stars and singers dressed in revealing clothing were encouraging youth to don inappropriate fashion.
In particular, the first lady blamed the Ministry of Information for not enforcing laws prohibiting the publication of pornographic images.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said his office has previously ordered certain publications to stop publishing "sexy" pictures, but one magazine had ignored the order.
He had shied away from a strong crackdown in the past, however, since it would unfairly stunt the magazine's business prospects, he said.
"We have not fined them because we understand they want to make good business, and using sexy pictures helps them do that," he said.
"But they are overdoing it, so now we have to take action."
According to Sy Define, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, business interests should not come at the expense of moral standards.
"Some businesses only care about their profile and don't care about the social impact of what they do," she said. "So the Ministry of Information needs to control them and press them harder so they are afraid."
A determined fight
Bun Rany has long crusaded against images, lyrics, health programs, technology and individuals that, she says, compromise the social mores of the Kingdom.
In December of last year, she warned HIV/Aids campaigners that distributing free condoms may stimulate the nation's sexual appetite, claiming traditional moral practices, such as abstaining from sex until marriage, are more useful tools in the global fight against Aids.
She called for a ban in February 2008 on a song titled "Give Me a Portion of Your Heart", which referred to an adulterous relationship, on TV stations and urged Phnom Penh authorities to inspect nightclubs with reputations for violence and escort services.
In 2006, she spearheaded an effort among the wives of senior officials to ban video phones, citing concerns the video technology would be used to send pornography.
That year she also had a female presenter taken off the Cambodian Television Network for wearing a backless dress.
FIRST lady Bun Rany on Monday railed against the proliferation of racy images of women and blamed the Ministry of Information for failing to stamp them out.
"The Ministry of Information has to close magazines that have pornography in order to avoid letting them have a bad impact on readers," she said at the annual meeting of the National Committee on the Promotion of Morality, Women and Family Values in Phnom Penh.
"If we all cooperate, we can reduce problems in our country such as rape and banditry."
Bun Rany, who is head of the Red Cross in Cambodia, also said film stars and singers dressed in revealing clothing were encouraging youth to don inappropriate fashion.
In particular, the first lady blamed the Ministry of Information for not enforcing laws prohibiting the publication of pornographic images.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said his office has previously ordered certain publications to stop publishing "sexy" pictures, but one magazine had ignored the order.
He had shied away from a strong crackdown in the past, however, since it would unfairly stunt the magazine's business prospects, he said.
"We have not fined them because we understand they want to make good business, and using sexy pictures helps them do that," he said.
"But they are overdoing it, so now we have to take action."
According to Sy Define, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, business interests should not come at the expense of moral standards.
"Some businesses only care about their profile and don't care about the social impact of what they do," she said. "So the Ministry of Information needs to control them and press them harder so they are afraid."
A determined fight
Bun Rany has long crusaded against images, lyrics, health programs, technology and individuals that, she says, compromise the social mores of the Kingdom.
In December of last year, she warned HIV/Aids campaigners that distributing free condoms may stimulate the nation's sexual appetite, claiming traditional moral practices, such as abstaining from sex until marriage, are more useful tools in the global fight against Aids.
She called for a ban in February 2008 on a song titled "Give Me a Portion of Your Heart", which referred to an adulterous relationship, on TV stations and urged Phnom Penh authorities to inspect nightclubs with reputations for violence and escort services.
In 2006, she spearheaded an effort among the wives of senior officials to ban video phones, citing concerns the video technology would be used to send pornography.
That year she also had a female presenter taken off the Cambodian Television Network for wearing a backless dress.
19 comments:
She has no moral quality in teaching about good conduct to Khmer kids. She's just as evil as Hun Son of a B!
Corruption and stealing from the poor should be a prior concern.
wait until you become the first lady, then you will understand the difficult task of trying to do the right thing for your country. i think the first lady is doing the right thing, however, she will need a lot of help from everyone in society, i mean everyone, because change of attitude takes cooperation from society. so education and more education is one way to get people to change, especially if they understand.
1:54AM he did not need to understand he get free PhD from Hanoi so me kachrouk!!!!
Bullshit, Hanoi doesn't give out free Phd for the fun of it, only Yale, Havard, ..., or Oxford in the west will do that because they love to flatter people with awards.
1:54 AM is so funny!
Ha ha ha!
Bullshit!
Ha ha ha!
she is jealous with all the fashion girls and singers and actress beauties,,,since mee bunrany looks like a PIG! sorry mee Chrouk you can have dollars but too bad you cannot have the look!
I think it is appropriate for her to curve the sexy image in Cambodia publication; even myself live in the west sometimes I got opened eyes to how certain image in Cambodian magazines and newspaper print. They need to be manageable in order to bring Cambodia media to next level.
I m totally agree with 1:54 AM . Our First Lady is right. The problem of Cambodia now, there is no value and moral. It is time to put things in the right tracks.
Prostitution and bad behaviours were imported from the UNTAC, full of corruption with Indians, Bulgarians, africans, europeans, etc. soldiers earning over 5000 USD/month (til 10000USD)on that time, selling the UN cars and materials, etc. in the black market and fucking everywhere, making HIV spread. Nowadays Cambodia, it is culture of money money, sex, adulteries, etc.
Moral and education are importants. The majority of Cambdoian don't have the ability to think properly due to lack of minimal IQ (they don't eat enough to feed and develop the brain with good proteins...). So, with people like that, we have to take the very strict measures and bring strong discipline. PERIOD
8:55,
Don't you f**king mention value and moral to us. Look who's runing the f**king cuntry. A bunch of ruthless pimps. I suggest you check your f**king closet first before you blamed on a innocent magazine company who tried to make a PROPER living.
If your so-call... first cunt have any moral, she wouldn't be such a f**king pig. But then again, maybe it's not her moral that she's lacking. Instead, it's her morale!
Bitches!!!!
Firstly if she wants to make a moral stand on sex images on the magazines then she should be more concerned about they way prostitutes, sex workers and pornographic movies can be easily found on the streets in Phonm Penh. Also she should be reminded that her husband has been known to have affairs with the same women who reveal their sexy looks on the magazine. She is full of shit like the rest of her hence men. People should also be reminded that she ordered the killing of the famous apsara dancer Pisithpilika. She was no justice found in this killing. So for her to be innocent in the way khmer women should be is a big farce.
I totally agree with you 10:31am. This Cunt-Nary bark at everyone and everthing she see's. Right or wrong, who dare to dispute her. She is.... after all, wife of a mafia.
Oh shit! She's going to have me kill. H-e-e-l-p m-e-e-e!
Bun Rany, you act like you are innocent.
You think that the Cambodian peoples forget that you order the murder of Piseth Pilika (Hun Sen's affair).
You've order Hok Lundy to kill Piseth Pilika.
Heng Poev also confirm that Bun Rany had order Hok Lundy to kill Piseth Pilika.
The reason that Bun Rany had order Hok Lundy to kill Piseth Pilika is because Hun Sen had an affair with Piseth Pilika.
Murder a human being is a serious crime.
Dressing sexy is not a crime.
To 4:34 AM
You are not making any sense at all.
I never heard anyone getting free PhD from Yale, Harvard or Oxford.
You're sound so dumb.
Hun Sen got a PhD without going to school.
Why Hun Sen try to get a PhD from Yale, Harvard or Oxford?
CPP supporter are so dumb.
CPP supporter said that Hun Sen is Tevada from heaven.
CPP supporter is so dumb.
To CPP supporter
When Khmer population increase since they took power, it doesn't mean that the CPP is not a killing machine.
What kind of logic are you trying to get at?
You are still dumb.
The CPP leaders and members are killing innocent men, women and children in Cambodia.
Do you agree?
Tell me if I'm wrong.
The CPP are the Khmer Rouge.
The peoples that responsible for killing almost two million innocent Khmer people.
Don't try to distinguish yourself Khmer Rouge commanders from Khmer Rouge gorillas.
It doesn't work.
My eyes always focus on a target, whether the target is stationary or moving.
And you guys try to put all the blames on Pol Pot.
You guys use to kills innocent Khmer peoples and you guys still kills innocent Khmer peoples.
If you guys likes killing peoples, we have enemies that occupied and kill three of our soldiers inside of our border in our land.
I know you guys have rules, you guys only kills innocent Khmer peoples.
You guys don't likes to kill enemy soldiers with M16 in their hands.
You are so dumb.
CPP supporter (maybe you) said Hun Sen is Tevada from heaven.
This statement is so dumb.
You think that Butcher of Cambodia (Hun Sen) did a very good job in rebuilding Cambodia's infrastructure and economy?
Anyone else other than a Butcher of Cambodia (Hun Sen) can rebuilding Cambodia's infrastructure and economy without assassinate and murder innocent men, women and children in Cambodia.
Don't you agree?
I needs your comment.
You are so dumb.
You are being dumb again.
In what part of my comment said that I make Sam Rainsy look like a god?
This is what I said.
"Opposition party members are MP (Member of Parliament)."
"They don't hold any position in Cambodian Government. They don't have authority."
If you are smart enough you don't need to check what Sam Ransy had build.
You sounded like you are smart.
You could have fool KI reader.
You are so dumb.
Do you think Hun Sen can make money come out of his ass so he can build schools, wells, roads, wats, bridges, etc...?
Hun Sen got the money from international donors (United States, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany etc...
During Economic Forum in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen attack the hands that feeds him.
Khmer translation would be "Alligator (Hun Sen) bites owner (international donors) that keeps him alive".
You CPP supporter make it sound like Hun Sen use his own money that he rob from the poor the Cambodian peoples by burn their house down, build fence and put the land for sale.
Your leader make money, maybe all major transaction in Cambodia.
CPP supporter you are so dumb.
You're wrong, fool (4:24)! If the CPP wanted to kill Khmer, it a lot easier to let Pol Pot did it. They needn't risk their life to liberate Khmer from Pol Pot.
If you voted for CPP (Cambodian People's Party):
Also known as:
Communist People's Party
Khmer Rouge People's Party
Khmer Krorhorm People's Party
You're support the killing of 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples.
You're support the killing of innocent men, women and children in Cambodia on March 30, 1997.
You're support murder of Piseth Pilika.
You're support assassination of journalists in Cambodia.
You're support political assassination and killing.
You're support attemted assassination and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
You're support corruption in Cambodia.
You're support Hun Sen Regime burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
These are the Trade Mark of Hun Sen Regime.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin are Khmer Rouge commanders.
When is the ECCC going to bring these three criminals to U.N. Khmer Rouge Trail?
Khmer Rouge Regime is a genocide organization.
Hun Sen Regime is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Bodyguards is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Death Squad is a terrorist organization.
Cambodian People's Party is a terrorist organization.
I have declare the current Cambodian government which is lead by the Cambodian People's Party as a terrorist organization.
Whoever associate with the current Cambodian government are associate with a terrorist organization.
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