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Dear KI-Media Readers, Dear KI-Media Team Members throughout the world!
On the occasion of this Khmer New Year, we would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year filled with Joy. May the New Year bring you health and prosperity!
We also hope that this New Year will bring democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and human rights respect to Cambodia. May our people be free from tyranny and suffering from land-grabbing and injustice.
Suosdei Chhnam Thmei! Happy New Year!
From all of us,
KI-Media team
36 comments:
Dear KI-Media Team!
Thanks for all your dedication to Fairness and Justice for "Free Expression" for all!
Please keep up the good works! Thank you all and Happy Khmer New Year!
សួស្ដី ឆ្នាំថ្មី
ប៊ី ប៊យ
3:43pm let this curse go back to you and your people with seven times the amount.
Hun Sen is making a fool of himself by looking down on our khmer professional people like Sam Rainsy, Mu Sochua, Theary Seng and many other professional who are trying to work very hard for their nation and country. In Aust, we adore educated people and encourage them to do more for the nation. Where is your morality?
Aust PM earns around $300K per year and if to times it by 30 years, total income around $900000K that is not even $1million so how can Hun Sen and his family turn themselves into Millionairs or billionairs? So, this is a time to notify that his gov't is a corrupt gov't including power and abused. Now, it is time for him to wake up and be a changed man before it is too late. To do that he needs to give some values to all khmer professional and its people. Time is running out for you Hun Sen, however it is not too late to turn around to do the right things. Aust
KAMPUCHEA KROM AT A GLANCE
Kampuchea Krom is composed of 68,965 square kilometers, 21 provinces and municipalities, two large islands - Koh Tral and Koh Tralach, 171 districts, 1,368 communes, 14,778 villages, more than 13 million Khmers, more than 567 Buddhist pagodas and more than 20,000 Theravada Buddhist monks.
99% of populations are Theravada Buddhists.
The Khmer kings, governments, regimes and citizens have never relinquish (give up) this part of their country to foreigners.
Kampuchea Krom has been under an ongoing colonial control since her division from motherland, Cambodia.
June 4, 1949 is the date that the Khmer Kampuchea Krom citizens grieve. The Khmer Kampuchea Krom people have organized Buddhist Service annually to honor the fallen Khmer Buddhist monks and heroes, who sacrificed their lives for Kampuchea Krom and Theravada Buddhism.
Colonial France divided, ceded and transferred Kampuchea Krom to colonial Vietnam on this date. The freedom of Khmer Kampuchea Krom has been mostly stripped by the Vietnamese ruling regimes and governments since. The French colonial administration committed injustice upon the more than 13 million Khmers of this beautiful fertile land.
Justice remains elusive for Cambodia, Kampuchea Krom and her citizens.
And...The struggle to regain freedom and human rights by the Khmers in Kampuchea Krom continues as long as injustice commits by the ruling Vietnamese regime(s) has not produced a fruitful result.
Koh Tral (Tral Island)
in Vietnamese - Phu Quoc island
circa 1939 Vietnamese encroached and conquered
Koh Tral Island has an area of 567 square kilometers; about 62 kilometers long and between 3 kilometers and 28 kilometers wide. The island physically is located closest to Cambodia's Kep seaside city. Visitors can see Koh Tral Island from the coastline of Kep. It is about a 30-minute motorized boat ride.
By Smart Khmer Girl, Ms. Rattana Keo
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
To my dearest Ki-media Team
Thank you so much for your remarkable and oustanding contribution all year long. May God richly grant each of you good health, strength, and vigor, always. Keep up the good work, folks.
Lim Pealy
Thank you Ki -Media,wishing you and all people khmer Leu,khmer Surin,khmer krom,Best wishes for the New Year 2011.
May Buddha bless all.
Dear Ki Teams,
Happy New Year! Let's come together at Cambodia to celebrate Khmer New Year with me and my team at my house.
Dr. Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia,
Dear KI members,
Happy New Year to you all and let's come together to PM Hun Sen palace to celebrate our Khmer News Year. We should leave political behind for these three day of Khmer New Year. Let's party together at PM Hun Sen place.
Mr. Sam Rainsy
The biggest offical opposition leader of Cambodia,
Dear Mr. Sam Rainsy,
Happy New Year to Mr. Sam Rainsy and his family. You are the best of the best to help khmer people that in need help. May buddas and god protect you and bless you and your family.
Poor Cambodians that Hun Sen's regime kick out of home this Khmer New Year,
Happy Khmer new year to Khmer everywhere, may god protect and be with you.
Folks, when someone is either jealous, insulting or make ill wishes toward Khmer, it's a sign Khmer society is successful.
We need to ask Heng Pov Whos' killed Chea Vichea and the 1997 Grenad attack? Who;s order and did it?
3:43 PM
Khmer are dirty or stupid race, but we Khmer are still better than a barbarized people like you without race or new year.
8:56 PM
The way you said, tell us clearly that you are not better than we Khmer.
8:56 PM
What are you doing here in Khmer group, may I ask? Want to be a Khmer too and no one accept you. There is a hope in your next life if you promise to Buddha to behave yourself first.
Thank you very much, my beloved Ki's Khmers, for indirectly teaching me how to initially read and write a few basic English, therefore I am hopeful that one day I might gradually no longer be an illiterate old man.
My beloved 4:04PM!
SenVarman ain's human being,
'cause he ain't literally, evidently,
and obviously have conscience!
Happy New Year to ya all!
May Lord Buddha bless ya with love and peace!
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011
WORDS HAVE POWER TO HURT, HAUNT
8:16 PM Mr.KEOVESSNA VONG
http://domnengkhmer.blogspot.com/2011/04/words-have-power-to-hurt-haunt.html
PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
April 13, 2011
Words have power to hurt, haunt
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
As you read this column today, Buddhists are celebrating the start of a new
year, Year 2555 of the Buddhist Era. I wish each the blessings of a Happy
Buddhist New Year.
As one who frequently writes about the importance of informed, critical
thinking, I am pleased at the opportunity this reminder of Buddha offers to
acknowledge Buddha's teaching that thought makes man, and with his thoughts man
makes the world: "We are what we think."
Great teaching
An action is an outcome of thoughts and dreams, which are conveyed through
words, written or spoken. The words we use are revealing of who and what we
are, and even of the values we hold. A Khmer saying goes, "Samdei sar jiat," or
"Words reveal a man's worth."
A Khmer scholar asked recently in his writing if Khmer Buddhist beliefs are
only "skin deep." He appealed for "soul searching." Officially 96.4 percent
Buddhist and 90 percent ethnic Khmer, Cambodians, like their Southeast Asian
Buddhist neighbors, begin a three-day celebration of the Khmer New Year of the
Rabbit on April 13.
You don't have to be Buddhist to appreciate the truth of the sacred teaching
2,500 years ago of Gautama Buddha, a critical thinker and activist: "Whatever
words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be
influenced by them for good or ill."
Susan Smalley, a UCLA psychiatry professor, said: "Verbal insults, verbal
abuse, and the power of words to affect your emotions and actions are well
demonstrated in science. For example, scientists have found that just hearing
sentences about elderly people led research subjects to walk more slowly. In
other research, individuals read words of 'loving kindness' showed increases in
self-compassion, improved mood, and reduced anxiety."
Buddha's words, connected with what the great Chinese teacher Confucius
preached, "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from
beasts?" provide a powerful and invaluable lesson.
Smalley again: "I once read that a word is like a living organism, capable of
growing, changing, spreading, and influencing the world in many ways, directly
and indirectly through others. I never thought about a word being 'alive' but
then I thought of words spoken 3,000 years ago, written down and passed through
many generations, and they seem quite alive when read or spoken today, having
lived 3,000 years. As I ponder the power of the word to incite and divide, to
calm and connect, or to create and effect change, I am ever more cautious in
what I say and how I listen to the words around me."
http://domnengkhmer.blogspot.com/2011/04/words-have-power-to-hurt-haunt.html
PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
Words have power to hurt, haunt (following)
Permanent scars
It is said words are alive; if you cut them they bleed. Many world cultures
tell us that a knife wound may heal, but a wound caused by words doesn't. It
can last generations. Words can never be recalled. Written words are perpetual
in public; spoken words haunt and hurt as long as man's memory.
The Japanese say, "The mouth is the door of evil" but "One kind word can warm
three winter months."
Sometime ago, I wrote about the spiritual story, "A Bag of Nails." A father who
wanted to teach a lesson to his very bad-tempered, young son, gave the boy a
bag of nails and told him to hammer a nail into the wooden fence each time the
son lost his temper.
On the first day alone, the angry boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. But
over the next few weeks, the numbers decreased as he learned to control his bad
temper, until one day, he didn't have to drive a nail into the fence at all.
He was happy. His father was happy. But now the father told the boy to go pull
out one nail for each day the boy could hold his temper. It took many weeks
before the boy pulled out the last nail. He learned that a bad temper could be
controlled more easily than driving nails into the fence and pulling them out.
"You have done very well, my son," the father spoke happily as he walked his
son to the fence, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be
the same. When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like
these. And no matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wounds will still
be there."
For this New Year, I find it worthwhile to repeat Stephen Ventura's basic
training in "RESPECT": "R" recognizes a human being's inherent worth; "E"
eliminates derogatory words and phrases; "S" speaks with, not at or about,
people; "P" practices empathy through walking in others' shoes; "E" earns
respect through respect-worthy behaviors; "C" considers others' feelings before
speaking and behaving; and "T" treats every person with dignity and courtesy.
Humanity highway
In the words of civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr., "There is some good
in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we
are less prone to hate our enemies."
Some years ago, I heard a presentation by New Zealander John Sax in Manila.
Sax's topic: "Highway of Humanity." All people are travelers and free to
choose to get off on one of the two exits.
On Sax's exit named "Great," travelers can stop at stations called love, joy,
peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, humility, honesty, truth,
generosity, forgiveness and self-control. On exit "Miserable," there are
stations called hate, misery, conflict, cruelty, meanness, unfaithfulness,
brutality, pride, dishonesty, falsehood, misery, unforgiving and no
self-control.
Sax asked, "Which exit and which stations do you choose?"
Happy Buddhist New Year!
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam. Write him
at peangmeth@yahoo.com.
some strayed vietcong dog is loose and hungry in here...
BEST WISHES TO ALL KHMER PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD!BUT NOT INCLUDING
HUN SEN,HIS CPP,and VIETNAMESE.
YOU, TOO!
>.<
I like to say this to Kem Sokha and HRP supports .You all got only 3 seats but have been running around bragging about people coming to join your Party . If you all think you will get more seats than SRP by the next election, you are 100% wrong because more people are coming to see Sam Rainsy than Kem Sokha wherever they go and thats the fact . That means SRP is more popular than HRP . So, if HRP can't beat SRP , what makes you think that you can beat CPP ?
Khmer Ga
Happy New Year to our Nambodia compatriots. Soon we will celebrate Tet together in the Indochinese Federation.
About words has power and being alive
The Creator (Yaweh) spoke all creation into existence by the power of his word. Except for man; He formed man from clay and breath into him the breath of life. Because of this method man is a spiritual being who is able to communicate with his Creator. By our words we are justify or by our words we be condemn.
I'm puzzled by this saying: " May Buddha bless you." Since Buddha never said he is a god, how can he blesses anyone? Since he did not do any miracle in his life time how does anyone expect any good will come from him? The only thing you have is his teachings-nothing more.
4:04 PM
“$900000K that is not even $1million”
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Do you mean $900,000K is less than $1million?
If so, you need to ask your math teacher ‘Duch’, because $900,000K = $900 millions, and 300K x 30 = 9,000K = 9 millions
Sarun Y.
4:04 PM You calculated wrong Prime Minister of Australia earn $300 000 per year before Tax (ot Tax free) Take furthet Australia taxof 45% of the $300 000 = $ 165 000 into his or her private pocket only.
Over 30 years as PM = 30* 165 000 = $ 495o ooo into her or his private pocket.
$900,000k =
$900,000,000
because K mean kilo or 1,000; so $900,000,000 -nine hundred million- is close to $ 1 billion.
So the first person is right that Hun Sen has almost
$ 1 billion.
It is laughable when a stupid person above said that "Aust (Australian) PM earns around $300K per year and if to times it by 30 years, total income around $900000K that is not even $1million" Sic
In fact, $900000K means $900 million. It is really shameful for a person who has nickname "Aust" but didn't even know how much is $900000K? This person must be live in a jungle, if she/he lives in Australia must know something better than this. Shame on you "Aust"
In Aust; k means thousand dollars. in fact you all are stupid, not the Aust.
more old khmer provinces should be returned to cambodia, really!
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