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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
CRCI's Announcement for 9th Annual of High School Graduation Commencement and Certificated of Recognition in 2009
AnnouncementOn behalf of the Cambodian Reconciliation Committee Inc., we would like to invite you to participate at our 9th Annual of High School Graduation Commencement and Certificated of Recognition in 2009
If you know that you are the High School Graduate Class of 2009and want to joint us for ceremony please contact us for more information.
1- Mr. Yath Im (559) 803-7665
2- Mr. Tol Keo (559) 916-5012
3- Mr. Mckinley Nou (559) 456-4822
4- Mr. Sokhorn Phang (559) 367-1057
5- Mr. Yin Mong ( Lin) ( 209) 981-0083
6- Mr. Heat Son (559) 313-5746
Special Guests:
1- Mr. Seang Seng M.D. ( Modesto)
2- Mr. Larry L. Powell ( Fresno County Superintendent )
3- Mr. Blong Xiong ( Fresno City Council District 1 )
4- Deputy Chief Pat Farmer ( Fresno Police Department )
5- Mr. Mike Dages ( Fresno City Council District 5 )
PS:
The event will be hosted at the Mosqueda Community Center
on Saturday 20 June 2009 in the Fresno, California, USA.
Time : 4:00pm - 9:30pm with meals included.
on Saturday 20 June 2009 in the Fresno, California, USA.
Time : 4:00pm - 9:30pm with meals included.
If you know that you are the High School Graduate Class of 2009and want to joint us for ceremony please contact us for more information.
1- Mr. Yath Im (559) 803-7665
2- Mr. Tol Keo (559) 916-5012
3- Mr. Mckinley Nou (559) 456-4822
4- Mr. Sokhorn Phang (559) 367-1057
5- Mr. Yin Mong ( Lin) ( 209) 981-0083
6- Mr. Heat Son (559) 313-5746
Special Guests:
1- Mr. Seang Seng M.D. ( Modesto)
2- Mr. Larry L. Powell ( Fresno County Superintendent )
3- Mr. Blong Xiong ( Fresno City Council District 1 )
4- Deputy Chief Pat Farmer ( Fresno Police Department )
5- Mr. Mike Dages ( Fresno City Council District 5 )
PS:
- Cambodian Traditional Dance
- Guest Speakers
- Dinner Reception
- Raffle & Prize Give Away
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Kem Sokha seeking support in Fresno [Kem is the Obama of Cambodia or will he be the Ralph Nader of Cambodia?]
Human Rights Party candidate Kem Sokha, right, greets Khmer Society of Fresno executive director Tia Lam, left, and Nelson Tav before speaking at a town hall meeting in Fresno on Tuesday. Kem is on a tour of North America to raise support for the new party.Cambodian politician in Fresno
Dissident hopes to gain support for his party among Cambodians in the U.S.
04/25/07
By John Ellis
The Fresno Bee
Kem Sokha tried politics once, winning election in 1993 to Cambodia's parliament in the southeast Asian nation's first democratic election.
By 2002, he was chafing under the iron rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party and resigned.
Now, the prominent dissident and social activist is returning to politics, heading up the newly formed Human Rights Party, which will field candidates in Cambodia's 2008 election.
He came to Fresno on Tuesday as part of a 15-city North American tour to drum up support for his party among the Cambodian community in the U.S. He spoke to about 50 locals, and he hopes they will take his message to Fresno's Cambodian community, estimated at 8,000 to 10,000.
"I want to inform my Cambodian friends to join us, to support us," Kem said. He is looking for help from those "who want to reform the country."
Kem knows it will be a formidable task. Earlier this month, the Cambodian People's Party dominated local elections.
He said the communist CPP holds power by rigging elections, buying votes from the nation's poor, and by using threats and intimidation.
But Kem also has hope. He decided to return to politics after being encouraged by people who came to see him on a two-week, 145-mile walk from Phnom Penh, the nation's capital, to the Angkor Wat temple complex.
"He's the Obama of Cambodia," said Fresno resident Paul Lek, referring to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Like Obama, Lek said, Kem is well-known and popular in his homeland, but people don't know much about his message. His North America trip, Lek said, is to build trust among Cambodian expatriates and to inform them about his party's platform.
Kem said he is the Human Rights Party's leader, but the movement is larger than one person and is about building a true democracy in Cambodia.
Kem may not be as well-known as Myanmar's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, but like her, he has been jailed by authorities cracking down on dissent.
Since he resigned from the Cambodian Senate, he has worked on grass-roots democracy among his nation's poor as director of the U.S.-funded Cambodian Center of Human Rights.
On Dec. 31, 2005, he was arrested by police on defamation charges after a standoff at his office. He spent 17 days in a prison cell, emerging as one of his country's human-rights leaders.
If Kem's Human Rights Party can put together a coalition in Cambodia's parliamentary democracy, he would be prime minister. Kem, however, has said he hopes to win 30 seats in the nation's 123-seat parliament.
The reporter can be reached at jellis@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6320.
By 2002, he was chafing under the iron rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party and resigned.
Now, the prominent dissident and social activist is returning to politics, heading up the newly formed Human Rights Party, which will field candidates in Cambodia's 2008 election.
He came to Fresno on Tuesday as part of a 15-city North American tour to drum up support for his party among the Cambodian community in the U.S. He spoke to about 50 locals, and he hopes they will take his message to Fresno's Cambodian community, estimated at 8,000 to 10,000.
"I want to inform my Cambodian friends to join us, to support us," Kem said. He is looking for help from those "who want to reform the country."
Kem knows it will be a formidable task. Earlier this month, the Cambodian People's Party dominated local elections.
He said the communist CPP holds power by rigging elections, buying votes from the nation's poor, and by using threats and intimidation.
But Kem also has hope. He decided to return to politics after being encouraged by people who came to see him on a two-week, 145-mile walk from Phnom Penh, the nation's capital, to the Angkor Wat temple complex.
"He's the Obama of Cambodia," said Fresno resident Paul Lek, referring to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Like Obama, Lek said, Kem is well-known and popular in his homeland, but people don't know much about his message. His North America trip, Lek said, is to build trust among Cambodian expatriates and to inform them about his party's platform.
Kem said he is the Human Rights Party's leader, but the movement is larger than one person and is about building a true democracy in Cambodia.
Kem may not be as well-known as Myanmar's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, but like her, he has been jailed by authorities cracking down on dissent.
Since he resigned from the Cambodian Senate, he has worked on grass-roots democracy among his nation's poor as director of the U.S.-funded Cambodian Center of Human Rights.
On Dec. 31, 2005, he was arrested by police on defamation charges after a standoff at his office. He spent 17 days in a prison cell, emerging as one of his country's human-rights leaders.
If Kem's Human Rights Party can put together a coalition in Cambodia's parliamentary democracy, he would be prime minister. Kem, however, has said he hopes to win 30 seats in the nation's 123-seat parliament.
The reporter can be reached at jellis@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6320.
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