Thursday, September 21, 2006

VN dole out small amount of cash to poor Khmer Krom households

[KI-Media note: Sen Daun Ta is the festival celebrating the ancestors (Pchum Ben). The following VNA article wrongly names the festival as Sene Dolta]

Khmer people enjoy Dolta festival with care from authorities
21/09/2006

VietNamNet Bridge - Officials of the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on September 19-20 visited and presented gifts to dignitaries at local Khmer pagodas and families of war invalids and fallen soldiers on the occasion of the Khmer Sene Dolta festival.

Local authorities also granted VND300,000 to each of the 2,235 poor Khmer households in the province to help them enjoy the Sene Dolta festival, one of their largest traditional festivals.

The festival is celebrated annually by Khmer people in Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Vinh Long, Can Tho, Bac Lieu, Kien Giang and An Giang provinces to give thanks for bumper harvests.

Tra Vinh, together with Soc Trang, is home to the largest population of Khmer people in Viet Nam, who have contributed greatly to the country's past struggle for national independence as well as its current construction process.

(Source: VNA)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't you hate it when the Vietcong gave out their left over!

Anonymous said...

THE LON NOL COUP OF 1970 WILL REPEAT SOON AGAIN

YUON XEN GETS READY TO ABOLISH THE KHMER MONARCHY.



PROCLAMATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY


ON...........2006 AT..., THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS BEEN CONVENED AND HAS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO REMOVE NORODOM SIHAMONI AS A KING OF CAMBODIA, ABOLISHING THE MONARCHY AND DECLARING CAMBODIA A REPUBLIC WITH YUON XEN, WHO IS CURRENTLY PRIME MINISTER, AS THE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE WITH GRANTED EMERGENCY POWERS..

From Government spokesman and
Information Minister KHIEU KANHARITH

Anonymous said...

King Sihamoni already seeking for the second home, which mean he knows he will be kicking out of Cambodia soooonnnnnn.