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Life in Battambang ... Aaah, those delicious oranges from Battambang!
Cambodian vendors selling fresh oranges wait for their customers on the roadside in Battambang town, northwestern of Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Battambang town is the well-known place for selling fish rolls and fresh fruits to travelers, who stop by on their way to and from the country's northwest provinces. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian passenger, right, negotiates the price of fish rolls in Battambang town, northwestern of Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Battambang town is the well-known place for selling fish rolls and fresh fruits to travelers, who stop by on their way to and from the country's northwest provinces. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian vendors selling fresh oranges wait for their customers on the roadside in Battambang town, northwestern of Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Battambang town is the well-known place for selling fish rolls and fresh fruits to travelers, who stop by on their way to and from the country's northwest provinces. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian passenger, right, negotiates the price of fish rolls in Battambang town, northwestern of Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Battambang town is the well-known place for selling fish rolls and fresh fruits to travelers, who stop by on their way to and from the country's northwest provinces. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) 
31 comments:
Battambang is the land of rice,Orange(Cambodian orange is not orange color @Gave crop Twice per year)mango, jackfruit ,rambutain,duran,lechy....In 1970 Battambang rice can be feed for the whole country.government choose this province for rice groving project is the rightone.
Missing home.
Ahh... Battambang. The town in which I was born, in which I was partially raised, and to where my mind often wanders. You can take the boy out of BB, but you can't take BB out of the boy...
Battambang Dang Steung Sangke.
I was born(in year of 50),raised ,study(Eap khut,Net Yang)By round about Ta Dambang Krorgnoug(But not this current one)Had orange farm and other.
It doenot matter where you are.Home is home.Missing my home town.
Well, you guys and gals know nothing about the current status of Battambang oranges. Starting from 2000, Many Battambang orange growers can not grow orange as they used to. The government has never find any solution to this issues - either soil chemistry or bad bacteria in the soil. Orange trees usually die from there tips. All soil bio-insects such as crickets and earth worms-gone! Why people do not take this notice?
People in Battambang know how to grow rice, they grow rice and they need less help than people in other provinces.
Why Cambodian agriculture minister is so stupid ?????
They must do evrything in other provinces not in Battambang.
I miss my hometown too. I grew up at Phum Chamkarsamrong( or Prek Manatep) and went to lycee Battambang.
3:14 PM
Do you know which province has the most orange plantation?
The vast majority of Cambodians still think Pursat province has more oranges than Battambang.
BATTAMBANG HAD THE MOST TALENTED!
ACTORS, ACTRESSES, SINGERS AND ETC.!
OH, BATTAMBANG MIEN SA-EY CHGNAN TE!
Born at near Wat Poveal,raised in Snapimouk,Prek Khpob. I went to Lycee Svapor and chasing girls in Neth Yang also love Muslim girls at Wat Norea.Only remember that
Professor Tep ting chuy and Professor Ou Chrek were closefriend to my dad.
Battambang dang steung sangke,I knew from Samlot to Prek tal Tonlesap.
5:39PM,
You from Phum Chamkarsamrong.
Do you know Chef Chan??.
Lycee Battambang,I went down from Lycee Svaypor to listen Dork Sophan speech before the war end.
Even Khmer rouges, from Battambang they were less savage than from any other provinces of Cambodia.
They killed less, more tolerant..
Because the province is richer, more boudhism praticing..
You're good people from Battambang.
But Hun Sen doesn't trust people from Battambang, he excludes them from power..
Battambang dang steung sangke
spean dek,spean thmor toa chhor kann tuk(two lions are still there).
50 years went passed we still missed them.former eap khut student 1971 to 75.
no where on earth like home,so learn to be united.
I was in Battambong Province since 1960 and then i moved to Pailin province on 1962 till 1975 and moved back to Battambong province from 1975 to 1979 and after that live in USA.
too mahy mistake by our leader.country leader must treat the people the same level,if you listen or scare the naghbour,soon or later our country remained the same crisis,what is go around will come arouhd.creat sin ,receive sin.we are all khmer.
7:52 PM
I remembered the speech and I don't remember Chef Chan (who is he?)
I love the market pictures. Especialy the orange picture. I want to there now and support the local. Thank you Ki for posting great pictures. It is nice to read and see something like this. Not about politic all the time.
Oh ! My lovely Battambang ! I love my native province.How wonderful you are ! I left you for so long,leaving you since September 13,1979;and I have never been there again.I was at Eap Khut,then at Sisovath Monivong.Battambang has had plentiful rice,all kind of fruits;the orange fruit are juicy and sweet. I could not tell you all the things I saw and loved. My wife went there twice,but I did not; one day if Cambodia is free from Vietnam,willing to step on my lovely place again.
"Battambang is the land of rice,Orange(Cambodian orange is not orange color @Gave crop Twice per year)mango, jackfruit ,rambutain,duran,lechy....In 1970 Battambang rice can be feed for the whole country.government choose this province for rice groving project is the rightone.
Missing home.
3:14 PM" (sic)
WHY MOTHERFUCKER AH HUN XEN DON'T FIND SOME OTHER PLACE TO HELP ( MAKE PROJECT) BUT COME TO MESS UP WHAT ALREADY GOOD 3:14PM!
MISSING BRAIN!
Please log on to youtube.com and search for Cambodia 1965 By then Prince Sihanouk. Battambang which many most of us knew, will come to life and once again brings you back to those precious memory of normal life before April 17th.1975.
Tear drop missing my former home land
Yes, youcom.com and Cambodia 1965 part 5, you will see the heart of Battambang comes to life.
Wat Kor
Sorry...youtube.com and Cambodia 1965 part 5. Enjoy
cambodia's krouch pursat is the best in the world!
Ros Serey Sothea, Sin Sisa Mout, Pen Ron, Huy Meas, Im Song Seum were all having root in Battamabng. Keep looking there is more. What about today, Tep Rindaro? or Soben Houn/former Miss Utah of United States 2006? and Queen Monineath? Don't forget that the Queen's mother was the former wife of Sakbei Oum of Battambang until they headed to live near by the royal palace in Phnom Pehn. Lok. Oum Manarin and his brother Colonel. Oum Tralok of Cambodian Aviator are still the most famous names from Battambang and half brothers to the Queen and you know...Bamttambang is the land which God had given to most famous people . That for sure. Queen Suvadhana or wife of Rama V of Thailand is the grand daughter of Chhum Aphaiwong,the former governor of Battambang. So see for yourself and know who you are people from Battambang.
Please watch what you're doing, because you'll never know who will be next most famous person.
God even deposits Red Rubby and the most magnificent Sapphire gem stones under the ground. He will do more up above the earth, but please don't make God angry :)
Ordinary Khmer
Note: Palin was part of Battambang province and most famous city for finding Rubby and Blue Sapphire before 1975.
yes, most well-known khmer personalities are from battambang, although some are also from takeo, svay rieng, kracheh, but most are from battambang and phnom penh. battambang will always be a khmer province forever! god bless cambodia.
i grow up in batambang too and had fond memories of the city and province. i always visited battambang when in cambodia. god bless battambang.
I am not a native of BB but I went there a few times before 1970, and I liked the town and the province with mostly vast flat plain. In the beginning during Pol Pot’s era I lived in my home village along the Mekong. In late 1975 the KR started to round up many former city dwellers starting in the north from Prek Poh in Kompong Cham province all the way to Koh Thom in Kandal province to forcefully move the population to live in Pursat and BB. The population of my home village was assigned to live with the people from others villages along the Mekong. The area where we lived called Dombaon 4. We lived 5km north of the national route 5 and 4km west of the Stung Svay Daun Keo.
There were 5 villages, the KR named them village 1 to 5. At the beginning there were 5,000 souls in each village and they left us there to die. Within 8 months the village 2 where I lived in, the population dropped to a little bit over one hundred, and the statistic was about the same for the other 4 villages. There was no killing, people just died from diseases and starvation, it was a hell on earth. There were over thirty people in my extended family members, but only my cousin and I survived.
That small corner of BB still gives me, as a 67 years old man, nightmare to this day.
Sorry, for spoiling you, guys, good nostalgia.
those of us who survived the KR era had nine life as they say about cats. anyway, khmer people and way of life is resilient. our beautiful country of cambodia is resilient. we will live to see another day, another era of peace, prosperity, etc... take good care of oneself and stay healthy. god bless.
Battabang orange sellers honestly told me that, those sweet orange fruits are mostly imported form Thailand and Vietnam.
Most of the civilize people from Battambang either died or leaving the country for good. People of today are still having a long way to match the well manner well educated, rich and discipline people of Battambang used to be. It's sad to see just poor farmer are now living in Battambang.
I'm looking for info on the EAP family from Battambang. The family built Eap Khut School and was well known .Looking for names of members of family that attended in 1966-1969.
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