2011 - 2012 - Transiting – from the Past through the Present into the Future
The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) carries, with every e-mail sent, the following line:
“...a society cannot know itself if it does not have an accurate memory of its own history.”
Have a look – click! - at their resources: the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor, and the Sleuk Rith Institute – the latter is a Permanent Documentation Center of Cambodia, explaining that it refers to “Sleuk Rith, dried leaves that Cambodian religious leaders and scholars have used for centuries to write on them and to document history, disseminate knowledge, and preserve culture.”
There are many people who do not share this conviction. They say we just have to be positive, look into the future, forget the past, newer waste time looking back whatever it was, things will be all right if we just think of and trust in a better future.
I cannot share this disregard for the foundations on which we may build the future, our future.
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2011 - 2012 - Transiting – from the Past through the Present into the Future
The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) carries, with every e-mail sent, the following line:
“...a society cannot know itself if it does not have an accurate memory of its own history.”
Have a look – click! - at their resources: the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor, and the Sleuk Rith Institute – the latter is a Permanent Documentation Center of Cambodia, explaining that it refers to “Sleuk Rith, dried leaves that Cambodian religious leaders and scholars have used for centuries to write on them and to document history, disseminate knowledge, and preserve culture.”
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MOT and NOCC Counts Down into the New Year With SEA Festival
The Inaugural SEA Festival will be held this weekend at the Port City of Sihanoukville. The event which will include a display of Culture and Sports is jointly organized by the Ministry of Tourism and the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia is organized in celebration of the beach resort’s recent induction into the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club..
Seven sporting competitions will be on display as part of the inaugural Sea Festival at Sihanoukville’s Occheateal Beach on New Year’s Eve.
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When young Lao couples move out, do they need to find work?
A Lao friend recently complained about finding and keeping staff. She said, Lao people may not need to work.. Yesterday I read in the Vientiane Times that mining companies are trying their best to hire local people - however, it is still a skill problem. But as you may know from my podcast episode with Titi about career development, there is also a lack of knowledge about what working in a job means at all.
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Some clarifications – Christmas
Yesterday I was asked about why there is a Christmas holiday in “the West” which is now also taking on in Cambodia: to be nice to others by giving gifts, and also the business community is promoting this as a welcome opportunity to increase sales.
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The UN Human Rights Day – on Social Media on the Internet!
On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, celebrating human rights and commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on 10 December 1948, Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published a Statement specifically referring to the role of the Internet for the protection and promotion of human rights:
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Who else but the victims are concerned with the disappearing lake?
Some years ago, departing on a flight to Bangkok, I took this picture – a historic reminder of something that is no more.
The struggle of the residents around the lake has been regularly reported, their claim that – according to Cambodian land laws – people who have been in uncontested residence for a certain number of years can apply for land registration: the procedure for land registrations had been financially supported formerly by the World Bank – until the Cambodian government canceled the relevant contract with the World Bank after senior management of the bank had questioned the way in which this program was implemented – excluding the residents around the lake.
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“…ordinary people who risked their lives…” – part of the forgotten history of Phnom Penh
The Meta House in Phnom Penh has at present an exhibition of photographs and corresponding testimonials of stories about moral courage of ordinary people who risked their lives to save others. These are related to actions during the Holocaust to the periods of violent conflict in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Cambodia.
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Nerd Alumni Gather for a Wee Chit-Chat - Japanese Style
'Talking about it at nerd night was way more nerve-wracking than being hung up from the ceiling from hooks in my flesh. I was shadow boxing backstage just to get out all the nervous excitement of speaking.’
So says Kim, a Norwegian Body Suspension enthusiast, of his time presenting about his passion at one of Phnom Penh’s hugely popular Nerd Nights.
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Surviving Pchum Ben
A Cambodian friend once described the Pchum Ben festival as a time when all Cambodians return to their homelands, take gifts to honour their deceased relatives to the pagoda and then, once the religious ceremonies have been completed, invite the spirits of the departed back to their homes for a party! If you’ve never been in Phnom Penh during this festival, you will have no idea how true this is. The city literally becomes a ghost town – although obviously without the ghosts, as they’re all off enjoying those parties in the countryside.
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