Quantcast
Viewing all 40045 articles
Browse latest View live

ញោម​ប្រុស​ព្រះសង្ឃ ហន សុផាន្នី ផ្ដាំ​ចង់​ជួប​មុខ​កូន​​ដែល​ជាប់​​ពន្ធនាគារ​មុន​ស្លាប់

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
ញោម​ប្រុស​ព្រះអង្គ ហន សុផាន្នី ក្រោយ​ត្រឡប់​ពី​សម្រាក​ព្យាបាល​ជំងឺ​នៅ​មន្ទីរពេទ្យ​នា​រាជធានី​ភ្នំពេញ កាល​ពី​ចុង​ខែ​ធ្នូ ឆ្នាំ​២០១៧។ Photo provided

ដោយ អាស៊ីសេរី RFA 2018-01-27

លោក អេង រ៉ាន់ ញោម​ប្រុស​របស់​ព្រះសង្ឃ ហន សុផាន្នី សមាជិក​បណ្ដាញ​ព្រះសង្ឃ​ឯករាជ្យ មុន​​នឹង​ស្លាប់​​​បាន​ប្រាប់​ភរិយា​ថា ​លោក​ចង់​ជួប​មុខ​កូន​​ដែល​កំពុង​ជាប់​ឃុំ​ក្នុង​ពន្ធនាគារ​ខេត្ត​បាត់ដំបង នៅ​ដង្ហើម​ចុង​ក្រោយ​ ដើម្បី​​ស្លាប់​ទៅ​លោក​បិទ​ភ្នែក​ជិត ប៉ុន្តែ​លោក​មិន​បាន​សម្រេច​បំណង​មុន​ស្លាប់​ឡើយ។ លោក អេង រ៉ាន់ បាន​ស្លាប់​ កាល​ពី​យប់​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២២ មករា ក្នុង​ជន្មា​អាយុ ៥៥​ឆ្នាំ​ដោយសារ​ជំងឺ។

​លោកស្រី ឈាន ម៉ាប់ ញោម​​ស្រី​ព្រះអង្គ ហន សុផាន្នី ថ្លែង​ថា លោកស្រី​បាន​ថវិកា​ពី​សប្បុរសជន​ក្នុង ​និង​ក្រៅ​ប្រទេស​ប្រមាណ ១​ពាន់​ដុល្លារ​អាមេរិក ដើម្បី​ធ្វើ​បុណ្យ​គម្រប់ ៧​ថ្ងៃ ឧទ្ទិស​កុសល​ជូន​ដល់​វិញ្ញាណក្ខន្ធ​ស្វាមី​ទៅ​កាន់​សុគតិភព ដោយ​ចាប់​ផ្ដើម​នៅ​រសៀល​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២៧ ខែ​មករា។

​លោកស្រី ឈាន ម៉ាប់ អាយុ ៤៤​ឆ្នាំ​ បន្ត​ថា ប្រសិន​បើ​គ្មាន​ជំនួយ​ពី​សប្បុរសជន​ទេ​ គឺ​លោកស្រី​ច្បាស់​ជា​ទៅ​ខ្ចី​ប្រាក់​គេ​ជំពាក់​ប្រាក់​គេ​វ័ណ្ឌក​ហើយ​ ព្រោះ​ជីវភាព​ក្រីក្រ​​គ្មាន​ថវិកា​សម្រាប់​ធ្វើ​គម្រប់​៧​ថ្ងៃ​ទេ។ លោកស្រី​ថា ​​ទ្រព្យសម្បត្តិ​ដែល​មាន​ក្នុង​ផ្ទះ​​ ដូច​ជា​គោយន្ត​និង​ម៉ូតូ​ជា​ដើម​ ត្រូវ​បាន​លក់​មើល​ជំងឺ​ប្ដី​អស់​ទៅ​ហើយ៖ «ធ្វើ​បុណ្យ​ល្ងាច​នេះ​ហើយ ដោយ​ជំពាក់​គេ​ខ្លះ​ទៅ ធ្វើ​មិច​បើ​វា​អត់​ហើយ ព្រោះ​បើ​តាម​ប្រពៃណី​ត្រូវ​តែ​ធ្វើ​បុណ្យ​ទៅ​ហើយ ទោះ​បី​គ្មាន​ប្រាក់​ក៏​ចេះ​តែ​រត់​រក​ប្រាក់​គេ​បន្តិចបន្តួច​ធ្វើ​បុណ្យ​ទៅ»។

លោកស្រី​បន្ត​ទៀត​ថា​ ​លោកស្រី​នៅ​នឹក​ឃើញ​សម្ដី​របស់​ស្វាមី​មិន​ទាន់​ភ្លេច​នៅ​ឡើយ​ ជា​ពិសេស​ពាក្យ​ដែល​ស្វាមី​បាន​ផ្ដាំ​ចុង​ក្រោយ​មុន​នឹង​ស្លាប់ គឺ​ប្ដី​និយាយ​ថា​ចង់​ជួប​មុខ​កូន​ គឺ​ព្រះអង្គ ហន សុផាន្នី ណាស់។

លោកស្រី​ថា​ បាន​ត្រឹម​សម្រក់​ទឹក​ភ្នែក​នៅ​មុខ​​ប្ដី​មុន​ដាច់​ខ្យល់ ដោយ​អារម្មណ៍​ក្ដុកក្ដួល ដោយសារ​កូន​នៅ​ក្នុង​ពន្ធនាគារ៖ «គាត់​នឹង​តែ​កូន​ គាត់​ថា គាត់​មិន​ចង់​ស្លាប់​ទេ គាត់​នឹង​តែ​កូន​ ព្រោះ​តាំង​ពី​កូន​ជាប់​ពន្ធនាគារ​​មក​អត់​បាន​ជួប​មុខ​កូន​សោះ​ គាត់​ដេក​សម្រែង​ថា​មិន​បាន​ជួប​កូន​ហ្នឹង។ គាត់​ថា​មិន​គួរ​ណា​ឡើយ​គេ​មិន​ឲ្យ​កូន​គាត់​មក​ជួប​មុខ​គាត់​មួយ​ភ្លេច​ជីវិត​គាត់​ចុង​ក្រោយ​ហើយ​ គាត់​ថា​អី​ក៏​គេ​ដាច់​មេត្តា​ម្ល៉េះ មិន​ឲ្យ​កូន​មក​ជួប​គាត់។ ខ្ញុំ​ក៏​ថា​ឯង​អើយ ធ្វើ​មិច​យើង​រស់​នៅ​ក្រោម​សង្គម​ក្រោម​គេ ស្រេច​តែ​គេ​ ឯង​កុំ​តូច​ចិត្ត​ធ្វើ​មិច​វាសនា​យើង​មិន​បាន​ជួប ហើយ​សូម​ឯង​ទៅ​ឲ្យ​បាន​សុខ​ចុះ»។

បណ្ដាញ​ព្រះសង្ឃ​ឯករាជ្យ​ដើម្បី​យុត្តិធម៌​សង្គម ​ប្រចាំ​ខេត្ត​បាត់ដំបង​ ​ព្រះតេជព្រះគុណ ហន សុផាន្នី ត្រូវ​បាន​តុលាការ​ខេត្ត​បាត់ដំបង សម្រេច​ផ្ដន្ទាទោស​ឲ្យ​​ជាប់​ពន្ធនាគារ​រយៈពេល ២​ឆ្នាំ ក្រោម​បទ​ចោទ​ថា បាន​ញុះញង់​ឲ្យ​ប្រព្រឹត្ត​បទឧក្រិដ្ឋ។ ព្រះអង្គ​គង់​នៅ​វត្ត​ដំរីស ក្រុង​បាត់ដំបង ត្រូវ​បាន​សមត្ថកិច្ច​ឃាត់​ព្រះ​កាយ​ កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២១ មិថុនា និង​ត្រូវ​បាន​មន្ត្រី​តុលាការ​ខេត្ត​មួយ​នេះ​បញ្ជូន​ទៅ​ឃុំ​ខ្លួន​នៅ​ពន្ធនាគារ​ខេត្ត​បាត់ដំបង កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២២ មិថុនា​ ក្រោម​បទ​ចោទ​ពីរ​ករណី​ គឺ​ពី​បទ​ដឹក​ជញ្ជូន​​ និង​កាន់កាប់​អាវុធ​ដោយ​ខុស​ច្បាប់ និង​ញុះញង់​ឲ្យ​ប្រព្រឹត្ត​បទឧក្រិដ្ឋ។

ប៉ុន្តែ​​កន្លង​មក​ស្ថាបនិក​​បណ្ដាញ​ព្រះសង្ឃ​ឯករាជ្យ​ ដើម្បី​យុត្តិធម៌​សង្គម​ ព្រះតេជព្រះគុណ​ ប៊ុត ប៊ុនតិញ មាន​ថេរដីកា​ថា​ តុលាការ​ចាប់​ព្រះសង្ឃ​ដោយ​ពុំ​បាន​ស៊ើប​អង្កេត​ច្បាស់​លាស់​ ពីព្រោះ​កាំភ្លើង​ដែល​ព្រះអង្គ​ ហន សុផាន្នី បង្ហោះ​នៅ​លើ​បណ្ដាញ​ហ្វេសប៊ុក ​(Facebook) កាល​ពី​ខែ​មេសា ឆ្នាំ​២០១៧​​នោះ គឺ​ជា​កាំភ្លើង​ជ័រ​សម្រាប់​ក្មេង​លង ពុំ​មែន​ជា​អាវុធ​ដែល​បង្ក​គ្រោះថ្នាក់​ដល់​ជីវិត​មនុស្ស​ឡើយ៕

កម្មករ-កម្មការិនីរាប់ពាន់នាក់ ដែលបម្រើការងារនៅរោងចក្រកាត់ដេរស្បែកជើង New Starខេត្តព្រះសីហនុតវ៉ាបិតផ្លូវជាតិលេខ៤ដើម្បីទាមទារនូវអ្វីដែលដេក ជោរសន្យា

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.


(ព្រះសីហនុ)៖​ ក្រុមកម្មករ-កម្មការិនីរាប់ពាន់នាក់ ដែលបម្រើការងារនៅរោងចក្រកាត់ដេរស្បែកជើង New Star ស្ថិតនៅសង្កាត់លេខ១ ក្រុង-ខេត្តព្រះសីហនុ នៅព្រលប់ថ្ងៃទី២៦ ខែមករា ឆ្នាំ២០១៨នេះ បានផ្ទុះការតវ៉ា រហូតនាំគ្នាទៅបិតចរាចរណ៍លើផ្លូវជាតិលេខ៤ ជិតតែម្តង បណ្តាលឲ្យមានការកកស្ទះយ៉ាងខ្លាំង ពីសំណាក់បងប្អូនប្រជាពលរដ្ឋដែលកំពុងធ្វើដំណើរ ពោលនៅជាប់គាំងតែម្តង។

តាមសេចក្តីរាយការណ៍ពីភ្នាក់ងារព័ត៌មាន Fresh News បានឲ្យដឹងថា ក្រុមកម្មកររាប់ពាន់នាក់ បានផ្ទុះការតវ៉ាបិតផ្លូវជាតិលេខ៤ មិនឲ្យយានយន្តចរាចរណ៍ឆ្លងកាត់នោះទេ ដោយសាររឿងទាមទារ បើកលុយ៥ភាគរយកាលពីអាទិត្យមុន។

ស្នងការនគរបាលខេត្តព្រះសីហនុ លោកឧត្តមសេនីយ៍ទោ ជួន ណារិន្ទ បានបញ្ជាក់ផងដែរ ក្រុមកម្មករបានបិតផ្លូវជាតិលេខ៤ ជិតតែម្តង មិនអាចធ្វើដំណើរបាននោះទេ ដោយសារតែរឿងប្រាក់ខែ។ លោកឧត្តមសេនីយ៍ស្នងការ បានបន្តទៀតថា នៅពេលនេះកម្លាំងនគរបាលរបស់លោក កំពុងតែសហការជាមួយកម្លាំងអាជ្ញាធរចុះទៅសម្របសម្រួល ដោយដំបូងឲ្យបើកផ្លូវឡើងវិញ។

តាមសេចក្តីរាយការណ៍ នៅពេលនេះខាងមន្រ្តីមន្ទីរការងារ និងអាជ្ញាធរ បានចុះទៅធ្វើការសម្របសម្រួល និងដោះស្រាយជូន តែមិនទាន់ដឹងលទ្ធផលនៅឡើយទេ៕


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Dhamma talk by Maha Thera Dr. Hok Savann January 27, 2018

ម្លប់ពោធិ៍បាក់ខែង - was written by Thach Bunroeun and music composed by El Bunna and sang by Sin Si Samouth in 1973

Source: Thach Bunroeun

My first love, Ith Sinthan (now Ith Saran). ~Thach Bunroeun

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Thach Bunroeun and Ith Sinthan (aka Nhep), in 1972

My "ម្លប់ពោធិ៍បាក់ខែង"




Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Thach Bunroeun and Ith Sinthan, in Phnom Penh, July 2016.

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Former Congressman Ith Seap's family in 1960s. She is at the center of this picture below, the daughter of former Congressman Ith Seap of Democrate Party of 1940s.

ព្រួយចិត្តខ្លាំងពេក

Roeung pit robos oun រឿងពិតរបស់អូន

Roeung pit robos oun រឿងពិតរបស់អូន by Sinn Sisamuth ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត and Ros Sereysothea រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា

Detainees in US claim Cambodian officials sought to extort them

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
People participate in a demonstration against the deportation of Cambodian citizens in America in 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. IKARE

Daphne Chen | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 06:48 ICT

Local officials who were sent to interview Cambodians facing deportation from the US allegedly attempted to extort bribes from the detainees and their families, according to documents filed in a California court.

The detainees claim Cambodian officials promised to help stop their deportations if they gave the officials “gifts”, including Rolex watches, designer perfume, cash and iPhones.

Roughly 100 Cambodian citizens living in the US have been fighting their deportation orders after being rounded up by US immigration authorities in October.

Many of them were brought to the US as refugee children fleeing the Khmer Rouge and were later convicted of a range of crimes in their youth.

In a ruling on Friday, US Federal Judge Cormac Carney said US immigration officials had violated the detainees’ due process rights by not giving them a chance to be heard before deporting them, and said that 92 who were set to be deported can stay while they fight their cases in court.

The detainees’ American lawyers could not be immediately reached yesterday.

According to Carney’s ruling, the group facing deportation has reported that Cambodian officials have gone as far as to contact their family members to demand bribes and threatened detainees that they will “face consequences” in Cambodia if they told authorities about the demands.

Asked whether he would investigate the claims, Sok Phal, the head of immigration for the Interior Ministry, said he needed to know the names of the officials in order to do so, but said he did not believe the claims.

Preap Kol of Transparency International said the government “appointed the officials to work on this matter, so I assume the government knows who the allegations were directed at”.

“Given the extent of corruption in Cambodia, such claims and reports of extortions or bribes should be properly investigated,” Kol said in a message.

Phal claimed that both interior and foreign affairs officials had gone to the US to interview detainees, though an official with the Foreign Ministry, who requested anonymity, said none had done so from their ministry.

The protracted fight over deportations has been a wedge in US-Cambodian relations over the last year. US officials imposed visa sanctions on top-ranking Foreign Ministry officials last year after alleged repeated refusals to accept deportees. In retaliation, the Cambodian government suspended a joint program to locate and repatriate the remains of US service members who went missing during the Vietnam War.

On Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry praised the judge’s decision to government mouthpiece Fresh News and called the visa sanctions “unreasonable, unfair and even counter to its own laws”.

“We take this auspicious opportunity to renew our appeal to the US to lift its visa restrictions in order to pave the way for the resumption of the excellent bilateral cooperation on the MIA [program],” Sounry said.

Detainees have until February 5 to file challenges to their deportation orders.

Chaos-causing canine in Kampong Speu is still on loose

Soth Koemsoeun | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 08:41 ICT

Why did the dog cross the road? Police in Kampong Speu province were probably asking that question after a canine caused a crash between two motorists in Thpong district on Saturday.

Cops say an 18-year-old swerved to avoid the mutt that marched into the road and ran into another scooter going the opposite way.

Both injured riders were sent to hospital, and their bikes were taken to the police station. But the dog decided to hit the road before providing a statement.

Rasmei Kampuchea

ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម​ទទូច​ឲ្យ​កម្ពុជា​ស្នើ​​វៀតណាម​ឲ្យ​បើក​សាលាបង្រៀន​អក្សរ​ខ្មែរ​ដល់​ជនជាតិ​ដើម

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
នាយក​កម្មវិធី​សមាគម​ខ្មែរ​កម្ពុជា​ក្រោម​ដើម្បី​សិទ្ធិ​មនុស្ស និង​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍ លោក សឺន ជុំជួន ផ្ដល់​បទសម្ភាសន៍​ដល់​វិទ្យុ​អាស៊ីសេរី នៅ​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​៦ ខែ​ធ្នូ ឆ្នាំ​២០១៥។ RFA/Chuop Sereyroth

ដោយ មាន ឫទ្ធិ RFA 2018-01-29

សមាគម​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម​ស្នើ​ឲ្យ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​កម្ពុជា ចាប់​ផ្ដើម​គិតគូរ​ដល់​ពលរដ្ឋ​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម ដែល​កំពុង​គ្រប់គ្រង​ដោយ​វៀតណាម​នោះ បាន​រៀន​សូត្រ​អក្សរសាស្ត្រ ភាសា​ដើមកំណើត​របស់​ខ្លួន។ សំណើ​នេះ ធ្វើ​ឡើង​ក្រោយ​ពេល​ដែល​សមាជិក​គណៈកម្មការ​កណ្ដាល​បក្ស​កុម្មុយនិស្ត​វៀតណាម បាន​ស្នើ​ឲ្យ​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ​រដ្ឋ​របស់​កម្ពុជា បង្កើត​ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់​បង្រៀន​ភាសា​វៀតណាម​នៅ​កម្ពុជា។

នាយក​កម្មវិធី​សមាគម​ខ្មែរ​កម្ពុជា​ក្រោម ដើម្បី​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស និង​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍ លោក សឺន ជុំជួន បង្ហាញ​ជំហរ​មិន​យល់​ទាស់ ចំពោះ​សំណើ​របស់​សមាជិក​គណៈកម្មការ​កណ្ដាល​បក្ស​កុម្មុយនិស្ត​វៀតណាម ដែល​ចង់​ឲ្យ​បង្កើត​ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់​មួយ សម្រាប់​សិក្សា​ភាសា​វៀតណាម​នៅ​ក្នុង​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ​រដ្ឋ របស់​កម្ពុជា​នោះ​ទេ។ ប៉ុន្តែ លោក​ទទូច​ឲ្យ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​កម្ពុជា គិតគូរ​ក្នុង​ការ​ស្នើសុំ​ឲ្យ​អាជ្ញាធរ​វៀតណាម បើក​ឲ្យ​ពលរដ្ឋ​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម នៅ​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស​វៀតណាម អាច​សិក្សា​ពី​ភូមិសាស្ត្រ អក្សរសាស្ត្រ ដើមកំណើត​ខ្មែរ​ផង។ «»

តំណាង​បក្ស​កុម្មុយនិស្ត​វៀតណាម​ដែល​បាន​មក​ធ្វើ​ទស្សនកិច្ច​នៅ​កម្ពុជា កាលពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២៧ មករា បាន​ស្នើសុំ​កម្ពុជា​បើក​ឱ្យ​មាន​ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់ ភាសា​វៀតណាម នៅ​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ​ភូមិន្ទភ្នំពេញ ជំនួប​នេះ លើកឡើង​នៅ​ពេល​សមាជិក​គណៈកម្មការ​កណ្ដាល​បក្ស​កុម្មុយនិស្ត​វៀតណាម លោក​HUYNH THANH DAT និង​សមាជិក​ការិយាល័យ​នយោបាយ​លេខា​គណៈកម្មាធិការ​បក្ស​ទីក្រុង​ហូជីមិញ លោក NGUYEN THIEN NHAN បាន​ជួប​ជាមួយ​សាកលវិទ្យាធិការ​នៃ​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ​ភូមិន្ទភ្នំពេញ លោក ជេត ជាលី។ សារព័ត៌មាន​ក្នុងស្រុក​បាន​ស្រង់​សម្ដី​លោក ជេត លី ថា ឯកភាព នឹង​ពិចារណា លើ​គំនិត​ស្នើសុំ​នេះ។ វិទ្យាសា្ថន​ភាសាបរទេស​នៃ​សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ​ភូមិន្ទ​ភ្នំពេញ បច្ចុប្បន្ន​មាន ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់​ភាសា​ចំនួន​៦ គឺ ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់​ភាសា​បារាំង ភាសា​អង់គ្លេស ភាសា​ជប៉ុន ភាសា​ចិន ភាសា​កូរ៉េ និង​ភាសា​ថៃ។

បន្ទាប់​ពី​វៀតណាម បង្ហាញ​បំណង​ខ្លួន ក្នុង​ការ​បើក​ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់​ភាសា​វៀតណាម អ្នកប្រើប្រាស់​បណ្ដាញ​សង្គម​ហ្វេសប៊ុក​ខ្លះ បង្ហាញ​ជំហរ​គាំទ្រ និង​មាន​ខ្លះ មិន​គាំទ្រ។ អ្នកប្រើប្រាស់​ហ្វេសប៊ុក​ខ្លះ បាន​ទាមទារ​ឲ្យ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​វៀតណាម បើក​ដេប៉ាតឺម៉ង់​ភាសា​ខ្មែរ នៅ​សកល​វិទ្យាល័យ​ព្រៃនគរ ឬ​នៅ​សកល​វិទ្យាល័យ​ទីក្រុង​ហាណូយ​វិញ។ ចំណែក​ខ្លះ​ទៀត ទាមទារ​ឲ្យ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​វៀតណាម បើក​សាលា​ឲ្យ​ជនជាតិ​ខ្មែរ​ដើម នៅ​កម្ពុជា​ក្រោម អាច​សិក្សា​ភាសា​ដើមកំណើត​បាន ដោយ​គ្មាន​ការរារាំង ឬ​បញ្ឈប់​ការ​ធ្វើទុក្ខបុកម្នេញ ព្រះសង្ឃ ដែល​បង្រៀន​ភាសា​ខ្មែរ នៅ​តាម​វត្ត​អារាម ជាដើម។

អាជ្ញាធរ​វៀតណាម​ធ្លាប់​រង​ការរិះគន់ ថា​បាន​ធ្វើទុក្ខបុកម្នេញ និង​ចាប់​ព្រះសង្ឃ និង​ជនជាតិ​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម ដាក់​ពន្ធនាគារ ព្រោះតែ​កំហុស​លួច​បង្រៀន និង​រៀន​ភាសា​ខ្មែរ ដោយ​មិនបាន​សុំ​ការ​អនុញ្ញាត​ពី​អាជ្ញាធរ។

អាស៊ីសេរី​មិន​អាច​សុំ​ការ​បញ្ជាក់​ពី​អ្នកនាំពាក្យ​ក្រសួង​អប់រំ យុវជន និង​កីឡា លោក រស់ សាលីន បានទេ នៅ​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២៨ មករា ជុំវិញ​បំណង​សុំ​ឲ្យ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​គិតគូរ អំពី​ជនជាតិ​ដើម​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម ឲ្យ​បាន​សិក្សា​ភាសា​ដើមកំណើត​នេះ។

លោក សឺន ជុំជួន អះអាង​ថា មិន​ដែល​លឺ​ថា រដ្ឋាភិបាល​កម្ពុជា ធ្លាប់​ស្នើសុំ​ទៅ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​វៀតណាម ឲ្យ​មានការ​បង្រៀន​ភាសា​ខ្មែរ ដល់​ជនជាតិ​ខ្មែរ​ដើម​នៅ​កម្ពុជា​ក្រោម​ទេ។ ចំណែក​ការ​បង្រៀន និង​ការ​ខិតខំ​រៀន​របស់​ជនជាតិ​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម ដែល​កំពុង​រស់នៅ​លើ​អតីត​ទឹកដី​ខ្មែរ​នៅ​កម្ពុជា​ក្រោម លោក សឺន ជុំ​ជួន ឲ្យ​ដឹង​ថា ជា​ការ​ប្រឹងប្រែង​រៀន​សូត្រ​ដោយ​ខ្លួនឯង ដោយ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​កម្ពុជា មិនដែល​ធ្លាប់​គិតគូរ​ពី​ពួកគាត់​ទេ៕

Woman who kidnapped baby sees sentence reduced, attempted murder charge dropped

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Yin Sotheara, 34, (right) hides her face in a police vehicle in July 2017. Niem Chheng

Kim Sarom | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 19:27 ICT

A 34-year-old woman who was sentenced to 11 years in prison last July for briefly kidnapping a baby had her sentence reduced today to four years by the Appeal Court.

Appeal Court Judge Yun Narong announced the verdict to Yin Sotheara, stating that her charge had been changed from “attempted murder,” under Article 199 of the criminal code, to “unlawful removal of a minor”, under Article 9 of the Law on Anti-Human Trafficking.

During an appeal hearing beginning January 15, Sotheara told the judge that she loved the baby girl and had not intended to kill her.

In March 2017, Sotheara briefly took the baby from her friend, Meas Sovanna. She sealed the infant’s mouth with tape and put her in a plastic bag before using a rope to lower her to the street.

The next day, feeling remorse, Sotheara returned the baby to her mother, concealing the baby in a storage area under the seat of her motorbike as she travelled to Sovanna’s home.

Sotheara’s lawyer Chea Sokha said the appeal against the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s verdict from 2017 was made because her client never had a plan to kill the baby. Prosecutor Hean Rith also told the court that he supported changing the charge.

Awards bring football season to a close

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Atuheire Kipson receives the Golden Boot award for being Metfone C-League top scorer at an awards ceremony at Koh Pich Theater on Thursday night. Sreng Meng Srun

H S Manjunath | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 07:47 ICT

The winners of the 2017 Metfone C-League championship and the much coveted Hun Sen Cup received their well deserved rewards, along with the season’s star performers, at a glittering function at Koh Pich Theater held by the Cambodian National Competitions Committee (CNCC) on Thursday evening, while news of prolific Phnom Penh Crown scorer Shane Booysen moving to Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng filtered in over the weekend.

In a marked departure from the Football Federation of Cambodia’s convention over the years of handing out the trophies and awards at the end of each competition on the day of the final, the CNCC set a new precedent by staging something similar to an awards night to bring glamour to the end of the season in the presence of some special invitees, including secretary-general of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia Vath Chamroeun, with the FFC President General Sao Sokha presiding over the nearly two-hour event.

As newly promoted Visakha FC look forward to their debut when the season starts in early March, one of Cambodia’s star players of the past, Hok Socheatra, who briefly served as the national head coach between July and October of 2012, was showcasing the strength of his squad the same morning by announcing the signing of talented Pak Song-chol, reinforcing North Korean power after signing the quartet of Choe Myong-ho, Kim Kyong-hon, Ri Hyok-chol and Jang Song-hyok, who served National Defense Ministry so well in the just concluded season.

Phnom Penh-based Visakha are currently training in Thailand and are scheduled to play a friendly against Chanthaburi FC in Phnom Penh early next month before playing two more warm up games against Thai teams during the League season in June.

With Cambodian “muscle power” draining out with Chantha Bin Theary, Hok Sokpheng and Chan Vathanaka moving to the Malaysian league, which starts this Saturday, and Prak Mony Udum reportedly contemplating a similar move, the arrival of Pak, part of North Korea’s World Cup qualifying campaign, could bring some star power to the second-tier winners, who on the strength of their foreign component and some worthy local recruitment will be out to trouble the best.

But the ensuing season may also see the league’s Golden Boot winner, Rwandan Atuheire Kipson, who scored 26 goals in 23 appearances for NagaWorld, leave the club and head to the Malaysian top flight, crossing paths with some of the Cambodian players he has played against during a highly successful stint in the Kingdom.

While Crown’s loss of South African Shane Booysen will be Svay Rieng’s gain, musical chairs are currently underway with the movement of some national team players, most prominently Chreng Polroth of Army, who was named Most Valuable Player of the Metfone C-League season.

Metfone C-League 2017
WINNERS: Boeung Ket
RUNNERS-UP: National Defense Ministry
FAIR PLAY: Cambodian Mines Action Center
BEST REFEREEing TEAM: Khoun Vireak, Lim Bunthoeun, Sun Chan Phearith and Heng Sokly
BEST GOALKEEPER: Sou Yaty (Boeung Ket)
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Chreng Polroth (ARMY)
GOLDEN BOOT WINNER: Atuheire Kipson (NagaWorld – 26 goals)
BEST COACH: Hao Socheat (Boeung Ket)

HUN SEN CUP 2017
WINNERS: Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
RUNNERS-UP: Nagaworld
FAIR PLAY: Boeung Ket
BEST REFEREEing TEAM: Chy Samdy, Sun Daravuth and Chy Sopheap
BEST GOALKEEPER: Om Oudom (Svay Rieng)
GOLDEN BOOT WINNER: Khoun Laboravy (Boeung Ket – 16 goals)
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Prak Mony Udum (Svay Rieng)
BEST COACH: Sam Vandeth (Svay Rieng)

Individual awards
BEST SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER: Soeurn Sayonsonya (Post News)
BEST SUPPORTER: Biv Tola
Most POPULAR COACH: Meas Channa (Nagaworld)
Most POPULAR PLAYER: Ly Wahed (Boeung Ket)

Wedding has bride side, groom side, gang side

Soth Koemsoeun | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 08:41 ICT

A group of Takeo province gangsters made a case for keeping wedding parties small when they were arrested for instigating a 16-person melee in Kiri Vong district.

Descending on the celebration on Friday, the crew of nine managed to ignite a scrap on the dance floor before authorities showed up.

The miscreants were sorted from the innocent revellers and taken to police headquarters to have their picture taken not with the happy couple but alone in the form of mug shots.

Koh Santepheap

Creators of GoSoccer to pitch idea to tech giants in Singapore

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Founders of the GoSoccer application present to a panel of judges at the SmartStart competition in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photo supplied

Robin Spiess | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 28 January 2018 | 23:27 ICT

What started as an idea to better coordinate pick-up soccer games has become an award-winning application, and now the five Cambodian university students who developed it are set to fly to Singapore and meet with high-powered tech executives.

The GoSoccer application was declared the winner of the SmartStart competition in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, earning the app’s creators the contest’s top prize: an all-expenses-paid trip to meet with representatives of technology giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft in their Singapore offices.

According to Sengkhun Lim, one of GoSoccer’s founders, he and his friends created the app to help users find like-minded soccer players and reserve spaces to play in Phnom Penh.

“We came up with the idea for finding matches to play, and then decided to include bookings for fields, too,” Lim said, adding that GoSoccer’s profits would hopefully come from the field-booking aspect of the application. While they have not yet officially launched the app, the five co-developers plan to charge a 5 percent commission on each field booking and sell membership packages to field operators.

The SmartStart contest was sponsored by mobile operator Smart Axiata, which gave five teams of young developers $4,000 each six months ago to further develop their ideas. The five teams pitched their products to a panel of five judges in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, with GoSoccer coming out on top.

Smart has kept open the possibility of additional funding for the app in the future, though GoSoccer’s developers seemed more interested in the trip to Singapore than in any additional financing.

“Right now, we’re not thinking about money, we’re just excited to learn from these companies [in Singapore] and use the knowledge to help us scale our platform,” said team member Ratanak Hang.

“Singapore is a high-tech country, and we can learn a lot from them,” added Sovann Lyhour, another GoSoccer developer and a computer science major at Zaman University in Phnom Penh. “We look forward to visiting these big companies and allowing them to inspire us to work even harder on our own projects.”

Other ideas pitched at the final round of the contest included Ligo, a mobile platform for learning basic Khmer language and etiquette; Prestige Gift, a gift-wrapping and delivery service; Spare, a digital platform for renting available office and conference space; and Propey, a digital wedding planning service.

Man nabbed logging near Preah Vihear

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Timber and equipment seized from timber transporters in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province earlier this month. Photo supplied

Khouth Sophak Chakrya | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 08:19 ICT

The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has sent a man suspected of illegal logging in the Preah Vihear temple forestry conservation area to pre-trial detention, according to the provincial Environment Department.

Ear Sokha, director of the department, said 27-year-old suspect Thy Sophea was arrested on Saturday at 2am while felling trees north of the 11th-century temple.

“He was arrested while committing the crime,” Sokha said, adding that authorities confiscated 15 logs of luxury thnong, neang nuon and beng trees, as well as a chainsaw.

Sokha said the Preah Vihear Provincial Court had charged the suspect with illegal logging on Saturday evening.

The suspect allegedly confessed during questioning that he came from Tbong Khmum province to live in Sra Em commune, in Choam Ksan district, for more than a month in order to cut trees there.

Security guard Sem Sophat, who works at the Preah Vihear temple conservation area, said Sophea had insisted he had been working on his own.

“He said that he does it by himself because he wants to earn a lot of money to support his family,” Sophat said.

India loan signed to fund dam in Kampong Speu

Hor Kimsay | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 28 January 2018 | 23:27 ICT

India’s state-owned Export-Import Bank agreed to loan $36.92 million to the Cambodian government to fund the development of a dam and reservoir in Kampong Speu province.

The loan will fund the construction of the water management system on the Stung Sva Hab river in Phnom Srouch district. The Sva Hab sits upstream of Stung Prek Tnout, which provides irrigation for parts of Kampong Speu, Phnom Penh and Kandal provinces.

“When there is so much rain during rainy season, the dam will help to store water and stop it from flowing downstream [to Stung Prek Tnout], which will help reduce flooding,” said Chan Youttha, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. “In the dry season, the dam will release water to [Stung Prek Tnout], and then it will be used for consumption and agriculture.”

The loan agreement was signed in New Delhi on Saturday by Preeti Saran, secretary (East) of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, and Phan Phalla, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. No details about the conditions or terms of the loan were made available.

Youttha said he expected construction on the dam to begin later this year or early next year, and estimated it would take three years to complete the project.

លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ស្នើ​ឥណ្ឌា​បញ្ជូន​អ្នក​សង្កេត​ការណ៍​បោះឆ្នោត​មក​ជួយ​កម្ពុជា

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
លោក​នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី ហ៊ុន សែន ជួប​លោក​នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី​ឥណ្ឌា ណារិន្ត្រា មូឌី (Narendra Modi)។ Photo of SPM Facebook page

ដោយ តាំង សារ៉ាដា RFA 2018-01-29

រដ្ឋាភិបាល​កម្ពុជា​បាន​ស្នើ​ឲ្យ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​នៃ​ប្រទេស​ឥណ្ឌា បញ្ជូន​អ្នក​អង្កេត​ការណ៍​បោះឆ្នោត​មក​កម្ពុជា។ លោក ហ៊ុន សែន សរសេរ​នៅ​លើ​ទំព័រ​ហ្វេសប៊ុក (Facebook) របស់​លោក​ថា រដ្ឋាភិបាល​កម្ពុជា​បាន​ស្នើ​ឲ្យ​ប្រទេស​ឥណ្ឌា បញ្ជូន​អ្នកសង្កេតការណ៍​បោះឆ្នោត​របស់​ខ្លួន ទៅ​ពិនិត្យ និង​តាមដាន​អំពី​ការបោះឆ្នោត នៅ​កម្ពុជា នៅ​ថ្ងៃ​ទី២៩ ខែ​កក្កដា ឆ្នាំ​២០១៨ ខាង​មុខ​នេះ ដោយសារ​ឥណ្ឌា​ជា​ប្រទេស​ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​ដ៏​ធំ​មួយ ដែល​អាច​វាយតម្លៃ​បាន​អំពី​ការ​បោះឆ្នោត នៅ​កម្ពុជា​អំពី​ភាព​សេរី ត្រឹមត្រូវ និង​យុត្តិធម៌ ក្នុង​ពេល​បោះឆ្នោត​ខាងមុខនេះ។ ការ​ស្នើ​របស់​លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ធ្វើឡើង​នៅ​ក្នុង​កិច្ចពិភាក្សា​ជាមួយ អ្នកស្រី ស៊ុសស្មា ស្វារ៉ាជ (Sushma Swaraj) រដ្ឋមន្ត្រី​ក្រសួង​ការបរទេស​ឥណ្ឌា កាលពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​២៧ ខែ​មករា កន្លង​ទៅ​នេះ។

កន្លងមក​លោក ហ៊ុន សែន ក៏​ធ្លាប់​បាន​ទិញ​ចំនួន Like ដ៏​ច្រើន​សន្ធឹក សន្ធាប់​ពី​ប្រទេស​ឥណ្ឌា​ដែរ ដើម្បី​បង្ហាញ​សាធារណជន​ថា​លោក មានការ​គាំទ្រ​ខ្លាំង​ពី​ក្រុម​អ្នកប្រើប្រាស់​បណ្ដាញ​សង្គម​ហ្វេសប៊ុក។ ក្រោយ​ពី​ការ​ទិញ​ចំនួន Like ដ៏​ច្រើន​នេះ​រួចមក នៅ​ខែ​មេសា ឆ្នាំ​២០១៦ លោក​ហ៊ុន សែន បាន​ប្រកាស​តែងតាំង​ខ្លួន​ជា​អធិរាជ​ហ្វេសបុក ហើយ​នៅ​ពេល​នោះ​លោក រំពឹង​ថា នឹង​មាន​ចំនួន Likes នៅ​លើ​ហ្វេសប៊ុក​របស់​លោក កើន​ឡើង​ដល់​បួន​លាន​នាក់។

ពាក់ព័ន្ធ​នឹង​ការស្វែងរក​ភាព​ស្រប​ច្បាប់​នៃ​ការ​បោះឆ្នោត​ជាតិ​នៅ​ខែ​កក្កដា ខាងមុខនេះ ប្រទេស​ចិន​ដែល​ជា​ប្រទេស​កុម្មុយនិស្ត​គ្មាន​បទពិសោធន៍​ក្នុង​ការ​បោះឆ្នោត​បន្តិច​ណា​សោះ​នោះ បាន​សន្យា​ថា​នឹង​បញ្ជូន​ក្រុម​អ្នក​អង្កេត​ការណ៍​បោះឆ្នោត​របស់​ខ្លួន​មក​កម្ពុជា ហើយ​ដែល​មន្ត្រី​ជាន់ខ្ពស់​នៃ​អង្គការ​ឃ្លាំមើល​សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស​អន្តរជាតិ យូមែន រ៉ៃត៍ វ៉ច្ឆ (Human Rights Watch) ធ្លាប់​សម្ដែង​ការ​អស់​សំណើច ជា​ខ្លាំង​ចំពោះ​ប្រទេស​កុម្មុយនិស្ត​មក​ឃ្លាំមើល​ដំណើរការ​ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​នៅ​កម្ពុជា៕

Firework stockpile explodes at military base, damaging houses and orphanage

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Part of the aftermath of an explosion of gunpowder stockpiles at a fireworks factory on Saturday, which shattered windows and damaged homes. Photo supplied

Khouth Sophak Chakrya | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 19:29 ICT

A large stockpile of gunpowder meant for making fireworks went up in smoke late Saturday night at a military base in Kampong Speu, officials said today.

Treng Trayoeng commune Police Chief Prak Bunlay said four storerooms loaded with gunpowder exploded at 8:50 p.m. at the Cambodian Fireworks Company, which lies within a military compound in Phnom Sruoch district. Fireworks are assembled at the military site and later displayed at public events.

Defence Ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat declined to disclose the cost of the damage, saying such matters were “confidential” as it was an internal military matter.

“It exploded because of a technical error. We could not provide more detail about this,” he said.

Four homes, as well as an orphanage, were also affected in the blast, with windows and mirrors shattered and roof tiles falling from houses.

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
A wall damaged in the blast after a gunpowder stockpile exploded on Saturday. Photo supplied



One soldier suffered mild head injuries after parts of the roof fell on him, but he was not hospitalised.

Bunlay said it was lucky no one was seriously injured or killed in the explosion, with debris landing up to 500 metres away from the site.

“Maybe because the room is too hot and there are no windows… that caused all the gunpowder to explode,” he said.

He said a group of experts, including from the Ministry of Defence, would assess the size of the damage.

Ambulance triples its payload after accident

Soth Koemsoeun | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 08:40 ICT

An ambulance in Kandal province created even more work for itself when it struck two people directing traffic at the scene of an accident it was arriving at on Friday in Ang Snuol district.

The rescue vehicle was phoned after a car rammed a victim on a motorcycle, causing serious injury.

Two bystanders who took the initiative to try clearing the ensuing congestion were clipped when the wagon came speeding up.

All three were loaded in and driven swiftly off to hospital.

Nokorwat

Malaysia couple spared death for starving Cambodian maid

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Soh Chew Tong and Chin Chui Ling, photographed on their way to court in 2012, saw their sentences reduced from death penalty to 10 years imprisonment last week. Asia News Network

Leonie Kijewski | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 08:40 ICT

A Malaysian couple who were on death row for starving their Cambodian maid to death saw their sentences reduced to 10 years in prison last week, according to Malaysian rights organisations.

Chin Chui Ling and her husband, Soh Chew Tong, were initially convicted of homicide in 2013, but the appeal court handed them the death sentence for murder in 2015. On Thursday the Federal Court of Malaysia again reduced the charge to homicide.

Cambodian maid Mey Sichan went to Malaysia in 2011, and was found dead in 2012 weighing just 26.1 kilograms with marks of physical abuse.

Glorene Das, executive director of Malaysian human rights organisation Tenaganita, told reporters that, while her organisation did not support the death penalty, the 10-year sentence was unacceptable.

“There needs to be a stronger sentence for ending a human life,” she said.

Glorene added that memorandums of understanding to send workers to Malaysia weren’t sufficient protection as they did not hold perpetrators accountable.

Sally Alexander, also from Tenaganita, said in a message that she had visited the Cambodian Embassy a few weeks ago and found it had only a small room for temporary shelter for victims, and suggested it increase its capacity.

Cambodian Labour Minister Ith Samheng announced last week that the Kingdom would start sending maids to Malaysia again in June after a 2011 ban prompted by widespread abuses.

Naly Pilorge, of Cambodian human rights organisation Licadho, said that she was “confused and sickened” to hear about the reduction of the sentence given “the long suffering and terrible circumstances of the death of Mey Sichan”.

Justice no closer for San Sreylai

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Long Chanthy, mother of San Sreylai, poses with a picture of her daughter at her 100-day funeral ceremony. Sreylai’s death prompted women’s rights activists to speak out about the need to enforce laws on domestic violence. Daphne Chen

Mech Dara and Daphne Chen | The Phnom Penh Post
Publication date 29 January 2018 | 07:00 ICT

The scars criss-cross Long Chanthy’s body, from the back of her hands to the top of her hairline. Six years ago, her husband tried to kill both her and himself in a jealous rage, running away before the authorities could catch him.

To the women in Chanthy’s community, domestic violence has been a part of life. Many of them, including Chanthy’s daughter, were married to men who abused them. However, the 46-year-old never expected that she would be the one to survive, and her daughter to die.

As monks chanted at her daughter’s 100-day funeral ceremony on Saturday, outside the family’s humble home in Sen Sok district, Chanthy wiped away tears with a hand that has been forced into a permanent claw by scar tissue.

“It is the same path,” she said. “It is the same jealousy. And it is a double tragedy.”

To the public, Chanthy’s daughter San Sreylai was a rising star with a charmed life and a Hang Meas TV record deal. To her friends and family, the picture was much more complicated – a hardworking breadwinner who was gunned down by a man who had wielded his power over the family the same way he wielded his gun.

Now, more than three months after the 23-year-old The Voice Cambodia finalist was gunned down by her husband inside a salon in Boeung Keng Kang I, justice seems no nearer.

A promised investigation into a set of grisly photos shared among officers and posted to social media of Sreylai’s body lying in a pool of blood, with her sports bra pulled up to her neck, hasn’t materialised. And women’s rights activists who said they hoped that authorities would take an investigation into the photographs seriously now say that doesn’t appear to have happened.

Phnom Penh Police Commissioner Chuon Sovann, who promised at the time that he would “not tolerate” the leak, could not be reached for comment over multiple days. Phnom Penh Deputy Police Chief Song Ly refused to comment, directing all questions to Sovann.

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Members of the media and public crowd around as the body of The Voice Cambodia finalist San Sreylai, fatally shot in October at a beauty clinic by her estranged husband, is loaded into an ambulance. Heng Chivoan

Chantevy Khourn, women’s rights team leader at ActionAid Cambodia, said police must be trusted to follow through on investigations – especially when they are investigating their own force.

“If it is true that no action has been taken against the officers involved, it is a serious failure, not only to bring justice to Sreylai and her family, but also to restore the trust of Cambodian women,” Khourn said in a statement.

Legal expert Sok Sam Oeun said the leakage of the photos could be a criminal act. However, regardless of whether or not someone is eventually charged, “the police must do something so that in the future no such case happens again”, Sam Oeun added.

Chanthy, who called the photos an insult on top of an insult, said police have yet to contact the family about the leak. “They should not do that,” she said. “They should not check my daughter’s breasts. We want to ask, what is the purpose of this?”

However, Chanthy said she is scared to press the issue, afraid of making waves. The family has few resources, and even fewer now that Sreylai is gone. Mother and daughter struggled to make ends meet for years, working in a Poipet nail salon when a local customs official first spotted Sreylai. He was older and a widower. They married when Sreylai was 18 years old.

After the couple had their first child, he became increasingly jealous, according to Chanthy, who said Sreylai’s husband began trying to separate her from friends and family. Even before Srelai went on The Voice, Chanthy said she often witnessed the abuse herself, including the husband brandishing his gun and threatening to kill Sreylai.

“Every time she went to divorce him, he threatened to kill her,” Chanthy said. “We were scared to report it to police because we were scared he would shoot all of us.”

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
A person watches The Voice Cambodia finalist San Sreylai perform on their smartphone on the day she was killed by her estranged husband in an upscale neighbourhood in Phnom Penh. Heng Chivoan

To women’s rights activists, Sreylai’s case has highlighted the concerns they have been raising for years.

In a report by Licadho released last month, researchers found that Cambodian women often endure abuse for years because they feel they have no option but to remain in violent situations. Many surveyed were not aware of domestic violence shelters or restraining orders, and perpetrators were rarely punished.

Many women interviewed also cited Buddhist beliefs in karma and social harmony as factors influencing them not to report abuse.

Licadho’s Naly Pilorge said domestic violence cases continue to go unreported, making it difficult to tell how commonplace these viewpoints are. However, “the preservation of Khmer culture should not be assimilated to crimes committed against women, children and families”, Pilorge said.

Chanthy said she, too, wonders whether it was always her and her daughter’s fate to suffer – due to bad karma left over from a previous life. Her daughter was still trying to decide whether to divorce her husband when he found her at the salon in BKK1 and killed them both, leaving their 6- and 8-year-old boys parentless.

“You cannot escape this jealousy,” Chanthy said. “We hear of so many husbands killing their wives out of jealousy in our neighbourhood and through Facebook. But I did not believe it could happen to us.”
Viewing all 40045 articles
Browse latest View live


<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>