KI Media: “Sign-on to Cambodia's Civil Society Joint Statement” plus 8 more |
- Sign-on to Cambodia's Civil Society Joint Statement
- Public Invitation to meet MP Son Chhay in Long Beach, California 8/20/2011
- "Rukha Tevada" a Poem in Khmer by Sék Serei
- "តើលោកសុន ឆៃ ជានរណា? - Who is Son Chhay?" - Meet him in San Jose, California on Sunday 21 August 2011
- A final act of kindness
- Litter and exam results outside one high school in Central Phnom Penh on 19 August 2011
- "Do You Know…?" - Opinion by Anonymous
- Sam Rainsy: “What is important right now is not physical presence, but the mind, soul and conscience [presence]”
- A heart for fellow patients
| Sign-on to Cambodia's Civil Society Joint Statement Posted: 21 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT  Sign-on to Cambodia's Civil Society Joint StatementThe Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC) releases their Joint Statement petition and calls on others to show solidarity with Cambodians and their right to be heard. This is the 11th hour – a land rights NGO has already been suspended and a number of others are at risk. Time is running out to push back! Your collective support is needed in order for the government of Cambodia to reconsider their proposed Law on Associations and NGOs. To show international solidarity, individuals and organizations are urged to sign-up by sending a YES e-mail to joint-statement@ccc-cambodia.org. Please indicate your name, organization name, and address as soon as possible. More information can be found at www.ccc-cambodia.org. This is an urgent call for global action as the draft law on associations and NGOs is in final stages! CCC had nearly 700 institutional sign-ons in the last round and would like to meet that level of global support again quickly. Please circulate this action widely with your colleagues and networks! Also, please "like" the Facebook page "Oppose the Cambodian NGO and Associations Law" and tweet your concerns. CCC is currently collecting video clips and stories from Cambodians in the provinces in order to share more broadly in international and new media. For more information, go to: International Experts Add to Worries on NGO Law – VOA, Aug 16, 2011 NGO 'incitement' – Phnom Penh Post, Aug 15, 2011 Campaign Against NGO Law Intensifies – Radio Free Asia, Aug 12, 2011 Civil Society under Threat of New NGO Law in Cambodia | ||
| Public Invitation to meet MP Son Chhay in Long Beach, California 8/20/2011 Posted: 20 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT
On behalf of Sam Rainsy Party in Long Beach, California I would like to invite all of you to join dinner party to honor MP Son Chhay and Mr. Keo Phirum
For more information, please contact: MR. LEANG,VANNAK at (562) 607 5511 MR. KUNG, TATH at (562) 508 6886 MR. VANN, PRASOEUR at (562) 492 1320 MR. MOM, SOK at (818) 570 4635 MR. LY,BAKCHHRUN at (562) 423 1680 MR. LOR, SOK at (818) 391 0824 MR. KHIEV,THEANG at (909) 881 2937 MR. VORN, YEN at (562) 659 3984  | ||
| "Rukha Tevada" a Poem in Khmer by Sék Serei Posted: 20 Aug 2011 09:12 AM PDT   | ||
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| Posted: 20 Aug 2011 02:23 AM PDT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44167629#44167629  | ||
| Litter and exam results outside one high school in Central Phnom Penh on 19 August 2011 Posted: 20 Aug 2011 02:17 AM PDT   | ||
| "Do You Know…?" - Opinion by Anonymous Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:46 PM PDT If someone wrote that 'The Khmer Language Is Dying.', oh, man, it has triggered a barrage of comments, pros and cons, altogether is [183]. But, if someone wrote that 'Srok Khmer Is Dying.' e.g. by a famous poem of Spean Tep, oh man, it generates only 57 comments. Why is that? Prates Cheat Kong Vong Teub Sasna, Pheasa… Nov Kong Vong Ban. "I have pride to be born as Khmer should be changed ~ to be dead as Khmer." [Khgnom Mean Moranakpheap Nas Doy Ban Keut Chea Cheat Khmer]  | ||
| Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:11 PM PDT
By Kuoch Kuntheara Radio France Internationale Translated from Khmer by Meun Sneheut RFI's weekly guess on Saturday 20 August is Mr. Sam Rainsy, President of the Sam Rainsy Party. In response to Kuoch Kuntheara's questions, Mr. Sam Rainsy is still confident that there will be a political resolution that will allow him to participate in the upcoming 2013 election. Regarding his almost 2-year absence from Cambodia, Mr. Sam Rainsy claimed that what is important right now is not the physical presence, but the mind, soul and conscience [presence]. Sam Rainsy compared his case to that of Thaksin Shinawatra whose Puea Thai party won landslide election recently in Thailand. Click the control below to listen to the interview:  | ||
| Posted: 19 Aug 2011 09:16 PM PDT  Steve Wegrzyn, who died Tuesday, was touched by the plight of Cambodian children with heart problems. Tiny Socheat Nha, seen in this undated photo after her successful surgery, was one of the Hearts Without Boundaries success stories that inspired him. By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer Press Telegram, Aug. 18, 2011 LONG BEACH - Steve Wegrzyn had a good heart. It just didn't work very well. Wegrzyn, who suffered the effects of juvenile diabetes throughout his life, died Tuesday from complications of a brain hemorrhage. He was 47. In 2009, Wegrzyn had heart surgery and in 2010 he received a new kidney and pancreas. Maybe it was because of his own health difficulties that he was drawn to others with heart problems. That's what led him to become involved with Hearts Without Boundaries, a local nonprofit that helps impoverished Cambodian children get heart treatment and surgery unavailable to them in their home country. Peter Chhun, head of Hearts Without Boundaries, remembers Wegrzyn felt a special kinship to the children. "By helping them, maybe in return they'll help me," Chhun remembers his friend saying. Born in Indiana, Wegrzyn moved to the Long Beach area in 1983. In 1998, the lifelong "car guy" bought into Fiesta II Auto Sales on Pacific Coast Highway and was a common sight there with his Akita, Totei. He later became a regular at Sophy's Restaurant across the street. There he would hang out with staff and interact with the different heart patients that came to visit the restaurant, which supports the nonprofit. He became aware of it when Davik Teng came to the United States. She would have her surgery not long before Wegrzyn had his operation. One patient he was particularly fond of was Socheat Nha, who had her heart operated on in 2010. Despite his ongoing health issues, which required numerous hospitalizations in recent years, and his business struggles during the economic downturn, Wegrzyn was a consistent donor and supporter of Hearts Without Boundaries and attended its events whenever his health allowed. "To see a person share like that, to me he was something really special," Chhun said. "He was passionate about it," Wegrzyn's sister Karol Siwietz said of the nonprofit and its patients. "He never had children of his own but he loved kids. He would have been a good dad." Siwietz and her family visited Wegrzyn recently and remarked at how healthy and happy he seemed. "He thought he'd finally turned the corner (with his health)," Siwietz said. "He was in a really happy place." Part of that happiness came from playing a role in helping the children he met at Sophy's. Maybe the children with health ailments couldn't repair Wegrzyn's heart, but for a while, they helped to fill it. Wegrzyn is survived by his mother, Anne Wegrzyn; sisters Karol Siwietz and Kathy Brown; brother, Walt Wegrzyn, four nephews and two nieces. A memorial gathering will be held Saturday at Sophy's from 3 to 6 p.m. The family has asked in lieu of flowers that donations be made in his memory to Hearts Without Boundaries, 744 Redondo Ave., Long Beach, CA., 90804 or online at http://heartswithout boundaries.org. greg.mellen@presstelegram.com, 562-499-1291  |
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