Cambodia in My Dream!

The Son Of the Khmer Empire

What should I do to make Cambodia great again?  This is  the most important question that keeps me struggle to fullfil the answer until now.

Cambodia in my mind is the most beautiful world for my life. She is the land of all things- suffering, wonder, extreme, love, romance, compassion, struggle, power, art, architechure, and pride. She is the part of my life. She is what constitutes what I am today. She is the invaluable thing in the world that I can´t live without. I am proud to be what I am because of this motherland of Cambodia. And I never forgets her in every minute in my daily life except for the time I sleep, yet I still think of her in my dream. She appears to my feeling in the image of beauty, the image of cruelty, the image of smile, the image of poverty, the image of happiness, and the image of hope. She creates the dream for me because she is the one that creates what I am. And it is just a dream now!

The Law of Empowerment

By: The Son Of the Khmer Empire

“Only Secured Leader Gives Power to Others,” John C. Maxwell.

Politically, empowerment is the political will to empower other to decide, to act, to replace, to take a role and to lead for the sake of the nation. It plays a very important role in the society as the agent of change most positively towards national progress and democracy.  It is really a self-confident and visionable decision for the leader to undertake the law of empowerment because it reflects his self-strength, self-reliance, choice, dignity, values, independence, decision making, freedom, self-discovery, responsibility, sacrifice, and security.

Empowerment can be implemented only with the leader who feels secured for his personal dignity and life as stated by John C. Maxwell that, “Only secured leader gives power to others.” It means that only the leader who is responsible, conscious, dignified, independent, self-respect, democratic, and the true nationalist that recognizes the value of empowerment. He visions that the empowerment will not threat his life or even it threats his life but not his dignity (self-value).  Yet empowerment will never happen to a leader who is egotist, dictator, traitor, criminal and lack of self-value. Therefore, it is not surprise at all to hear that Hun Sen often makes self-declaration that he wants to be the PM of Cambodia for life which can be explained as follows:

The Law of Critics

By: The Son Of the Khmer Empire

Politically and democratically, the word “CRITICS” implies the sense of strong support in the political involvement and commitment. “Critics” improves the performance of the political leadership and it doesn’t mean to stop support.

USA the father of the modern democratic country sees “critics” as the tips for national development as raised by Marvin Olsaky that, “USA builds up her power through four fundamental principles: raw material, skillful labors, the right management, and basic critics”.

In contrast, in Cambodian context, most people think that when one is criticized, one feels politically or personally offensive and lose support and just turn away without consideration.

History has proved in most countries about the danger of a nation where a leader failed to appreciate, “the Law of Critics.” This failure is hindered by some of the cases as follow:

The Value of Wearing Eyeglass!

By: The Son Of the Khmer Empire

They both wear eyeglasses, which one should I vote for?

Actually, the story happened almost five years ago in Angkor Borei district, Takeo province during my visit to my brother-in-law. I was very happy every vocation during my study abroad because I could visit my family and our country.  And the memory of the visit is written down in my dairy, but it is never publicized. Yet this one is very funny for  it does reflect the way some people judge thing in our motherland.

Psychologically, in Cambodia to wear glasses is to give another value to the person himself. People are viewed and valued differently sometimes by the glasses they wear, particularly, the sunglasses and the eyeglasses. To wear the sunglasses, one is viewed as socialized, civilized, sexy, and yet sometime he is viewed as the blind or even a gangster.  The eyeglass has somehow different value. It is viewed as the symbol of the educated, intellectual, gentleness, and politeness.

Elusive KRT staffer surfaces [after allegations of corruption]

Monday, 09 August 2010
By Cheang Sokha and James O’Toole

Phnom Penh Post

Photo by: Heng Chivoan Sean Visoth (left) greets Deputy Prime Minister Sok An upon the latter’s arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport.

THE Khmer Rouge tribunal’s chief of administration appeared in public on Saturday at a government function after going on extended sick leave almost two years ago amid a flurry of corruption allegations.
Sean Visoth left the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, as the tribunal is formally known, in November of 2008. According to defence lawyers for former Khmer Rouge Brother No 2 Nuon Chea, a report from a German parliamentary delegation that visited the tribunal one month before Sean Visoth’s departure found that he was “guilty of corruption”.

On Saturday, Sean Visoth joined government officials at Phnom Penh International Airportto welcome home a group of Cambodian officials led by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An who were arriving from Brazil. The former tribunal administrator appeared healthy and energetic as he greeted the delegation.

“My health is very much improved now, but I still cannot handle any heavy labour,” Sean Visoth said. “At the moment, I don’t really care about the work of the ECCC – my health is my priority.”

Asked when he might return to the court, Sean Visoth was noncommittal.

Hun Sen approaches UN

MONDAY, 09 AUGUST 2010 15:03
By: SEBASTIAN STRANGIO AND CHEANG SOKHA
Phnompenhpost

PRIME Minister Hun Sen wrote a letter to the United Nations Security Council yesterday addressing Cambodia’s ongoing

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territorial dispute with Thailand, a day after his Thai counterpart reportedly threatened to use military force to settle the standoff.

On Saturday, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told a rally of pro-government Yellow Shirts that he would be willing to cancel a memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries in 2000 in the interest of safeguarding Thai sovereignty.

“We will cancel the MoU if the problem can’t be settled. We will use both democratic and military means,” The Nation newspaper quoted him as saying.

In a letter to Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s representative to the UN and the council president, Hun Sen said Abhisit’s threat had violated two articles of the UN Charter.