Cambodian-Americans in Long Beach, Calif., held a fundraiser late last month to help Cambodians still struggling with monsoon flooding. About 400 residents gathered at the New Paradise Restaurant on Oct. 28, in the Cambodia Town neighborhood of the city, raising nearly $16,000 in donations
Sopheak Real loves rice. Now, thanks to some new initiatives in his native Cambodia, the Fresno, California, elementary school teacher can buy rice from his homeland. “It’s not much different from other rice,” Sopheak Real said recently.
Long Beach, Calif., saw its second annual business expo last weekend, where US and Cambodian partners looked for new ways to increase the flow of trade between the two countries. Danny Vong, an adviser to the Cambodian-American Business Association, which hosted the expo, said trade was moving forward.
For all those who’ve been to Bali, Indonesia for a quick vacation, they are probably to say only lovely words in regards to the island. The fact is, “beautiful” isn’t adequate of an adjective to ideal describe their experience. Some individuals use other words such as breathtaking, splendid, and captivating. Other people just merely run [...]
Cambodian-American representatives from various US states went before Congress last month, in an intensified lobbying effort to get representatives to understand the hardships and struggles faced by Cambodian immigrants today.
When the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal stood up in 2006, it offered a chance for many Cambodians to seek some form of truth and justice that many hoped could help heal some of the trauma wrought by the regime. In the US, much of that help has come from Nou Leakhena, a Cambodian-American sociologist and professor who spends much of her free time helping other Cambodians in the US take advantage of what healing the tribunal might offer
Distance is perhaps one barrier that prevents US-Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge from participating in UN-backed trials underway in Phnom Penh.
The Cambodian government has begun investigating the country’s orphanages; just days after the United Nations Children’s Fund expressed its concerns that nearly three out of four children in the country’s orphanages have at least one living parent. Earlier this week, UNICEF said most of the 12,000 children in Cambodia’s orphanages are, in fact, not orphans. Nearly three-quarters of them have one living parent, yet the number of children in care has more than doubled in five years
Couple kill themselves after denied marriage A COUPLE in Kampong Chhnang’s Teuk Phos district committed suicide by swallowing poison together on Friday.
Photo by: Jonathan Eames/BirdLife International Sarus cranes are seen in the Anlong Pring bird sanctuary in Kampot province’s Kampong Trach district last year. The Cambodian government has issued a sub-decree that establishes a conservation area in Kampot province for Sarus Cranes, a vulnerable species that has gone extinct in multiple Asian nations.