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Hem Chiev will always be a very admired Cambodian hero. This is a book about his life. Achar (a title given to a Buddhist clergyman) Hem Chiev was born in 1898 in Kandal province to a family of a father as a district chief and a mother as a housewife. He had four other siblings. […]

“I Didn’t And Won’t Vote; It’s No Big Deal” In the 2003 national election, Chea Kim Lang, 23 now, was at the legal age for voting, but she did not. As the 27 July 2008 national election is coming near, Kim Lang does not have any plan to vote at all. Looking a bit angry

I feel that there are so many people in the countryside getting traumatized and victimized by poverty. I have been bombarded with so much information of what causes poverty. What is meant by countryside and poverty? What’s the interrelation between them? I’ve seen that in other provinces around Cambodia, there are a lot of peasants,

Trying to pedal, pedal, pedal, for my dear life!!How tiring! Inside Safari World, I spotted these two ducks.I chose another one.haha Safari World Sadly, this riel bill isn’t needed by anybody. Wild purple flowers I spotted while trekking A sea crab inside!!! I found it. It looks strange. There’s a living-being inside. Sea with no

Welcome to this boundary-less sea! Koh Kong lacks nothing.

This happened one evening when the nature gave out its power. One evening around where I live, there’s something the world usually sees happening… The nature state was silent, except ‘whooooo’ in my ears…. It became darker than ever,even my camera couldn’t shoot what really was happening..What my mother did was plunging a sword into

On Friday, Catherine (Taylor), author of Once Upon a Time in Beirut, and I were respectively busy since the next day, she would have to fly to Australia. I wanted to do my best to finish what she planned to do. However, not everything was successfully done but I was glad we could do a

Told to study very hard and learn to ignore other people’s suffering sometimes, I can never obey it. Every moment, there is a person already suffering. Every minute, there is a person who is a dire need of help. I cannot avert my eyes from all forms of suffering, just like the way Buddha expeirenced

Sometimes, I find it very hard to know what song I really like. But this song makes me want to sleep. 🙂

A few days a go, I received a big package of 11 buddhist books! Oh, my I’m excited to read them all! Would you like to read? If you do, please contact me. I’ll lend one to you :). If you’d like to order the books, go to www.budaedu.org. Actually, for an individual, you can