#Khmer Times

[carlocarrasco]

Cambodia aiming to attract 3 million to 4 million foreign tourists for 2023

Cambodia, the nation that will be hosting the 32nd edition of the Southeast Asian Games (also referred to as SEA Games and Cambodia 2023, click here and here), is aiming to attract between 3 million to 4 million foreign tourists for the year 2023 and improve over what was achieved in 2022, according to Khmer Times news report. For the year 2022, Cambodia attracted 2.28 million foreign tourists…

[nijidraws]

The Khmer Miku from your dance class! 🇰🇭

[news4dzhozhar]

He certainly proved the adage "only the good die young" living to 100.

[ql-of-all-time-bracket]

QL of All Time - Round 1: Love of the Sea (2023) vs Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (2022-2023)

[bimdraws]

Cambodians for Palestine 🇵🇸🇰🇭

[miz-orque]

Thought: Everything Tyger Claws do is exactly what Monsoon did in his canonical past, but with the addition of braindances.

[terresdebrume]

... I don't know if it's because my period is ending but man the mood swings today and yesterday were Not Fun

[naitosutan]

Doodled out some art for my bday cuz I can 😤

[moldwood]

Are you converting to Muslim? What got you interested in Arabic?

nope! i made a post or two sort of joking about an extreme take on it before, but my religious beliefs are very secular. for example i believe in reincarnation, but not in the sense of a soul with personhood attached moving in to the next being, moreso that the energy that you give to the things that eat you + what you become is you living on in those things. there's not necessarily any element of a god involved, but i think there's something alive in everything, and that aliveness is divine? i'm not sure if that makes sense!

anyway! i wanted to start learning arabic really just because i had an itch to learn a new language. i had learnt french in school (i mostly forget it now...) and was bouncing between a few choices - irish because ireland is one of the places my family is from; polish for the same reason, and arabic because i have a friend who lived in jordan for a while when they were a teenager. they were starting to lose the language, so we decided it would be fun to learn together. they would get to brush up on the basics and skip ahead and i would have someone to (shoddily) practice with. i've been a bit slow with my studies because i've been balancing working on projects and commissions, but i just really like everything involved with learning a language. it feels really satisfying!

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

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[carlocarrasco]

Cambodia looking forward to making the 32nd SEA Games a great experience

With the launch of the 32nd edition of the Southeast Asian Games (also referred to as SEA Games and Cambodia 2023) approaching fast, the host nation of Cambodia reiterated its preparedness to host many visitors from around the region and ensure that the games will be memorable, according to a Khmer Times news report. Take note that this is the first time ever Cambodia will host the SEA Games and…

[ql-of-all-time-bracket]

QL of All Time - Round 1 (Loser's Bracket): Love of the Sea (2023) vs Wedding Plan (2023)

[0mega-x]

I am often wondering why my area, one city in particular, has so many people of East and South-East Asian descent, ESPECIALLY Viets, Khmers and Chinese. It's like, what was so attractive about this fucking village in the 70s of a few hundred people that was still in the countryside at time?! Yeah it was in a development area, sure. But there were many others even around Paris???

Half of my neighbours in my building are of Asian origin. There are vietnamese restaurants every 100 meters. The municipality has close ties to Cambodia- literally the only reason the village went from like 300 people to 15k is them, the Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao, Chinese, Thai and even Indian and Korean immigrants. They're legit the backbone of my area. The mayor himself said there might be up to 40% of the population being Asian. What made my area specifically so attractive to Asian immigrants back then?!

[jacensolodjo]

Some of y'all like communism a little too much and act too much like it's communism or else you're a big ol' conservative republican who loves capitalism and 'Merica. (P.S. not everything is about the United States of America. No, not even if you dig. Misery can be brought by more than the US of A.)

It's concerning as someone who spends half their time trying to tell children about communist atrocities and wondering how many of them go home and rant about how evil I am for being against communism. Even after knowing/learning communism has killed far more millions than we will ever really fully know because they figured out how to do it a little too well in an age when you just have to toss everything into a fire to get rid of the evidence.

How much generational trauma is still going along the bloodline because of communism. How many victims feel like they have to be silent or else they get dogpiled by children. Telling them they're wrong.

Do you even know who the Khmer Rouge killed? Why?

Do you even know what the Holodomor is?

How many millions of Ukrainians and Cambodians are gone because of communists? Because their ideology literally says to murder en masse? I'm sorry that isn't what you took out of your little commie manual.

How much bigger, fuller, wonderful would life be in dozens of places if not for communism? Communism does not encourage art. It does not encourage writing (except for the machine of communism). It does not care if you are disabled, it will kill you for being useless as a worker. If you think it cares a fucking whit about people like me, you're sadly mistaken.

Queer people are an abomination. They will not/can not produce future workers. They are things to be killed and dumped into pits because they are not proper members of the Party. Some even got forced sterilization just for that extra bit of misery and humiliation.

It is not the amazing, wonderful, loving, caring ideology you take it for.

It cares not for true science. If a scientist disagrees with the Party Scientists, they have to go. Communist Science looks like putting hundreds into the freezing cold. Forcing them to have children. For the sole purpose of making the children immune to the cold. That's not how that works. So many dead for science that isn't real science. Where is your concern for ethics? For humanity? It does not exist in communism.

Communism is not what you think it is. Communism has murdered millions. Communism has hurt the families of people you claim the glory of communism in front of.

Better dead than red? Dead because of Red.

Communism is not 'people of color winning' in South America, in Cuba. In Cambodia. In China. It's people of color dying because of an ideology that should have been stopped in the 1800s.

[terresdebrume]

Favorite question I got this week from a student: "Do French people ever get [the gender of words] wrong?"

I thought it was a very sweet thought and a glimpse into the mind of someone who grew up with two non gendered languages^^

For anyone wondering, the answer is no. I mean, really little kids yes, but 1) adults correct you and 2) if a chair (feminine) is broken, the sentence in French would be "She's broken, we need to fix her" so like. We get reminders^^

[warningsine]

I keep seeing such comments on my notes which makes me wonder: what did I miss?

"The Handmaid's Tale" draws on global histories.

Atwood was inspired by what happened:

during the Iranian Revolution (1978-1979),

in Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos,

in Germany (The Lebensborn project),

in Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu,

in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge,

in Stalinist Russia.

She was also inspired by what happened to Argentinean women during Jorge Rafael Videla's military dictatorship which was backed by the US.

But killing the pregnant women was a crime that even Argentina’s military men – who referred to themselves in self-aggrandising speeches as defenders of “western and Christian civilisation” – couldn’t bring themselves to commit. Instead, they kept pregnant activists alive until they gave birth, murdering them afterwards and handing their babies to childless military couples to raise as their own. It was, in a macabre sense, the military’s ultimate victory against a despised enemy they had decided to annihilate completely. It is estimated some 500 children were born under these circumstances.

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And what happened to Spanish women under Franco.

Known as the lost children of the Franco-era, as many as 300,000 babies are estimated to have been abducted from their mothers under General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939-75, and in the decades after.

The theft of newborns began in the 1930’s after the Spanish Civil War as an ideological practice, stripping left-wing parents or Franco-opponents of their children as a way of ridding Marxist influence from society. But in the 1950’s, the practice expanded to poor or illegitimate families who were seen as economically or morally deficient, Agence France-Presse reports.

New mothers were often told their babies had died and the hospital had taken care of the burials. These babies were allegedly sold for adoption and involved a wide network of doctors, nurses, nuns and priests, according to AFP. The system carried on after Franco’s death in 1975 until 1987, when a new law was implemented regulating adoption.

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"When I wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale', nothing went into it that had not happened in real life somewhere at some time," she said.