#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)

[miz-orque]

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

[bimdraws]

Cambodians for Palestine 🇵🇸🇰🇭

[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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[fluidstatick]

When I was little, my dad hired a Cambodian refugee called Jack to help him drywall a dining room ceiling. Jack spoke very little English; he'd recently gotten a part time job in a little Asian deli not far from our home and needed to pick up some extra work. He was very kind to six year old me and my exhausted mom; he brought us day old leftovers from the deli counter often, and liked to tuck the knuckle of his index finger into the dimple in my cheek whenever I smiled at him.

He soaked up construction skills and other information like a sponge, and by the time he left my dad's tiny construction company he'd gotten his GED, learned to drive, reunited with his sister and her family, and had begun remodeling a vacant business on the rich side of town into a Cambodian restaurant. He invited us to their grand opening on lunar new year, and I'll never forget when he gave me a red envelope with five dollars in it and told me, "tonight I am the luckiest man in the world, so this will bring you luck, too."

Years later, my dad told me that Jack had witnessed his parents' murder during the khmer rouge, and was immediately separated from his sister. He had to cross the killing fields at Choeung Ek alone, on foot, eating grass and insects to survive. He somehow made it to Cam Ranh on the coast of Vietnam, where a distant friend of his father's put him on a boat to Seattle. Jack was nine years old.

I tell this story because, even though I haven't seen Jack or any of his relatives in thirty years, I pray he's well and happy and eating like a king tonight with everyone he loves, celebrating the long overdue demise of the pestilential sonofabitch who tried to wipe them out.

Fuck Henry Kissinger's pathetic ghost, and fuck all those who praise him. Fuck Imperialism. Fuck the genocidal war machine. Drink deep for the freedom of all souls tonight, my friends. And tomorrow, keep fighting.

[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…

[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?!

[alenasbdesign]

Happy Independence Day, Cambodia!

[ql-of-all-time-bracket]

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

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

When 28-year old B-movie star and photojournalist Sean Flynn disappeared on April 6, 1970, his mother left his apartment untouched for over 20 years in hopes her son would someday return.

He was the son of Errol Flynn and the French actress Lili Damita, yet unlike his father, he was less of a hellraiser and more soft-spoken and introverted, but had an obsession with danger and thrill-seeking just the same.

Sean’s Parisian apartment on the Champs Élysées was sealed by his mother to preserve his memory and remained a time capsule of the 60s until it was opened up after the death of Lili in 1994.

The walls were plastered with images of counterculture figures such as Jimi Hendrix, Che Guevara, and Ho Chi Minh, pictures of Sean travelling around the world as well as skydiving and hunting, copious amounts of taxidermy, a miniature of the Zaca (his father Errol Flynn’s yacht), expensive camera equipment, books, rolls of undeveloped film, psychedelic-patterned ties, unopened mail, and snappy clothing.

Sun Day magazine described the apartment as a “weird mixture of 60s flower power and very gruesome souvenirs” from his stint as a game hunter in Africa.

After moving to Europe to start an acting career and recording a music album, Sean grew bored and went to Vietnam in 1966 to risk his life by becoming a combat photojournalist. His images were published around the world and he helped save an Australian platoon from being blown up by a mine, as well as numerous other brave acts.

Yet Sean’s bravado would cost him dearly when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone disappeared in 1970 after being kidnapped at a military checkpoint near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after which they were most likely held captive for years and then killed by the Khmer Rouge in 1973.

His mother Lili Damita spent millions of dollars and the rest of her life desperately searching for her son, but it was of no use. Sean’s tragic fate remains a hazy mystery to this day.