Stories tagged unsungheroes. · 12 articles
Dr. CHHIM Sotheara, a Cambodian psychiatrist who treats Khmer Rouge victims, was named as one of the four recipients of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award, also known as Asia’s Nobel Prize. The annual award, which was first given out in 1957 and is named for the president of the Philippines who died in an airplane…
We’ve all at some point in our life had grand ambitions and dreams of changing the world. We actually start to await the perfect time to fulfill our high aspirations of changing the destiny of the world. However, volunteering is the first step toward success. Although, when put into perspective, transforming communities may seem like…
The entrepreneurial spirit of the Khmer people is best exemplified by a boy from Banteay Meanchey who represents the country’s vibrant youthful culture of creativity and entrepreneurship. Lim Vannarith, a 14-year-old kid from Prey Russey village in Sangkat Preah Ponlea, Serey Sophorn City, has created completely functional remote-control vehicles out of discarded scrap materials. He…
A normal sunrise in Siem Reap is transformed into a special moment when the morning sun covers Angkor Wat. Every Sunday on this beautiful morning, Mr. Seha Chhang packs his backpack with a laptop and travels to the Siem Reap Coding Club located in YISI Center to provide enthusiastic young people with free coding classes.…
The closest medium to expressing the inexpressible, after silence, is music. Despite the fact that each country has its own language or languages, there is only one language that we can all understand: the language of music. Sinn Sisamouth (1932–1976) was a Cambodian singer-songwriter active from the 1950s to the 1970s. Sisamouth is known as…
In the pursuit of the Khmer identity, one Buddhist monk stands out as special. He is His Holiness Samdech Sangha Rāja Jhotañāno Chuon Nath, a visionary lexicographer of the Khmer language and the leader of Cambodian Buddhism. Chuon Nath (11 March 1883–25 September 1969) was a Cambodian monk and the late Kana Mahanikaya Supreme Patriarch…
Veteran banker Dr. In Channy is a self-made man who has built a financial powerhouse over the span of his nearly three-decade career. He has also been effective in shaping financial markets policies and regulations in Cambodia. Dr. In Channy, President and Group Managing Director of ACLEDA Bank, turned an NGO-based organisation into a financial…
There are many villages located across from the main town of Battambang, which provides the best introduction to Cambodia’s rural heartland. In some of these villages, we can see how “rice paper” is made traditionally. This word refers to the thin, transparent layer of pounded and steamed rice used to wrap fresh spring rolls rather…
Yong Phanith, who had been orphaned, lived with his older sister while studied hard in the Memot district of Tbong Khmum province. He continued his studies at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), currently known as the School of Administration and Law, where he earned a Secondary Certificate of Law in 1990. He…
Vann Molyvann (23 November 1926 – 28 September 2017) was a Cambodian architect. Possibly the most well-known. During the Sangkum Reastr Niyum government (1955–1970), Prince Norodom Sihanouk implemented a development agenda that included the creation of new cities, infrastructure, and architecture throughout the kingdom. Molyvann was the first of a generation of architects who contributed…
Kong You, a 74-year-old man, has spent the last 43 years of his life teaching the children of Ka’am Samnor commune in Kandal province’s Loeuk Dek district for free because he wanted them all to be literate and educated. “I began teaching in 1979 because I was worried that the future generation would be illiterate…
After discovering 47 mines while herding cows, a cow herder shocked himself and the authorities. On June 9, Hem Sophal, 69, of Prek Chik Village, Prek Chik Commune, Rukkiri District, Battambang, made the discovery. Sophal claims that the 47 mines were discovered when he was herding his cows. He claimed to have located the rest…
