Mar 7, 2016 | Cultural, Pacific Daily News, Politics
Judging by the contents of my email inbox, my last column for the PDN, “Chuon Nath’s vision of the Khmers,” was appreciated by Khmer elders of different political persuasions, but comments from younger Khmers were in noticeably short supply. Not a surprise, given my...
Mar 7, 2016 | Pacific Daily News, Politics
Judging by the contents of my email inbox, my last column for the PDN, “Chuon Nath’s vision of the Khmers,” was appreciated by Khmer elders of different political persuasions, but comments from younger Khmers were in noticeably short supply. Not a surprise, given my...
Feb 18, 2016 | Cultural, Pacific Daily News, Politics
Watching the snow piles that line streets and parking lots here, refusing to melt in the cold winter sunshine, my thoughts wander to Ypao Beach where more than a decade ago I swam, watching the coconut leaves dancing against the backdrop of a blue sky, and to decades...
Jan 23, 2016 | Cultural, Education, Pacific Daily News
We’ve all heard the caveat that it’s not what one knows that matters, but how one thinks. Having reached a relatively advanced age, and having also read a good deal about the value of knowledge and the importance of critical thinking, I come down somewhere in the...
Dec 20, 2015 | Pacific Daily News, Politics
I felt a chill as I read remarks to Cambodian migrant workers in South Korea’s Busan port city by opposition leader Sam Rainsy of the Cambodian National Rescue Party, or CNR, on Nov. 14: “Cambodia is my homeland and my motherland. I absolutely have to come back in...
Dec 5, 2015 | Pacific Daily News, Politics
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, feeling the pressure of growing opposition to his long rule, announced in mid-November that if the leader of the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party Sam Rainsy returned to Cambodia from a trip abroad, he would be arrested....
