Les Symboles Nationaux (1)

Chaque pays a toujours ses symboles nationaux. Des symboles nationaux montrent la culture unique du pays. Ils peuvent être des animaux ou plants qui existent seulement ou proviennent d'un pays. Au Cambodge, il y a aussi beaucoup des symboles nationaux. Par d’arrêté royal du 15 juin 2004, maintenant nous avons sept animaux et plants comme nos symboles nationaux. Quelles sont les sept symboles? Alors, je vous présente le premier symbole: Kouprey (Khmer: គោ​ព្រៃ)

1.     Kouprey : Le Mammifère Nationale du Royaume du Cambodge

Tout le monde l'appelle Kouprey. Cet animal est reconnu généralement comme Kouprey par les gens de tous les nationalités. Des biologistes internationaux les appellent «Kouprey» aussi (c'est très génial, je pense). Son nom scientifique est « Bos Sauveli ». Le Kouprey est​ une espèce de bœufs sauvages qui fait de 1700 millimètres à 1900 millimètres. Il pèse de 700 kilogrammes à 900 kilogrammes. Les Koupreys sont différents des vaches parce qu’ils sont plus grands et ses cornes ont des noyaux qui sont plus proches ensemble. Ils sont de couleur noirâtre avec le couleur blanc au bas des jambes. Les femelles ont des cornes de 40 centimètres en forme de lyre, et des cornes des mâles envergent jusqu'à 80 centimètres. La queue est longe (de 100 à 110 centimètres). Leur espérance de vie est environ 20 ans. Les Koupreys se trouvent près du Fleuve de Mékong et au nord, est et nord-est du Cambodge.

Régions où les Koupreys vivent

On peut aussi trouve quelques Koupreys au Vietnam et Laos près des frontières avec le Cambodge. L'espèce a été découvert en 1937. 

Maintenant, la chasse de Koupreys est interdite par la déclaration numéro 359 du 01 août 1994, délivré par le Ministère de l’Agriculture Forêts et des Pêches. Le Kouprey est classé comme une espèce en danger critique selon la liste Rouge de l’UICN parce que aujourd'hui, il y a moins de 250 Koupreys dans le monde. En 1960s, le roi du Cambodge, Norodom Sihanouk, a déclaré le Kouprey comme le symbole du patrimoine naturel du Cambodge. Les Koupreys sont intelligent, industrieux, robuste, rapide et bon à sentir. Au Cambodge, les Koupreys sont aussi mentionnés dans les poèmes, les chansons populaires et la littérature pour exprimer la richesse de la nature, montrer le caractère des hommes et pour promouvoir la paix et la prospérité. Par exemple, une chanson qui s’appelle «Soriya Lageach Thagai » explique la vie quotidienne des Koupreys mais aussi avec le sens figuré pour éduquer les hommes.

Natural Remedies for Curing Headache

Headache is a common problem for everybody, but this ailment can be deadly as well. Most of Khmer people, as seen nowadays, try to get rid of headaches at the first sign of symptoms by swallowing loads of drugs acquired from pharmacies. Many of them don’t know or care whether or not these drugs can do as much damage to our health as they help. Medicine is like a two-sided blade, in other words it can be advantageous and disadvantageous at the same time. That’s why natural remedies can help you better in dealing with this nagging malady. Here are some of them:

• Eat something high in protein.

• Wash it away. First take a hot shower and then take a cold shower right after that. Why does it work? When you first take the hot shower, your blood veins will open wide, making your headache even worse. However, after the cold shower is taken, your blood veins will contract and your pain will be eased.

• Put a crushed ice into your mouth. This is not suggested for elderly, though.

• Think it away. You can do it by closing your eyes and imagine that you’re at a beach on a sunny day. The sun is so hot that it starts giving heat to your arms. By picturing this in your mind, your blood veins in your brain will send the heat down to your hands, making your headache cease to hurt.

• Press it away. Headaches can be cured by putting fingers on both sides of your temple and start massaging it. Mind you, this must be done on BOTH SIDES. On the other hand, you can massage the back of your neck or the tip of your toes.

All these tactics described above are just a few tricks to help your with your headache without costing you the disadvantages of using medicines. Remember, these techniques vary from one person to another; one that works for a person might not work for another person. So, you should check out all of these tricks out and see which one works well with you.

Life's Choices

Life's Choices is a comic book depicting the way of Cambodia students studying in high school, covering most of important issues including corruption, love, living standards and so on. This comic tries to approach as much as possible into the Cambodian people's real lives in our nowadays society which is full of complexity and inevitable corruption.

The setting of this comic story is set in Kompong Spean Senior High School in grade 11 E. The three main characters in this story are Samphos, Rith and Bopha, who have been best friends since they were kids. During the school year, they encountered many problems, such as Rith loving Dany, three of them going to Karaoke, lacking of concentration in their study, etc. This story ends with Samphos wondering if she could study the summer class because her family couldn't afford much.

This story is very educational for Cambodian people, especially Khmer youth who are having the same problems. You can download it either in English or in Khmer.

Read more at: http://lifes-choices-cambodia.net

How to Develop Cambodia

I'm just going to be straight with these one, listing out most important points why our country Cambodia is still an under-developed country.

• Corruption: This is probably one of the most important factors which hinder the development of the country since this has a strong impact on the government. What's more, I'm afraid corruption starts from the top, to be precise leaders of this country and everyone else. I must say, even me makes corruption, although not as strong as those elites. So, if Cambodia is ever to be developed, this must be reduced to a minimum rate immediately.

• Tradition & Superstition: Khmer people are mostly superstitious or primitive. Some ancient beliefs and traditions which are not suitable for nowadays era should be changed. Furthermore, almost all foreigners claim the same thing that Cambodian people are highly superstitious. Moreover, the Khmer holds many festivals and other religious rituals which might be the problem for the development of Cambodia.

• Human Resource: This is what makes a country going. If human resources are down, there can be no way that a country can develop, and this is what is happening in Cambodia right now. Because of corruption, students who graduate from universities are not qualified enough for employment. Most people say, ‘Quantity with no quality.’

• Individual: Imagine a country full of bad people with only one good man. How can this country develop? Suppose in a country with wise people unneeded and only corrupted people are needed. That’s why every single person must stand up together in order to make a change to this corrupted country. Only one person cannot make any different, only a bunch of people can push the power of change to activate. So, every Khmer people must not wait for others to act first. If you wait, other people will also wait and see.

Well, all in all, these are just statements. It cannot do anything but to help your mind to reconsider your activities nowadays whether you love your country or not. Remember, if you can’t help develop your country, don’t say you’re a real Khmer. I’m not, but I’ll try to become one. That’s my goal.

Chicken or the Egg?

This is a controversial topic that has brought many scientists headache because they couldn’t find a reasonable explanation as to which one of them came first, the chicken….or the egg? This matter was first brought up as early as 46 A.D., a long time ago. If you think about it, a chicken needed to hatch from an egg, but an egg needed to be laid by a chicken as well. It’s just like an endless circle of happenings.

Fortunately, a group of scientists have claimed they found an answer. It’s the egg. It can be explained like this. The first chicken to be born on earth must have hatch from an egg, and the egg couldn’t have been laid by chickens, so it must have been laid by other animals which have the same DNA as chickens we now see these days since, according to science, no matter what form any animal might transform itself into, its DNA remains intact. So, that might be the case. However, I think there might be some loopholes here. How could two animals (male and female) other than chickens breed an egg with a chicken in it? Maybe those two unknown animals were the same species as chickens, which explain why their DNA and the chickens’ are the same. Well, that is my speculation.

For further information: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/

Harry Potter 2 in Khmer to be Released

After a first success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone translated in Khmer, Bernie Krisher recently moved on to the next step. He made another request to the world-renowned novels' author, J.K. Rowling, in order to allow the the translation of the second book to be published for the sake of Khmer kids. Generously, the author did agree to the request. Now that the permission is confirmed, the publication of the second book of Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber Secrets, is going to be published in no time, even though the certain publication date is unknown. Overall, Bernie Krisher is a real help for our Cambodian generations despite the fact that Khmer is not his nationality. I can't wait to read that book!


For further information: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/harry-potter-in-cambodia/

Unfortunately for me, my team and I have also translated the second Harry Potter book, but it's an incomplete process. I've got some translated chapters here: http://kienforcefidele.wordpress.com/khmer-harry-potter/

Detective Conan

Today I've got something new for you guys. After reading Naruto manga, I found it very interesting. Right now I'm tracking any sources for new releases and hope it'll be out soon. What's more, now I have a new interested manga, and that is....Detective Conan! At first, I used to watch it randomly at the weekends. Now that I know it's a manga, I'm starting to follow it again..and from the beginning (Chapter 1). My God! It's more than 600 chapters! I think I'm going to have to spend lots of time in order to catch up. Anyway, let me introduce this manga to you a little bit!

Detective Conan, a.k.a Case Closed, is a manga talking about a famous junior high school detective named who, with his sharp eyes and brains along with detailed analysis of situations, solved any cases not long after it occured, no matter how strange or complicated the case is. However, after solving one mysterious case, he got beaten by a man in black suit. Then, after the man made him drink some experimental drug, his body was shrunken into a little boy. After that he still continued involving himself in cases as usual but with different phsycial condition and was living with a lazy-boned detective, the father of his beloved girlfriend Ran who didn't know he was really....

I've read through Volume 3 so far, and am currently pursuing, hoping to get to the latest chapters. You can find and download it here @: http://www.realitylapse.com/manga/detectiveconan.php. Share the fun!