THE EVIL CHINESE CULTURE COMING TO CAMBODIA :
-1. COMMUNISM INTRODUCTION BY MAO TSE TOUNG/CHOU ENLAI THROUGH SIHANOUK /POL
POT, AND THE RESULTS ,GENOCIDE TODAY.
2-. DRUG , ILLEGAL LOGGING, GAMBLINGS THROUGH THE THAI CHINESE (TENG BUNMA
GROUP) AND OTHER CHINESE FROM 1990-2009 .LIKE THIS
CAMBODIAN SOCIAL FABRICK DESTROYED BY : VIOLENCE ,DRUG, GAMBLING,SEX
PROSTITUTION PROMOTED BY THE CHINESE AND THE VIETNAMESE FORCES OF OCCUPATION
1979-2009
CHINESE SEX INDUSTRY IN CAMBODIA HAS LED TO THIS ARREST.
Kohsantepheap reports on this recent arrest of two chinese and lab equipments
for DRUG PRODUCTION IN PHNOM PENH .
AN UNENDING SUFFERINGS OF THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE UNDER THE VIETNAMESE FORCES OF
OCCUPATION. 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese
forces from Cambodia.
CAMBODIAN PEOPLE LIVE IN TEARS UNDER THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPATION.
WHAT RIGHTS DO THESE VIETNAMESE INVADERS HAVE TO RUN CAMBODIA IN VIOLATION OF
THE 10 UN RESOLUTION?
Cambodia For Sale
Click here to watch the SBS video online
BRIEF HISTORY :
VIETNAM INVASION OF CAMBODIA
Dec. 25, 1978Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS
troops, under the direction of Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of
Cambodia.
Feb. 17, 1979"Teaching a lesson". Some 170,000 Chinese troops with 700
warplanes, and 250-300 tanks launched an invasion of Vietnam to punish it for
invading of Cambodia.
Nov. 14, 1979 The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution A/RES/34/22 calling
for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cambodia. The vote is
91-21 with 29 abstentions.
10 UN RESOLUTIONS, CALLING VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA, ARE NOT
RESPECTED ,FROM 1979-2009.
116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from
Cambodia.
All these Vietnamese invaders have no rights to settle in Cambodia, they must
return home to Vietnam.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:04:30 -0800
Subject: First we must improve ourselves
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From: Gaffar Peang-Meth <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:14 PM
Subject: First we must improve ourselves
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PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
January 20, 2010
First we must improve ourselves
By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Despite the highs and the lows in 2009, the old year has come to an end and
left us at the starting gate for a new one, from which we can build our new
future using our productive, creative talents. Or we can choose to walk a
familiar path of worn-out patterns and fossilized thoughts and actions.
The new opportunity should boost our spirits.
Some pleasant things did happen last year. Members of a group of Cambodian
expatriates in America's northwest, none of whom I have ever met, read my
column in the Pacific Daily News and wrote to discuss the failure of the United
Nations-supported Khmer Rouge tribunal to bring justice to the Khmer people.
Thus began a long-distance relationship. It was heartening to read the group's
online discussion of old Khmer traditions and sayings, how and why they are, or
aren't, useful in the 21st century. I saw critical thinking take root.
I was captivated by their discussion on an old Khmer saying, "Ngeuy skawk, Aown
dak Kroab," or, "Vertical rice plants bear nothing. Leaning rice-plants bear
grain." I contributed my ideas. And when the group's forum brought interested
expatriates together to discuss another old saying, "Don't emulate a teacher's
behavior; follow his teaching," I was asked for input and was pleased to
respond.
Our relationship flourished. I have quietly enjoyed and softly encouraged their
continued activities, which helped develop productive and creative thinking and
keeps them connected with the Khmer culture.
The topics brought memories of my mother, who barely finished elementary school
but taught me that it was not weakness to rely on others, even upon those who
see the world differently than I do; and of my father, who endlessly preached
"humility" in long after-dinner conversations, as if I didn't have anything
else I would rather do. Roll my tongue seven times before speaking, eat a sappy
green banana or pull weeds when I "itched" to argue or to fight, and to thank
God and pray to God.
Only later did I learn of the thesis-antithesis concept, of the Chinese "yin
yang," and understand the Buddhist concept of things in pairs, like day and
night, happiness and suffering, war and peace.
Yes, opinions differ; thoughts differ. Disagreement is natural, but gentlemen
can disagree without being disagreeable. A saying goes, "Empty vessels make the
most noise."
A recent blog comparing "the lively" exchange on Internet to a welcome
developing step in democracy has its antithesis: Those "anonymouses," inclined
to cut others down, establish exclusiveness and hurl insults are engrossed in
licentiousness, lacking in legal and moral restraints, and feed and strengthen
authoritarian rule. The growth of democracy needs fair play, equilibrium,
inclusiveness and a responsible dialogue.
Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights asserts
"the right" of man to "hold opinions" and values "freedom of expression," but
its exercise "carries with it special duties and responsibilities" and may "be
subject to certain restrictions ... provided by law and are necessary (a) For
respect of the rights or reputations of others; (b) For the protection of
national security or public order (ordre publique), or of public health or
morals."
Come to mind are Eleanor Roosevelt's words: "Great minds discuss ideas; average
minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Specialist Tim Hurson describes a person with a "monkey mind," who jumps from
one thought to another like a monkey that cannot stay on one branch. He's
natural at "aimless thinking"; he "roams aimlessly through half-formed images"
or "wanders into an endless stream of unanalyzed associations from (his)
unanalyzed past."
Hurson urges us to learn "how to think," to develop "quality thinking," for it
helps prepare us for a better future and survival in the 21st century. Focused
thinking is hard, as it requires us to observe, remember, wonder, imagine,
inquire, interpret, evaluate, judge, identify, suppose, compose, compare,
analyze, calculate and to think about thinking (metacognition).
Carl Rogers, a psychologist in education, said, "The only person who is
educated is the one who has learned how to learn." British Dr. Alec Bourne
said: "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated." And German playwright Johann von Goethe said: "Knowing is
not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Roosevelt's example of "ideas" discussed by "great minds" takes me to President
Obama's Dec. 10 Oslo speech: "We can acknowledge that oppression will always be
with us, and still strive for justice. We can admit the intractability of
depravation, and still strive for dignity. We can understand that there will be
war, and still strive for peace. We can do that -- for that is the story of
human progress; that is the hope of all the world; and at this moment of
challenge, that must be our work here on Earth."
This "work here on Earth" belongs to every man and woman, old and young, and to
you and me. The first place to begin is to improve ourselves.
Confucius said: "To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in
order; To put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; To put the
family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; And to cultivate our
personal life we must first set our hearts right."
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where he
taught political science for 13 years. Write him at [email protected].
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