ប្រទេស​ថៃ​ ៖ យោធា ​ព្រះ​មហាក្សត្រ ​និង​លទ្ធិ​ប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​

អំណាចនៅតែមួយកន្លែងឬអំណាចប្រមូលផ្តុំ (power concentration) មានប្រយោជន៍មួយគឺបើអ្នកកាន់អំណាចនោះជាអ្នកចេះដឹងសព្វគ្រប់ ពូកែគ្រប់បែបយ៉ាង ប្រទេសនោះឬអង្គភាពនោះប្រាកដជារុងរឿងលឿនជាងគេ។ ប៉ុន្តែតាំងពីកកើតមនុស្សមក មិនដែលមានមនុស្សពូកែគ្រប់បែបយ៉ាង ចេះដឹងសព្វគ្រប់ទេ មានតែមនុស្សធ្វើខុសត្រង់នេះ ធ្វើត្រូវត្រង់នោះ។ តែធម្មជាតិមនុស្ស មិនងាយទទួលកំហុស មិនងាយដឹងខ្លួនខុស មិនចង់ឲ្យគេថាខ្លួនខុស។ ដូចនេះ អ្នកវិទ្យាសាស្រ្តនយោបាយហាមដាច់ខាតគឺមិនឲ្យអំណាចប្រមូលផ្តុំនៅមនុស្សណាម្នាក់ទេ...

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Cambodia promotes motorcycle helmets to halt rise of traffic deaths

In the end of 1990s to 2000s, the largest social ill in Cambodia was the spread of HIV/AID. Recently this is no longer the issue. Most people now understand about the disease and how to prevent it. However, currently the largest social ill is death toll from traffic accidents. Statistics aside, I can see traffic accident one every day in average on my way of commutation from and to workplace. The article is right in that people...

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Ream Beach and Investment

The beach is beautiful, the water is crystal clear and shallow and is surrounded by trees and mountains nearby. The area is not much inhabited. It is on the left hand side on the way from Koh Kong to Sihanoukville near the airport....

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Cha Ret Khmer (Khmer Characteristics)

Summary It is a rather well-known book by a nationalistic politician name Bun Chan Mol (ប៊ុណ្ណ ចន្ទម៉ុល) who spent his life serving Cambodia under many regimes and at the same time observed the atrocity of committed by Cambodians,...

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Why Nations Fail

You may wonder why Cambodia, among other poor countries, fail to develop. Why we are poor and other are rich? You have answers, of course. You may point to the fact that we had wars, thus no human capital i.e. no knowledgeable persons who know how to develop the country. Some would point to the fact that we are born lazy, i.e. our culture does not induce hard working like Vietnamese culture or Japanese culture. Of course, very...

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Traffic Problems in Cambodia

Its horrible. If you travel every day, it's not an exaggeration to say that you'd say  one traffic accident per day. It varies from a small one to a fatal one. If it's in Phnom Penh, it can make you mad because of the traffic...

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Strongman, The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen

But rather than making it a substantive biography, the authors turned the work into a lengthy praise of the man, which ends up weakening the credibility of the work. The Cambodia Daily. True! And this book does not deserve my lengthy review.  This book is nothing short of autobiography, as it is just written by someone else. Basically the authors just ask Prime Minister Hun Sen what happened, listened and wrote...

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