Lyric of “Yesterday Once More” (Best Blue English Song)

Artist: Karen Carpenter

When I was young
I'd listened to the radio
Waiting for my favorite songs
Waiting they played I'd sing along
It made me smile
Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-wo-wo
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're starting to sing's
So fine

When they get to the part
Where he's breaking' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more

Looking back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed

It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-wo-wo
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're starting to sing's
So fine

All my best memories
Come back clearly to me
Some can even make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-wo-wo
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're starting to sing's
So fine

(The End)

Brief Understanding of ASEAN and Cambodia

Cambodia’s political system is Constitutional Monarchy in the form of democracy. She locates on the Indochina Peninsular in the South East Asian region. She covers the territory of 181,035 sq km bordering with Thailand in the north and west, Laos in the north, Vietnam in the east and southeast, and the Gulf of Thailand in the south and southwest. Her population is around 15 million people; her capital is Phnom Penh City with the population of over 1.5 million people. Her formal religion is Buddhism following by Islam, Christian, animism, etc. Her most famous temple is Angkor Wat Temple in Siem Reap. Her economy is based on agriculture, tourism, and SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises). Her important natural site embraces Tonle Sap Lake (The Great Lake), Kravanh Mountain Range (Cardamom Mountain), Dangrek Mountain Range, Coastal Area, etc.

ASEAN stands for Association of South East Asian Nations. It was established on August 08^th, 1967 in Bangkok City, Thailand with five members such as Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippine, and Malaysia. Until now there are ten members in which other five members are new such as the following:

v  Brunei got into ASEAN in 1984.

v  Vietnam got ASEAN membership in 1995.

v  Myanmar and Laos got ASEAN membership in 1997.

v  Cambodia got into ASEAN on April 30^th, 1999.

With the establishment since 1967, the Association of South East Asian Nations has the aims and purposes are:

v  To accelerate the economic, social, cultural, technical, educational and other fields.

v  To promote of regional peace and stability.

v  To promote Southeast Asian studies

v  To provide assistance to each other in form of training and research facilities

v  To maintain close and beneficial cooperation with existing international and regional organization with similar aims and purposes.

From year to year, ASEAN has been doing the best performance to achieve the above aims and purposes. The achievement by ASEAN since the day of establishment till today is being considered towards the future like:

v  The agreement on Zone of Peace, Freedom, and Neutralization (ZOPFAN) in 1971, Kuala Lumpur.

v  Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC), The Declaration of ASEAN Concord I, and the agreement for the establishment of the ASEAN Secretariat in 1976, Bali.

v  ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1992.

v  ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1994.

v  The establishment of ASEAN Maritime Forum in 2003, Bali.

v  The establishment of ASEAN Charter in 2005, Kuala Lumpur.

v  ASEAN Summit every year.

v  The establishment of ASEAN Development Fund (ADF), etc.

By: POK Panhavuth

Merry Christmas for 2012 Coming

Every year December 25th is the best day to enjoy Christmas ceremony in western culture. The day of party celebration welcomes new year and the falling of snow in western country. Right now, Christmas is becoming more popular among youth around the world to enjoy their life. Every western language school in all countries on earth celebrates the Christmas Day. On that day, family members gather together at their hometown to celebrate Christmas Day eating variety of food. Some families travel to the best place on earth to celebrate this ceremony. "Enjoy your life, Merry Christmas!!!:)"

By: POK Panhavuth

Images for Christmas Day

Videos and Songs for Christmas Day

End of The World 2012

Earth's Disaster on December 21, 2012

On December 21, 2012, all scientists is believing to be the end of the world if all scientists could not do anything to stop this disaster.  National Geographic channel recently reveals that the earth is going to face the mother disaster. Some scientists predict in 2012 the sun will produce large fire that affects the earth. The earth will face the serious disaster both the damage from the sun and falling of the large stone from the universe. The electromagnetic system will be destroyed by the sun. Then mother earthquake and other large natural disasters will occur soon. Another serious problem is the falling stone from the universe. When this large stone falls on the surface of the earth, it became the large fire while touching the earth atmospheric zone. It goes down to the earth on the sky until crashing the earth. Crashing causes large explosion from that area spreading to other part of the earth. All life on earth will be killed. Additionally, not only scientist today finds this warning, but the scientists in the ancient time also predict that on December 21, 2012 there will be the mother earthquake and other natural disasters on the earth. Maya is the ancient kingdom in the middle area of American continent. They wrote and painted on the wall about the large disaster on earth in 2012. They seemed to know about the affection from the large fire of the sun coming to the earth on December 21. Besides, Buddhism and other ancient people also predicted the warning for all people about the seven sun day which means the day of fire on the earth will occur in this period. However, we will wait to see what will happen on the earth on December 21, 2012 and whether what the scientists and ancient kingdom of Maya predicting is right. "May the disaster be away from the earth! May the life on earth exist to million years more!"

By: POK Panhavuth

End of the World 2012

2012 Mayan Doomsday Prediction

Perspective on Khmer Rouge Regime "Killing Field in Cambodia" (1975-1979)

Khmer People in the Field During Pol Pot Regime (April 17, 1975 - January 7, 1979)

Everyone around the world used to hear about Pol Pot Regime or Khmer Rouge Regime of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. In fact, the formal name of this regime was Kampuchea Brochea Thebatei. Main leader of this group was Pol Pot (Birth name: Salot Sar). The force of Khmer Rouge occurring after the establishment of Khmer Republic in early 1970. At the start, there was only small group of this army force, but it became bigger and bigger with support from Vietnam (Yiek Kong or Viet Kong Troops) and the fame of King NORODOM Shihanouk. However, later Pol Pot seemed to split from Vietnamese support since their mother and father (China and Soviet) getting into conflicts. Since then, Khmer Rouge strongly succeeded the Khmer Republic since 1973 in which more and more territory of Cambodia was controlled. At the end of 1974, Khmer Rouge surrounded the all main municipalities of Khmer Republic, especially Phnom Penh. They cut all the ways of transporting food and weapons for Khmer Republic off in both water and land way. Khmer Republic survived only through the transport of food and weapons on the air way. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge troops completely controlled Phnom Penh. They forced people in the city to leave for three days to another areas in rural areas. People confused to leave was killed immediately. Phnom Penh became "Ghost City". According to Raoul Jennar, in May 1975 Khmer Rouge set 8 principles to rule the regime  (posted in khmer.rfi.fr):

• Push people out of all cities in Cambodia. People were divided into two main groups: old people (people living in rural areas before April 17, 1975) and new people or 17 Mesa people (people living in cities before April 17, 1975).
• Eliminate market system.
• Stop using money.
• All monks must be changed to simple citizens to work in the field.
• Kill all civil servants of Khmer Republic.
• Create community (សហករណ៍) throughout Cambodia.
• Force out all Vietnamese in Cambodia.
• Increase the number of soldiers along Cambodia-Vietnam borders.

Then Khmer Rouge spread his soldier to all areas (Northwest Region, South Region, Southwest Region, Central Region, Kratie or 505 Region, West Region, North Region, Northeast Region, and East Region) and targeted all main leaders of Khmer Republic to death. For example, LONG Boreth, Prime Minister of Khmer Republic, was killed with his family immediately in Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. People started to be aware of current situation that they would get no chance to return to their home. New people were divided again base on their age. Young children were kept with old people in the village and did small duties like feeding the cow and so on. Adult was put to work in group (កងចល័ត) moving from a place to another place depend on the need of force to build the dam or cut the wood or work in the field. Medium age people were put to work in the field. Most of them got only porridge with less rice (only a few can of rice in the large pot of porridge for hundred of people). All of them were force to work from dawn to dusk. Most of Khmer Rouge officials were very rude and cruel to new people. Sometimes, they said bad words to new people, blamed old regime, and admired only their regime to be the best under Khmer Rouge Group (អង្គការភ្នែកម្នាស់). More and more citizens died of starvation and diseases, but the death of killing also increased from time to time, especially Khmer Krom people who were targeted to death since Khmer Rouge thought they used to live in Vietnam, but in fact they were still Khmer. Most famous people were killed gradually like SIN Samut (1975), PEN Rorn (1976), HUY Meas (1977), ROS Sereysothea (1978?)..... Most of educated people like teachers, students, civil servants,..... were also killed gradually, especially in 1977 and 1978. Not only people in the country were facing the death, more and more foreign scholarship Cambodian students were cheated to return and most of them were cruelly killed. Besides that, more and more officials of Khmer Rouge were also accused of wrong conduct violating the Khmer Rouge Principles and were put to prison and cruelly killed as the officials of Khmer Republic and other people accused of foreign spy like SEATO or something else in Sar 21 Tuol Sleng Genocide center in Phnom Penh.

Foreign relation of Khmer Rouge was seen in two ways. First, Khmer Rouge tried to promote their regime as a formal seat in the United Nations and had good ties with foreign country, especially in Europe by hiding all information of current situation within the country, especially killing field. However, Khmer people overseas tried their best to spread information on killing field in Cambodia since the mid 1975, but the world ignored since the main world superpower ignored. Second, Khmer Rouge had conflicts with Vietnam on Kampuchea Krom Territory and Koh Tral Island since it was belonged to Cambodia before 1949. Khmer Rouge fought many times on Koh Tral and along border of Cambodia-Vietnam. One day, Khmer Rouge fought into middle area of Kampuchea Krom, but were surrounded unconsciously by Vietnamese Troops and put to death all. The conflict became bigger and bigger since 1977. In 1978, Vietnam used their army force fighting into Cambodia, but was warned by the United Nations (UN) since there was only Vietnamese troops in that force. Later, at the end of 1978, Vietnamese troops came with some Khmer troops who gradually escaped to Vietnam during Pol Pot Regime. From December 2, 1978 until January 7, 1979, large Vietnamese troops with some Khmer troops fought Khmer Rouge army and got successful quickly. On January 7, 1979, Phnom Penh was controlled by Vietnam. Other provinces in the west were released a few day later, except Pailin and Otdarmeanchey. "Too much nationalism causes nation to death!" "Political ideology is the danger for people who do not know it clearly!"

By: POK Panhavuth

Region of Khmer Rouge Regime




Horror of Cambodia's Genocide

Territory of Cambodia in the 16th Century in Today South East Region of Thailand

Western and Northern Map of Cambodia in 16th Century "Long Vek Era"

In the 16th century, Cambodia bordered with Siam (Thailand) along the Moul River (Mun River) where the south east territory of Thailand today still belonged to Cambodia and all citizens living there was Khmer, called Khmer Surin. This territory covers nearly 70,000 square kilometre. During that era, Khmer King and Siam King signed a treaty to demarcate the border for both Kingdoms where they put ancient magic column "Shei Ma" on the site of border. Today, this stone could be seen in Nokor Reach Shei Ma Province (Today Korat or Nakhon Ratcha Sima), Nokor Neayuok Province (Today Nakhon Nayok), Steung Chrov Province (Today Cha Cheong Sao), and other provinces in Korat Plateau. Even though Siam controlled this regions today, but there are Khmer People living in those provinces and others provinces which belonged to Khmer Empire in Angkor Era. According to Thailand's reports,  Khmer speaking community is widespread in these provinces and other nearer province with the population of over 1,300,000 people. However, this population did not include Khmer People speaking Thai instead of Khmer Language. In contrast, population of Khmer people in this area is estimated to be over 5,000,000 people based on Khmer Surin's report, but some Khmer people gave up their identity to be Khmer and only speak Thai Language. Most Khmer Surin can speak Khmer, but hardly for writing since there is limitation on Khmer Language education program. Khmer speaking community could be found in Surin, Trat, Chanthaburi, Prachinburi, Bangkok, Lopburi, Rayong, Chonburi, Sakaew, Buriram, Obunratchathani, Sisaket, Roi Et, Yasothon, Amnatcharoen, Mahasarakham, Chayaphum, Mukdahan, Sakon Nakhon, Udonthani, Kalasin, Nakhon Phanom, Khon Kaen, and Saraburi.   

During the Long Vek Era in the 16th century, all Khmer provinces in north-west area of Cambodia are: 

• Royong Province (Rayong Province)
• Chan Borey Province (Chanthaburi Province) 
• Trach Province (Trat Province) 
• Chul Borey Province (Chonburi Province) 
• Steung Chrov Province (Chacheong Sao Province) 
• Paschem Borey Province (combination of Prachinburi Province and Sakaew Province) 
• Nokor Reach Sheima Province (Nakhon Ratchasima Province) 
• Neang Rong Province (part of Buriram Province)
• Borey Rom Province (part of Buriram Province) 
• Sang Keak Province (part of Surin Province)
• Srindr or Surin Province (Surin Province)
• Kok Khan Province (combination of Sisaket Province and Obun Ratchathani Province).  

By: POK Panhavuth

Khmer Speaking Community Along Border of Cambodia and Other  Not Shown Small Khmer Speaking Community in Other Nearer Provinces 

Today Map of Eastern Thailand

Territory of Kampuchea Krom in South Vietnam

Current Territory of Kampuchea Krom (South Vietnam)

Kampuchea Krom refers to the previous territory of Cambodia until early 20th century while it was formally transferred to Vietnam by France on June 4th, 1949. This territory is include the color province in the map and most part of Kontom and Dalac Plateau in Vietnam. There was two main rivers and small rivers. The main rivers are Bassac and Mekong River while small rivers are East Vai Ko River, West Vaiko River, Don Nai River, etc. However, the history of this territory started thousand years ago B.C. and until the 1st century A.D. the Kingdom of Phnom  (first Khmer Kingdom), in Chinese it was called "Funan" means the happiness and wealth in the south of China while the sound is similar to Phnom in Khmer,  was created. Khmer people have been living in this region until today, called  Khmer Krom. There were 21 provinces - city and two large islands while plateau area of this territory was cut off from the territory of northeastern province today (Rattanakiri and Mondulkiri Province) by France to include in Vietnam. Today the administrative system was changed by Vietnam and all name of these provinces were changed to Vietnamese. These provinces-city are:

• Prey Nokor City (Ho Chi Minh City)
• Peam Banteay Meas or Peam Province (Ha Tien, part of Kien Giang Province) include Koh Trol (Phu Quoc Island).
• Kromuon Sar Province (Rach Gia, part of Kien Giang Province) known as the ancient port of Funan "Or Keo!".
• Teuk Khmao Province (Camau Province) known as Cape of Cambodia during Frenh Colonial.
• Po Leu or Pol Leav Province (Bac Lieu Province)
• Moat Chrouk Province (Chau Doc, part of An Giang Province; and part of Dong Thap Province)
• Peam Bareach Province (Long Xuyen, part of AnGiang Province; and part of Dong Thap Province)
• Prek Reussei Province (Can Tho Province and part of Vinh Long Province and Dong Thap Province) known as industrialize province.
• Phsa Dek Province (Sa Dec, part of Dong Thap Province)
• Bassac or Srok Kleang Province (Soc Trang Province)
• Lung Hor Province (Vinh Long Province)
• Preah Trapeang Province (Tra Vinh Province)
• Phsam Ombel or Kompong Reussei Province (Bien Tre Province)
• Me Sar Province (My Tho, part of Tien Giang Province)
• Kuoh Koung Province (Go Cong, part of Tien Giang Province)
• Kompong Ko or Chmuoh Thmei Province (Long An Province)
• Rong Damrei Province (Tay Ninh Province)
• Tuol Tamok Province (Thu Dau Mot, Binh Duong Province and Binh Phuoc province)
• Kompong Sroka Trey or Changva Trapeang Province (Dong Nai Province, part of Binh Phuoc Province, part of Dak Nong Province, and part of Lam Dong Province)
• Preah Suor Kea Province (Baria, Baria - Vung Tau Province which include Koh Tra Lach (Con  Son Island)) 
• Or Kab Province (Vung Tau, Baria - Vung Tau Province).
• Other territory lies on the plateau of Kotum and Dalac along Cambodia border.

By: POK Panhavuth

Today Maps

Eastern Map of Cambodia in 16th Century