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The Story of Tum Teav

Lord Oar Choun

There was a wealthy family of a very powerful lord named Oar Choun. He had a son named Meun Ngourn. Oar Choun and his wife discussed that it was time for Meun Ngourn to get married and build a family of his own. They heard about Teav’s beauty. They believed that despite Yeay Phann’s widow status, she had raised Teav well and had many things in her possession, enough that they could become in-law without lowering their social status. They sent off elders and servants carrying many gifts to Teav’s house. They came to ask Yeay Phann for Teav’s hand in marriage for their son. Yeay Phann felt very happy. For one, she was poorer than Oar Choun. She was just an ordinary person with no power or social status. This marriage arrangement would boost her status greatly. Additionally, Oar Choun was a powerful lord of the land, only shorter than a mountain, that he always got what he wanted and that he would eliminate anybody who stood in his way. So she was afraid. She told the elders that she would ask her daughter first.
Once Oar Choun’s elders and servants were gone, she told Teav that she should marry Meun Ngourn. Teav refused. Yeay Phann became angry. She told Teav that refusing the marriage was just like rolling an egg against a rock, a comparison of her helplessness against the most powerful man in the region. Teav still strongly refused, telling her mother to marry her other daughters instead of her, knowing full well that she was her mother’s only child. Yeay Phann became angrier, reminding Teav of the old adage, “Num Minthum Chieng Neal,” the concept of “a cake cannot be bigger than the cup that holds it”—the tradition of empowering parents against their own children in a decision making process.

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Communities

VOA News Coverage - CCD 2012 (click on pictures)

Voice of America/Khmer: Dr Chanthourn Thuy

A Khmer Archaeologist visited USA in July 2012 to present his research finding about ancient iron smelter in Cambodia to Cambodian-American communities. One of his stop was Washington, DC Metro area. 


 

Voice of America Interviewed Ms Sophia Tep, CCD Vice-President

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Sam Relief Dec 2012 Newsletter

Sam Relief was very busy in early April of 2012 and has delivered another 10 tons of rice to Angkor Children Hospital at Siem Reap.


Women's Health Study: http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu


Replica of Angkor Wat

We have bought a replica of Angkor Wat (picture shown above). It is a sculpture made out from stone, by a sculptor in Pursat province, Cambodia. It is 1.3 meter long, 1.1 meter wide and .35 meter high. It took more than 2 months to complete the sculpture. Click the picture to enlarge.


Phare Ponleu Selpak

Phare Ponleu Selpak (website: www.phareps.org) is a Cambodian association providing artistic activities to children and adults around the Battambang vicinity. The artistic fields are: performing arts (circus, theater, dancing, music), visual arts (cartoon animation, painting contemporary, illustration and graphic design) and social actions (governmental school pre-school through high school, child care center, and transitional youth house). Learn more ...

Khmer Music Festival

Thank you for coming to our Khmer Music Festival on Saturday September 5th 2015

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2015 Miss Cambodian American DC

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