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The Khmer New Year is also a time to prepare special dishes. One of these is a " kralan " ( ក្រឡាន , Krâlan ): a cake made from steamed rice mixed with beans or peas, grated coconut and coconut milk.
The Phnom Penh Post is also available in Khmer. [3] It previously published a weekend magazine, 7Days, in its Friday edition. [ 4 ] Since July 2014, it has published a weekly edition on Saturdays called Post Weekend , [ 5 ] which was folded into the paper as a Friday supplement in 2017 and was discontinued in 2018.
The Trot dance is the most popular Mon-Khmer traditional dance usually performed by groups during the Sangkran Khmer New Year festival. [1]It is the pantomime of a deer hunt imitating the beings which are being called upon to be attracted to the human realm, one of the fundamental goals of the sacred dances of Cambodia.
The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, said Friday that it will stop publishing in print this ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 7 January – Genocide Victory Day; 8 March - International Women's Day; 14–16 April – Cambodian New Year; 1 May – Labour Day; 11 May – Visakh Bochea; 14 May – King Sihamoni's Birthday; 15 May – Royal Ploughing Ceremony; 18 June – Queen Mother's Birthday; 21–23 September – Pchum Ben; 24 September ...
Cambodia has numerous public holidays, including memorial holidays and religious holidays of Buddhist origin. The Khmer traditional calendar, known as ចន្ទគតិ Chântôkôtĕ, is a lunisolar calendar although the word itself means lunar calendar. [1]
At the same time, the nom ansom is also typical for the Khmer New Year, [5] as recorded in the novel of Khmer author Vaddey Ratner. [6] In some ways, it is the manes of ancestors, both of the individual families, remembered during Pchum Ben, and of the Khmer people as a whole, remembered during the Khmer New Year.
The foundation stone for the new museum was laid on 15 August 1917. Some two-and-a-half years later, the completed museum was inaugurated during Khmer New Year on 13 April 1920 in the presence of H.M King Sisowath, François-Marius Baudouin, Résident-supérieur, and M. Groslier, director of Cambodian Arts, and Conservator of the museum.