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Name Date Remarks Dough Sokheng Festival: November or December Exactly one month after the Water Festival, the Festival of Kite Flying follows and brings together kite makers to demonstrate their talents in the full-moon night of Maksir, the first month of the Khmer lunar calendar, which usually falls in November or December.
Typically, Khmer games help maintain one's mental and physical dexterity. Chol Chhoung. Chol Chhoung (ចោលឈូង, Chaôl Chhung) is a game played especially on the first nightfall of the Khmer New Year by two groups of boys and girls. Ten or 20 people comprise each group, standing in two rows opposite each other.
The Khmer Serei ( Khmer: ខ្មែរសេរី [kʰmae seːrəj]; "Free Khmer") were an anti-communist and anti- monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh. In 1959, he published 'The Manifesto of the Khmer Serei' claiming that Sihanouk was supporting the 'communization' of Kampuchea. [1] In the 1960s, the ...
Buddhist calendar. The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in Malaysia and Singapore and by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions. While the calendars share a common lineage, they also have minor but ...
Oriental Trading -- best known for selling cheap imported trinkets by the gross to teachers through its catalogs -- is offering a free 2009 calendar to anyone who fills out this form.You can check ...
Although the name Culāsakaraj is a generic term meaning "Lesser Era" in Pali, the term Chula Sakarat is often associated with the various versions of the calendar used in regions that make up modern-day Thailand, Laos, Kampuchea, Myanmar and the Sipsong Panna area of China. [1] In Thailand, it is only used in academia for Thai history studies .
The calendar recognises two types of day: astronomical and civil. The mean Burmese astronomical day is from midnight to midnight, and represents 1/30 of a synodic month or 23 hours, 37 minutes and 28.08 seconds. The civil day comprises two halves, the first half beginning at sunrise and the second half at sunset.
September. 3 September - The elections for the Khmer Republic's 126-member National Assembly took place. Because of a presidential decree designed to give President Lon Nol's Social Republican Party an advantage, the other parties withdrew from participating. The Socio-Republicans won all 126 seats on what was claimed to be a 78% turnout.