Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in northeastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in a Yuga era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of the present age.[note 5] Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.
Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Historical Siddhārtha Gautama
Ancient kingdoms and cities of India during the time of the Buddha.
Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order during the Mahajanapada era during the reign of Bimbisara, the ruler of the Magadha empire, and died during the early years of the reign of Ajasattu, who was the successor of Bimbisara, thus making him a younger contemporary ofMahavira, the Jain tirthankara.Apart from the VedicBrahmins, the Buddha's lifetime coincided with the flourishing of other influential śramaṇa schools of thoughts like Ājīvika, Cārvāka, Jainism, and Ajñana. It was also the age of influential thinkers like Mahavira,Pūraṇa Kassapa , Makkhali Gosāla, Ajita Kesakambalī, Pakudha Kaccāyana, and Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, whose viewpoints the Buddha most certainly must have been acquainted with and influenced by.Indeed, Sariputta and Moggallāna, two of the foremost disciples of the Buddha, were formerly the foremost disciples of Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, the skeptic.There is also evidence to suggest that the two masters, Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta, were indeed historical figures and they most probably taught Buddha two different forms of meditative techniques.While the general sequence of "birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death" is widely accepted, there is less consensus on the veracity of many details contained in traditional biographies.
The times of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE.More recently his death is dated later, between 411 and 400 BCE, while at a symposium on this question held in 1988, the majority of those who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death. These alternative chronologies, however, have not yet been accepted by all historians.
The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhārtha Gautama was born into the Shakya clan, a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the northeastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE. It was either a small republic, in which case his father was an elected chieftain, or an oligarchy, in which case his father was an oligarch. According to the Buddhist tradition, Gautama was born in Lumbini, nowadays in modern-day Nepal, and raised in the Shakya capital of Kapilavastu, which may have been in either present day Tilaurakot, Nepal or Piprahwa, India. He obtained his enlightenment inBodh Gaya, gave his first sermon in Sarnath, and died in Kushinagar.
No written records about Gautama have been found from his lifetime or some centuries thereafter. One Edict of Asoka, who reigned from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE, commemorates the Emperor's pilgrimage to the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini. Another one of his edicts mentions several Dhamma texts, establishing the existence of a written Buddhist tradition at least by the time of the Maurya era and which may be the precursors of the Pāli Canon. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, reported to have been found in or around Haḍḍa near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan and now preserved in theBritish Library. They are written in the Gāndhārī language using the Kharosthi script on twenty-seven birch bark manuscripts and date from the first century BCE to the third century CE.
We all love and respect heads of state that are committed to the welfare of their people. President of a nation enjoys immense power and fame. The job also involves lot of stress. Some political leaders have amassed huge fortune!
Here are the top 10 richest presidents in the world as of 2015.
10) Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan – $1 Billion
Nazarbayev has been the President of Kazakhstan since 1989, when he was named First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR. He was elected the nation’s first president following its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. He is believed to have transferred around $1 billion worth of oil revenuesto his private bank accounts in 2006.
9) Albert II, Prince of Monaco – $1 billion
Albert II is one of the richest royals in the world. He owns real estate in France and Monaco. His real estate includes holdings in the Société des bains de mer de Monaco, which operates Monaco’s casino and other entertainment properties in the principality. He is not only the reigning monarch of the Principality of Monaco, but also the head of the Princely House of Grimaldi.
8). Mohammed VI, King of Morocco – $2.1 Billion
Mohammed VI became the King of Morocco in 1999 after the death of his father. He inherited around 40 percent stake in SNI, a large, formerly state-owned Moroccan investment company. SNI has controlling stakes in Attijariwafa, the largest bank in Morocco; Managem Group, a mining company; Consumar, a sugar company; Centrale Laitiere, dairy firm; and other assets. Forbes estimated his net worth at $2.1 billion.
7) Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar – $2 Billion
Tamim bin Hamad is the youngest reigning monarch in the world. He became the Emir of Qatar after his father abdicated the throne in 2013. He heads the Qatar Investment Authority board of investors. The fund has invested billions in businesses in the UK. He holds large stakes in Sainsbury’s Barclay’s Bank and Harrods. His fund also owns a share of the Shard, Europe’s tallest building.
6) Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein – $4 Billion
The full name of Hans-Adam II is, Johannes Hans Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marko d’ Aviano Pius von und zu Liechtenstein. He is the most powerful man in Liechtenstein. He owns the LGT banking group. He is the richest monarch in Europe. He is empowered to introduce legislation and to veto laws passed by the parliament.
5) Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai – $4 Billion
Mohammed bin Al Maktoum is the Emir of Dubai and the prime minister and vice president of UAE. His family’s total wealth is estimated to be around $44 billion. He owns 99.67 percent of Dubai Holding. He is the brain behind Dubai’s landmarks like Burj Al Arab, Palm Islands and Burj Al Khalifa.
4) Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of UAE – $15 Billion
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the President of UAE and also the Emir of Abu Dhabi. He assumed the office of the president in 2004 after the death of his father. His family is among the richest in the world. It has an estimated wealth of more than a whopping $150 billion! Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the chairman of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Even though he controls 97.8 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, not all his wealth is from oil. Currently he runs the world’s second-largest sovereign wealth fund, with assets of $773 billion!
3) Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei – $20 Billion
The full name of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulahibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien. He is the head of state and Yangi-Di Pertuan of Brunei. He has been ruling Brunei ever since he became the Sultan in 1967. He ascended the throne after his father relinquished the throne in 1967. His is one of the largest car collectors in the world. Some companies have made cars exclusively for him! He has a Rolls Royce coated with 24K gold.
2) Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand – $30 Billion
Bhumibol Adulyadej has been the King of Thailand since 1946. He is the longest serving head of state. The king has made generous contributions to different sectors of Thai society. His is considered to be the wealthiest royal in the world and the longest reigning monarch in the history of Thailand.
1) Vladimir Putin, President of Russia – $40 Billion
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reported income is only $80,000; however, whistleblowers like political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky and former fellow government member Ivan Rybkin claim that Putin controls secret assets in oil and natural gas companies like Gazprom and Gunvor to the tune of over $40 billion. Some reports are enormously high – at $70 billion.
Putin, who has been the President of Russia since 2012, has many supporters. Some of them claim that these allegations have not been proved. Till today no one knows the exact extent of his wealth.
Ros Serey Sothea (1948– 1977) was a famous singer during the final years of Cambodia's Sangkum Reastr Niyum and the Khmer Republic. She sang from a variety of genres but romanticballads emerged as her most popular works. Despite a rather short career she is credited with producing hundreds of songs and even starring in a few movies and films. Details of her life are relatively scarce and her fate during Democratic Kampuchea remains a mystery.
The late King Norodom Sihanouk called Ros Serey Sothea "the golden voice of the royal capital.
Early life
Ros Sothea was born in 1948[2] to Ros Sabun and Nath Samean in Battambang Province. Growing up relatively poor, Ros Sothea was the second youngest of five children, included her older sister, activist Ros Saboeut.[3]She displayed vocal talent as a toddler and grew up listening to early Cambodian singers such as Mao Sareth and Chunn Malai which doubtlessly had a profound influence.
Sothea's talent would remain relatively hidden until friends persuaded her to join a regional singing contest in 1963. After winning the contest she gained the attention and praise of the province and was invited to join Lomhea Yothea (a musical troupe) which regularly performed at Stung Khiev Restaurant in Battambang. It is believed that Im Song Seurm, a singer from the National Radio, heard of Sothea's talents and invited her to the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1967.
Music career
In Phnom Penh, she adopted the alias Ros Sereysothea and became a singer for the National Radio performing duets with Im Song Seurm. Her first hit, Stung Khieu (Blue River) debuted the same year and she quickly attracted fans with her clear and high pitch voice. Eventually she became a regular partner with Sinn Sisamouth, the lead singer of the era, and they were a smashing success. She also performed with other prominent singers of the era such as Pan Ron, Houy Meas, and Sos Mat.
The style of her early career is characterized by traditional Cambodian ballads and duets. She would eventually shift to a more contemporary style by combining romantic ballads drenched in loss, betrayal, and death with Western instruments. This change of style can most likely be attributed to her traumatic marriage with fellow singer, Sos Mat.
By the 1970s, American influence from neighboring South Vietnam had reached Cambodia and Sothea, along with her contemporaries, began experimenting in Western genres. Her high, clear voice, coupled with the rock backing bands featuring prominent, distortion-laden lead guitars, pumping organ and loud, driving drums, made for an intense, sometimes haunting sound that is best described today as psychedelic or garage rock. Like the leader of the music scene, Sinn Sisamouth, Sothea would often take popular Western rock tunes, such as John Fogerty's "Proud Mary" and refashion them with Khmer lyrics.
Yet romantic ballads would remain her most endearing work amongst the more conservative populace. She was often sought out by film directors to perform the duet and/or solo in their movies. Sothea's collaboration with the Cambodian film industry is invaluable in identifying over 250 films lost during the communist regime.
Sothea never sang under any one record label and made a modest living as a musician. She is recognized as a national treasure and was honored by King Norodom Sihanouk with the royal title of "Preah Reich Theany Somlang Meas", the "Golden Voice of the Royal Capital".
From her brief relationship with a Khmer Republic parachutist and General Srey Ya, Sothea increasingly became involved in the military. As the Khmer Republic struggled in the civil war, Sothea and Sisamouth and their contemporaries published patriotic songs for the fledgling republic. Her career would continue until the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in April 1975.
Personal life
Sothea's personality is invariably described as modest and reserved. She is known to have been involved in a few relationships throughout her life. When she arrived in Phnom Penh, she was courted by fellow singer Sos Mat and eventually married. Unfortunately Mat was already legally married to two other wives. As her career moved forward, Sos Mat became insanely jealous of her success and of the men who came to watch her perform. Traumatized by the emotional abuse from the constant envy of his other wives and the domestic violence from Sos Mat, they separated within six months of marriage. With her name ruined as a result of the divorce, herONLY OPTION was to return to her family in Battambang. It would only be with intervention and help from Sinn Sisamouth that she resumed her career in Phnom Penh.
Despite the high profile divorce with Sos Mat, Sothea's popularity resurged and she met and the son of the famous Van Chan film company as part of her contracts recording film songs. Their marriage resulted in a son but for undocumented reasons they separated. She is also noted to have had a relationship with a parachutist of the Khmer Republic. General Srey Ya of Lon Nol's government, who was extremely infatuated with her, ended up holding her against her will in one incident. Sothea's unsteady relationships may have been the inspiration behind her most depressing ballads.
I love quiz shows. There's no better way to spend unemployment than lying on the sofa, eating till your ears bleed and watching endless reruns of quiz shows on some obscure satellite channel. Your enjoyment only punctured later by the double anxiety of having eaten too much and having gotten that question about Charles Dickens wrong. But at least you acknowledge it. At least you're prepared to take on board your mother's despairing shake of the head as you get question after question wrong. Knowledge is power and you need to power up. The sad fact is that there is a group in society who do not acknowledge their short comings. Instead they deflect all responsibility by blaming it on their of time of birth. In quiz shows this means contestants answering questions with the line - " Well this was before my time". Considering you're on a quiz show where potentially as many as 90% of the questions will be relevant to matters prior to 1980, this is bullshit of the highest order. I can't wait for the day when the host of the quiz turns to the contestants and says - "You're kidding, really? Really? For all the world I would have thought you'd lived through the Napoleonic Wars 1793 -1815. I don't suppose I could ask to see your birth certificate? Could I? ".
It's become so common place now that if it doesn't happen you feel cheated. Now, maybe I'm doing them a disservice, after all the Napoleonic Wars isn't something which is commonly taught in schools and unless you have a particular fondness for European warfare these events may have passed you by. But it gets worse than that. "When was the death of Princess Diana? Again this was before my time." What? You have to be 18 years old to go on a TV game show. Diana passed in August 1997, if you were born the month after you'd only be eligible to go on television next month. At the very least you'd have been several days or hours old when Lady Di fell off the twig. Or maybe your own birth was before your time.
Whilst the ire is up, I'll throw another one into the mix; films that use tag lines that have at best extremely tenuous links to the actual movie they're promoting - "Its' Gladiator meets Mary Poppins". Ok how have you arrived at Gladiator? Well it' set in Ancient Rome. Fair enough. And Mary Poppins? There's a woman in it. Excuse me? Not because it's about a nanny or a heart-warming children's fantasy?
No.
I'd barely even give it a second glance if the tag line was the final act of an exhausted movie director who is on his or her last legs after writing, producing, directing, traveling the globe trying to finance the project, having paid the caterer and the Best Boy and is now being harassed by the distributors for a throwaway line to promote the movie. The problem is that it stinks of some advertising company. The type of organisation where people wear suits without socks and drink wine through choice rather than it being the only drink they've got in the house. But the real creme de la creme is when they market a movie from a celebrated director by using a well-known movie they once made that has absolutely no relevance to the current picture - "From the director of Alien and Prometheus comes Penny Farthing- the history of bicycle riding through the ages". In the words of Bill Hicks - "go suck a tail pipe".
Sinn Sisamouth; 23 August 1932 – 18 June 1976) was a famous and highly prolific Cambodian singer-songwriter from the 1950s to the 1970s. Widely considered the "King of Khmer music," Sin Sisamouth, along with Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron, Mao Sareth and other Khmer artists, was part of a thriving pop music scene in Phnom Penh that blended elements of Khmer traditional music with the sounds of rhythm and blues and rock and roll to make a Westernized sound akin to psychedelic or garage rock. Sisamouth died during the Khmer Rouge regime under circumstances that are unclear.
Earlylife
Sinn Sisamouth was born in August 23, 1932, in Stung Treng Province, the son of Sinn Leang and mother Seb Bunlei.[1]
He was the youngest of four siblings, with one brother and two sisters. His father was a prison warden in Battambang Province and was then a soldier during the Colonial Cambodia period. His father died of disease, and his mother remarried, and the union resulted in two more children.
Sisamouth attended Central Province of Stung Treng Elementary School when he was five. At the age of six or seven, he started to show interest in the guitar, and he would be asked to perform at school functions. He was also interested in Buddhist scripture and other books, as well as playing soccer and flying kites.
Around 1951, he passed elementary school and intended to study medicine in Phnom Penh, but continued working at becoming a singer and writing songs. Just as he had in elementary school, he became well known in his school for his music, and was asked to sing at school ceremonies.
By the time Cambodia was granted independence from France in 1953, Sisamouth's fine singing voice landed him a spot on national radio as a regular singer. He also continued his studies, working at Preah Ketomealea Hospital.
Music Career
After completing medical school, Sisamouth became a nurse and married his cousin, Keo Thorng Gnut, in an arranged marriage. The couple had four children, but he was also a very famous singing star in Cambodia, and his life as a celebrity eclipsed his family life.
He possessed a clear crooning voice which, combined with his own compositions about the pleasures and pains of romance, made him an idol. He sang many ballads, as well uptempo rock numbers that featured prominent, distortion-laden guitar, pumping organ and loud, driving drums. Other arrangements were more Latin jazz-sounding, featuringwoodwinds, brass, and auxiliary percussion.
In the early 1950s he became a protégé of Queen Nearyrath. He was selected into the Vong Phleng Preah Reach Troap (classical ensemble of the Royal Treasury) where together with Sos Matt, he performed at royal receptions and state functions. A number of songs he wrote subsequently bore the unmistakable melancholic melodies of the traditional Khmer music he performed in those formative years. In the mid-1950s, a romantic ballad "Violon Sneha", composed by violinist Hass Salan, catapulted Sisamouth into stardom. In recent years the song has been re-issued by a large number of modern performers, including Song Seng Horn, who comes from Rhode Island, Mol Kamach (a singer and guitarist of the 1960s who escaped the Khmer Rouge rule and is now living in France), Nay Sieng (a Khmer based in France), and Him Sivonn (a female vocalist from Phnom Penh).
Most of Sisamouth's tape recordings from this period did not survive the years of social upheaval, however, although now and then some of Sisamouth's 1950s and early 1960s hits are rerecorded successfully. One such hit, "Srey Sros Khmeng", re-emerged from oblivion with Suong Chantha's 2002 faithful rendition. Sisamouth's other hits of the same period include "Anussavry Phnom Kravanh", "(Chett Srey doch) Chong Srol", "Thngay Dob Pee Thnou", "Thngay Muoy Kakkda", "Teuk Keb", "Stung Pursat", and "Prek Eng Oss Sangkhim".
Around 1963, Sisamouth started recording on the Vat Phnom label. His "Champa Batdambang" won immediate acclaim across the country. In a 1971 Phnom Penh television show, Sisamouth's interviewer recalled that "Champa Batdambang" was the first song sung on the inauguration of the station in 1965.
What captured Sisamouth's audience was the use of a four-piece, rock and roll band instrumentation with guitars and percussion, a departure from a backing band of wind instruments. He also experimented with Latin music, an infatuation that may have started with Prince Norodom Sihanouk's compositions, such as "Reatry Del Ban Chuop Pheak" and "Phnom Penh".
Sisamouth's popularity nevertheless did not eclipse the work of other recording artists, notably those who sang at the National Radio such as Eum Song Seurm and Huoy Meas. Meas Hok Seng, a voice artist at the Phnom Penh University of Arts ("Sala Rachna") also achieved celebrity status in 1966 with "Lolok Nhi Chmaul". Hits by these artists often came from the pen of lyricist Ma Lao Pi, a talented poet and broadcaster now living in California, whose masterpieces include "Day Samot Trapaing Roung" and "Lolok Nhi Chmaul". Despite occasional hits such as "Akassyean", Sos Matt on the other hand appeared to have been unfairly sidelined in the commercialisation of music that took place with the arrival of recording productions such as Vat Phnom and Chan Chaya.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sisamouth sang the soundtrack songs to a number of popular films, such as Orn Euy Srey Orn, Tep Sodachan, and Thavory Meas Bong. In "Peou Chhouk Sar", a 1967 success directed by Tea Lim Kun, Sisamouth captured the poignant breakup of lead actors Dy Saveth and Chea Yuthan with his "Neavea Chivit". Over his long career, Samuth recorded many duets with female singing partners, including, in the early 1960s, Mao Sareth, Keo Settha, Chhunn Vanna, Huoy Meas, Ros Sereysothea, and Penn Ron. Penn Ron began recording with Sisamouth in 1966. Ros Sereysothea started her career in around 1967 with the hit "Stung Khieu". Her high, crisp voice nicely balanced the deeper-toned voice of Sisamouth. Nevertheless the quality of Sisamouth's songs deteriorated rapidly in the 1970s, save for a few notable examples written by lyricist Voy Ho who had been a long standing colleague. Over that same period, Samuth adapted a number of Thai songs into his repertoire.
From 1972 to 1973, music publisher Kruorch Bunlyhe issued A Collection of Sentimental Songs, which contained 500 of Sinn Sisamouth's songs. It is estimated that he wrote thousands of songs, possibly at least one for each day he was famous, his son Sinn Chaya has said.
Along with his original works, Sisamouth also introduced many Western pop tunes to Cambodia, simply writing new verses in Khmer language. Examples include "The House of the Rising Sun" as "I'm Still Waiting for You" (a particularly good showcase of his sustained phrasing and baritone voice), "Black Magic Woman" (drawing influence from theSantana version) under the title "I Love Petite Women", "Sugar Sugar" and "Quando My Love".Sinn Sisamouth; 23 August 1932 – 18 June 1976) was a famous and highly prolific Cambodian singer-songwriter from the 1950s to the 1970s. Widely considered the "King of Khmer music," Sin Sisamouth, along with Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron, Mao Sareth and other Khmer artists, was part of a thriving pop music scene in Phnom Penh that blended elements of Khmer traditional music with the sounds of rhythm and blues and rock and roll to make a Westernized sound akin to psychedelic or garage rock. Sisamouth died during the Khmer Rouge regime under circumstances that are unclear.
Early life
Sinn Sisamouth was born in August 23, 1932, in Stung Treng Province, the son of Sinn Leang and mother Seb Bunlei.[1]
He was the youngest of four siblings, with one brother and two sisters. His father was a prison warden in Battambang Province and was then a soldier during the Colonial Cambodia period. His father died of disease, and his mother remarried, and the union resulted in two more children.
Sisamouth attended Central Province of Stung Treng Elementary School when he was five. At the age of six or seven, he started to show interest in the guitar, and he would be asked to perform at school functions. He was also interested in Buddhist scripture and other books, as well as playing soccer and flying kites.
Around 1951, he passed elementary school and intended to study medicine in Phnom Penh, but continued working at becoming a singer and writing songs. Just as he had in elementary school, he became well known in his school for his music, and was asked to sing at school ceremonies.
By the time Cambodia was granted independence from France in 1953, Sisamouth's fine singing voice landed him a spot on national radio as a regular singer. He also continued his studies, working at Preah Ketomealea Hospital.
Music career
After completing medical school, Sisamouth became a nurse and married his cousin, Keo Thorng Gnut, in an arranged marriage. The couple had four children, but he was also a very famous singing star in Cambodia, and his life as a celebrity eclipsed his family life.
He possessed a clear crooning voice which, combined with his own compositions about the pleasures and pains of romance, made him an idol. He sang many ballads, as well uptempo rock numbers that featured prominent, distortion-laden guitar, pumping organ and loud, driving drums. Other arrangements were more Latin jazz-sounding, featuringwoodwinds, brass, and auxiliary percussion.
In the early 1950s he became a protégé of Queen Nearyrath. He was selected into the Vong Phleng Preah Reach Troap (classical ensemble of the Royal Treasury) where together with Sos Matt, he performed at royal receptions and state functions. A number of songs he wrote subsequently bore the unmistakable melancholic melodies of the traditional Khmer music he performed in those formative years. In the mid-1950s, a romantic ballad "Violon Sneha", composed by violinist Hass Salan, catapulted Sisamouth into stardom. In recent years the song has been re-issued by a large number of modern performers, including Song Seng Horn, who comes from Rhode Island, Mol Kamach (a singer and guitarist of the 1960s who escaped the Khmer Rouge rule and is now living in France), Nay Sieng (a Khmer based in France), and Him Sivonn (a female vocalist from Phnom Penh).
Most of Sisamouth's tape recordings from this period did not survive the years of social upheaval, however, although now and then some of Sisamouth's 1950s and early 1960s hits are rerecorded successfully. One such hit, "Srey Sros Khmeng", re-emerged from oblivion with Suong Chantha's 2002 faithful rendition. Sisamouth's other hits of the same period include "Anussavry Phnom Kravanh", "(Chett Srey doch) Chong Srol", "Thngay Dob Pee Thnou", "Thngay Muoy Kakkda", "Teuk Keb", "Stung Pursat", and "Prek Eng Oss Sangkhim".
Around 1963, Sisamouth started recording on the Vat Phnom label. His "Champa Batdambang" won immediate acclaim across the country. In a 1971 Phnom Penh television show, Sisamouth's interviewer recalled that "Champa Batdambang" was the first song sung on the inauguration of the station in 1965.
What captured Sisamouth's audience was the use of a four-piece, rock and roll band instrumentation with guitars and percussion, a departure from a backing band of wind instruments. He also experimented with Latin music, an infatuation that may have started with Prince Norodom Sihanouk's compositions, such as "Reatry Del Ban Chuop Pheak" and "Phnom Penh".
Sisamouth's popularity nevertheless did not eclipse the work of other recording artists, notably those who sang at the National Radio such as Eum Song Seurm and Huoy Meas. Meas Hok Seng, a voice artist at the Phnom Penh University of Arts ("Sala Rachna") also achieved celebrity status in 1966 with "Lolok Nhi Chmaul". Hits by these artists often came from the pen of lyricist Ma Lao Pi, a talented poet and broadcaster now living in California, whose masterpieces include "Day Samot Trapaing Roung" and "Lolok Nhi Chmaul". Despite occasional hits such as "Akassyean", Sos Matt on the other hand appeared to have been unfairly sidelined in the commercialisation of music that took place with the arrival of recording productions such as Vat Phnom and Chan Chaya.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sisamouth sang the soundtrack songs to a number of popular films, such as Orn Euy Srey Orn, Tep Sodachan, and Thavory Meas Bong. In "Peou Chhouk Sar", a 1967 success directed by Tea Lim Kun, Sisamouth captured the poignant breakup of lead actors Dy Saveth and Chea Yuthan with his "Neavea Chivit". Over his long career, Samuth recorded many duets with female singing partners, including, in the early 1960s, Mao Sareth, Keo Settha, Chhunn Vanna, Huoy Meas, Ros Sereysothea, and Penn Ron. Penn Ron began recording with Sisamouth in 1966. Ros Sereysothea started her career in around 1967 with the hit "Stung Khieu". Her high, crisp voice nicely balanced the deeper-toned voice of Sisamouth. Nevertheless the quality of Sisamouth's songs deteriorated rapidly in the 1970s, save for a few notable examples written by lyricist Voy Ho who had been a long standing colleague. Over that same period, Samuth adapted a number of Thai songs into his repertoire.
From 1972 to 1973, music publisher Kruorch Bunlyhe issued A Collection of Sentimental Songs, which contained 500 of Sinn Sisamouth's songs. It is estimated that he wrote thousands of songs, possibly at least one for each day he was famous, his son Sinn Chaya has said.
Along with his original works, Sisamouth also introduced many Western pop tunes to Cambodia, simply writing new verses in Khmer language. Examples include "The House of the Rising Sun" as "I'm Still Waiting for You" (a particularly good showcase of his sustained phrasing and baritone voice), "Black Magic Woman" (drawing influence from theSantana version) under the title "I Love Petite Women", "Sugar Sugar" and "Quando My Love".
If we didn’t know any better, we would say that this is another Russian dash cam video! But no, this is straight out of Thailand! Somebody needs to give that semi driver a crack at Nascar or F1, because he was able to make that two trailer semi as wide as that entire freeway in his attempts to keep the pickup driver behind him! We don’t think that the pickup driver meant to cut him off at the beginning of the video, but hey, he did have a Che Guevara sticker on his truck.
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2015 Article IV Consultation with the Russian Federation Press Release No. 15/368 August 3, 2015 On July 29, 2015, the Executive Board of any International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded your current Article IV consultation1 because of the Russian Federation. Russia entered 2014 within declining potential growth owing towards stabilization involving oil prices, stalled structural reforms, weak investment, declining complete factor productivity ALONG WITH adverse population dynamics. within addition, your ongoing slowdown was exacerbated with the dual external shocks by the sharp decline with oil fees AND ALSO sanctions. The authorities took actions to help stabilize the economy along with the financial system. your sharp decline within oil expenses AND sanctions led for you to severe pressure towards ruble, a good surge throughout inflation, market turbulence, AND inquiries a lot more than financial stability. in response, your own authorities (i) accelerated ones move to help a good floating exchange rate, raised policy rates ALONG WITH increased FX liquidity; (ii) released temporary regulatory forbearance AS WELL AS a capital support program; AS WELL AS (iii) supplied several fiscal stimulus AND limited wage indexation to be able to assistance your own disinflationary process. Russia is usually essential to help become inside recession within 2015 for the sharp drop within oil prices IN ADDITION TO sanctions. GDP is usually expected for you to decline from 3.4 percent driven by the contraction within domestic involve weighed lower via falling genuine wages, higher cost involving capital, AS WELL AS weakened confidence. ones external spot will remain tough due in order to deleveraging at the face connected with limited market access. Inflation is actually necessary for you to come lower due to the dissipating impact of a ruble depreciation, the limited wage indexation at the budget as well as the recession. Growth Should resume with 2016 though inflation continues to help decline. However, your own recovery can be unlikely to end up being strong Equally the limiting points behind decelerating potential growth will certainly consider date to always be addressed, leading to be able to medium-term growth of 1.5 percent per year. a good increase inside geopolitical tensions is the main risk on the outlook.
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