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South Korean boy band Shinee performed a concert at Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, wrapping up a six-day visit that included a donation of US$10,000 to the Cambodia Children’s Fund.

The band – formed in 2008 and consisting of members Lee Jinki, Kim Jonghyun, Kim Kibum, Choi Minho and Lee Taemin – has become popular among Cambodian teens through its music videos, particularly for the song “Ring Ding Dong”.

Shinee’s visit to the country was arranged by the Cambodia Television Network (CTN) and its sister network MYTV.

At a press conference on Monday band members said they were touring Asia and had very much wanted to perform in Cambodia.

“We also know that Cambodian people support Shinee,” the band said in statement. Read the rest of this entry »

We always see the shortest comedian performing at CNT channel over the weekend with Mr.Koy’s troop. His real name is Tes Sophon, aka KREN, getting married to a beautiful girl on May 28, 2009 in Preah Sihanouk province.

A few months after getting married, his wife got pregnant with a son. In addition, he and his fellow performers always said he really will be father of a son in 2010. More of audiences always thought that he probably had no wife as other usual men. But it was not like what the audiences thoughts.

After he was trained by famous comedian, Mr.Koy, his name and reputation are recognized and popular among the world of art. Mr. KREN was born in Battambang province.

Restaurant singer Vann Hanna, aged 19, has high ambition to become popular singer in the singing career. And she also wants to be popular singer like other singers. Therefore, she tried to improve her voice and hopefully she will achieve her ambition in the future.

In 2004 she quitted her school at grade 9 and then helped her mother sell fruits at the market because of her poor family. Later she tried to learn how to sing by herself. In 2008, she started singing at beer garden in Phnom Penh.

Besides singing at restaurant, she also is invited to sing at concerts of local television. And she performs as karaoke actress and also record CDs for other productions.

Nowadays, she is living with her mother, her father passed away. She has 6 siblings (3 sisters and 3 brothers). She is the youngest daughter over the family.

She hopes that she will become famous singer in the near future.

According to traditional Khmer belief, catching sight of a human-shaped cloud is a sign of good luck. Conversely, clouds in the form of animals are thought to be an omen of bad things to come.

But what does it mean when there are no clouds at all?

Artist Srey Bandol, who has been watching the sky with a creative eye for more than a decade, says that in the past few years he has noticed fewer clouds than before, a signal that even worse luck might be coming our way than any animal shape might indicate.

“In my youth, wherever I walked I looked up at the sky waiting for clouds to drift my way, hoping for them to come and cool me down,” he says.

Now more often than not, he has observed, there are no clouds, just a dark blue sky over Cambodia. Bandol takes this as a sign that nature is changing, and not for the better. Read the rest of this entry »

LAY LIDA stares into the mirror, studying the minute details discernable only by a teenage girl.

The 17-year-old’s synopsis: This ensemble has got to be perfect. She’s meeting friends later. There could be boys. But the outfit is missing a key component: the right surgical mask.

Glancing past the blue ones in her parents’ shop in Kampong Thom town, she descends upon a pink face mask – it just feels like a pink sort of day, she explains. “Masks make me more beautiful,” she says. “They make me look good.”

Call this the anti-fashion trend, one that hides, rather than augments, someone’s look. It’s a marriage between practicality and chic that – bolstered by fears of H1N1, air pollution and the dusty grip of the dry season – is sweeping across Cambodia and other parts of Asia, according to fashion experts, surgical mask producers, sellers and wearers. Read the rest of this entry »

Due to the uncertain film industry, there are some movie and karaoke performers leaving this industry and some have still continued their career until now. Especially, Som Socheata who is a movie actress has started her career as performer since 2005. Until now, she is recognized and is popular amongst the art world.

Besides of performing movie, she also records Karaoke songs for many productions, including in and out of the country.

In 2004, she had been trained at Art Club and then she started to gain performing arts because her aunt helped her. She has 5 sisters. She is the oldest daughter over the family.

She also was rumored to steal singer’s boyfriend TATA and had relationship with Russian tycoon’s son. But she denied strongly these allegations.  She also said that she now has no relationship with other men.

Source: www.khmerstar.info