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CAMBODIA| Cambodia witnesses the high-level royal funeral of the chief monk
Cambodians have been witnessing one of the most high-level royal funerals organised for the death of the Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong, which will come to an end with a grand event for the cremation of the body on June 3.
The body of the 93-year-old chief Buddhist monk of Cambodia has been kept at Phnom Penh’s Ounalom Pagoda since his passing on Feb. 26 for a 100-day memorial service.
According to a respected monk, Samdech Preah Moha Arey Vong Yorn Seng Yeat, Cambodia held a similar level of royal funeral for the passing of the country’s prominent and most-remembered chief Buddhist monk, Samdech Preah Moha Sometheathipady Chuon Nath in 1969.
After that, he added, another chief Buddhist monk of Cambodia Samdech Preah Maha Somethea Dhipati Huot Tat died during the dark period of the Khmer Rouge, so there was no proper funeral arranged for him.
The royal funeral for Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong was organised in two main stages.
The first was the 7th-day memorial service, which saw the presence of Cambodia’s top leaders and other high-profile guests paying their final respects to the chief monk.
The second stage is to keep the body until the 100th day for the rest of the Buddhist followers and Cambodians to bid their final goodbye to the chief monk.
Chhin Ketana, secretary-general of the National Committee for Organising National and International Festivals, who was tasked with leading the grand funeral ceremony, said that there would be a five-kilometer funeral procession before the body’s cremation in June in Phnom Penh.
The procession, he added, will stop at the Preah Meru (crematorium) area in front of Wat Botum VatteyReachvaram for the cremation ceremony.
His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, will officially fire the cremation.AKP
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Myanmar’s junta has transformed the city hall of Sagaing Region’s capital into one of the country’s most notorious interrogation centres
Trigger warning: This article includes descriptions of violent events that might be disturbing for some readers.
In the centre of Monywa, Sagaing Region’s capital and largest city, is its city hall, a building that is now heavily fortified with bunkers and several layers of barbed-wire fence. It has been like this for more than three years now, ever since the military turned it into an interrogation centre for opponents to its rule.
Anti-coup protests began in Monywa on February 7, 2021, less than a week after the junta seized power. A day later, the crowds swelled to the tens of thousands, prompting the regime to impose a curfew and a ban on gatherings of more than five people.
This came as pro-democracy forces in the city, including members of the ousted ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), as well as the 88. . .
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SINGAPORE: ‘Extra pair of eyes’: 360-degree collision warning system helps bus drivers check blind spots
SINGAPORE – When Mr Tan Chee Kiong, a senior bus captain with public bus company SBS Transit (SBST), is at the controls of bus service 81, the roads are quite often clogged before Nex shopping mall and along the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway.
Besides turning his head to check his blind spots, and looking into the rear and side mirrors of his bus, the 39-year-old also has to keep watch for cyclists and motorcyclists who might suddenly get in the way.
He now has greater peace of mind as the bus he commands is one of 27 in SBST’s fleet fitted with a new collision warning system, Agil DriveSafe+, under a six-month pilot by the bus operator and technology and engineering group ST Engineering. The trial will end in mid-October.
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/extra-pair-of-eyes-360-degree-collision-warning-system-helps-bus-drivers-check-blind-spots
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