Reviews for Cambodia Mineral & Mining Sector Investment And Business Guide

The average rating for Cambodia Mineral & Mining Sector Investment And Business Guide based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-15 00:00:00 Kevin Wells Today, August 27th, is a holiday here in the Philippines. It is our National Heroes' Day. I think, officially, we have three national heroes: Jose Rizal (the doctor), Andres Bonifacio (the fan maker) and Emilio Aguinaldo (the general). Having existed on earth in the late 19th century, they were all contemporaries. I think they met each other. But then, and even now, they did not see eye-to-eye. They did not agree on how to go about toppling the Spaniards. They did not even agree on where to go from being the colony of Spain. Rizal did not agree with the armed revolution that both Bonifacio and Aguinaldo were pushing for. Bonifacio was instrumental to the indictment of Rizal that caused the latter's death by firing squad. Aguinaldo ordered the execution of Bonifacio on the mountain. There went our national heroes. Yet, we don't have work or school today as we are supposed to remember their heroism. Oh well, at least I can rest, type this review here at home and read my books the remainder of the day. Hola Roberto Bolano! Bounjour Samuel Beckett! Nice to meet you again, Philip Roth! I can lie in the bed the whole day with the books of these brilliant writers. Too bad they are not Filipinos so I cannot nominate them to be our national heroes. My TV is open as I type this review. There is a morning show where there is a roving interviewer asking the people on the street who for him or her is the real hero? Somebody says Rizal and he explains that because he went to Spain and Japan and he came back to die. Well, good answer but not just Spain and Japan, but he also went to the US, France, Germany, Singapore, Cambodia, etc. The other person says Bonifacio because he represents the poor Filipinos. Well, as what? As a headless chicken running around not knowing where to go? Thank goodness no one has said Aguinaldo yet. Somebody say, her mother because of the sacrifices she did for raising her and her siblings. I think that is the best answer. But I have to say something about this book, Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures. Well, this is a compilation of speeches our young historian Ambeth Ocampo gave in 1985-1986 ushering the centennial of Rizal's death anniversary on December 30, 1986. More than half of what he said in the 5 speeches, I've already read in his earlier book, Rizal: Without The Overcoat (2 stars). However, now, in this book, he already used footnotes indicating the sources of his controversial exposes about our national hero Rizal. This is the reason why I gave this with 3 stars even if I only learned fewer facts or enjoyed fewer conjectures from him. If you are planning to read an Ocampo about Rizal, go for this book. This has less hearsays or baseless claims. But if you have already read Rizal Without the Overcoat you don't need to read this book unless you want to waste your time and money.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-23 00:00:00 Knut Fredrik Kopperud The national hero of the Philippines is José Rizal and his most popular historian is Ambeth R. Ocampo. In these lectures, Ocampo uses the sense of history (kasaysayan in Tagalog) as salaysay (narrative) and saysay (meaning) to guide his readers and listeners through the important facets of Rizal as revolutionary, scientist, dreamer (of literal night dreams), and historian. His conclusion: Rizal is a reflection of the Filipinos' continuing search for a national identity. This is an imposed argument because it involves seeing Rizal through the framework of nationalism, itself an imagined concept. For his part, Ocampo's theses are grounded on first rate scholarship using primary information. His interpretations are at least as full of provocations and wit as to be challenging and fun to read. The last lecture, on Rizal's attempt to write Philippine history, is for me a very fine piece of argumentation, differentiating as it did between "objective scholarship" and "committed scholarship" and laying down more fertile grounds for historical inquiry. Ocampo (paraphrasing Robert Frost) also would have us think that history is what is lost in translation. A contention that he himself debunked with his strong sense of history and translation/interpretation. Translation itself is an opportunity to correct history. Ocampo the historian explains his methods well--reading, digesting, stitching facts together, synthesizing, making a cogent argument--while shedding light into the philosophical and literary enigmas of Rizal. History is never objective nor impartial, but it is the duty of historians to strive to be so. Ocampo is one of those who are fair minded enough to see many sides to a history.