Cambodian Stamps issued in 2005
February 18, 2005: 50th Anniversary of the Cambodian Red Cross
No official First Day Cover (FDC) was issued for this set; the following was made by the author and the staff of the Philately Department at the Central Post Office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia:
A sheet of 25 of the 400 Riel stamp:
April 11, 2005: Apsara Dance
They live happily for a while but the gandharvas, jealous of her relationship with a mortal, contrive to trick him into rushing out one night to rescue Urvasl's pet lamb and send a flash of lightning to illuminate his nakedness. Urvasi disappears and Pururuvas is left in despair, until he is finally shown how he can transform himself into a gandharvas and is thus reunited with Urvasi in svarga.
The changing perception and role of the apsaras, from immortal women with remarkable sexual freedom to seductresses sent by Indra to distract holy men from their meditation, has been the subject of much analysis. In some areas, apsaras were worshipped as part of mother-goddess cults. They were called Sumad-Atmajas (daughters of joy) and an association with hierodules (temple prostitutes) is apparent in the early stories.
May 16, 2005: Khmer Culture
July 25, 2005: Flowers
September 5, 2005: Fish
October 29, 2005: First Anniversary of the Coronation of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
No Souvenir Sheet and no First Day Cover was issued; if you see such items being sold on internet websites, they are fake!
December 5, 2005: Birds
No Souvenir Sheet and no First Day Cover was issued; if you see such items being sold on internet websites, they are fake!
December 19, 2005: The 55th Anniversary of Cambodia-Thailand Diplomatic Relations
No stamps, souvenir sheet or first day cover was issued; only this cachet was applied to incoming and outgoing mail at the Central Post Office in Phnom Penh for a week or so prior to, and following, December 19, 2005.
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