The decision to link Muay Thai to Kun Khmer in a combined “Kun Khmer (Muay)” competition at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in 2023 – a biennial multi-sport event which Cambodia will be hosting for the first time – has become a hot topic with many sports fans. Some fans have expressed their displeasure with the decision and used it to attack the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC), saying that the committee isn’t displaying sufficient patriotism in its promotion of Kun Khmer martial arts since the competition will be linked to Muay Thai, which is Thailand’s kickboxing…
Author: Chhorn Norn
Officials from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports encouraged the student athletes who will travel to the 20th ASEAN University Games 2022 in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, to respect the rules, be united and focus on winning gold. The ministry is sending 48 athletes to compete in five sports at the games, which are scheduled to run from July 26 to August 6. This is a decrease from the team that attended the 19th games, which were held in Myanmar in 2018. Ministry secretary of state Sar Sokha said the athletes of the sports, including pentathlon, taekwondo, karate, petanque and…
Cambodia is getting ready to send a total of 161 national athletes in 12 sports to train in China over the long term to strengthen their techniques and abilities in order to better compete for medals in the 32nd SEA Games in 2023, which Cambodia will host. Vath Chamroeun, secretary-general of the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC), said that sending Cambodian athletes to train on a large scale in China is being done following an offer of help from the Chinese side and the team will leave in early August. Chamroeun said the athletes will train there until close…
The Cambodian and Indonesian sports organisations on July 14 signed a memorandum of undrstanding (MoU) regarding the two nations’ traditional martial arts of bokator and pencak silat. The agreement aims to put both countries in the strongest position to win medals in the two martial arts when Cambodia historically hosts the SEA Games for the first time next year. Secretary-general of the Cambodian SEA Games Organizing Committee (CAMSOC) Vath Chamroeun held discussions with delegates from the International Pencak Silat Federation and representatives of the Indonesian Embassy at the headquarters of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC). Chamroeun, who is…
Senior minister – and first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority – Ly Thuch said that he is committed to helping to improve the image of people with disabilities so that they will no longer experience discrimination and will be able to play their part in building the nation. As the recently elected president of the Cambodian Wheelchair Basketball Federation, Thuch wants people with disabilities to show off their sporting abilities, so that people know that they have the ability to contribute. “My role as president of the federation is to encourage people with disabilities to…
Secretary-general of the National Paralympic Committee of Cambodia (NPCC), Yi Veasna, praised the attention of Prime Minister Hun Sen and Hun Many, president of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, who helped push the Kingdom’s disabled sporting delegates to receive booster vaccination against Covid-19 before they head to the 11th ASEAN Para Games 2022 in Surakarta, Indonesia. The secretary-general added that the boosters would help the Cambodian team of disabled athletes to be more confident – and strong enough to compete for medals. The booster shots were suggested by Prime Minister Hun Sen, chairman of the National Paralympic Committee…
Although Cambodia has just participated in the World Games for the first time, its petanque heroines Ouk Sreymom and Un Sreya were able to build big reputations in the sport from that single event at an international competition that has been going strong for 41 years now. The duo of Cambodian women won two World Games 2022 gold medals in the women’s single and double petanque competitions, held this year in the southern US city of Birmingham, Alabama. Petanque is a bowling game of French origin played on hard dirt or gravel where the players direct their balls by rolling…
Prime Minister Hun Sen has suggested that the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC) and the Ministry of Tourism launch a “Visit Cambodia in 2023” campaign to increase tourism and promote the Kingdom in order to revive the sector after a sharp decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Because Cambodia is hosting the 2023 SEA Games and the ASEAN Para Games, I propose to include this big tourism event in a ‘Visit Cambodia in 2023’ campaign and increase the level of promotion of Cambodia tourism,” he said. Hun Sen made the remarks at the closing ceremony of the tourism conference…
Cambodian petanque heroine Ouk Sreymom has set another historic record by winning gold in the precision shooting event. She defeated home player Rebeka Howe in the final round of the World Games 2022, currently running in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 110 countries around the world have been competing in 34 sports at the games, with events scheduled from July 7 to 17. In the shooting competition, which selected only the world’s top eight athletes, Sreymom took the long way round to the podium. In the first match, she scored 31 points to finish fourth, meaning she missed out on an automatic…
Experts from the Cambodian SEA Games Organizing Committee (CAMSOC) claimed that Cambodia has achieved more successes than expected while hosting the Executive Committee Meeting of the Southeast Asian Games Federation Council and the three-day ASEAN Para Sport Federation Council, which ended on July 13. CAMSOC secretary-general Vath Chamroeun said after the meeting that the 10 countries that attended supported and praised Cambodia for its well-organised journey to hosting the 32nd SEA Games and the 12th ASEAN Para Games in 2023, both for the first time in Cambodian history. “Thong Khon, as the rotating chair since Cambodia is hosting the next…