Cambodia Strikes Gold In Vovinam, Medal Haul Increases At SEA Games
Cambodians got something to cheer after Ly Boramy struck gold in the Single Man Vovinam Martial arts Yesterday. The 25 Year old gave a spectacular performance that stunned the Judges as well as the over 1000 spectators cheering Cambodia on as LY Boramy scored 278 points to defeat Vietnam and Indonesia to Silver and bronze respectively.
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PODCAST: Phnom Penh's Comedy First - An Interview with Jonathon Atherton
totallyrandomman talks to comedian and event organiser Jonathon Atherton about Phnom Penh’s first international stand up comedy night.
On Tuesday, December the 6th, there will be a landmark in the rapidly evolving cultural fabric of Phnom Penh. Pontoon will be hosting Cambodia’s first ever international stand-up comedy night.
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PhotoPhnomPenh 4th edition - PhotoPhnomPenh 4ème édition
The Institut français of Cambodia is organizing from , the fourth edition of the Festival PhotoPhnomPenh.
8 Cambodian photographers and 16 international (France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Estonia, India, China, Korea) will present their latest work in nearly twenty places partners, while five thematic exhibitions provide a cross look on current and historic aspects of Cambodian culture.
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Rain Won't Stop Play: Flood Relief Gig at Titanic Club
Earlier in the year, Cambodia saw the worst flooding in over a decade; at least 150 killed, 100,000 families in 15 provinces affected, 170,000 hectares of rice fields and 63,000 homes were submerged, more than 300 schools were closed, Much of the country is still reeling from the impact. A fact which is so easy to ignore in the hermetically sealed, Phnom Penh, expat bubble.
But the cliché that the worst of times brings out the best in people holds true and many have been doing their bit to help out.
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Cambodia Looks To Add To Their Medal Tally
As the 26th SEA Games enters its third day of activities, Cambodia Is looking to increase it's medal haul following two bronze medals won in Taekwondo and Pentanque in the first two days of the Games.
With progress made in Tennis and Pentaque yesterday, the kingdom is looking to add more medals as the pair of Bun Kenny and Orn Sambath will take on their opponents from Indonesia for the semi finals after defeating Laos 2 sets to 1 yesterday. The pair is assured of a bronze already but will be looking to chase the Gold or Silver.
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Mixed Results for Cambodia in day 2 of SEA Games
As the 26th SEA games entered its second day of events, Cambodia's athletes made a bright start to their campaign both at the Palembang and Jakarta Centers. Apart from the little blemish from the Football team that saw their campaign finally come to a halt with a 4-1 spanking in the hands of reigning champions Malaysia and A 3-0 whitewash of the Volleyball team by Host Indonesia, the Second day of events looked promising with Athletes in Table tennis, Tennis and Pentaque coming up with some spectacular results and making progress towards the medal zones.
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SEA GAMES 2011: Cambodia out of contention, takes on Malaysia for pride
Cambodia are out of contention for this year’s SEA Games honours following three straight defeats against ASEAN heavyweights which unfortunately, they had drawn in Group A of the biennial championship this year.
And Friday Night rounded off what had been a generally disappointing outing for Lee Tae Hoon and his men even though the Cambodians still have the game against Malaysia to play for today.
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Team Cambodia Charges on at SEA games
Cambodia will today look to better her performance in the ongoing 26th SEA games as more athletes take to the field. In the first day of activities yesterday, Cambodia returned with only one bronze won by Seavmey Sorn in the women Under 62kg Taekwondo. Other athletes in Swimming, Athletics and Badminton fell by the way side.
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17 yr Old Sorn Seavmey wins Cambodia's first medal at the 26th SEA games
Cambodia won her first medal in the on going 26th SEA games in Taekwondo after 17 year old Seavmey Sorn lost out in the semi finals against Vietnam's Thanh Thao Nguyen at the Korean-Indonesia Friendship Taekwondo center, Jakarta today.
Sorn Davin got to the semi finals after winning Malaysia's Maznal Samadin the Quarter Finals of he Under 62 Female Category.
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Cambodia Makes Progress in Swimming, Athletics and Taekwondo as games gets underway
Cambodia’s Hem Thon Ponleou’s attempt to make it to the next round of the 200m Breaststroke Swimming received a boost at the JAKABARING AQUATIC CENTRE in Palembang earlier on Saturday as the 21 year old swimmer finished 7th with a time of 02:38:53 minutes . Ponleou was drawn in group 1 in the heat along with others from Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam where he finished 3rd behind Malaysia and Indonesia. His time was good enough to put him in the final 8 to vie for a place on the podium.
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