The selection process of candidates for the Miss Grand Cambodia 2022 Pageant has been expanded beyond previous events. Organisers have increased the number of contestants to represent more provinces and cities and will include seven candidates with Khmer roots who live abroad.
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PHNOM PENH
That he speaks, thinks and dreams in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, is nothing unusual for Liv Yang Bin, an ethnic Vietnamese man whose great-grandparents settled generations earlier in the Trouy Sla commune, about 50km south of the capital, Phnom Penh.
“We are all Cambodians here. But the Khmer families, they own land or run shops. They live in the front of the village; we live here in the back,” said the 66 year old, whose community depends on fishing.
About 5 percent of Cambodia s 15 million people are ethnic Vietnamese. Like Liv, most have lived here for generations and identify themselves as Cambodian, yet they do not hold citizenship and are barred from access to basic rights, according to activists.
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Transport minister Sun Chanthol at a virtual meeting with an ADB delegation led by urban development specialist Alexander D Nash on Tuesday. TRANSPORT MINISTRY
ADB asked to craft game plan for monorail, subway
Wed, 7 April 2021
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport on April 6 asked the Metro Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help devise strategies for monorail and subway projects planned for Phnom Penh.
Minister Sun Chanthol made the request at a virtual meeting with an ADB delegation led by urban development specialist Alexander D Nash.
Chanthol noted that a feasibility study on the monorail project was recently completed and that another one on the subway development was due next month. Both are conducted by Chinese companies.