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Reamker ( Khmer: រាមកេរ្តិ៍, UNGEGN: Réamkértĕ, ALA-LC: Rāmākerti ̊; Khmer pronunciation: [riəmkeː]) is a Cambodian epic poem, based on the Sanskrit 's Rāmāyana epic. The name means "Glory of Rama". It is the national epic of Cambodia, along with the less famous version of the Trai Bhet. The earliest mention of ...
Khmer Krom people have been members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization since 15 July 2001. According to the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) "the Khmer Krom people face serious restrictions of freedom of expression, assembly, association, information, and movement".
Nuon Chea ( Khmer: នួន ជា; born Lao Kim Lorn; [1] 7 July 1926 – 4 August 2019), also known as Long Bunruot ( Khmer: ឡុង ប៊ុនរត្ន) or Rungloet Laodi ( រុងឡឺត ឡាវឌី Thai: รุ่งเลิศ เหล่าดี ), [4] was a Cambodian communist politician and revolutionary who was the ...
History. The life of Sdach Korn as recorded in the Cambodian Royal Chronicles was first described at the beginning of the twentieth century by ethnologist Adhémard Leclère in French, while the collection of volumes of Documents on the Life of the Khmer Heroes compiled in 1959 by Ang Seng gives more details, especially of the important dreams that determined his life.
The sons of a Khmer king did not necessarily inherit their father's thrones; Jayavarman VII himself had many sons, such as Suryakumara and Virakumara (the suffix kumara usually is translated as "prince", one of the king's sons), and Srindrakumaraputra, the crown prince who died before his father, but only Indravarman II inherited the throne.
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Typically, Khmer games help maintain one's mental and physical dexterity. Chol Chhoung. Chol Chhoung (ចោលឈូង, Chaôl Chhung) is a game played especially on the first nightfall of the Khmer New Year by two groups of boys and girls. Ten or 20 people comprise each group, standing in two rows opposite each other.
Estimates for the number of the Khmers in Vietnam (known as the Khmer Krom) vary from the 1.3 million given by government data to 7 million advocated by the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation. The Khmer population native to Laos is less significant than in Thailand and Vietnam, those communities reside in the southwestern tip of Laos, at the ...