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The boat measures 87.3 metres (286 ft) in overall length, 1.99 metres (6.5 ft) in width and it can accommodate 179 oarsman. [3] [4] [5] More than 13,000 people participated in the construction of the boat and it was completely hand-made. [6] The name Kambojika Putta Khemara Tarei translates to “Dragon Boat of Khmer Youth in Cambodian ...
The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) is an organization that self-declares as representing the indigenous Khmer Krom peoples living in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Its primary mission is to advocate for human rights, religious freedom, and self-determination and independence through peaceful means and international laws. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Khmer Krom dancers in Sóc Trăng province. The majority of Khmer Krom live in Southern Vietnam. According to Vietnamese government figures (2019 census), there are 1,319,652 Khmer Krom in Vietnam. Their distribution is as follows: Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam ...
Group 3, called the Bassac Troops, was a large, very long open boat with a roof across the front, oars, and sails, shaped like the Bassac boat, called the Pok Chay boat. The boat was only used at night with lanterns, as a food supply boat for the army, delivering rice from Kampong Chhnang to Kampuchea Krom in Preah Trapeang Province until the ...
In a Khmer Buddhist monk's vision, the Khmer have inhabited the land of Kampuchea Krom since it first emerged from the ocean thousands of years ago as a fragrant and glowing land that attracted the teovada, celestial beings who ate the sweet earth and were subsequently unable to fly back to their world, thus staying on earth as the first humans. [1]
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. [18] 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 ...
A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft originating from the Pearl River Delta region of China 's southern Guangdong Province. These were made of teak, but in other parts of China different kinds of wood are used. It is one of a family of traditional paddled long boats found throughout Asia, Africa, the Pacific islands, and Puerto Rico.
Son Kuy or Chavay Kuy ( Khmer: ចៅហ្វាយ គុយ ), also known as Oknha Son Kuy ( Khmer: សឺន គុយ ), was the governor of the Khmer province of Trapeang (now Trà Vinh). He was beheaded by Emperor Thiệu Trị of the Nguyễn dynasty in 1841, in exchange for preserving the cultural tradition for the Khmer Krom. Nowadays ...