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Kompong Cham

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Kompong Cham

 

a city and port in Cambodia; situated on the Mekong River. Administrative center of Kompong Cham Province. Population, approximately 30, 000 (1962). Rubber from surrounding plantations, timber, and fish are exported

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive
Apart from the suspicion of members of circles of power, precious little information is given regarding the relationship with the Khmer commoners, particularly the ones inhabiting the villages that the Cam crossed on their way from Kompong Cham province to Kompong Chhnang.
Yim Chhay Ly, a deputy prime minister and CPP lawmaker candidate in Kompong Cham province, went to cast his ballot at a polling station in the province's capital.
This program has endorsed the pilot training and indicate the Good Agriculture Practice (GAP) in Siem Reap and Kompong Cham provinces and is assisting the drafting of procedure to issue official recognition certificate for agro-products and fruit with (Cam-GAP) in 2016 which is our need to fully integrate in ASEAN community so that we can certify the quality of Cambodia's fresh agro-products to export to other ASEAN nations" he said.
In 2012 the Ministry of Education included comprehensive sex education in curricula starting in grade five in the provinces of Preah Sihanouk, Koh Kong, Kompong Cham and Pursat, covering around 25 percent of Cambodian learners.
Keo Vy, spokesman of the National Committee for Disaster Management, told Kyodo News that 22 Cambodians, 12 of them were under 15 years old, died by drowning or other causes due to flooding in the five provinces of Udor Meanchey, Kompong Cham, Kratie, Stung Treng and Ratanakiri.
Of the country's 23 provinces and a city, the seven provinces -- Prey Veng, Kandal, Kompong Speu, Takeo, Siem Reap, Battambang and Kompong Cham -- and the capital Phnom Penh are the battlegrounds for the two leading parties.
23-25 seminar came from Battambang prefecture, Phnom Penh vicariate and Kompong Cham prefecture.
Sixty-three-year-old Dun Lee Han, the leader of Ratanakiri's Cham community, explained how the 452 Cham families, who migrated from Kompong Cham province, began making a new life for themselves as land-bound farmers.
Government gave assistance to two Islamic organizations that actively conducted human rights and democracy training in Phnom Penh and Kompong Cham Province to increase awareness of human rights within the Khmer Muslim community.
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