Sep
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Fixture cancellation angers touring team
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The Football Federation of Cambodia’s decision over the weekend to scrap this Thursday’s scheduled friendly fixture between the Cambodian national team and Khmer Europe XI has enraged the visiting side comprising Cambodians living abroad.
The 2012 Metfone C-League Super 4 playoffs, which has its third place playoff on Wednesday and final on Saturday, will feature a significant number of national team players.
However, with the tour being months in the planning with many of the foreign-based players requiring unpaid leave from their jobs, the obvious fixture clash was somehow overlooked by the Federation until just days beforehand.
“Everyone in the team is angry because so much time and effort have been put in to prepare us for the match,” Battambang-born Australian Chan Tolson posted on his Facebook page on Saturday.
“So disappointed flying all this way for nothing.”
Khmer Europe will instead face 2011 league champions Phnom Penh Crown, who missed out on the Super 4 playoffs this year, in a friendly at 3:30pm on Thursday at Olympic Stadium.
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Sep
12
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UNESCO ‘Memory of the World’ title for Buddhist Woodblocks
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A grand ceremony will be held on October 7 to pray for national peace and prosperity, and to receive the UNESCO certificate declaring the ancient Buddhist Sutra Woodblocks at the Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in Bac Giang Province as ‘Memory of the World’.
The event aims to honor the collection of valuable woodblocks of an ancient oriental cultural and traditional heritage.
The ancient woodblocks were made in the early 14th century by monks at the Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in the northern province of Bac Giang.
The blocks tell a history of woodblock carvings in Vietnam; the development and ideology of Truc Lam Zen Buddhism-founded by King Tran Nhan Tong in the 11th century; science and technology; literature and the arts; and the philosophy, sociology and linguistics of earlier civilizations.
On the occasion, a historical site relating to the Yen The up-rising (1883-1913) will be recognized as a special national relic.
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Sep
12
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Conference discusses world heritage preservation
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A conference on the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention and sustainable development in par with human and ecosystem programme took place in the northern province of Ninh Binh on September 11.
The conference, coorganised by the UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and the Vietnam UNESCO National Committee, aimed to encourage the Convention member countries to take long-term plans to preserve and develop heritage values, in association with the protection of the ecosystem.
Participants at the conference agreed that the preservation of the world’s natural and cultural heritages need to be carried out regularly and continuously, particularly in the context that the risk from global climate change is becoming serious and unexpected.
They stressed that in order to achieve sustainable development, the member countries are required to design master plans and set up a system to supervise the process of socio-economic construction and development, to avoid negative impacts on the heritages.
They also highlighted the need for effective measures to balance the heritage preservation and the economic development as well as tourist attraction.
Addressing the conference, Pham Cao Phong, Secretary General of the Vietnam UNESCO National Committee assessed that during the past 25 years, ministries, sectors, local governments and related agencies of Vietnam have effectively implemented the Convention.
Many policies related to the field have been applied widely and deeply, contributing to promoting the image of UNESCO as well as protecting the country’s quintessence to transfer to younger generations.
On the occasion, the Committee floated a proposal to establish a network to supervise, preserve and develop world heritages in Southeast Asia, aiming to raise public awareness and responsibility towards the heritages, encouraging them protect the environment, thus developing the tourism economy in a sustainable manner.
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Museums excavate Danang’s Cam Mit relic
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12/09/2012 10:34:53
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HCM City hosts int’l tourism expo
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12/09/2012 10:22:06
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Vietnam wins prizes at int’l puppetry festival
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12/09/2012 10:19:25
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Cham cultural festival in Ninh Thuan
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12/09/2012 10:17:35
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CM City the convergent point of tourism promoters
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12/09/2012 10:15:29
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Pe Luong – a destination to experience Thai culture
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12/09/2012 10:13:57
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Russian businesses explore Ninh Thuan’s tourism potential
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12/09/2012 10:00:23
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Vietnam amateur golf champion named
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12/09/2012 09:43:45
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Vietnam amateur golf champion named
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12/09/2012 09:39:15
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