PHNOM PENH, June 19 (Xinhua ) -- Each athlete of Cambodia's official team to the Beijing Olympics has received 600 U.S. dollars of extra bonus, together with an ticket to fly forth and back, said English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodian Daily Thursday.
"I think that money is appropriate, not a lot, because the Olympic committee has a lot of work to do," 18-year-old Olympic swimmer Hem Thon Ponloeu was quoted as saying.
Meas Sarin, secretary general of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), said that NOCC recently gave every athlete a one-time 400 U.S. dollars bonus, and Tourism Minister and NOCC President Thong Khon earlier also personally donated 200 U.S. dollars for each of the six Cambodian athletes and trainers heading for the Beijing Olympics.
In addition, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is paying the Cambodian delegation's travel expenses to Beijing, he added.
Each Olympic candidate used to receive only 30 U.S. dollars of stipend every month from NOCC, which they have complained is too few to meet the usual demand.
Cambodia will send a 15-member delegation to take part in the Beijing Games. King Norodom Sihamoni and Education Minister Kol Pheng are also planning to attend the opening ceremony.
It is not the first time Cambodia has sent athletes to the Olympics. The first post-war delegation of five Khmers competed at the Atlanta Games in 1996, and Cambodia subsequently sent four athletes to both Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
"I think that money is appropriate, not a lot, because the Olympic committee has a lot of work to do," 18-year-old Olympic swimmer Hem Thon Ponloeu was quoted as saying.
Meas Sarin, secretary general of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), said that NOCC recently gave every athlete a one-time 400 U.S. dollars bonus, and Tourism Minister and NOCC President Thong Khon earlier also personally donated 200 U.S. dollars for each of the six Cambodian athletes and trainers heading for the Beijing Olympics.
In addition, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is paying the Cambodian delegation's travel expenses to Beijing, he added.
Each Olympic candidate used to receive only 30 U.S. dollars of stipend every month from NOCC, which they have complained is too few to meet the usual demand.
Cambodia will send a 15-member delegation to take part in the Beijing Games. King Norodom Sihamoni and Education Minister Kol Pheng are also planning to attend the opening ceremony.
It is not the first time Cambodia has sent athletes to the Olympics. The first post-war delegation of five Khmers competed at the Atlanta Games in 1996, and Cambodia subsequently sent four athletes to both Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
10 comments:
King Sihamoni also visits Olympic in China.
In his website, the King sent a letter to King of Thailand expressing his condolences when King of Thailand grand son was killed in Tsunami.
King Sihamoni visited Brunei, France to tie relationship and to help his country, but KI and these fools see nothing.
I heard Nelson Mandella also showed a respect to Ho Chi Minh and he is an African.
Can any body sees the picture of these primitive behavior?
yeah, KI is extremist.
Fool above! KI only reported the new and it did reported the actitier of the King!
We who hate ah Ho Chi Minh Gaot Fucking face and hate the act of ah Ho Chi Minh off spring that killer of our race!
May ah Goat face alway stay in hell for their mudered action!
12:50 AM is also extremist
1"09AM, When some country put a popet to controle your country force you accept faked religion! And show you in bright day light that it can defrok you real relegion leader and took him to imprison in it country do I have to be less extremist?
You mother fucker Ah Youn vietnamese mother fucker goat face live our people alone we will not have time to hate you mother fucker ah Ho Cho Moinh Goat face off spring!!!
He may be extremist if only Vietname invaded or oppressed Cambodia in the past only!
But while some one is standing on your head you can not call a down man extremist for fighting for his dignity!
No, Yuon never had oppressed Cambodia in the past.
That's right 5:41 AM the 10 years of Youn occupation is call gift from Uncle Ho Chi Minh, which they kill almost all the remaining Khmer intellectuals. It's really showed by the quality of the comments of some ignorant Khmer on this blog.
Hey 5:41 AM why don't you go and post your opinion at Vietcong blog.
Well, this is Vietcong's blog, since they owned Ah Khmer-Yuon.
I request every peoples around the world please do not respect to a mother fucking a Ho Chi Minh shark Laos and Khmer Kampuchea Krom Land & also Cambodia, the mother fucker a Yuon Ho Chi Minh just want Laos and Cambodia land only but can't do anything within CHINA so scare with CHINA, I request to a Yuon governemt that Vietnam land should hand over to CHINA look after better than your own government stupid a Yuon idiot dump from Cambodian Victim in Australia
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