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By Friday evening, two local TV stations- Bayon and CTN – formed fund raising in order to help family members of the dead and the injured during the water festival, raising nearly US$1.5 million. Bayon TV had raised more than US$1.08 million and CTN had raised more than US$500,000.
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One day came after tragic incident occurred in the last day of water festival and left hundreds of revelers dead and injured on Koh Pich suspension bridge at the area of leisure where has been developing and became new-eye-catching destination of Cambodians across the nation. Cambodians throughout the nation felt that it was [...]
I feel very shocked with thousands of Cambodian people’s death in stampede on Koh Pich Island Bridge (Diamond Island) during the final day of water festival ceremony (November 22, 2010) in Phnom Penh. At around 1:20am, my young brother called me about this tragic incident happening in Koh Pich Island while I was sleeping.
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The Kingdom of Cambodia organizes the Water Festival 2010 (Bon Om Tok) from November 20-22 by expecting 5 million guests to join the event. The government displayed more than 10,000 security forces in order to maintain people’s security. There are 420 boats joining boat contests and nearly 28,000 racers. Most of Cambodians [...]
There are a lot of people flocking from different places throughout Cambodia in order to celebrate annual water festival in Phnom Penh. And there are also different kinds of people in the period of this time. I noticed that happy goers always lost their valuable jewelry and money and sometimes their kids [...]
After the national election 1993, Cambodia has restarted to celebrate the Water Festival Ceremony during 3 days annually taking place in October or November. And Most of Cambodian people flock from different provinces and cities into Phnom Penh capital in order to watch boat racings on Mekong River.
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