Thursday, November 24, 2011

Cambodia PM hails athletes for good performances in 26th SEA Games

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen hailed the athletes for good performances and  earned more medals during the 26th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Indonesia’s Jakarta and Palembang from Nov. 11- 22.
  “Our athletes have earned up to 50 medals including 8 gold ones from the 26th SEA Games, it’s more than in the previous SEA  Games in Laos that we earned only 40 medals including 3 gold ones,” he said on Wednesday at the end of his speech during  the16th Government-Private Sector Forum (G-PSF) at the Peace Palace.
  Cambodian athletes had contested in 20 types of sports at the 26th SEA Games.
  The government of Cambodia generally provides 6,000 U.S. dollars for a gold medal winner, 4,000 U.S. dollars to the silver  medal winner and 2,000 U.S. dollars to the bronze medal winners.
  Meanwhile, Hun Sen said he would give an additional 3,000 U.S. dollars, 2,000 U.S. dollars and 1,000 U.S. dollars to each of  gold winners, silver winners and bronze winners respectively.
  He said that Cambodia would not host SEA Games before the year 2020 due to limited budget.
  “For now, Cambodia needs to mobilize resources to develop physical infrastructures such as roads, bridges, schools, hospitals,  irrigation system and so on, so we cannot divert this budget for organizing SEA Games until at least 2020,” he said.

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