Thursday, May 2, 2024

Nominations

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.178) – Phare Ponleu Selpak: The first non-profit association in Indochina founded by Khmer Rouge survivors

Phare Ponleu Selpak was founded in 1994 by nine Cambodians, who grew up in a refugee camp after surviving the genocide of the Khmer...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.176) – Eat Khmer Flavor, Not Khmer Wildlife (Cambodia): The first art and cuisine fusion campaign...

Organized by The Wildlife Alliance and the Cambodian Fishing Cat Project, Eat Khmer Flavour, Not Khmer Wildlife highlighted the threats facing rare wild animals...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.175) – Loung Ung: The first female Cambodian-born author of Indochina voted by the World Economic...

Loung started her activism work in 1993 when she became the Community Educator for a domestic shelter in Maine. Since then, she has worked...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.174) – First They Killed My Father: The first memoir of a female Cambodian American author...

Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.173) – Rice People: The first Cambodian film of Indochina to compete for the Best Foreign...

Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (No Harvest But a Thorn), by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.172) – The Missing Picture (Cambodia) : Indochina’s first Khmer Rouge film that creatively combines real...

It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the top prize. It was also...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.171) – Lotus Educational Fund (Laos): The first charity fund in Indochina to educate disadvantaged girls...

Laos is one of the least developed countries in the world. International surveys estimate that between 200,000 and 450,000 people are trafficked annually within...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P. 170) – Hong Chamnan: The first Cambodian to be awarded the title of “Mekong Conservation...

He currently works towards the conservation of endangered and vulnerable birds such as the Saurus Crane and Bengal Florican. This conservation focuses on education...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.169) – Sacred Dancers of Angkor (Cambodia): The first group of dancers in Indochina to use...

The Sacred Dancers of Angkor is the first and only spiritual dance troupe in Cambodia that revives rare classical and folk repertoires and specializes...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.168) – Soung Sopheak (Cambodia): The first screenwriter in Indochina to set up Khmer Art Action...

Lakhorn Niyeay or Spoken Theatre was once a popular art in the Kingdom in the 1940s. The performance art is solely based on the...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.167) – Khmer Art Action (Cambodia) : The first NGO in Indochina to revive the traditional...

In 2015, Soung Sopheak and his team founded the non-government organisation, Khmer Art Action (KAA). They believed that culture and art would not be...

The Journey To Promote New Records In Indochina (P.166) – Sun Visal: The first Cambodian in Indochina to be awarded the title of Hero...

Sun Visal told Mekongfishnetwork that when he was young and living in his hometown, there were a lot of forests and wildlife, especially water...

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The Lawyer – Entrepreneur Pham Hong Diep was officially awarded World Record by WorldKings

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