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Say Bory
Say Bory (Khmer: ) is a prominent Cambodian lawyer who served as a defense lawyer of Khieu Samphan during the Khmer Rouge tribunal, and currently sits on the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. Biography Education Say Bory was born on 29 January 1940 in Phnom Penh. After earning a master's degree in political science from the Royal University of Law and Economics in 1965, Say Bory was appointed vice-governor of the Province of Siem Reap. It was in that position that in 1966, Say Bory, as vice-governor of the, welcomed French president Charles de Gaulle during his diplomatic journey. As Civil War raged in Cambodia, Say Bory went to Paris to further his studies and he defended his thesis in Paris in 1973 on rural administration in Cambodia and its reform projects (''L'administration rurale au Cambodge et ses projets de réforme)''. From 1981 to 1982 he worked as a legal advisor at the Paris City Hall, before starting his own business. During those years of exile, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khmer People
The Khmer people ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, ) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 90% of Cambodia's population of 17 million.Cambodia CIA World FactBook. They speak the Khmer language, which is part of the larger Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic-language family found in parts of Southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Laos and Malaysia), parts of central, eastern, and northeastern India, parts of Bangladesh in South Asia, in parts of South China, Southern China and numerous list of islands in the Indian Ocean, islands in the Indian Ocean. The majority of the Khmers follow Theravada Buddhism. Significant populations of Khmers reside in adjacent areas of Thailand (Northern Khmer people, Northern Khmer) and the Mekong Delta region of neighboring Vietnam (Khmer Krom), while th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
