Phnom Penh (VNA) – A friendship football open tournament began onDecember 15 by the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia to mark the 40th anniversary of the fall of the genocidal regime in the host country.
The two-day tourney draws the participation of four teams from the VietnameseEmbassy and other representative offices, the youth unions of the CambodianPeople’s Party (CPP), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternationalCooperation and the Ministry of Interior.
They are playing in a round-robin format to decide the champion.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Ke Bun Khieng, deputy chief of the commissionfor popularisation and education and chief of the CPP’s central Youth Working Group, spoke highly of thefootball tournament as helping enhance friendship and cooperation betweenorganisations and branches of the two countries to mark Cambodia’s victory overthe genocidal regime.
He expressed his hope that the youths will treasure and elevate the bilateral friendshipand cooperation to a new high.-VNA