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Cambodia
US$1.02 million project launched in Asia and the Pacific
eties and communities to ensure that safeguarding efforts in eight countries of the region (Bhutan, Cambodia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste) are supported and sustained. With time running as the enormous reservoir of cultural practices, knowledge systems and rituals across the region is increasingly threatened...
Bhutan, Cambodia
, Mongolia
, Nepal
, Samoa
27 January 2012>
Chapter V of the Operational Directives and its Decision COM 10.a.6, Expresses its appreciation to Cambodia for submitting, on time, its first report on the status of the element ‘Chapei Dang Veng’, inscribed in 2016 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; Takes note of the efforts described in the report s...
18 December 2021>Online
The Committee Takes note that Cambodia has nominated Cultural practices and expressions linked to Krama, a traditional woven textile in Cambodia (No. 02115) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Krama is a woven textile associated with traditional practices and cultural expressions of the dail...
6 December 2024>Asunción
The Committee Takes note that Cambodia has nominated Kun Lbokator, traditional martial arts in Cambodia (No. 01868) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Kun Lbokator is a martial art dating back to the first century. It aims to develop the mental and physical strength and discipline of its p...
3 December 2022>Rabat
The Committee Takes note that Cambodia, Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Viet Nam have nominated Tugging rituals and games (No. 01080) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Tugging rituals and games in the rice-farming cultures of East Asia and Southeast Asia are enacted among communiti...
4 December 2015>Windhoek
Kun Lbokator, traditional martial arts in Cambodia
inscribed,Kun Lbokator, traditional martial arts in Cambodia Kun Lbokator is a martial art dating back to the first century. It aims to develop the mental and physical strength and discipline of its practitioners through self-defence techniques and a philosophy of non-violence. The training of Kun Lbokator is not only about physical techniques and...
CambodiaReport on the implementation of the Convention
ice in Phnom Penh, the MCFA published a volume, entitled ‘Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Cambodia’, which identified most of the relevant artistic forms. However, the publication is more in the form of a summary, and fails to provide detailed information about every form of intangible cultural heritage. In 2010, a Royal Decree was...
Chapter V of the Operational Directives and its Decision COM 10.a.3, Expresses its appreciation to Cambodia for submitting, on time, its first report on the status of the element ‘Lkhon Khol Wat Svay Andet’, inscribed in 2018 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; Takes note of the efforts undertaken by the...
8 December 2023>Kasane
areness of its importance. The Committee also approved the granting of financial assistance totaling US$230,000 to Cambodia for the urgent safeguarding of Chapei Dang Veng, a musical tradition which features a lute (a chapei) accompanied by the performer singing. There are only two surviving great masters of the chapei but they do not practice it a...
Austria, Bulgaria
, Croatia
, Hungary
, Norway
6 December 2016>
The Committee, Takes note that Cambodia has nominated Kun Lbokkator (No. 00980) for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding: The term ‘Kun’ describes the martial art of fighting, leaping and confronting opponents, developed by warriors of the ancient Khmer Empire. The term ‘Lbokkator’ refers...
28 November 2014>Paris