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Cambodian SEA Games, 60 years on

PHNOM PENH - The government on Monday approved a proposal to bid to host the 2023 SEA Games, 60 years after it was supposed to hold the Southeast Asian sports spectacle.

Prime Minister Hun Sen gave his blessing to the proposal from the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, according to a report by The Phnom Penh Post.

The country's main sports body reckons 10 years should be long enough to achieve the organisational excellence to make the 2023 Games a success, the paper said in its report.

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    Discussion 1 : 04 Mar 2013 at 20.481

    The short life and politicized GANEFO (games of the new forces ?)has been hosted in Cambodia in the 60's with the blessing from China.

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