CAMBODIA NEWS - FORMER COLLEAGUE REACH SAMBATH PASSES AWAY

THE OPCC (The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia) EXPRESSES ITS DEEPEST CONDOLENCES IN RESPECT OF OUR FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE MR REACH SAMBATH

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - (OPCC)

Thursday May 12, 2011

On behalf of the board and the members of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia (OPCC), we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Reach Sambath, the chief of the public affairs section at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Reach Sambath passed away suddenly in Phnom Penh late Wednesday evening. He was 47 years old.

Sambath was a respected journalist for many years with the AFP news agency, and was also a much-loved lecturer to many Cambodian journalism students.

His final post was as the chief of the public affairs section of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a position he held for many years, and one in which his trademark smile and gentle manner continued to maintain the many friendships he had retained within journalism, and to win him new friends in many other areas too.

Sambath was a consummate professional and a gentleman, and those of us who knew him shall miss him deeply. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Sambath?s widow and three children, as well as to his many friends at this difficult time.

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