User:Sok khemara

សុខ ខេមរា (Sok Khemara,Born in Kampong Cham,Cambodia), A Journalist Since 1995 in Cambodia. In 2006 He Was employed by Voice of America (VOA) Khmer Service to work in Washington DC. VOA is oversighted by US Broadcasting Board of Governors, a US Federal Government Agency. to work in Washington DC. Voice of America Khmer Service Reporter Sok Pov Khemara Wins Top Journalism Honor Cambodian One of Two VOA Reporters to Win Burke Awards Washington, D.C., May 20, 2010 - Voice of America reporters Sok Pov Khemara of the Khmer Service and Rahman Bunairee of Deewa Radio to Pakistan have been honored with David Burke Distinguished Journalism Awards for their daring and thought-provoking broadcasts from two of the world’s most dangerous and difficult regions.

The awards, which recognize courage, integrity and originality in reporting, were presented Tuesday at the Voice of America Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sok Pov Khemara from VOA’s Khmer Service was honored for his series of 2009 reports profiling the second echelon of former Khmer Rouge leaders who could face arrest if the ongoing UN-assisted Khmer Rouge Tribunal widens its prosecution of the regime. Pov traveled to former Khmer Rouge strongholds in northwestern Cambodia near the Thai border, where many Khmer Rouge leaders have sought refuge and conducted exclusive interviews with five of them. He confronted them with questions about their roles in the genocide that killed 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970's. Pov was helped along the way by local villagers who recognized his voice from VOA broadcasts. They guided him through the rice paddies to the villages and farms where they lived in relative safety, often among former Khmer Rouge soldiers. This series of reports embodies the best principles of journalism: the search for accountability and questioning power. Rahman Bunairee was recognized for his reporting on the 2009 clashes between Pakistani troops and militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Bunairee fled to the United States after militants, apparently angered by his coverage, set off a bomb at his family home and threatened him.

The David Burke Distinguished Journalism Awards are named after the former Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent federal agency which supervises all U.S. government-supported, civilian international broadcasting.

Also honored this year: Jin-Seo Lee of Radio Free Asia’s Korean Service, Laura Juan Huang of RFA's Mandarin Service, Mohamed Mokhtari and Betty Ayoub of Alhurra Television, and Elena Rodriguez from Radio Marti. The Voice of America’s Khmer Service, which first went on the air in 1955, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA Khmer produces two live radio broadcasts daily – 60 minutes in the evening to Cambodia and 30 minutes in the morning – of international, Asian, U.S. and Cambodian news, information, educational, and cultural programming. It also produces television and video programming daily and maintains Khmer-language and English-language websites, www.voacambodia.com. VOA broadcasts each week reach an estimated worldwide audience of more than 125 million people. Programs are produced in 44 languages and are intended exclusively for audiences outside of the United States. For more information, please call VOA Public Relations at (202) 203-4959, or e-mail us at askvoa@voanews.com.