Reach Sambath

Quick Facts

Full Name	Reach Sambath
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1964(1964-07-17)
Age	60
Date Of Death	May 11, 2011, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Birthplace	Svay Rieng
Country	Cambodia
Horoscope	Cancer

Reach Sambath Biography

Reach Sambath is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 17, 1964 in Svay Rieng, Cambodia.

Sambath was born in Svay Rieng, Cambodia. His father was a district governor there. In 1975, at the age of 10, he lost his father and later lost his mother and three of his four brothers to the Khmer Rouge’s Killing Fields. For years, he searched for any scrap of memory of his lost family, eventually retrieving an old picture of his father from a family friend taken when he was a monk for a short-time in a Buddhist pagoda. After the Khmer Rouge period, he eked out a living as a roadside ice seller and a bike taxi-driver from 1981 to 1984 to support his studies.

He attended Wat Phnom Primary School, and graduated from Sisowath High School or Lycée Sisowath, one of the most famous high schools, in 1987. In 1984, because of some English knowledge he acquired in school, he became an English teacher. During his toughest times living as an orphan, Reach Sambath stayed at a pagoda as a pagoda boy, and received support from relatives and people around him.

Reach Sambath Net Worth

Reach Sambath is one of the richest Journalist from Cambodia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Reach Sambath 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Reach Sambath (Khmer: រាជ សម្បតិ្ត ) (17 July 1964 – 11 May 2011) was a Cambodian journalist and a former spokesperson and Chief of Public Affairs of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, set up to try the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975–1979. Sambath had a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York, and a career as a university lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh and a reporter in Cambodia with Agence France-Presse since the 1990s.

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In recognition of his contributions to the nation, the Royal Government of Cambodia awarded Sambath the “Mony Saraphoan” medal at the “Maha Sereivann” grade on May 12, 2011. Previously, in 2000, he received an award from the US- based Human Rights Watch for his life story before and after the Khmer Rouge regime.

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cambodia. Reach Sambath celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.

As spokesman for the UN-backed genocide tribunal, his work involved answering the local and international press, and his latest work included outreach to some 4,000 students in Battambang Province over the workings of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the government and UN roles within it. Before he died, Sambath gave an interview to PBS NewsHour, saying: “My children didn’t know what happened to my parents, their grandparents. So, through the trial Case 002, we believe that a lot of people at their age will be able to learn more about what happened in the past.”