Poland at the SEA Games? Cambodia apologises for upside-down flag blunder at SEA Games opening ceremony

Myanmar and Indonesia's flags were held upside down during a performance at the opening ceremony of the Cambodia SEA Games. - The Straits Times/ANN

PHNOM PENH, May 7 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Organisers of the 2023 SEA Games opening ceremony have issued a public apology to Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar for unintentionally holding their country flags upside down during the opening ceremony at the Morodok Techo National Stadium on Friday.

Town Production, a Cambodian broadcasting and media production company, said in a statement on Saturday that it deeply regrets the “disrespectful mistake” and that it “involves an oversight from our part for mistakenly reversing the flags”.