Yem Ponhearith (Khmer: យ៉ែម បុញ្ញឫទ្ធិ; born 7 July 1960) is a Cambodian politician and was elected a Member of Parliament for Prey Veng in 2008.

[1] He is the Chairman of the Commission on Education, Youth, Sport, Religious Affairs, Culture and Tourism.

[2][3] In 2018 police and officials from the Phnom Penh Culture Department seized copies of two books by Ponhearith - Human Value and, Vision to National Reconciliation and Social Arrangement.

[4] According to the director of the culture department, Ponhearith had not obtained the required license for the book to be published.

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