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Kampong Chhnang: More than 700 families in Plou Touk commune, Kampong Leng district, Kampong Chhnang province, agreed to follow the plans of the Kampong Chhnang provincial administration between 2018 and…
CHNOK TRU, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Troung Van Long is Vietnamese in name only. He was born in Cambodia and has lived there for decades, including many years in…
More than two-thirds of around 2,300 ethnic Vietnamese families living in a “floating village” on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake have been evicted from their homes, a local official said Friday…
Kampong Chhnang: On the afternoon of October 3, 2018 at a floating home in Kampong Chhnang, a Vietnamese man died when he following orders from Kampong Chhnang authorities to move…
Kampong Chhnang Province: According to a notice from Kampong Chhnang Provincial Hall on September 24, 2018, people living in floating houses around Kampong Chhnang will have to move to live…
Sihanoukville: Media reports say that at around 7 am on December 17, a male corpse was discovered floating off Ochheuteal Beach, Village 4, Sangkat 4, Sihanoukville. It is suspected that the undentified…
Phnom Penh: Fishermen under the new Monivong Bridge retrieved the body of a baby floating in the river. The baby’s body was found at 4:10 pm on April 18 under the…
Kep: According to information from Kep fishermen, on December 3, 2019, they caught the body of a floating man while fishing off the coast. They informed authorities who came to…
Kampong Chhnang Province: October 1, 2018, was the first day to move floating houses in Kampong Chhnang to the mainland. Prepared by the provincial authorities, there are more than 100…
On 19 March 1956, a Immigration Act law was passed stipulating that ‘foreign nationals’ would be prohibited from entering 18 specified occupations, ranging from various civil service functions to hairdressers…
On March 5, 1978, Khmer Rouge defector Penn Sovann was appointed the head movement to fight against the Khmer Rouge based in Vietnam. He was formally an aide and bodyguard…
Conflict between Siam and Vietnamese lords raged over control Cambodia throughout the 18th Century before the kingdom agreed to become a French protectorate state. The following article is sourced from…
On a river cruise through Cambodia and Vietnam, passengers dip into the culture. By Tracey Teo Special to the Star Tribune At a sprawling monastery complex in Oudong, the former capital…
Loy Krathong 2024 is just around the corner, and if you’re looking for a festival in Thailand that combines candlelit serenity with, well, tossing things into a river, then you’re…
On April 9, 1970, the Prasaut (in Svay Rieng Province) massacre occurred. Hundreds of civilian Vietnamese including women and children were regrouped in an open space, near an army post…
Sometime in the mid to late 1850’s, an Englishman was one of the the first western travelers to visit Angkor Wat. Very little is known about the writers- the Englishman…
