Social Media Outraged By Thai Angkor Wat Copy Construction
There has been much surprise on social media, following a Thai story that plans are underway to build a temple that imitates the style of Angkor Wat. The widely shared…
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There has been much surprise on social media, following a Thai story that plans are underway to build a temple that imitates the style of Angkor Wat. The widely shared…
Phnom Penh: On the morning of August 4, 2021, at the office of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, HE Dr. Phoeung Sakona, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Commerce of Cambodia found that foreign rice products under the name Angkor Wat Thai Hom Mali Jasmine Rice…
Ministry of Culture, Culture and Fine Arts: Press Release on the construction of stone temples in Borei Rom province of Thailand The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts would like…
Oddar Meanchey: On the evening of August 23 , 2021, Mr. Hong Yoeun, Director of the Department of Culture and Fine Arts of Oddar Meanchey Province, participated in a ceremony to ask the owner of the land to open an historic site…
Cambodian border: On May 24, 2021, members of the 537th Regiment standing at a border checkpoint were informed that a cross-border logger had been shot in the right leg, after…
The brutality of war has, since time began, countless times destroyed not only lives, but great cities and cultural legacies. Despite the suffering inflicted on the Cambodian people during the…
June 3, 2019 3.01pm EDT Alison Kyra Carter, University of Oregon Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million touristseach year. It was built in…
On January 22, 1971, a Vietnamese commando unit withdrew after a night raid on Ponchentong virtually wiped out the Khmer Air Force on the ground. On January 22, 1981, Thailand…
On 19 February 1995, a Royal Decree on the creation of the APSARA National Authority (Authority for the protection of the site and the management of the Angkor Region) was…
On January 29, 1916, the first in a series of peasant rebellions broke out in protest at French colonial tax reforms. On January 29, 1972, Operation Angkor Chey began. The FANK…
At dawn on 16 January 1941, the French (at war with Thailand) launched a large counterattack on the Thai-held Cambodian villages of Yang Dang Khum and Phum Preav, initiating the…
H.G. Kennedy and John Thomson, 1866 In January 1866 Henry George Kennedy of the British embassy in Bangkok and pioneering photographer John Thomson set off on an overland expedition to…
This continues from PART ONE After the election victory of Sihanouk’s Sangkum in 1955, the new government soon facing suspicion from neighboring Thailand and South Vietnam. Both nations were fighting…
By 1956, the nationalist, long-term rebel and sometime politician Son Ngoc Thanh had seen the fragmentation of the Issarak movement he helped found in the 1940’s. Many of his former…
This continues from PART ONE and PART TWO 1953 will be remembered as the year that Cambodia achieved independence after 90 years of French colonial rule. The year began with…