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…
Culture Minister & Thai Ambassador Discuss ‘Angkor Copy’ Scandal
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…
Indian ‘Thai’ ‘Angkor’ Rice Not Kosher
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…
Thai Temple Not Ripping Off Angkor Wat
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…
Clearing Around The Longest Angkorian Bridge
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…
Rosewood Logger Shot By Thai Troops
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 Battle For Angkor 1970-1975
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…
Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline
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…
This Week In Cambodian History: January 22-28
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…
This Week In Cambodian History: February 19-25
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…
This Week In Cambodian History: Jan 29-Feb 4
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…
This Week In Cambodian History: January 15-21
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…
The First British Tourists- Kennedy & Thomson, 1866
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…
Plots & Conspiracies- Son Ngoc Thanh & The Khmer Serei II: 1957-60
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…
Son Ngoc Thanh & The Khmer Serei I: 1955-56
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…
Independence & Geneva: History Of Khmer Issaraks III
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…
