Kampot Military History Part 3: Vietnamese And PRK
This is Part Three of the series. Read PART ONE and PART TWO Writer’s note: To avoid confusion with name changes, the term ‘Khmer Rouge’ is used in the article…
Search For 58 Passengers On Last Wuhan Flight
After the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on Monday, a search is on to find fellow passengers who also took Flight LQ809, which departed from Wuhan at 03:59 on…
A Military History Of Kampot Part 1: Colony-Civil War
Pre-Independence Kampot Kampot came to prominence under 19th century French rule with the Circonscription Résidentielle de Kampot puuting the town in contraol of the areas of Kampot, Kompong-Som, Trang, and Kong-Pisey…
Ministry Issues Coronavirus Guidelines
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 21 – The Ministry of Health on January 21, 2020 has issued an update on the pneumococcal disease outbreak originating in China and measures. People who are…
70 Years Of US-Cambodia Relations In 100 Dates
The United States of America and Cambodia have had a complicated history during the years before and after independence. From goodwill and development to war and destruction and later aid…
As July Kit- 2019 #7
There was the usual cocktail of murder, kidnap, drugs, armed and dangerous military men and over staying visa escapades once more as the year began its slip into the last…
June Remember? CNE Review#6
Whoosh! And just like that 50% of the year was gone. The month was the beginning of the end/end of the beginning for Sihanoukville’s runaway construction boom after tragedy struck…
Random Photos Of Old Cambodia
These photos, now in the hundreds, have been found across the internet, including Facebook, Twitter and news sites. Credits to the original photographer given, when known. We don’t use watermarks…
(Re)March – Looking Back At 2019 #3
‘When the CNEaints go Marching in’ was the theme in the bunker for the 3rd month of dop-pram-boun. Same old stuff was going down, and increasing rumours of massive power…
Intrigue In Longvek- Iberians in 16th Century Cambodia
The Cambodian-Spanish War 1593-97 The 16th Century The Angkorian age is generally considered to have ended by the mid-fifteenth century, following decades of subjugation by various rulers of the Thai…
2019 CN(r)Eview- January
Another year has almost come to pass, and as we stare down the giant fallopian tubes of a gender reassigned Chronos for our age, awaiting the delivery of a plump…
Intrigue In Longvek- Iberians in 16th Century Cambodia
The Cambodian-Spanish War 1593-97 The 16th Century The Angkorian age is generally considered to have ended by the mid-fifteenth century, following decades of subjugation by various rulers of the Thai…
What Future For Sihanoukville’s Casinos?
After Internet gambling is banned, will Sihanoukville’s title as Asia’s “new gambling city” fade? According to the Ministry of Finance and Economics report, as of March 2019, Cambodia has issued…
Champa And Malaysia- Connections Part 2
*History Steve continues his look into the special relationship between Cham people and the Malay peninsula. Part 1 on the 1970’s-80’s refugees can be read HERE Champa Many of the…
Water Warning In Kratie, Gold Mine Chemical Leak Blamed
Kratie: Local authorities in Kbal Domrei commune, Sambor district, have ordered residents near a gold mine in the village of O’Trakuon to stay away from water after dead fish were…
The Malaysian Connection; Cham People Part 1
The Fall of Two Cities April 1975, two capital cities, little over 200 kilometres apart fell to different communist armies within weeks of each other. In the chaos that preceded…
