Thiounn Prasith- Pol Pot’s Spin Doctor
Thiounn Prasith was born in Phnom Penh on 3 February 1930, the youngest of five children from a conservative family working for the French colonial administration. He later served in…
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Thiounn Prasith was born in Phnom Penh on 3 February 1930, the youngest of five children from a conservative family working for the French colonial administration. He later served in…
General Sosthène Fernandez (1923-2006) was a politician and former chief of police who went on to become Commander-in-Chief of the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) and chief of general staff of the Khmer Republic after Prince…
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…
Paris, January 6, 2020 – At 1:55 pm, Biv Chai Leang, a prominent filmmaker and author, has passed away at the age of 93 in Paris, France. According to a Facebook source…
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…
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…
*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…
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…
*”History Steve” sent us a link, he says he stumbled across while researching something completely different. As it’s quite a tale of the Dutch East India Company, a Muslim convert…
Pursat: Ek Sophal, 73, is the 6th of 7 brothers and sisters from Kampong Tralach district, Kampong Chhnang province. Sophal is married to Sokren, 50, and has five children. Sophal…
Khieu Ponnary was the first wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. She was born on February 3, 1920, in Battambang province to a father who worked as a court…
The following piece is the first of two accounts in English of travels to Cambodia and Angkor Wat before the French protectorate was established, and pre-dating Henri Mouhot‘s visit of…
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…
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…
The following is a list of some of the leading figures of the Khmer Issarak movement on the left and right from the 1940’s-1955. Many sources in French, English and…
Prince Norodom Duong Chak (also spelled Chakr) was a Cambodian prince, and heir apparent to the throne, who rebelled against the French colonists. After a trip to Paris he was…