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Phnom Penh, once known for its French colonial villas and modernist “New Khmer Architecture,” is becoming unrecognizable. By Philip Heijmans September 11, 2018, 4:00 AM GMT+7 Cambodia’s capital may be…
On June 18,1936, Paule Monique Izzi was born in Saigon. Her father, Jean-François Izzi, was a French banker of Corsican, French and Italian descent, who was Director of Crédit Foncier in Saigon, and killed in World…
On June 11, 1928, the French authority searched two adult schools of Kompong-Trach and Kampot looking for Kuomintang (Chinese nationalist) propaganda, after reports that several teachers had ‘recently arrived from…
On May 7, 1959, President Eisenhower sent the following personal message to Prince Sihanouk, who was, at the time in France. The letter was delivered to Nong Kimny for forwarding to Prince Sihanouk in…
On March 12, 1945, King Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Kampuchea ( changing the official name of the country in French from Cambodge to Kampuchea) following a formal request by the…
Early on Christmas day, 1978, while many in the Western world were at midnight mass, or hanging up stockings, a massive invasion force which had been secretly assembled crossed over…
On July 16, 1993, Christian Science Monitor published a story titled ‘UN Peacekeeping Effort Breaking Down in Cambodia‘. On July 16, 1997, The New York Times quoted a UN source…
On July 9, 1958, a telegram sent by Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow in Saigon read: From here Cambodia does not appear to be at crossroads but rather somewhat past that point along…
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…
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…
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…
A recently more updated column showing the fabulous ways people in Cambodia point at things for news cameras. Just for fun and in no way to be taken seriously. …
Sihanoukville: On the evening of February 12, a Chinese man was shot and killed in his car on a Sihanoukville street. The gunman shot him several times. It is reported by…
Phnom Penh: A woman hanged herself on the night of January 19, 2022, at a hairdressing salon along Concrete Road No. 93 in Village 12, Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon…
Phnom Penh: While the Royal Cambodian Naval Base at Ream is once again in the international news, a keen-eyed history buff sent in the following post, which has been slightly…
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…
