This Week in Cambodian History: February 5-11
On February 5 1971, Lon Nol extended the State of Emergency across the country for an additional 6 weeks. On
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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
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This Week In Cambodian History- January 2-7
On January 3, 1992, the U.S. embargo was lifted, normalizing economic relations with Cambodia. The U.S. also ended blanket opposition to
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This Week In History- December 26-January 1
On December 26 1973, Long Boreth formed a government as Prime Minister of the Khmer Republic. He would be the
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This Week In Cambodian History: December 12-18
On December 12, 1936, acting French Resident supérieurs Henri Louis Marie Richomme handed over the position to Léon Emmanuel Thibaudeau. On
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This Week In Cambodian History- July 16-22
On July 16, 1993, Christian Science Monitor published a story titled ‘UN Peacekeeping Effort Breaking Down in Cambodia‘. On July
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Crash Landings At Ponchentong, June 1971
Wednesday, 23 June 1971, Pochentong Khmer airfield, outside of the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. ‘Scatback’ C-47D s.n. 43-49680
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Author to read from her book on her Cambodian experience
Pearl Whitfield will give a free reading of her recently published second novel, “Apsara,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at
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This Week In Cambodian History: May 7-13
On May 7, 1959, President Eisenhower sent the following personal message to Prince Sihanouk, who was, at the time in
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D.O. King- The First American At Angkor, 1858
The following piece is the first of two accounts in English of travels to Cambodia and Angkor Wat before the
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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
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‘Mission impossible’: U.N. in Cambodia showed early limits of nation building
PHNOM PENH, March 13 (Reuters) – Just over 30 years ago, a crackling radio in a refugee camp on the
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Peacekeeping in Transition- How Bulgaria’s post-communist chaos crept into Cambodia
By Simona Todorova When Nikola Nikolov and his fellow soldiers landed in Cambodia in 1993 after a 13-hour long flight,
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War, Pride, & Tourist Dollars: Cambodia’s Temples of Angkor in the Modern Era
Author John Burgess will bring to life the fascinating modern history of Cambodia’s fabled Angkor temples, starting in the mid-nineteenth
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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
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