warzone‚ but also affected the neighbouring countries of Cambodia and Laos. As a result of the war and estimated 1‚300‚000 civilians and soldiers were killed and almost 2 million civilians were forced to seek asylum elsewhere. During the war Vietnam was an extremely dangerous country to live in‚ hundreds of civilians died every day because of the conflict‚ causing many to flee to save their children and loved ones. As a result of the war‚ Cambodia was under the control of the Khmer Rouge. Many Cambodians
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Pol Pot- Dictator of Cambodia Pol Pot was a Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976-1979. Pol pot or Saloth Sar‚ was born in 1925 in a small village north of the cambodian capital called Prek sbauv. His family owned 50 acres of rice. In 1934 Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh‚ where he spent a year at a Buddhist monastery before attending a French Catholic primary school. His Cambodian education continued until 1949‚ when he went to Paris on a scholarship. While there‚ he studied radio technology and became
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Bangkok‚ Thailand. Its original charter counted five member-countries: Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines‚ Singapore‚ and Thailand. Since then‚ five other nations have joined: Brunei in 1984‚ Vietnam in 1995‚ Myanmar (Burma) and Laos in 1997‚ and Cambodia in 1999. The member-countries are sprawled over an area of 1.74 million square miles (4.5 million square kilometers) with a combined population of 500 million people. Their annual gross domestic product is almost $700 billion US Dollars (USD)‚ with
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AND AWARENESS By William A. Collins‚ Ph.D. Hean Sokhom‚ Ph.D. Annuska Derks‚ M.A. Heng Kim Van‚ M.A. Kim Sedara‚ B.A. Lim Sidedine‚ B.A. Kin Tepmoly‚ B.A. Chraloeng Chanvattey‚ B.A. Center for Advanced Study Phnom Penh‚ Kingdom of Cambodia June 1998 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY....................................................................................................................................................... 4 http://www.cascambodia.org/baselinesurvey
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Good and Bad Things about Phnom Penh Phnom Penh is the capital city of Cambodia and has a nickname called “The Charming City”. The total area of the city is 678.46 km2 and the total population is 1‚501‚725. Eventhough this beautiful city is well-known in South East Asia‚ she also has good and bad thing that people should know. As I notice‚ the good thing about Phnom Penh is culture‚ nightlife‚ sightseeing‚ and people whereas the bad thing about Phnom Penh is traffic‚ food‚ and dirty. The first
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Never Fall Down Summary Arn Chorn-Pond‚ the protagonist of the novel‚ Never Fall Down‚ is a typical 11-year-old boy growing up in Battambang‚ a rice-harvesting village in western Cambodia. The residents of Battambang are vivacious‚ and the entire village is prospering. However‚ when the Khmer Rouge‚ a radical Communist regime‚ seize power in April of 1975‚ Arn’s unpretentious life changes dramatically. Suddenly‚ his once playful‚ carefree lifestyle is filled with tribulations and tragedies
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black eyes wandered across the room‚ as he scratched his beard looking as if he regretted agreeing to this interview. Holding a piece of yellow paper‚ for a guide to answering my questions‚ the interview began. My dad‚ Hong Kim‚ lived in Battambang‚ Cambodia with his mother‚ father‚ younger sister and older brother. There he had a happy childhood saying‚ “I had the freedom of doing whatever I wanted to do.” He still had to work‚
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gradually abandoned to the jungle. After 400 years‚ the sites were discovered surprisingly and now it was listed as the world heritage site. Angkor Wat Angkor Wat is the mother of all temples in Angkor. It is located at 6km from Siem Reap in Cambodia‚ which built with intricate lotus-blossom towers and surrounded by perfectly square moats and reservoirs. It was constructed by king Survayaman II in the beginning of 12th century. ’Angkor’ means city in the Sanskrit word and the ‘Wat’ which means
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market and prostitution as in South Africa for this is their only source of income. Horrific holocausts have wreaked havoc in various places of the world; the concentration camps in Auschwitz‚ Poland‚ the S21 torture chambers and killing fields in Cambodia‚ and even attempts to wipe out certain races such as that in Darfur‚ Sudan. Undoubtedly‚ such events are overwhelming and discouraging‚ for these things are only a portion of the ongoing issues of the human race. As absurd as it may seem‚ the good
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protested the government’s victory in a disputed election. Human rights activists said one protester was killed by a gunshot to the head during a street battle with police. The violence marked an escalation of a political crisis that has gripped Cambodia since official results from July’s election gave a victory to the party of longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen‚ albeit with a reduced parliamentary majority. The main opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party rejected those results alleging widespread
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