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1970 in the Vietnam War

The operation was terminated in February 1971, after the Cambodian High Command made a decision to withdraw some units from Tang Kauk to protect Phnom Penh after Pochentong airbase was attacked.

ADHOC

ADHOC maintains offices in 23 Cambodian provinces and municipalities, out of 24 (Kep province is covered by ADHOC's office in Kampot).

Al Rockoff

After several years in Vietnam, Rockoff came to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in the spring of 1973, when the US-backed government of Lon Nol was fighting the Khmer Rouge insurgents.

Aranya Namwong

She also enjoyed popularity in Cambodia after her joint role in The Snake King's Wife Part 2, a prequel of the Cambodian blockbuster and award winning film, The Snake King's Wife starring the famous Khmer actress and former Miss Cambodia, Dy Saveth.

Cambodian Children's Fund

Cambodian Children's Fund (CCF) The CCF was founded in 2003 by Scott Neeson to aid the most impoverished of Cambodia’s children.

Cambodian Television Network

Cambodian Television Network (CTN) was launched in March 2003 as a joint venture between local conglomerate the The Royal Group and Stockholm-based Modern Times Group, this free-to-air terrestrial television channel Cambodian Television Network (CTN) is now part of Mobitel.

Chhunly Pagenburg

Chhunly Pagenburg (born 10 November 1986) is a German football striker of Cambodian descent who currently plays for FSV Frankfurt.

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The journal also sponsors an annual symposium, with topics ranging from the Cambodian War Crimes Tribunals to the effect of Wal-Mart in an international economy.

Corinne Trang

Born in November 1967 in Blois in the Loire Valley of France to a French mother and Cambodian-Chinese father, Trang was raised in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Paris and New York City.

CPAF

Cambodian People's Armed Forces; the official name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi "Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces" (KPRAF) during the transitional times that led to the restoration of the monarchy (1989 - 1993)

Dark ages of Cambodia

During the sixteenth century Cambodian armies, taking advantage of Siamese troubles with the Burmese, unsuccessfully invaded the Siamese kingdom several times.

Daron Ker

“Rice Field of Dreams” follows Cambodian-American Joeurt “Joe Cook” Puk as he coaches Cambodia's first national baseball team to compete in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Thailand.

First Battle of Lang Son

The First Battle of Lang Son was fought during the Sino-Vietnamese War, days after the Chinese advanced 15 to 20 kilometers deep into the northern provinces of Vietnam.

Glenda Gilmore

She is married to noted Cambodian genocide scholar Ben Kiernan.

GRUNK

Sihanouk was not even directly informed of the fall of Phnom Penh; he initially went to Pyongyang, but was persuaded to return as Cambodian Head of State, despite severe misgivings, by Zhou Enlai.

Haing S. Ngor

Most of Ngor's Cambodian assets went to his brother, Chan Sarun, while his American assets were used up in legal fees staving off claims to his estate.

Hang Serei Odom

Hang Serei Odom (also known as Hang Serei Oudom) (1970 – 11 September 2012), was a Cambodian journalist for the Virakchun Khmer Daily newspaper in the Ou Chum district of northeastern Ratanakiri province of Cambodia, was involved in environmental reporting about illegal logging when he was murdered.

Henry Corra

The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan (2010, 77 minutes, Henry Corra) Private McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier.

House of Abhaiwongse

The Abhaiwongse family, a branch of the Cambodian royal family, governed Phra Tabong Province, Thailand (modern Battambang Province, Cambodia) for six generations from the late 18th century, when Siam annexed the Khmer territories, until 1907, when the area was ceded to French Indochina effectively reuniting it with Cambodia.

Jayavarman II

Jayavarman II is widely regarded as the king that set the foundation of the Angkor period in Cambodian history, beginning with the grandiose consecration ritual conducted by Jayavarman II (reign 790-850) in 802 on sacred Mount Mahendraparvata, now known as Phnom Kulen, to celebrate the independence of Kambuja from Javanese dominion.

Kalyanee Mam

Inspired by her family’s history and motivated to learn more about her Cambodian identity, Mam volunteered at the Yale Cambodian Genocide Program with Professor Ben Kiernan, who became her senior thesis advisor.

Ke Pauk

Pauk joined the nascent Cambodian Communist movement in Svay Teab, Chamkar Leu District, Kampong Cham.

Kem Monovithya

Monovithya Kem, born in 1981, is the eldest daughter of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha.

Keri Davies

In 1998, he spent some time in Phnom Penh where he trained Cambodian health educators in radio drama scriptwriting.

Khmer National Air Force

By 1975, Cambodian Air Force losses totalled 100 aircraft, mostly due to combat attrition, training accidents, and desertions, as well for other causes – between December 1971 and January 1972 four Alouette II and one Alouette III light helicopters were sent abroad for maintenance and general overhaul at the HAECO in Hong Kong, but there is no record that these airframes were ever returned to Cambodia.

Mahendraparvata

His reign was consecrated on the sacred mountain of Mahendraparvata, known as Phnom Kulen in contemporary Cambodian.

Munda languages

They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language family, which means they are distantly related to Vietnamese and Khmer (Cambodian).

Music of Cambodia

Modern music is usually presented in Cambodian Karaoke VCDs, usually of an actor, actress or both making the actions, usually by mimicking the lyrics to the background song by moving their mouth as if they were actually singing the song.

Nhek Dim

Because of his obvious talent, his parents sent him to the School of Cambodian Arts (now the Department of Plastic Arts of the Royal University of Fine Arts) in Phnom Penh.

Pisith Pilika

In October 1999, following Pisith Pilika's assassination, the French magazine L’Express claimed that the actress’ diary recounted a love affair with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, and pointed to Bun Rany, Hun Sen's wife, as responsible for arranging the shooting.

PMTair Flight 241

Cambodian rescue teams said they would collect the bodies of the victims and transport them to Phnom Penh as soon as possible.

Prey Veng Province

In early Christian era, the province was a major center of the kingdom of Fu-nan, between economic and political capitals of the country what were Oc Eo (now in the Vietnamese province of An Giang) and Angkor Borey (in the Cambodian province of Takeo).

Pursat Province

Pursat is home to Wat Bakan, considered to be among the oldest active pagodas in Cambodia and revered as one of the most holy sites of Cambodian Buddhism.

Redlight Children Campaign

At one point, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) contacted Jacobson to warn him to flee the country because the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cambodian mafia had hits taken out on his life.

Rice People

It was filmed in the Cambodian village of Kamreang, in the Kien Svay and Boeung Thom

Saksi Sbong

She is one of the Khmer actress that will never be forgotten along with Vichara Dany, Dy Saveth, Saom Vansodany, Virak Dara, Kim Nova, Dara Chom Chan, Poung Phavy, Keo Montha and many other famous Cambodian actress from the 1960s and early 70s.

Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia

Her jobs include working as a field coordinator for the International Rescue Committee and as a director of the Cambodian Women's Project for the American Friends Service Committee.

Sangkum

The shockingly brutal tactics adopted by the Sangkum regime against not only leftists from outside the Cambodian borders, but also increasingly against the Khmer left, especially after a possibly CPK-backed rebellion in rural Battambang Province beginning in early 1967, presaged the similarly brutal conduct of the subsequent Cambodian Civil War.

Sarit Thanarat

His father, Major Luang Ruangdetanan (birth name Thongdi Thanarat), was a career army officer best known for his translations into Thai of Cambodian literature.

Shahnon Ahmad

Some novels written by Shahnon include Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (1966)—which has been adapted into a film called Rice People directed by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh, Rentong (1965), Srengenge (1973)—which won the Malaysian Novel of the Year in 1970, and Terdedah (1965).

State of Cambodia

State of Cambodia (SOC), the official name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) state during its transitional times until the restoration of the monarchy (1989–1993)

Tep Vong

Tep Vong (Khmer: ទេព វង្ស; b. 1932) is a Cambodian Buddhist monk, currently the Great Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia.

The Snake King's Wife

The film starred 17-year-old début Cambodian actress Pich Chanbormey and Thai actor Winai Kraibutr.

The Snake King's Wife Part 2

The Snake King's Wife Part 2 (Khmer:ពស់កេងកង ភាគពីរ,Thai:งูเกงกอง ภาค 2 puos keng kang van Pei, also Giant Snake 2 and Snake Girl 2: Revenge) is a 1973 Cambodian-Thai horror film, a sequel to early 1970s film The Snake King's Wife.

Virak Dara

Virak Dara (born Kim Hiek in Kampot province, 1947) is a Cambodian actress primarily known for her roles in the 1960s and early-to-mid-1970s.

Voice of Vietnam

Voice of Vietnam broadcasts internationally in Vietnamese, English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, German, French, Cambodian, Thai, Laotian, Indonesian and Japanese using transmitters in Hanoi as well as a North American relay near Furman, South Carolina, and European relays in the United Kingdom and Austria.


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