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50 unusual facts about Phnom Penh


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.

A New Day Cambodia

A New Day Cambodia (ANDC), founded in the United States in 2007, is an international relief and development organization whose goal is to provide shelter, food, and education for impoverished children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

ADHOC

38 employees work at ADHOC's Central Office, located in Phnom Penh.

It sets out to investigate human rights violations in Cambodia, provide free legal assistance, empower citizens and grassroots communities, and engage in advocacy work through its Central Office (located in Phnom Penh) and 22 provincial offices, reaching out to all districts in the country.

Al Rockoff

Al Rockoff is an American photojournalist made famous by his coverage of the Vietnam War and of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.

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.

Andreas Troeger

He recently traveled to Cambodia as director of photography to shoot and edit a documentary about Robert Clark (National Geographic Photographer) using a Nokia cellphone camera to document Phnom Penh and Siam Reep (Angkor Wat).

Asian Boyz

In August 1997, the leader of the Asian Boyz Van Nuys set, Sothi Menh, was arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and brought back to the United States after fleeing the country in January that year.

Beat Richner

Following this, Richner, working for the Swiss Red Cross, was sent to Cambodia where he worked at the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in Phnom Penh in 1974 and 1975.

Beer in Asia

Kingdom Breweries, Cambodia's only premium craft beer brewery, brews top-quality dark, pilsener, and gold lager beers in Phnom Penh.

Cambodian Australian

After the fall of Phnom Penh to the communist Khmer Rouge in 1975, a few Cambodians managed to escape, but not until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown in 1979 did large waves of Cambodians began immigrating to Australia as refugees.

Cochinchina

Gia Long's successors (see the Nguyễn Dynasty for details) repelled the Siamese from Cambodia and even annexed Phnom Penh and surrounding territory in the war of 1831 to 1834, but were forced to relinquish these conquests in the war of 1841 to 1845.

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.

Economy of Cambodia

The tourism industry in Cambodia has been perpetuated by the development of important transportation infrastructure; in particular Cambodia's two international airports in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap respectively.

GANEFO

Consequently, only 17 Asian countries participated in the second tournament in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in November 25-December 6, 1966 which was named '1st Asian GANEFO'.

Geography of Vietnam

At Phnom Penh it merges with the Tonlé Sap and divides into two branches - the Sông Hậu Giang (Hậu Giang river) (known as the Bassac River on the Cambodian side) and the Sông Tiền Giang (Tiền Giang river) - and continues through Cambodia and the Mekong basin before draining into the South China Sea through nine mouths known as the Cửu Long (nine dragons).

Geraldine Cox

Originally from Adelaide, Geraldine Cox was posted to Phnom Penh by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970.

GRUNK

By the time of the Khmer Rouge's entry into Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975, the communists were firmly in control of the GRUNK, and communications with Cambodia were effectively cut off.

Human Rights Day

Celebrations took place in Phnom Penh and around Cambodia, including a march by 5000 people, and a further 1000 people releasing balloons, organised by NGOs.

Janine Hosking

Ikandy Films (2001) - story of an Australian nurse and her work in an orphanage outside Phnom Penh.

John Gunther Dean

The evacuation of Phnom Penh scene was filmed near Bangkok in 1983 and Wheeler met Dean, who was then the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand.

From 1953-1956 he was assistant economic commissioner with the International Cooperation Administration in French Indo-China with accreditation in Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane.

Johnny Warren

Warren made his full international debut for Australia in November 1965 against Cambodia in Phnom Penh.

Keri Davies

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

Khmer language

Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh (which is the capital city), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and in southern Vietnam.

Manulife Financial

In June 2012, the company opened Manulife Cambodia, with headquarters in Phnom Penh.

Marbled whipray

Among the few members of its family restricted to fresh water, the marbled whipray has been reported from Saigon in Vietnam, the Mekong River near Tonle Sap and Phnom Penh in Cambodia, the lower Nan and Chao Phraya Rivers in Thailand, and the Mahakam River in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Masaaki Iinuma

Iinuma was killed in December 1941 at Phnom Penh airfield in French Indochina when, in a daze from hearing the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, he accidentally walked into a spinning aircraft propeller.

Milton Osborne

His Southeast Asia association began in 1959 with an Australian diplomatic posting to Phnom Penh.

Morodok Techo National Sports Complex

The Morodok Techo National Sports Complex is an approved but unbuilt Olympic-style facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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.

Phan Xich Long

Such proclamations were repeated across southern Vietnam and in Cambodia, and notices were posted in Saigon, Phnom Penh, the road between the cities, and in many community venues in rural communities.

Phnom Krom railway

It is impossible to speculate when the railway was constructed, but most likely it would have between around 1890 (when the French were, among other things, undertaking extensive construction in Phnom Penh which also included the use of narrow gauge railways) and perhaps as late as the 1920s, when work on the Grand Hotel D'Angkor was being undertaken (a project which would have required large quantities of building materials).

Pisith Pilika

Piseth Pilika was born to Oak Harl and Meng Mony in Phnom Penh.

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.

Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

1976: Sydney H. Schanberg, New York Times, "for his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Phnom Penh."

RCAF Old Stadium

Lambert Stadium, also known as Old Stadium, is a stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup

The American ambassador told de Gaulle that the new regime in Saigon would have better prospects of a thaw in relations with Laos and Cambodia, and asked the French to use their influence in Phnom Penh to help.

Revolt of the Zombies

Further accidents caused by Mazovia result in the natives refusing to work, forcing the expedition to return to Phnom Penh.

Rice People

--Isn't this a lake in Angk Snuol District, where they collected water lilies and where the daughter made an offering at the end of the film? Is it still in the village of Kamreang? If so, how can Kamreang be in both Kien Svay and Angk Snuol districts?--> areas of Kandal Province near Phnom Penh, on the banks of the Mekong River.

Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

During Gen Cushman’s tenure, he saw the last of the Marines leave Vietnam and the peacetime strength fall to 194,000 while still maintaining readiness to act in such emergencies as the Mayagüez incident and the evacuations of Phnom Penh and Saigon.

Same Same but Different

In a nightclub in Phnom Penh, he meets the young local, Sreykeo (played by Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), and rapidly falls in love with her.

See Angkor and Die

A young author with an incurable illness wishes to return to Angkor Wat to spend his final days, but his wife remains in Phnom Penh, sending a young cousin to go instead.

SIPAR

The NGO employees 35 Cambodians in Phnom Penh, and several French people in its French headquarters located in Versailles.

The Snake King's Child

At the time of the film's release, war-ravaged Cambodia did not yet have any commercial cinemas suitable to premiere the film, so it was screened at the French Cultural Center and outdoors in the courtyard of a local television station in Phnom Penh.

Tôn Đức Thắng

By January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese had easily captured the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, and deposed the Khmer Rouge régime.

Transport in Vietnam

As part of plans established by ASEAN, however, two new railways are under development: one branch connecting Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and one connecting the North–South Railway to Thakhek in Laos.

Tuol Kork

Tuol Kork is a district (Khan) in the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled Vietnam Airlines flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport.

Wat Ounalom

Wat Ounalom (also Wat Onalaom and several other spellings) is a wat located on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, near the Royal Palace of Cambodia.


An Phú District

Chinese traders came along the Mekong and Hau River from Chaozhou and Guangdong and elsewhere along the route to Phnom Penh.

Da Lat–Thap Cham Railway

Doumer's original plans called for several more branch lines to connect different parts of Indochina, including a link from Quy Nhơn to Kon Tum in the Central Highlands, along with branch lines leading from the Chinese province of Guangxi to Savannakhet in Laos, and from Saigon to Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

League for Democracy Party

in addition, the selected and newly produced are played back 6 hours per day on 6 radio stations: Beehive radio FM 105.0 MHz in Phnom Penh, Mohavnokokhemra FM 88.25 MHz in Siem Reap Province, Sangke FM 104.5 MHz in Battambang Province, Sovann Angkor FM 106.0 MHz in Battambang Province, My FM 99.5 MHz in Banteay Meanchey Province and Kiridongrek FM 90.20 MHz in Oddar Meanchey Province.

Les Vergers du Mekong

The headquarters are based in Ho Chi Minh City and several branches have been established over the years in Hanoi, Nha Trang, Danang and Phnom Penh.

Peter Greer

Upon graduation, Greer spent two years in the business sector before World Relief hired him to work as a microfinance adviser in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Royal Palace, Phnom Penh

At the time that King Norodom (1860–1904) the eldest son of King Ang Duong, who ruled on behalf of Siam, signed the Treaty of Protection with France in 1863, the capital of Cambodia resided at Oudong, about 45 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh.

It was not until after the implementation of the French Protectorate in Cambodia in 1863 that the capital was moved from Oudong to Phnom Penh, and the current Royal Palace was founded and constructed.

The Burnt Theatre

A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practise their art in the burned-out shell of Cambodia's former national theatre, the Preah Suramarit National Theatre in Phnom Penh.