Cambodia

seeking to help her children obtain a higher education. Upon placing my requirement I was finally able to find the person to whom I desired to give a loan. The chosen individual was Nara from Cambodia of the Kampon Speu Province. Nara is a 43-year-old woman who

of Kampuchea, also known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, which lasted until January 1979. For their three-year, eight-month, and twenty-one day rule of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge committed some of the most heinous crimes in current history. The main leader who orchestrated these crimes was a man named Pol Pot. In 1962, Pol Pot had become the coordinator of the Cambodian Communist Party. The Prince of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, did not approve of the Party and forced

of Conservation of Biodiversity in Cambodia 1. Introduction Conservation of Biodiversity in Cambodia has been gathering momentum in the past few years in response to international conservation efforts and increased land degradation and loss (Conservation International 2004). International monetary institutions such as the World Bank and transnational NGOs such as Conservation International have been influential in changing forestry legislation in Cambodia (Reuters 2002). However, the implementation

Cambodia is a country that has endured an abundance of war and turmoil, however over recent decades the country has slowly recovered their rich culture and traditions that they lost during the Vietnam War. The country today, still suffers from the loss they have endured within the structure of their culture and society. In fact, Cambodia’s dominant textiles today are an affect of the lost traditions that have faded during the Vietnam War. Though warfare has torn a hole into their history taking valuable

The Pol Pot Rule of Cambodia "The worst blow fell in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge (red Khmer) guerrillas under the leadership of Pol Pot overthrew the Khmer Republic and established Democratic Kampuchea." The Khmer Rouge were, at least partially, a reaction to the loss of political power and the social disorder brought on by the regional wars of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as an extreme and localized response to the growing question of Khmer identity in a region dominated and fought over by

Cambodia, my small country bordering Thailand, has recently descended into a grisly crisis of outright genocide of innocent citizens, my innocent neighbors. This genocide is very different from any other genocide because it isn't driven by racial or religious reasons, but by poisonous ideology, the ideology of my own neighbors. As of today a little less than a million Cambodians have died either from starvation, torture, disease, execution, and even exhaustion from hard labor carried out by their

Cambodia Rocks: The Struggle for Musical Experimentation Introduction In 1996, the New York City label Parallel World released a CD that introduced most Western listeners to a new world of music: Cambodia Rocks. This mixtape of songs performed by Khmer musicians and recorded in the 1960s and early 1970s fuses early garage and psychedelic rock from the West and traditional vocal techniques and lyrics from Cambodia. The musicians on the tracklist for this album, however, were initially anonymous,

Visiting communities of Buddhism for Education of Cambodia (BEC)’s projects was a meaningful activity. The monks from BEC are unquestionable active in society and they have different programs for the support of housing, caring of elderly people, educating prisoners, children and others. Their mission is to provide ethical education and to render a peaceful live with high principles in families and society. The Executive Director of this organization is Ven Rahula. In the afternoon after lunch time

On the 17 April 1975, Khmer Rouge started to take over the entire country and defeated the rules of Lon Nol Army. The seizure of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, marked the beginning of the genocide in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge people were so cruel to everyone in the country, and Cambodian people did not expect it to happen to them in harshly way. After three years eight months and 20 days, the nightmare had finished, and the Khmer Rouge had overthrown, but they left deep scars for Cambodian

The settlement of Angkor in Cambodia (9th-15th century AD) has been regarded as one of the greatest pre-industrial cities ever built. A unique characteristic of Angkor is that it is regarded as a secondary-state formation; the origins of the Khmer people stem from Chinese and Indian civilisations, with the result that the Khmer are an amalgamation of these cultures and religions. Through an examination of commercial communication, settlement patterning and state ideology, an understanding as to how