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  Cambodia - MSN Encarta
The Kingdom of Cambodia (pronounced /kæmˈboʊdɪə/, formerly known as Kampuchea (/kampuˈtɕiːə/,, transliterated : Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea) is a country in...
In September 1993 a new constitution restored the monarchy and established the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Cambodia’s head of state is the king, whose role is largely ceremonial and advisory.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570298_6/Cambodia.html   (979 words)

  
  Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cambodia is the successor state of the mighty Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the 11th and 14th centuries.
Cambodia was a protectorate of France from 1863 until the country received independence in 1953.
Cambodia has an area of about 181,040 square kilometers, sharing an 800-kilometer border with Thailand on the north and west, a 541-kilometer border with Laos on the northeast, and a 1,228-kilometer border with Vietnam on the east and southeast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambodia   (4411 words)

  
 Communications in Cambodia - A1 Angkor, the free information
Welcome to communication in Cambodia, specifically the postal, telepgraph services under the ministry of Communication, transport and Post were restored throughout most of the country in the early 1980s during the people's Republic of Kampuchea regime after being disrupted under the Khmer Rouge.
Communication is defined as a process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding.
Communications in Cambodia, specifically the postal, telegraph and telegram services under the Ministry of Communications, Transport and Posts were restored throughout most of the country in the early 1980s during the People's Republic of Kampuchea regime after being disrupted under the Khmer Rouge.
www.a1open.com /internet   (1107 words)

  
 Map Zones : Cambodia Map   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cambodia's economy was one of the least-developed of the Southeast Asian region.
Cambodia enjoyed a brief period of prosperity during the sixteenth century because its kings, who built their capitals in the region southeast of the Tonle Sap (Great Lake) along the Mekong River, promoted trade with other parts of Asia.
Cambodia or Kampuchea, republic in South East Asia, bordered on the north-east by Laos, on the east and south-east by Vietnam, on the south-west by the Gulf of Thailand, and on the west and north-west by Thailand.
kids.mapzones.com /world/cambodia   (6002 words)

  
 Cambodia Travel Guide and Cambodia Travel Information - TravelPuppy
Cambodia is slowly becoming a top destination on the South East Asia travel map as it emerges from a violent past of atrocities, war and political instability.
The temples of the 'Lost City’ of Angkor in Northern Cambodia are an overpowering attraction that, despite the dangers of unexploded landmine's and the risk of rural banditry, is a must-see for the traveller.
Cambodia today is the successor kingdom of the vast Khmer Empire which ruled most of what is today Vietnam, Thailand and Laos from the 9th to 14th centuries.
travelpuppy.com /cambodia   (532 words)

  
 Communications in Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Postal, telegraph, and telegram services under the Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Posts were restored throughout most of the country in the early 1980s.
Radio communications were frequent; the Voice of the Kampuchean People broadcasted ten hours daily from Phnom Penh in the late 1980s.
In January 1987, the Soviet-aided Intersputnik space communications station began operation in Phnom Penh and established two-way telecommunication links between the Cambodian capital and the cities of Moscow, Hanoi, Vientiane, and Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communications_in_Cambodia   (613 words)

  
 Map 4 Kids - Cambodia Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Famine was rare in Cambodia, but the self-sufficiency of the rural family produced a conservatism that proved resistant to government efforts before 1975 to modernize the nation's primitive agricultural methods.
Cambodia enjoyed a brief time of prosperity during the sixteenth century because its kings, who built their capitals in the region southeast of the Tonle Sap (Great Lake) along the Mekong River, promoted trade with other parts of Asia.
Cambodia thereby lost some of its valuableest territory and was cut off from the sea.
www.map4kids.com /world/asia/cambodia/index.php   (6068 words)

  
 Cambodia Country Strategy Paper (December 2002)
Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world; much of its population live in rural areas and many live below the local poverty line.
There is considerable confusion in Cambodia about the state of the fisheries law, fisheries administration (particularly the concept of community management and the institutional roles and responsibilities of the state and of communities associated with it), and the early stages of institutional development required to support community management.
As the STREAM Initiative develops in Cambodia and around the region, it is proposed that further partnerships with donors, implementers and those who generate and share knowledge will be developed to support communications and learning amongst key national stakeholders as well as those with a regional and international research and development remit.
www.streaminitiative.org /CambodiaWholeCSP.html   (5376 words)

  
 Economy of Cambodia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After four years of solid macroeconomic performance, Cambodia's economy slowed dramatically in 1997- (Click link for more info and facts about 98) 98 due to the regional economic crisis, civil violence, and political infighting.
Cambodia's emerging (A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them) democracy has received strong international support.
Under the mandate carried out by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), $1.72 (The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros) billion (1.72 G$) was spent in an effort to bring basic security, stability and democratic rule to the country.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/economy_of_cambodia.htm   (638 words)

  
 UNDP in Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cambodia's chronic mine contamination problem means the threat of death or serious injury is a daily reality for most Cambodians.
Through strong political leadership, Cambodia was able to lower HIV prevalence rates from 3.9 per cent in 1999 to an estimated 2.6 per cent in 2003.
Despite tremendous efforts, Cambodia is still the worst affected country in the region, with an increase in HIV transmission from husband to wife, and mother to child.
www.un.org.kh /undp/index.asp?page=info.asp   (499 words)

  
 MapZones.com : Cambodia Map
Eighty percent of Cambodia’s people live in rural areas, where their principal occupation is subsistence farming on family-operated holdings.
In rural Cambodia, most houses are built of palm leaf and bamboo and are often raised on stilts for protection from annual floods.
Cambodia's maximum extent is about 280 miles (450 kilometres) from north to south and 360 miles from east to west.
atlas.mapzones.com /cambodia/cambodia.php   (1993 words)

  
 Cambodia Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cambodia is administered by the Royal Government of Cambodia after an internationally supervised election in 1993.
Cambodia remains a desperately poor country whose economic recovery is held hostage to continued political unrest and factional hostilities.
Cambodia is still recovering from an abrupt shift in 1990 to free-market economic mechanisms and a cutoff in aid from former Soviet bloc countries; these changes have severely impacted on public sector revenues and performance.
sunsite.nus.sg /SEAlinks/cambodia-info.html   (419 words)

  
 Cambodia Trial of Killer of Ms Kellie Wilkinson
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said today that it was satisfied at the outcome of the trial and sentencing of Chan Mean, one of the murderers of Ms Kellie Wilkinson and her companions.
Because of the remoteness of the location of the arrest and poor communications in Cambodia, the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh became aware of those events only on 16 June.
Although he speaks some Khmer, it was necessary for Ambassador Kevin to use his interpreter to follow the detail of the trial and to provide a full record of proceedings in order to fulfil his responsibilities towards the Wilkinson family.
www.dfat.gov.au /media/releases/department/d32.html   (495 words)

  
 News Archive - Cambodia
The community improvements that are born in the children’s meetings held in Socheat’s house are repeated in 51 clubs around Cambodia each week.
World Vision Cambodia's ADPs have used some of their funds to assist communities mitigate the effects of the drought through reconstruction of water dikes and canals and distribution of short maturing rice for rice banks.
Cambodia's child sex industry thrives amid the poverty that grips the country, the preference of many local and foreign men for underage girls, and the failure of the country's law enforcement system to deal effectively with the problem.
www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/asia/cambodia.htm   (6139 words)

  
 Cambodia - Economy
Cambodia's economy slowed dramatically in 1997-1998 due to the regional economic crisis, civil violence, and political infighting.
Tourism was Cambodia's fastest growing industry, with arrivals up 34% in 2000 and up another 40% in 2001 before the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.
The major economic challenge for Cambodia over the next decade will be fashioning an economic environment in which the private sector can create enough jobs to handle Cambodia's demographic imbalance.
www.classbrain.com /art_cr/publish/cambodia_economy.shtml   (375 words)

  
 Cambodia
Situated on the Indochinese peninsula, Cambodia is bordered by Thailand and Laos on the north and Vietnam on the east and south.
Cambodia was able to regain its UN seat, lost nearly a year earlier as a result of Hun Sen's coup.
Cambodia: Government - Government Under the constitution promulgated in 1993 and subsequently amended, Cambodia is a...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107378.html   (1395 words)

  
 The Catholic Church in Cambodia - L'Eglise Catholique au Cambodge
The Catholic Church in Cambodia - L'Eglise Catholique au Cambodge
BANTEAY MEAN CHEY, Cambodia (UCAN) -- Catholics for the first time have gathered at a village in Cambodia to mark the death anniversary of Mons...
Learn about the history of the church in Cambodia, it's current mission, and Cambodian Catholic Cultural Center.
www.catholiccambodia.org /en   (221 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cambodia's economy slowed dramatically in 1997 and 1998 due to the regional economic crisis, civil violence, and political infighting, and foreign investment and tourism decreased.
Economic growth has been largely driven by expansion in the garment sector and tourism, but is expected to fall in 2005 as growth in the garment sector stalls.
Faced with the possibility that over the next five years Cambodia may lose orders and some of the 250,000 well-paid jobs the industry provides, Cambodia has committed itself to a policy of continued support for high labor standards in an attempt to maintain favor with buyers.
www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/cb.html   (1652 words)

  
 Cambodia Telephone system - Communications
coaxial cable - a multichannel communication cable consisting of a central conducting wire, surrounded by and insulated from a cylindrical conducting shell; a large number of telephone channels can be made available within the insulated space by the use of a large number of carrier frequencies.
fiber-optic cable - a multichannel communications cable using a thread of optical glass fibers as a transmission medium in which the signal (voice, video, etc.) is in the form of a coded pulse of light.
landline - communication wire or cable of any sort that is installed on poles or buried in the ground.
www.indexmundi.com /cambodia/telephone_system.html   (588 words)

  
 Cambodia
She contends that long-standing institutional weaknesses, as well as strategic alliances between Cambodia's intelligentsia and the Khmer Rouge, led to the political chaos of the mid 1970s.
Map scale for Cambodia is 1: 1 1000 000, Phnom street map is 1: 7 000, and Angkor temples, 1: 95 000.
A communications analysis of the official utterances of the chief actors involved with Cambodia from 1971 to 1973.
www.dalleybookservice.com /cambodia.html   (4989 words)

  
 Cambodia (04/97)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Before when observers talked about Cambodia it was with optimism about the path the country was taking towards peace and democracy.
The international community appears to be losing patience and hope after spending $3 billion to try to develop democracy in the country.
The request is being made on behalf of Susan Aitkin, Director of the Cambodia Communications Institute, a journalist training centre funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
www.cjfe.org /protestlets/1997/cam_ma97.html   (715 words)

  
 Educational Geography Information -- Cambodia
Cambodia is a country with much to know about.
In 1863, the king of Cambodia placed the country under French protection; it became part of French Indochina in 1887.
Large portions of this information is from the US government open source publication "The World Factbook", other content copyright © Stratus-Pikpuk, Inc. You may use this information without permission for educational or other non-profit purposes if you refer to us as the source, contact us if you want to use this commercially.
www.geographycards.com /countryinfo/cb.html   (1676 words)

  
 Rich Garella: Cambodia and the Internet
Cambodia's long wait for a public connection to the Internet--the global computer network--may be coming to an end.
The government is close to signing a deal to connect Cambodia to the Internet worldwide computer network, but several experts are concerned that the long-term, exclusive commercial contract could be the right move in the wrong direction.
Two decades later, Cambodia is still a communications basket case, with only 10,000 hard-wired telephones for its 10 million people--one of the lowest rates in the world.
www.garella.com /rich/caminet.htm   (4026 words)

  
 TelecomWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: )
AZ Communications, an emerging IP-based communications service provider in Cambodia, has established a direct VoIP interconnection with the iBasis Network for international voice services.
Through its interconnection with iBasis, AZ Communications is enabling the Cambodian people to benefit from cost-efficient new international communications services, as well as gaining revenue from completing calls for iBasis over AZ Communications' network in Cambodia.
AZ Communications joins the more than 230 carriers worldwide who have formed relationships with iBasis to send and receive international long distance calls over the company's Cisco Powered Network, which has carried more than eight billion minutes of international calls.
www.telecomweb.com /news/1078761442.htm   (371 words)

  
 FREE In-depth report - Taxes - Cambodia
Eventually, it revised assessments to make taxation acceptable to the business community and to the peasantry.
For example, the agricultural tax (also called the "patriotic contribution"), introduced during the 1983 to 1984 harvest season, reportedly was suspended in 1985, but was reimposed a year later.
Partial and full tax exemptions were granted to peasants who brought vacant land into production, to families of soldiers, to the war handicapped, and to victims of natural calamities.
www.exploitz.com /Cambodia-Taxes-cg.php   (456 words)

  
 Online news & media (kh)
The Cambodia Daily is an independent non-profit newspaper published six days a week in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, to establish a foundation for a free press in Cambodia and to train its journalists.
Its founder and publisher is a veteran American journalist who covered Cambodia in the 1960s for Newsweek and saw an opportunity to help the fledgling democracy by launching a newspaper here after the UN-supervised elections of 1993.
The Indradevi Magazine, which was established in 1998, is one of Cambodia's most popular and faster growing magazines with an established national and international reputation for giving and transferring general knowledge and basin education to all Cambodian people.
www.shambles.net /pages/Countries/kh_news   (139 words)

  
 Cambodian Information Center (CIC) Homepage
These CICs provide access to the web portal as well as the internet, CD-ROMs, a library of hardcopy resources, and training on how to use these resources.
Cambodiancity.com is mainly dedicated to provide community resources of capitals and cities of Cambodia.
Cambodia forums is created for everyone, especially, Cambodian people to share exprience and opinion about Cambodia.
www.cambodia.org /directory.php?PageSection=0&page=browse&go=39   (489 words)

  
 Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1999, the first full year of peace in 30 years, progress was made on economic reforms and growth resumed at 5%.
In 2001, severe floods damaged an estimated 15% of the area devoted to rice.
Tourism now is Cambodia's fastest growing industry, with arrivals up 34% in 2000 and up another 40% in 2001 before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
travel.jdwebpages.com /country-info/Cambodia.html   (1274 words)

  
 Sideband Cambodia: Sideband Communications and Engineering Services
It is an initial web presence which may be built upon in the future.
Serving Business and NGOs in Cambodia since 1995
We are the Authorised Distributor of both Barrett Communications and CODAN HF Radio equipment.
sidebandcambodia.org /index.html   (65 words)

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