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  TravellingCambodia.com - Cambodia Travel Guide and Forum
Cambodia's chief colonial official was the Résident Supérieur (Resident General), while residents, or local governors, were posted in all the principal provincial centers.
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.
Cambodia is ethnically homogeneous, as more than 90% of its population is of Khmer origin and speaks the Khmer language, the country's official language.
www.travelingcambodia.com   (2742 words)

  
 Cambodia Country Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cambodia's investment law permits investors, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations to purchase foreign currencies through the banking system and to remit abroad those currencies as payments for imports, repayments on loans, payments of royalties and management fees, profit remittances, and repatriation of capital.
Cambodia offers a corporate tax rate of 9%; a 20% corporate tax exemption for up to 8 years, with a 5 year loss carry-forward; and no tax on the distribution of dividends, profits or proceeds of an investment.
Cambodia is a country that is progressively recovering from the serious internal conflicts of the 1980's.
www.hawaii.gov /dbedt/ert/cp/cambo.html   (994 words)

  
 Cambodia (10/05)
Although Cambodia had a rich and powerful past under the Hindu state of Funan and the Kingdom of Angkor, by the mid-19th century the country was on the verge of dissolution.
Cambodia's embassy in the United States is located at 4530 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20011; tel: (202) 726-7742; fax: (202) 726-8381.
This aid was used primarily to repair damage caused by Cambodia’s war of independence from France, to support internal security forces, and for the construction of an all-weather road to the seaport of Sihanoukville, which gave Cambodia its first direct access to the sea and access to the southwestern hinterlands.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2732.htm   (5230 words)

  
 News Archive - Cambodia
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.
CAMBODIA- Government officials, human rights workers and representatives of humanitarian organizations are gathering in Yokohama, Japan this week to give an early Christmas gift to the world's sexually abused children: freedom.
www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/asia/cambodia.htm   (6139 words)

  
 Cambodia, Landmine Monitor Report 2003
Cambodia participates in the Bangkok Regional Action Group (BRAG), which was formed by States Parties from the Asia-Pacific region in September 2002 with the aim of promoting landmine ban initiatives in the region in the lead up to the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in Bangkok in September 2003.
Cambodia participated in the Fourth Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in December 2002 and submitted its annual Article 13 report on 12 July 2002.
Cambodia is one of the most severely landmine and UXO affected countries in the world due to almost three decades of conflict.
www.icbl.org /lm/2003/cambodia.html   (7685 words)

  
 HOW U.S. SHAPED CAMBODIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although the State Department has made it clear to Cambodia's coup leader Hun Sen that his grip on power is unacceptable to the United States, many Americans remain unaware of the role of our government in the major events in recent Cambodian history.
As a result, Cambodia's fragile coalition government is dissolved and Hun Sen's new regime has ignored pleas by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASFAN) and the international community to solve the crisis peacefully and reinstate Ranariddh.
Also not widely understood is that, according to CIA documents declassified in 1987, the U.S. bombing served to radicalize the population against the Lon Nol regime and helped the Khmer Rouge to move from being a politically weak and isolated movement in 1970 to having enough support to overthrow Lon Nol by 1975.
www.lightparty.com /Misc/Cambodia.html   (509 words)

  
 STATISTICS OF CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
Cambodia probably lost slightly less than 4,000,000 people to war, rebellion, man-made famine, genocide, politicide, and mass murder.
At the end of the Table 4.1B (lines 604 to 771) I list a sample of 167 population estimates collected for this purpose.
In the case of Cambodia, calculating the overall population deficit as the difference between the 1987 fitted and predicted population grossly underestimates the actual population loss.
www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/SOD.CHAP4.HTM   (3845 words)

  
 Cambodia: An Historical Overview
Cambodia is located in mainland Southeast Asia in the southwest part of the Indochinese peninsula.
Cambodia has a land area of 69,898 square miles (181,035 square kilometers) which is roughly the same as the state of Missouri.
Cambodia is bordered on the west by Laos.
www.hawaii.edu /cseas/pubs/cambodia/cambodia.html   (2392 words)

  
 Cambodia history and travel information - the Official Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cambodia's early history, was significantly influenced by India and China, particularly by the Funan Kingdom for the first six centuries AD, followed by the Khmers from Chenla state (chenla of land and chenla of water).
The country was recognised as the Kingdom of Cambodia by the Geneva Conference of May 1954.
This involved evacuating entire cities to a huge network of agrarian slave labour camps, abolishing banking, finance and currency, sealing borders, outlawing all religions, and eliminating private property to a degree where even requisites of personal hygiene were made communal.
www.visit-mekong.com /cambodia/background/history.htm   (778 words)

  
 friendly dictators
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in Morocco is over 20%, and 95% of the population lives in abject poverty, sheltering in makeshift huts in the country's increasingly swollen cities.
The bombing of Cambodia by the US from 1969 to 1972, left 600,000 civilians dead, millions of refugees, tens-of-thousands dying from disease and starvation, and the Cambodian economy and culture in ruins.
Cambodia continues to suffer from the devastation produced by both the US bombing and the Khmer Rouge atrocities.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 Phnom Penh, Cambodia web design & development firms on The Firm List
This list of web design firms located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is not a complete list, rather it is just the firms that have either been submitted or found by the editor.
Listings are geographically organized and should consist only of firms offering web design and/or development services.
If a firm no longer exists, is listed in the wrong location, or if it is not a new media firm, please feel free to email me.
www.firmlist.com /cambodia/phnompenh.phtml   (164 words)

  
 Pol Pot, Pol Pot Massacre, Pol Pot Genocide, Cambodia Genocide
That same year, the U.S. invaded Cambodia to expel the North Vietnamese from their border encampments, but instead drove them deeper into Cambodia where they allied themselves with the Khmer Rouge.
Millions of Cambodians accustomed to city life were now forced into slave labor in Pol Pot's "killing fields" where they soon began dying from overwork, malnutrition and disease, on a diet of one tin of rice (180 grams) per person every two days.
Throughout Cambodia, deadly purges were conducted to eliminate remnants of the "old society" - the educated, the wealthy, Buddhist monks, police, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and former government officials.
www.unitedhumanrights.org /Genocide/pol_pot.htm   (1049 words)

  
 Tourism of Cambodia Company information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vaccinations are not required to enter the Kingdom of Cambodia; you are unless coming from a "yellow" infected area.
The average annual temperature is 280C – 320C, this ranges in the capital city of Phnom Penh.
Cambodia's electrical supply is 220 volts AC at 50 cycles per second.
www.tourismcambodia.com /FAQs   (1513 words)

  
 The Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979. Part 2
The fact that the cities were all emptied within several days of the fall, with the people knowingly directed to spots in the countryside where they camped at least temporarily, does not give the impression of a sudden, knee jerk action.
Porter and Hildebrand assert that the 600,000 city dwellers of Phnom Penh (i.e., those who were supposed to be there to begin with) were justifiably taken into the countryside because their labor was needed for the task of cultivating rice.
Cambodia is only the latest victim of the enforcement of an ideology that demands that social revolutions be portrayed as negatively as possible, rather than as responses to real human needs which the existing social and economic structure was incapable of meeting.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/cambear2.htm   (6696 words)

  
 International Adoption: Forever Families Through Little Miracles International Adoptions
The country of Cambodia once upon a time was a powerful kingdom, created in a dream full of wondrous temples, magnificent cities rising from steamy jungles.
Cambodia is in transition as society recovers from the past few decades of discord.
Cambodia's orphanages have a very low ratio of children to care givers, so the children thrive.
www.littlemiracles.org /index.php?page=programs&progid=12   (1129 words)

  
 Santepheap - The Cambodia Weblog: 07/01/2004 - 07/31/2004
Cambodia’s vulture population, which have been missing in action since the 1970s, have made a small comeback, according to Agence Kampuchea Presse.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister is cracking down on what he called a radical wing of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, according to Agence Kampuchea Presse, which cites the Cambodia Daily.
Relative to Cambodia, there is a society, the Rajana Society, at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington that has as its mission the promotion and advancement of Khmer art and entertainment.
pookaibooks.org /weblog/2004_07_01_backup.html   (8694 words)

  
 UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994, 1996)
The Committee decided to extend the existing cultural property, the Temple of Ggantija, to include the five prehistoric temples situated on the islands of Malta and Gozo and to rename the property as "The Megalithic Temples of Malta".
Extension of the "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias", to include monuments in the city of Oviedo.
whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31   (2422 words)

  
 Cambodian Information Center >> Facts About Cambodia
Cambodia Flag [ Click to enlarge flag ]: The flag was designed arround 1850 that has three horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) and red (central) with a depiction of Angkor Watt in the center.
The flag was abandoned in a few years during the Khmer Rouge and the occupation of Vietnamese in Cambodia.
Cambodia Recent Socio-Economic Performance: An Assessment (1993-2005) (Power Point) - by Naranhkiri Tith, Ph.D. Transcript of a DVD released in June 2005 recording a discussion with Chhay Vee and Chum Bun Thoeun on May 29, 1998 in English from cambodiapolitics.org
www.cambodia.org /facts   (379 words)

  
 Cambodia - Explore the majestic temples of Angkor in Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WHY GO Nowhere in Asia exist such wild contradictions; Cambodia is a beautiful country with a brutal, war-torn past.
Its two main cities are the capital, Phnom Penh, and Siem Reap.
Once considered the loveliest of the French-built cities of Indochina, Phnom Penh's charm has managed to survive the violence of its recent history and the present invasion of property speculators and motor vehicles.
www.cntraveller.com /Guides/Cambodia/Cambodia   (159 words)

  
 Cambodia travel and tourism information, hotels and tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As Cambodia's climate is hot and humid almost all year round, it is ideal to have light clothing to be worn throughout the year.
2.By rail, the railway network of Cambodia that stretches from East to West, which run from Phnom Penh to the provinces of Kampong Chhnang, Pursat, Battambang and Bantey Meanchey and other routes: Phnom Penh-Sihanouk Ville and Phnom Penh-Kampot.
It is a good idea for you to take have medical insurance before you travel to Cambodia as Cambodia does not have reciprocal health service agreements with other nations
www.visit-mekong.com /cambodia/fastfaqs/faq.htm   (1507 words)

  
 Adherents.com - Print Resources
This page lists most of the print resources (sources which were not online: books, newspapers, magazines, etc.) cited by Adherents.com.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co. (1979) [revised 2nd edition; originally published in 1967 under the title The Indomitable Baptists].
Cambodia ("Cultures of the World" series), Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corp. (1996).
www.adherents.com /adh_books.html   (3362 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
Clothing exports were fostered by a US-Cambodian Bilateral Textile Agreement signed in 1999 which gave Cambodia a guaranteed quota of US textile imports and established a bonus for improving working conditions and enforcing Cambodian labor laws and international labor standards in the industry.
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.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/cb.html   (1652 words)

  
 A Virtual Travel to Cambodia - Kampuchea -Asia - Cambodia Tourism
Destination Cambodia, this is a virtual travel guide to Kampuchea (the local name of the country).
List of Foreign Embassies in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Cambodia's President Airlines is a domestic carrier, connects Phnom Phen with Bangkok.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/cambodia.htm   (742 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Maverick Guide to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: 3rd Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I really don't enjoy reading guidebooks where the author simply lists places to stay, restaurants with locations, and sights to see without any hint of the quality of the place.
The cities, hotels, and restaurants will probably still be there, certainly with prices higher than those quoted in the book.
However, I have had this experience from the most well-known of travel books with quite recent copyrights, so won't be surprised when this happens (I almost ran out of money once in Sri Lanka when prices were triple what I had read they would be).
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/156554126X   (346 words)

  
 Business, investment, sourcing and manufacturing in Asia
Cambodia's GDP growth is projected to slow iin 2005 according to both the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The slowdown is attributed to the expiration of the Multifibre Arrangement in early 2005.
Under the current Multifibre Arrangement, Cambodia is granted quotas to export testiles to both the U.S. and Europe.
www.business-in-asia.com /cambodia.htm   (614 words)

  
 Cambodia Hotels, Cambodia Accomodations, Discount Hotel Reservations @ ebookingsite.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Whether you are a business traveller or a leisure traveller on holiday, you can find the ideal accomodation in Cambodia @ ebookingsite.com because we have sorted all the hotels in Cambodia by hotel chain and by amenity and facility.
Cambodia Featured Cities There are more cities in Cambodia at the middle of Cambodia Hotel list Page.
You can use the hotel search form if your destination city is not in the Cambodia list.
www.ebookingsite.com /countrydir/kh/home.html   (256 words)

  
 Cambodia Gay Resources and Travel Tips by Utopia
Advisory: Reports from the capitol city indicate that contacts there are warm and friendly, though tourists should still be cautious.
It's a beautiful 4-8 hour boat ride from Siem Reap and is located on one of Cambodia's national highways, two hours east of Poi Pet.
Overall, I found the city less charming that Vientiane, but I love the slower pace and enjoyed meeting such lovely people.
www.utopia-asia.com /tipscam.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Learn How To Speak - Chinese
In addition, Cantonese is spoken by ethnic Chinese in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, and Malaysia.
The term language is used here to refer to the major distinctions within Chinese (for example, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu, and Min) and the term dialect to refer to further distinctions (for example, Toishan is a dialect of Cantonese).
It is the only or major language in forty counties and cities of the province.
www.learn-how-to-speak-chinese.com   (1065 words)

  
 The History Guy: The War List
In this example, the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are all considered to be part of the larger Second Indochina War.
Marked by suicide bombings, recurring Israeli invasions of Palestinian cities and Palestinian guerrilla attacks on Isreaeli settlements and military targets.
On March 15, 1899, warships of the American and British Navies bombarded the Samoan city of Apia to intimidate the reigning Samoan king, who was allied with the Germans.
www.historyguy.com /War_list.html   (4852 words)

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