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January 7th 1979, Cambodia. Victory over Genocide Day
Last week we celebrated Victory over Genocide Day, with 7 January, 1979 being the day that the Vietnamese military overthrew Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh. Here are some photos that we...
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Has Notorious American Fugitive Psychologist Ken Wilcox Reinvented Himself as...
Cambodia attracts a lot of dodgy characters. There’s a custom among down and out expatriates here of telling tall tales about how rich, important, and successful they are back in their home countries....
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American Child Rapist Hunted In Cambodia
Khmer440 received a tip-off early Wednesday that Cambodian police and border officials are hunting for a 57 year old truck driver from Houston, Texas, named Marshall Ray Custard. Clerks at a...
View ArticleSwimming foreigner dies in The Place pool
A foreigner suffered from a fatal heart attack while swimming in the pool at The Place gym in Phnom Penh on Street 51 near Wat Langka in BKK1 on Wednesday evening. The man is suspected to have suffered...
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Student from Ireland gets COVID-19 from Cambodia
A 21 year old exchange student to Ireland tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said in a statement. The man flew from Dublin, Ireland, to Doha, Qatar, on...
View ArticlePeople go in, Tanks come out
The military has ordered 10 tanks and 12 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles to move from a military base in Kampot to Phnom Penh, The Cambodia China Times wrote on Wednesday. The vehicles were ordered to...
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History: The Commando Raid On Ponchentong, Jan 22, 1971
The presence of North Vietnamese forces inside supposedly neutral Cambodia had been a contentious issue for as long as the conflict had been waged. Following the coup of 1970, the new Khmer Republic...
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Cambodia Photo of the Day
Thought this title needs resurrection. April 3, 2023. August 7, 2011 Get the backstory here. And a big hat tip to LTO for the image.
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Le Broken Plate Falls Flat In Its New Location
Last year I visited Le Broken Plate a few times, and wrote this glowing review of a night there. The location on Street 13 was almost hidden, but once inside the small and trendy restaurant you were...
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2019 Public Holidays in Cambodia
As Water Festival has come to a close, and there remains only one lone holiday left in 2018 (at least it’s on a Monday!), it’s time to look forward to 2019 and the next 28 public holidays. Public...
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