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The Siem Reap provincial administration observed Remembrance Day a day in advance of the traditional May 20 date. The event, held to commemorate those who died under the regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, took place on the grounds of Pothivong Pagoda in Kokchak district, Siem Reap town.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 3 December 15, 1992 AVERTING A FAILURE OF U.N. PEACEKEEPING IN CAMBODIA Renegade forces such as the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia ... continue to endanger the peace.... A primary taskfor American policy in the future will be to determine ways to work with Asian nations to form a broad consensus on how to reduce regional tensions and contain regional threats to security. Bill Clinton responding to a questionnaire from The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, October...

Carved banana tree trunks into various floral shapes is part of the artistic heritage of the ancient Khmer.

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng urged the management of the Chea Sim University of Kamchaymear (CSUK) to build relationships with schools in other countries in order to gain experience and develop their educational standards.

WASHINGTON DC — Chhang Song, a wartime information minister, post-war ruling party senator, and self-styled ambassador of the Cambodian-American community, was born a writer. As a child of poor parents in rural Takeo province, he made chalk out of clay and used it to write the alphabet on crude...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on December 2 commemorated the 44th anniversary of the 1978 establishment of the Kampuchea United Front for National Salvation – commonly known by its French acronym FUNSK – to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 135 March 23, 1995 SAVING DEMOCRACY INCAMBODIA

Unity offers the only hope for defeating Prime Minister Hun Sen – but cynicism and egotism stand in the way.

The recent history of Cambodia is little known, greatly disputed, and grim. [A]fter U.S.-backed Lon Nol deposed Sihanouk in March 1970…

Analysts say the meeting of the 800-plus-member central committee will likely be the culmination of Hun Sen’s decades of consolidating control within the party, though it also risks exposing rare public rifts between senior party leaders.