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A December to remember for App State’s more than 1,700 graduates More than 1,700 Appalachian State University graduates were conferred degrees during the university’s virtual Fall 2020 Commencement Dec. 11. This photo collage shows a handful of the numerous celebratory commencement photos shared by App State’s Class of 2020 graduates via social media. Photos submitted “You have earned one of the most significant achievements of your lifetime, and you did so under historically challenging circumstances. … We are so very proud of how you persevered and arrived at this momentous occasi...

>> nbc news correspondent ian williams is a veteran reporter in the region. >> different countries have different ways of working. cambodia is a special case. it's a very small country. it's also a very poor country, and a lot of the systems that are in place in cambodia, whether it's law enforcement, the health system and crowd control systems are pretty basic. >> every year nearly 2 million people flood cambodia's capital city, phnom penh, for the water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season. on the final night of the 2010 festival, a concert lets out and crowds begin to converge ...

Just seems to go out of control. >> nbc news correspondent ian williams is a veteran reporter in the region. >> different countries have different ways of working. cambodia is a special case. it's a very small country. it's also a very poor country, and a lot of the systems that are in place in cambodia, whether it's law enforcement, the health system and crowd control systems are pretty basic. >> every year nearly 2 million people flood cambodia's capital city, phnom penh, for the water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season. on the final night of the 2010 festival, a concert lets ...

>> nbc news correspondent ian williams is a veteran reporter in the region. >> different countries have different ways of working. cambodia is a special case. it's a very small country. it's also a very poor country, and a lot of the systems that are in place in cambodia, whether it's law enforcement, the health system and crowd control systems are pretty basic. >> every year nearly 2 million people flood cambodia's capital city, phnom penh, for the water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season. on the final night of the 2010 festival, a concert lets out and crowds begin to converge ...

Festival, a concert lets out and crowds begin to converge on a newly constructed suspension bridge. it's the only pedestrian walkway connecting the mainland to diamond island. freelance journalist robert carmichael and his friend, darabuth sang, a cambodian lawyer, live in phnom penh. >> this island that was an entertainment center that was newly opened. there were people on the island who wanted to leave and go home, and there were people who were on the mainland who wanted to get on the island to come and have a good time. >> it had gotten tighter and tighter and tighter, and there was no ou...