PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Dengue fever has killed 182 Cambodians so far this year and the calamity will prolong to exacerbate unless concerted society action is taken, the government and World Health Organization said on Saturday.
“This year is particularly severe and, if present trends continue, it will be the most serious to date,” the WHO […]

As a result of various conflicts over the last thirty years or so, Cambodia is one of the most heavily landmine and UXO contaminated countries in the world. The Landmine Impact Survey completed in April 2002 revealed that the number of areas contaminated by mines and UXO is about 30% higher than estimated in […]

The Contemporary Art of the Khmer in Thailand
The contemporary art of Khmer in Thailand was divided into two main periods as follows: 1. The contemporary art style before the Mahithonpula period.
2. The contemporary art style of the Mahithonpula period.
The main reason for using the Mahithonpula reign period to divide the contemporary of Khmer arts in […]

… another week on MyanmarMike, forums are filled with spammers and no soul seems to contribute seriously, well we’ll wait, we’ll wait …
… just excerpts, the rest you can easily figure out by yourself
Prostituted girls, most of them aged 15 to18 years of age, are found in the Svay Pak red-light district of Cambodia. […]

Cambodian Visa Information
On arrival by air you can pickup your tourist visa for $20USD or business visa for $25USD, If you are travelling by land though you will be charged more by the border guards. They will ask for anything from 1000 THB to 1200THB for a tourist visa. The correct charge is $20USD for […]

They quality of the recordings isn’t perfect, but the music is still able to get under your skin by being creepy, high-pitched, and distorted by the poor recording quality. And if you think about how this was the sound of a city emptied at gunpoint, the sounds of children spying on their parents, the sounds […]

In this picture, U.S. soldiers survey the Cambodian town of Snuŏl after it has been almost completely flattened by U.S. bombers.
The United States dropped three times the quantity of explosives on Cambodia between 1970 and 1973 than it had dropped on Japan for the duration of World War II. Between 1969 and 1973, […]

On April 30 President Richard Nixon announced to a national television audience that US troops were invading Cambodia, the country west of Vietnam through which the North Vietnamese military was supplying their troops in the South. In fact, the US had been conducting bombing raids in Cambodia for over a year.
The image of the President’s […]

During my “Holidays in Cambodia” I remember myself hanging out in Batambang with some locals. I had a stupid attention this time to visit brother number two, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s left hand. He was parting the peaceful and quite life of the elderly pensioner surrounded by his beloved family and charming grand-sons in the […]

Pol Pot’s body only hours after Pol Pot’s death.