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Yangon. Bad Time For Democracy.
1 Comment Published by admin September 20th, 2007 in Myanmar/Burma, Politics, HistoryMyanmar is still in a havoc. Riots on the streets, violence, fat political game. Good time for investments, bad for democracy. Old scenario, the boring variant, without American troops marching on but still tempting.
YANGON, Myanmar – Demonstrators on Tuesday tried to mount a new protest against rising prices, but marched only 30 yards before […]
The Contemporary Art of the Khmer in Thailand.
0 Comments Published by admin July 14th, 2007 in Thailand, Cambodia, Art, HistoryThe 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 […]
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 […]
U.S. Bombing of Cambodia
0 Comments Published by admin July 9th, 2007 in Cambodia, Decadence, Vintage, Politics, HistoryIn 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 […]
Pol Pot’s body only hours after Pol Pot’s death.
0 Comments Published by admin July 2nd, 2007 in Cambodia, HistoryPol Pot’s body only hours after Pol Pot’s death.
Phnom-Penh. History of the City.
0 Comments Published by admin July 2nd, 2007 in Cambodia, Travel Tips, Urban, HistoryThe history of Pnom-Penh city.


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