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The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh and Cambodian royal life. Post Books. ISBN 978-974-202-047-7. Lamant, Pierre-Lucien (1991). La Creation d'une capitale par le pouvoir coloniale: Phnom Penh. Harmattan. Mizerski, Jim (2016). Cambodia Captured: Angkor's First Photographers in 1860s Colonial Intrigues. Jasmine Image Machine. ISBN 9789924905004.
The Phnom Penh Post has received over 30 regional and international press awards between 2008 and 2018. Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) 2012: Honorable mention in News Photography to Sovan Philong. 2013: World Association of Newspapers, Gold Prize Best Feature. A 68-page supplement celebrating 20 years of the Phnom Penh Post.
The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, said Friday that it will stop publishing in print this ...
Phnom Penh ( / pəˌnɒm ˈpɛn, ˌpnɒm -/; [ 6][ 7][ 8] Khmer: ភ្នំពេញ, Phnum Pénh [pʰnomˈpɨɲ], lit. 'Penh's Hill/Mountain') is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic ...
Longvek, the former capital of Cambodia Flag of Cambodia pre-1864. The term "Post-Angkor Period of Cambodia", also the "Middle Period" [87] refers to the historical era from the early 15th century to 1863, the beginning of the French Protectorate of Cambodia. Reliable sources – particularly for the 15th and 16th century – are very rare.
King Ang Chan I (1516–1566) moved the capital from Phnom Penh north to Longvek at the banks of the Tonle Sap river. Trade was an essential feature and "...even though they appeared to have a secondary role in the Asian commercial sphere in the 16th century, the Cambodian ports did indeed thrive.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday presided over a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the country’s second expressway, which will link the capital, Phnom Penh, to the eastern ...
Thus, with large popular support in the countryside, the capital Phnom Penh finally fell on 17 April 1975 to the Khmer Rouge. Thus, prior to the Khmer Rouge's takeover of Phnom Penh in 1975 and the start of the Zero Years, Cambodia had already been involved in the Third Indochina War. Tensions between Cambodia and Vietnam were growing due to ...