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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.
Kings Preah Ram I and Preah Ram II moved the capital several times and established their royal capitals at Tuol Basan (Srey Santhor) around 40 kilometres north-east of Phnom Penh, later Pursat, Lavear Em and finally Oudong. [78] In 1596 Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores from Manila raided and razed Srei Santhor. [79]
When the Khmer Rouge took control of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, Yim Tith was appointed as the party secretary for Kirivong district (in Sector 13). During the regime's power, Yim Tith rose to the position of Sector 13 secretary (until June 1978) and later became secretary of the North West Zone Sectors 1, 3 and 4.
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 ...
Pol Pot[ a ] (born Saloth Sâr; [ b ] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Maoist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge ...
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 ...
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.
In Phnom Penh, the king ordered the land to be built up to protect it from flooding, and a palace to be built. During his reign he also ordered the construction of six Buddhist monasteries around the city, and his remains are housed in a stupa behind the Wat Phnom. King Ponhea Yat was succeeded on his death by his first son Noreay Reachea, who ...