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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen In the nineteenth century a renewed struggle between Siam and Vietnam for control of Cambodia resulted interior when Vietnamese officials attempted to force the Khmers to adopt Vietnamese customs.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The hill tribe people in Cambodia were "hunted incessantly and kidnap as slaves individually Siamese (Thai), the Anamites (Vietnamese), and the Cambodians."

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen A new Khmer capital was established at Oudong south of Longvek in 1618, but its monarchs could survive only by entering into what amounted to alternating vassal relationships with the Siamese and Vietnamese for the next three centuries with certain short-lived periods of relative independence.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Portuguese travellers described the city as a place of flourishing wealth and foreign trade. The attempt was short-lived however, as continued wars with Ayutthaya and the Vietnamese sire the loss of more territory and Longvek being conquered and destroyed by King Naresuan the Great of Ayutthaya in 1594.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The court moved the capital to Longvek where the kingdom sought to regain its glory through maritime trade. The first mention of Cambodia in European documents was in 1511 all Portuguese.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/9/#1 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen By earlier, the Khmer penchant for monument building had ceased. Older faiths for example Mahayana Buddhism and the Hindu cult of the god-king had been supplanted by Theravada Buddhism.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen This cause a period of economic, social, and cultural stagnation when the kingdom's internal affairs came increasingly under the control of its neighbours.