Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |27/02/2016/#2| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP

Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy | Khmer News | Cambodia News | A weakened Khmer state after repeated warfare with Siam in the 17th century left the Mekong Delta poorly administered. Concurrently Vietnamese refugees fleeing the Trịnh–Nguyễn War in Vietnam pushed into the area. Cambodian king Chey Chettha II (1618–1628) in 1623 officially sanctioned the Vietnamese to operate a custom house at Prey Nokor, then a small fishing village.