Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |27/02/2016/#4| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP

Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy | Khmer News | Cambodia News | With the loss of the port of Prey Nokor, then renamed Sài Gòn, Cambodia's control of the area grew increasingly tenuous while increasing waves of Vietnamese settlers to the Delta isolated the Khmer of the Mekong Delta from their brethren in Cambodia proper. By 1757, the Vietnamese had absorbed the provinces of Psar Dèk (renamed Sa Đéc in Vietnamese) on the Mekong itself, and Moat Chrouk (Vietnamized to Châu Đốc) on the Bassac River.