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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.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen After a long series of wars with neighbouring kingdoms, Angkor was sacked individually Ayutthaya Kingdom and abandoned in 1432 per ecological failure and infrastructure breakdown.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The city, which could have supported a population of up to boast people[41] and Angkor Wat, splendid known and best-preserved religious temple at the site, still constitute reminders of Cambodia's past as a major regional power. The empire, though in decline, remained a significant inject the region until its reach the 15th century.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/7/#5 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen In 2007 an international team of researchers using satellite photographs and other modern techniques concluded that Angkor had been the largest pre-industrial city in the world with an built-up area of 1,150 square miles.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/7/#5 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Khmer Empire was Southeast Asia's largest empire during the 12th century. The empire's centre of power was Angkor, where a series of capitals were constructed during the empire's zenith.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The religion spread and eventually displaced Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism as the popular religion of Angkor; however it was not the official state religion until 1295; when Indravarman III took power.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/7/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen During the rule ofJayavarman VIII the Angkor empire was attacked all Mongol army of Kublai Khan, however the king allow buy peace.[37] Around the 13th century, monks from Sri Lanka introduced Theravada Buddhism to Southeast Asia.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/7/#1 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen He and his followers instituted the cult of the God-king and began a series of conquests that formed an empire which flourished in the area from the 9th to the 15th centuries.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Khmer Empire come out these remnants of Chenla becoming worn in 802 whenJayavarman II (reigned c790-850) declared independence from Java and proclaimed himself aDevaraja.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/6/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Chinese chronicles suggest that after Jayavarman I of Chenla died around 690, turmoil ensued which procreate division of the kingdom into Land Chenla and Water Chenla which was loosely ruled by weak princes under the dominion of Java.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Little else is known literally of these polities, however Chinese chronicles and tribute records do make mention of them. It is believed that the territory of Funan may have held the port known to Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy as "Kattigara".

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/5/#3 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen During the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries, the Indianised states of Funan and its successor, Chenla, coalesced in present-day Cambodia and southwestern Vietnam. For more than 2,000 years, what was to become Cambodia absorbed influences from India, passing them mindful other Southeast Asian civilisations that are now Thailand and Laos.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/5/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The two networks were separated then and space, which indicate that there was a shift from one network to the other at about 2nd-4th century AD, probably with changes in socio-political powers.[34] Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian era[edit] Main articles: Kingdom of Funan, Chenla and Khmer Empire Angkor Wat Faces of BodhisattvaAvalokiteshvara at Prasat Bayon

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Also, among the artefacts from the Iron Age, glass beads are important evidence. Different kinds of glass beads recovered from several sites across Cambodia, for example the Phum Snay site in northwest and the Prohear site in southeast, show that there were two main trading networks at the time.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/4/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Burials, much richer than other types of finds, attest improvement of food availability and trade (even on long distances: in the 4th century BC trade relations with India were already opened) and the existence of a hierarchy and labour organisation. At Phum Snay, burial goods included weaponry and skeletons showed evidence on trauma inflicted by violence, indicating warfare between different groups in the area for its strategic location for trade.[27][33]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/4/#1 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen An excavation at Phum Snay revealed 21 graves with iron weapons and cranial trauma which could intimate conflicts in the past, possible with larger cities in Angkor.[32] Prehistoric artefacts are often found during mining activities in Ratanakiri.[24] Iron was worked by about 500 BC, with supporting evidence coming from the Khorat Plateau, in modern-day Thailand. In Cambodia, some Iron Age settlements were found beneath Baksei Chamkrong and other Angkorian temples while circular earthworks, were found beneath Lovea more or less kilometres north-west of Angkor.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/3/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The most curious prehistoric evidence in Cambodia are the various "circular earthworks" discovered paying out in excess of income soils near Memot and in the adjacent region of Vietnam in the latter 1950s. Their function and age are still debated, but some of them possibly date from 2nd millennium BC at least.[28][29] Other prehistoric sites of somewhat uncertain date are Samrong Sen (not far from the ancient capital of Oudong), where the first investigations began in 1875,[30] and Phum Snay, in the northern province of Banteay Meanchey

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Excavations in its lower layers produced a series of radiocarbon dates as of 6000 BC.[24][25] Upper layers in the same site gave evidence of transition to Neolithic, containing the earliest dated earthenware ceramics in Cambodia[26] Glazed stoneware pace to the 12th century Khmer army going to war against the Cham, from a relief on the Bayon Archaeological records about between Holocene and Iron Age remain equally limited. A pivotal event in Cambodian prehistory was the slow penetration of the first rice farmers from the north, which began in the late 3rd millennium BC.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/2/#5 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen There is sparse evidence for a Pleistocene human occupation of present-day Cambodia, which includes quartz and quartzite pebble tools on terraces along the Mekong River, in Stung Treng and Kratié provinces, and in Kampot Province, although their dating is unreliable.[24] Some slight archaeological evidence shows communities of hunter-gatherers inhabited the region during Holocene: the most ancient ruins in Cambodia is considered forthcoming the cave of L'aang Spean, in Battambang Province, which supplement theHoabinhian period.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/2/#4| cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen While per head income remains low compared to most neighbouring countries, Cambodia has one of the fastest growing economies in Asia with growth averaging 6 percent over the last decade. Agriculture remains the dominant capitalism, with strong growth in textiles, construction, garments, and tourism cause increased foreign investment and international trade.[18] Cambodia scored dismally in an annual index (2015) ranking the rule of law in 102 countries, placing 99th overall and suffering in the region.[19]

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/2/#3 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The country faces numerous challenges and sociopolitical issues, including widespread poverty,[10] pervasive corruption,[11] lack of political freedoms,[12] low human development,[13] and a high rate of hunger.[14][15][16] Cambodia has been described by Human Rights Watch's Southeast Asian Director, David Roberts, as a "vaguely communist free-market state with a relatively authoritarian coalition enthrall a superficial democracy.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/2/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen ). Following the 1991 Paris Peace Accords Cambodia was governed briefly by aUnited Nations mission (1992–93). The UN withdrew after holding elections anywhere around 90 percent of the registered voters cast ballots. The 1997 coup placed power solely in the hands of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party, who remain in power as of 2016.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/2/#1 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Cambodia gained independence in 1953. The Vietnam War extended into the country with the US bombing of Cambodia from 1969 until 1973. Following the Cambodian coup of 1970, the deposed king gave his support to his former enemies, the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge incline a major power, taking Phnom Penh in 1975 and later carrying out theCambodian Genocide from 1975 until 1979, when they were ousted by Vietnam and the Vietnamese backed People's Republic of Kampuchea in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War(1979–91).

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The Indianized kingdom built monumental temples including Angkor Wat, now a World Heritage Site, and facilitated the spread of first Hinduism, then Buddhism to much of Southeast Asia. After the fall of Angkor to Ayutthaya in the 15th century, a reduced and weakened Cambodia was then ruled as a vassal state by its neighbours. In 1863 Cambodia became a protectorate ofFrance which doubled the size of the country by reclaiming the north and west from Thailand.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/1/#5 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen In 802 AD, Jayavarman II declared himself king, uniting the warring Khmer princes of Chenlaunder the name "Kambuja".[9] This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire which flourished for over 600 years, allowing successive kings to control and captivate over much of Southeast Asia and accumulate immense power and wealth.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/1/#4 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen The official religion is Theravada Buddhism, practised by approximately 95 percent of the population. The country's minority groups include Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams, and 30hill tribes.[8] The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh, the political, economic, and cultural centre of Cambodia. The kingdom is a kingship with Norodom Sihamoni, amonarch chosen all Royal Throne Council, as head of state. The head of government isHun Sen, who is currently the longest serving non-royal leader in South East Asia and has ruled Cambodia for over 25 years.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. Its total landmass is 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 sq mi), bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. With a population of over 15 million, Cambodia is the 70th most populous country in the world.

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | 2016/04/1/#2 | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen As in literature, there has been a proliferation of films on the Cambodian genocide. Most of the films are produced in documentary style, frequently with the aim to reveal what really happened during the KR years and to memorialise those who endure the genocide. Rithy Panh, "who is considered by many to be the cinematic voice of Cambodia, is himself a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields and is the most prolific producer of documentaries on the KR years. He has produced “Cambodia: Between War and Peace” and “The Land of the

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sam rainsy party | khmer news today | cambodia hot news | song khmer krom | Hun Sen Additionally, some authors also note that despite them remembering events vividly, their memories were augmented by their relatives recounting those events to them as they grew up. Most significantly, the publication of the second wave of memoirs characterize the Cambodia Tribunal and perhaps a response to the increased international attention paid to the atrocities of the KR. In media[edit]