Cambodia People

"What we hope to achieve by putting these 5,000 or so photographsof victims on the Internet," he emphasized, "is to have themidentified by people who know them. We hope that people will beable to key in the names of the persons they recognize in a blankfield which will be available in the database, so the informationcan be collected and made available to others -- for example,information about who was arrested and taken to the Tuol Sleng(torture center) and disappeared -- and 20,000 people did. ... [Read More]

U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC)

ODC MissionODC Cambodia conducts Security Cooperation activities in support of the U.S. Ambassador and the United States Pacific Command to advance U.S. national interests and national military objectives. ODC PersonnelODC Cambodia is a four-person team headed by a U.S. Army Officer. The ODC manages all traditional and non-traditional security assistance activities in Cambodia, as well as coordinating host nation support. Please email any of the people below that you think can best address your concerns. [Read More]

Background Notes: Cambodia

Country Background Notes, 1990-93Background Notes, 1990Background Notes: CambodiaPA/PCSource: Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public AffairsDate: Dec 15, 199012/15/90Category: Country DataRegion: Southeast AsiaCountry: CambodiaSubject: Cultural Exchange, Resource Management, Military Affairs, History, International Organizations, Trade/Economics, Regional/Civil Unrest[TEXT]Official Name: CambodiaPROFILEGeographyArea: 181,040 sq. km. (69,900 sq. mi.); about the size of Missouri.Cities: Capital-Phnom Penh (pop. 4 ... [Read More]

Cambodia

The Constitution and law provide for these rights, and the Government generally respected them in practice; however, during the post-National Assembly election period, there were several credible reports of restrictions on travel from the Provinces of Kampong Speu and Kampong Chhnang to Phnom Penh. Authorities detained groups of people en route to Phnom Penh and accused them of traveling to Phnom Penh to engage in demonstrations protesting the election results. In one case, two people in Kampong Chhnang were detained for 2 days by authorities after their family members went job-hunting to Phnom Penh and were only released after they had arranged for the return of their family members. ... [Read More]

U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The Ambassador

Ambassador Ray entered the Department of State in 1982 and served in Guangzhou and Shenyang, People’s Republic of China; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Freetown, Sierra Leone; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. ... [Read More]

Evening in Cambodia

And that has contributed to a sense of optimism the people in the region feel, as they can see for the first time some tangible benefit to the prospect of peace. More recently, I again traveled to Afghanistan. I’m not sure I can adequately describe the destruction that so many years of war have wrought. But even in the most devastated sections of West Kabul, people were getting back to normal life. There were tea stands and market stalls in the rubble and kids playing soccer in the streets. Of course, the security situation is still hampering the recovery of both the human and physical infrastructure, but we are making important progress, including in demining. We have already destroyed more than one million landmines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, which has allowed millions of people to go home and thousands of farmers to go back to work. I know everyone wants this to be over quickly, but the sad truth is that there simply is no substitute for this kind of hard work. We will have ... [Read More]

Background Notes Archive - East Asia and the Pacific

U.S. Department of StateBackground Notes: Cambodia, January 1996Bureau of East Asian and Pacific AffairsPrepared and released by the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam Affairs January 1996Official Name: Kingdom of CambodiaPROFILEGeographyArea: 181,040 sq. km. (69,900 sq. mi.); about the size of Missouri.Cities: Capital-Phnom Penh (pop. between 1 million and 1.2 million). Other cities-Battambang, Siem Reap, Kompong Cham, Kompong Speu, Kompong Thom.Terrain: Central plain drained by the Tonle Sap (Great Lake) and Mekong and Bassac Rivers. Heavy forests away from the rivers and the lake, mountains in the southwest (Cardamom Mountains) and north (Dangrek Mountains) along the border with Thailand.Climate: Tropical monsoon with rainy season June-Oct. and dry season Nov.-May.PeopleNationality: Noun and adjective: Cambodian(s), Khmer.Population (1995): 10.56 million.Avg. annual growth rate: 4.1%. Births--44 births/ ... [Read More]