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The fall of Phnom Penh was the capture of Phnom Penh, capital of the Khmer Republic (in present-day Cambodia ), by the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975, effectively ending the Cambodian Civil War. At the beginning of April 1975, Phnom Penh, one of the last remaining strongholds of the Khmer Republic, was surrounded by the Khmer Rouge and totally ...
The Phnom Penh Post is also available in Khmer. [3] It previously published a weekend magazine, 7Days, in its Friday edition. [4] Since July 2014, it has published a weekly edition on Saturdays called Post Weekend, [5] which was folded into the paper as a Friday supplement in 2017 and was discontinued in 2018.
Pol Pot[ a ] (born Saloth Sâr; [ b ] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Maoist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge ...
The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, said Friday that it will stop publishing in print this ...
The Kingdom of Cambodia, [ a] also known as the First Kingdom of Cambodia, [ b] and commonly referred to as the Sangkum period, [ c] refers to Norodom Sihanouk 's first administration of Cambodia, lasting from the country's independence from France in 1953 to a military coup d'état in 1970. Sihanouk continues to be one of the most ...
Prom Samnang (Khmer: ព្រំ សំណាង), (born 9 September 1987) is a Cambodian Kun Khmer fighter and is one of the most successful Kun Khmer fighters in Cambodia. [1] In 2023, Samnang won the Thai Fight Kard Chuek championship title in Thailand [ 2 ] and won the gold medal against Tun Tun Min in the Khun Khmer Men's 81kg division.
Phnom Penh ( / pəˌnɒm ˈpɛn, ˌpnɒm -/; [ 6][ 7][ 8] Khmer: ភ្នំពេញ, Phnum Pénh [pʰnomˈpɨɲ], lit. 'Penh's Hill/Mountain') is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic ...
The Khmer Rouge allied with Sihanouk captured Phnom Penh and declared the establishment of Kingdom of Cambodia. 1976: 2 April: Sihanouk exiled and establishment of Democratic Kampuchea under total Khmer Rouge control. 1977: 31 December: Cambodia broke relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 1979: 7 January