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Chinese New Year celebration

Chinese New Year celebrations take place all over South-East Asia where Chinese influence is and has been of strong importance.Youth participate in...

by Aurélien Foucault in Cambodia on 22/01/2012

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Cambodian Independence Day Celebrations

Independence Day celebrations. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 7th January 2012

by Ian Kydd'Miller in Cambodia on 07/01/2012

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Life in the Angkor rubbish dumps

Hundreds of people live in the Siem Reap rubbish dumps, just 30km away from the famous Angkor Wat, visited by millions of tourist every year. Siem...

by Omar Havana in Cambodia on 11/12/2011

22/01/2012 - Chinese New Year celebration - Cambodia - Chinese New Year celebrations take...
07/01/2012 - Cambodian Independence Day Celebrations - Cambodia - Independence Day celebrations. Phnom...
11/12/2011 - Life in the Angkor rubbish dumps - Cambodia - Hundreds of people live in the Siem...
01/11/2011 - Cambodia embraces International Fashion - Cambodia - Designers and fashionistas from...
30/10/2011 - Cambodia Kicks Off Its First Ever Fashion Week - Cambodia - With a renovated railway station as...
30/10/2011 - Cambodia celebrates King Sihanouk's 90th birthday - Cambodia - The Old King of Cambodia, Sihanouk, now...
29/10/2011 - Flooding continues around Phnom Penh - Cambodia - Across the country, rising flood water...
29/10/2011 - Flooding in Cambodia - Cambodia - More than a million people are affected...
28/10/2011 - Flooding continues. Cambodian capital in no danger. - Cambodia - Although not as bad as currently being...
28/10/2011 - Cambodia flooding is receding - Cambodia - Flooding in Cambodia is getting close...

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Chinese New Year celebration
Chinese New Year celebrations take place all over South-East Asia where Chinese influence is and has been of strong importance.Youth participate in the dragon dance in a Chinese temple....
Cambodian Independence Day Celebrations
Independence Day celebrations. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 7th January 2012
Life in the Angkor rubbish dumps
Hundreds of people live in the Siem Reap rubbish dumps, just 30km away from the famous Angkor Wat, visited by millions of tourist every year. Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Living through Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge brutal regime in Cambodia
Davy Keo recounts her life and the brutality inflicted on her family by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1970's Cambodia as three of Pol Pot's ageing Khmer Rouge top commanders face ...
Flooding in Cambodia
More than a million people are affected by floods covering nearly three quarters of the country's entire land area. Siem Reap, Cambodia. 29th November 2011
Cambodia embraces International Fashion
Designers and fashionistas from Cambodia and across the region attended Cambodia Fashion Week's presentation of Jasmine Boutique's new collection at the poolside of the Raffle...
Cambodia celebrates King Sihanouk's 90th birthday
The Old King of Cambodia, Sihanouk, now known as The King-Father of Cambodia, celebrates his 90th birthday. PhnomPenh, Cambodia. 30th October, 2011
Cambodia Kicks Off Its First Ever Fashion Week
With a renovated railway station as backdrop, fashionistas enjoyed the kickoff of Cambodia Fashion Week 2011. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 30th October, 2011
Flooding continues around Phnom Penh
Across the country, rising flood water from the Tonle Sap lake and the back pressure from the River Mekong has brought a wake of destruction on poor communities bordering the water'...
Cambodia flooding is receding
Flooding in Cambodia is getting close to the capital Phnom Penh. People make the best of the situation as they are used to these annual weather problems. Oudong. 28th October 2011
Flooding continues. Cambodian capital in no danger.
Although not as bad as currently being experienced in neighbouring Thailand, floods in Cambodia have claimed more than 250 lives, and are closing in on the capital Phnom Penh. Oudong. ...
The People of Tonle Sap Lake - Cambodia
Tonle Sap lake hosts a series of remote settlements, some of which are built on stilts, while others float on the lake's surface, populated partly by ethnic Chams and Vietnamese, m...
Cambodian painter Vann Nath's funeral
Vann Nath's funeral at Kombol pagoda. Kom Bol, Cambodia. 11th September, 2011
Kids International Dental Services in Cambodia
Kids International Dental Services is an NGO that visits Cambodia annually to provide dental services for some of the poorest children in the country who would otherwise have little or ...
Tuol Sleng - Genocide Museum
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, and converted into a prison and interrogation centre by ...
Cheung Ek Genocide Memorial, Cambodia
Pictures from Cheung Ek Genocide Memorial in Cambodia. The Killing Fields. 5th September 2011
Vann Nath a Khmer Rouge survivor dies at age 66
Vann Nath, painter, artist, writer, and human rights activist died on the 5th September. He was also a servivor of the brutal Khmer Rough torture prison also known as Toul Seleng. Phno...
US embassy remembers 9/11 - Phnom Penh
The American Embassy in Phnom Penh holds a remembrance ceremony to those killed in the attacks of 9/11 with ambassador to Cambodia Carol A. Rodley presiding. 11th September 2011
Vann Nath's final six works of Art
The last 6 works by artist Vann Nath created at an etching press studio in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. Vann Nath was one of the survivors from Toul Sleng (S21) prison during t...
Recent history still ubiquitous in Cambodia
While the United Nations backed trial of the four most senior surviving members of Khmer Rouge regime has begun, the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum remains a testament to the crimes of the ...

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Hello, Welcome to the new Cambodia Team! Thanks for all your fantastic reports and pictures.

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