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The Sino-Vietnamese War was a conflict between the Socialist States of Vietnam and China, but why did it happen? When the west warns about the dangers of China, it is worth keeping something in mind, it has been 41 years since China was involved with a war with another country. It should […]

When we think about the excesses of the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields, the obvious first name that comes to mind is Pol Pot, but a machine as brutal as the Khmer Rouge obviously had a number of working cogs. The brothers of the Khmer Rouge, an informal ranking system […]

The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) was a period between 1992 and 1993 when the Cambodian state was run by the United Nations. In This respect it represents a unique Cambodian state in between the State of Cambodia, and the brief period before the Kingdom of Cambodia was proclaimed. […]

Cambodia has gone through a lot of name changes throughout the 20th century, but one of its briefest names and indeed strangest periods was when it was known as the State of Cambodia. To read about the different names of Cambodia click here. Prelude to the State of Cambodia Cambodia was […]

The Cambodia – Vietnam War (Khmer: សង្គ្រាមកម្ពុជា-វៀតណាម, Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Campuchia–Việt Nam), known in Vietnam as the Counter-offensive on the Southwestern border (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phản công Biên giới Tây-Nam), and by Cambodian nationalists as the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia (Khmer: ការឈ្លានពានរបស់វៀតណាមមកកម្ពុជា), was an armed conflict between the former allies […]

Is there still a communist party in Cambodia? The short answer is no there is not, although the CPP/Cambodian Peoples Party is the successor party to the prior communist governing Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party. Cambodian Peoples Party In 2020 you will see signs dotted around the country celebrating 69 years of […]