A decades-long drought interspersed with intense monsoons in the 14th and 15th centuries may have contributed to the fall of the Angkorean civilization, a new US research study suggests. Brendan Buckley, a researcher at Columbia University, and his colleagues studied tree rings in the region, putting together a high-resolution record of periods of drought and [...]
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Number of Vietnamese Visitors Jumps
December 19th, 2008 
Cambodian News The number of Vietnamese tourists visiting Cambodia jumped nearly 75 percent in the first ten months of 2008, coming in at No. 2 for the first time in 15 years, officials said Tuesday. The 176,600 Vietnamese visitors, up from 102,577 in the same period last year, was second only to the number of Korean visitors, [...]
Cambodia And Human Trafficking
December 8th, 2008 Cambodian News On December 7th, performing artists, human rights activists, non-governmental organizations, and officials of the Royal Cambodian government will gather at Angkor Wat to focus world attention on the scourge of human trafficking. A rock concert will be held at Angkor Wat, December 7th, in cooperation with MTV EXIT [End Exploitation and Trafficking], a project of [...]
Rockers Placebo play anti-slavery gig at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
December 8th, 2008 Cambodian News SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AFP) — Had there been a roof, Placebo would have raised it as they headlined the first rock concert in history at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple. Some 1,200 fans of all ages, mostly Cambodian, watched the London-based alternative rockers top a bill Sunday backed by musicians from Cambodia and across the world [...]