The French colonization of Indochina‚ consisting of Vietnam‚ Laos and Cambodia was over‚ when Laos became a French protectorate in 1893. The Second World War opened new avenues for anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia. On the wake of the Japanese occupation of Indochina‚ the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) set up Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi (League for the Independence of Vietnam) or Viet Minh. He gave the call in August 1945 to liberate Vietnam and Hanoi was occupied. The
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the seashore‚ blue and beautiful sea beaches scattered with red reefs‚ and 1‚132.7-meter-high Mt. Laoshan‚ the highest mountain along China’s coastal line. German-styled castles‚ constructed in 1936‚ once received late Chairman Mao Zedong and Norodom Sihanouk‚ then prince of Cambodia. A Denmark-styled Catholic church. In November 1897‚ Germany occupied Qingdao by force on the pretext of the Juye litigation over religious disputes. In 1914‚ the World War I erupted‚ and in November that year‚ Japan
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When the people in the outside world were living the life of their dreams‚ the Cambodians were left all alone with their broken hearts that’s been shattered into pieces. It was the time period between 1975 and 1979‚ when the Khmer Rouge organized the mission to “reconstruct Cambodia on the communist model of Mao’s China.” (Peace Pledge Union) Many intellectuals and educated people at the time were eliminated‚ along with their extended family and their affiliates. According to The Angry Skies‚
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Maoist philosophies; the group was now actively engaging the Cambodian government in battle. Utilizing terrorist tactics‚ the terrorist group would battle the Cambodian government from 1960 to 1975. During this time‚ Cambodia’s long-time leader Norodom Sihanouk dubbed the guerilla organization the Khmer
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government. As stated earlier‚ King Norodom was seeking to end this cycle and gain power for Cambodia by signing a protection treaty with France. France viewed Cambodia as a buffer zone between southern Vietnam and British-aligned Siam. They hoped that by signing the treaty they would be protecting their own interests in southern Vietnam. In turn‚ Cambodia relied on French protection to stop Vietnamese invasions on the eastern border. On 11 August 1863‚ King Norodom signed a ‘treaty of friendship‚ commerce
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Doing Business in Cambodia: 2012 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT‚ U.S. & FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE‚ 2010. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. • • • • • • • • • • Chapter 1: Doing Business In Cambodia Chapter 2: Political and Economic Environment Chapter 3: Selling U.S. Products and Services Chapter 4: Leading Sectors for U.S. Export and Investment Chapter 5: Trade Regulations‚ Customs and Standards
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In the recorded conversations that Richard Nixon‚ the 37th President of the United States‚ had with his White House aides‚ he reveals his motivations and his assumptions about the American public: “Everybody says we’ve got to protect this one and that one and the other one. The main thing we’ve got to protect is the Presidency”. He felt that the presidency granted him immunity to the law. Under his Presidency‚ an air of distrust of government gradually grew amongst US citizens. He led a criminal
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Phnom Penh Khmer pronunciation: is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River‚ Phnom Penh has been the national capital since French colonization of Cambodia‚ and has grown to become the nation’s center of economic and industrial activities‚ as well as the center of security‚ politics‚ cultural heritage‚ and diplomacy of Cambodia. Once known as the “Pearl of Asia”‚ it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina[2] in the 1920s. Phnom
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Genocide As stated by the United Nations Genocide Convention‚ genocide is a coordinated plan to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or religious group‚ by killing‚ causing serious bodily or mental harm‚ inflicting conditions designed to bring about its destruction‚ preventing births within the group ‚ or removing children from the group. The term did not exist until Raphael Lemkin devised the word in 1944. Therefore there was no legal mechanism for the international community
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formed in 1968 as a result of the Vietnam People’s Army from North Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge was expanding more and more and at one point of time it controlled the entire country. USA began training the troops in South Vietnam. The general to Prince Norodom Silhanouk‚ Nixon‚ started bombing B-52 at South Vietnam. Seeing the Lon Nol‚ American general ended monarchy and established Khmer Republic in Cambodia. But Pol Pot the French educated became the leader of the communist party and renamed it as “KHMER
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