and hegemony over other nations for centuries; shaping today’s North America‚ Central-America‚ South America‚ Africa‚ Oceana‚ and Asia (Western Society‚ 2004). Indochina is a region that today we would consider as Southeast Asia‚ comprised of Laos‚ Cambodia‚ and Vietnam (Indochina‚ 2001). Its most recent and most important contact with the West came from France and America. The West had a negative impact on Indochina because its influence damaged Southeast Asia’s system of government‚ destroyed and
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the year in Cambodian culture. Traditionally‚ the celebration usually lasts three days and each day has its own meaning and tradition. The 2010 Cambodian New Year was celebrated in Long Beach‚ a city that has most Cambodian population outside of Cambodia. The event included parade‚ stage performance‚ and food. The parade started with an interfaith blessing at Anaheim and Junipero Street and ended with a festival stage at MacArthur Park. I was very fortunate to be able to attend this spectacular
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know the other culture of the world‚ and you will learn to appreciate the cultural difference of people from different part of the earth. These vehicle make you easily‚ but actually many accident has happen every day by ridding car‚ motor…Example in Cambodia Traffic accident happen and 4.7 people die in accidents each day‚ according to a report by the Cambodian government and Handi cap International Belgium an NGO in Phnom Penh
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essential to encouraging all of the Cambodian farmers to produce a high crop yield. This year’s Royal Plowing Day was celebrated on May 21st‚ presided over by His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Baromneath Norodom Sihamoni‚ King of the Kingdom of Cambodia. It was held in the Meru field (Viel Men)‚ north of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. For this year‚ Keo Chanmony‚ a CPP Member of Parliament from Kampong Chhnang province‚ was appointed as Mehour‚ while Cambodian lawmaker‚ Say Chhum‚ acted as Sdech
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distributing place‚ KFC also looks for the place that is near schools and shopping center. Most students who are just finished their classes will feel exhausted and starved so they will seek for the nearest and fastest food supply available around them. In Cambodia‚ people usually go to the shopping center to do window-shopping or just hanging around with friends. The only thing that they most likely to buy is food which is tasted differently from the everyday meal they always have so the best choice for them
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Thailand is located in South-East Asia that is near to the border of Burma‚ Laos and Cambodia. Thailand has an area of about 513‚000 km2 and the population of people is about 70 million people. The capital city of Thailand is Bangkok. Bangkok is one of the largest cities in Thailand. Thailand is governed by a constitutionals monarchy‚ which a Prime Minister serves as head of a parliamentary government. The World Bank has upgraded Thailand’s income categorization from a lower-middle income economy
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Pung’s father remembers wistfully; the festive paper chains made of cut-up Target catalogues; the fate of the chocolate eggs that the seven-year-old Alice hoards in a drawer. The book begins as the ethnic Chinese Pung family arrive in Australia from Cambodia‚ fleeing the Khmer Rouge. Immigrants to this country have a vast range of stories to tell but their have a more complex narrative formed by the experience of life as links between the old country and the new. Over time various ethnic groups have
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Literacy is ages 15 and over can read and write. Government in Vietnam is a Communist State‚ and the right to vote is age 18. The currency is the Dong which is the basic unit. Countries bordering Vietnam include China‚ Laos‚ Thailand and Cambodia. The geography is based on low flat delta in the north and south‚ central highlands and hilly mountainous in the far north and northwest. The size of Vietnam is 127‚ 242 Square Miles.
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their work‚ they were an improvement over the dehumanized‚ forced-labor camps and communal life of the Pol Pot era. The organization of individuals and families into solidarity groups also made sense in the environment of resource-poor‚ post-war Cambodia. People working together in this way were able to offset somewhat the shortages of manpower‚ draft animals‚ and farm implements. In 1986‚ more than 97 percent of the rural population belonged to the country’s more than 100‚000 solidarity groups
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Main Features of French Rule in Indochina By 1893 France had colonised all of Vietnam‚ Laos and Cambodia and renamed it the French Indochinese Union. The French were oppressive and self-interested. They ran Indochina as a profit making venture and tried to ensure it paid for its own administration. Colonial governor Paul Doumer made the people pay for the cost of their own rule by increasing customs duties and direct taxes. He created official monopoly on salt‚ alcohol‚ and opium. Doumer concentrated
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