Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
After the Vietnamese attacked Khmer Rouge in 1978, the riel was re-established as Cambodia's national currency on 20 March 1980, initially at a value of 4 riels = 1 U.S. dollar. It is subdivided into 10 kaks (from the Hokkien 角 kak) or 100 sens (from the French cent). Because there was no money for it to replace and a severely disrupted ...
Cambodian riel; Cambodian tical; F. French Indochinese piastre This page was last edited on 1 April 2019, at 01:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This is a list of the equipment used by the Royal Cambodian Army. In order to decrease its dependence on former Warsaw Pact military equipment (a legacy of the Kampuchea People's Revolutionary Armed Forces), Cambodia has begun to explore the possibility of purchasing Chinese and European vehicles and equipment.
Reason: Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia Note: It is unclear whether the North, the South dong, or nothing at all was used after the invasion in January 1980 and before the issuance of a united dong in May: Currency of Cambodia 1978 – 1980 Concurrent with: Thai baht and some other foreign currencies, to some extent: Succeeded by: Cambodian riel
Enemies of the People is a 2009 British-Cambodian documentary film written and directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath.The film depicts the 10-year quest of co-director Sambath to find truth and closure in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
In early 1979, Vietnam defeated Democratic Kampuchea and overthrew the Pol Pot regime. They liberated Democratic Kampuchea's S-21 prison in the capital Phnom Penh where an estimated 20,000 people (the real number is unknown) had been sent for torture and execution (or taken to the Killing Fields for execution after being tortured), many of them for supposedly spying against Cambodia.
The United Kingdom is a significant contributor to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.. The UK contributes to Cambodia around £10m per year, mainly to promote democratic reform, human rights and good governance, health, education, urban poverty projects, the development of rural livelihoods, and to tackle the growing problems of pedophilia, people trafficking, forestry crime ...
In 1952/53, the Lao kip (1952), Cambodian riel (1953), and South Vietnamese đồng (1953) were introduced at par with the piastre. Initially, the paper money bore denominations both in the local currency and the piastre, but coins were denominated in the national units since the beginning.