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A Khmer village meeting. The Khmers are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the area, having filtered into Southeast Asia around the same time as the Mon.Most archaeologists and linguists, and other specialists like Sinologists and crop experts, believe they arrived no later than 2000 BCE (over four thousand years ago) bringing with them the practice of agriculture and in particular the ...
The Khmer people (Khmer: ... The Cambodian Buddhist calendar is divided into 12 months with the traditional new year beginning on the first day of khae chaet, ...
Tai peoples in Cambodia include the Lao along the Mekong at the northeast border, Thai (urban and rural), and the culturally Burmese Kola, who have visibly influenced the culture of Pailin Province. Even smaller numbers of recent Hmong immigrants reside along the Lao border and various Burmese peoples have immigrated to the capital, Phnom Penh.
The 1997 coup d'état consolidated power under Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy and multi-party state, [18] although the CPP dominates the political system. [19] Cambodia is a member of the United Nations, ASEAN, the RCEP, the East Asia Summit, the WTO, the Non-Aligned Movement ...
Clothing in Cambodia is one of the most important aspects of the culture. Cambodian fashion differs according to ethnic group and social class. Khmer people traditionally wear a checkered scarf called a Krama. The "krama" is what distinctly separates the Khmer (Cambodians) from their neighbors the Thai, the Vietnamese, and the Laotians.
The Chams (Cham: ꨌꩌ, چام, cam), or Champa people (Cham: ꨂꨣꩃ ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, اوراڠ چامفا, Urang Campa; [8] Vietnamese: Người Chăm or Người Chàm; Khmer: ជនជាតិចាម, Chônchéatĕ Cham), are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and ...
This is a list of notable Cambodian people, persons from Cambodia or of Khmer descent. Aki Ra; Am Rong; Ampor Tevi; Arn Chorn-Pond; Beat Richner; Bérénice Marlohe; Bour Kry; Chan Nak; Chan Sy; Chanthou Oeur; Chath Piersath; Chea Sim; Chea Soth; Chea Vichea; Cheam Channy; Cheng Heng; Chhet Sovanpanha; Chhim Sothy; Chhom Nimol; Chhouk Rin; Chou ...
The Bunong (alternatively Phnong, [2] Punong, or Pnong) [3] [4] is an indigenous ethnic group in Cambodia. They are found primarily in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri in Cambodia. The Bunong is the largest indigenous highland ethnic group in Cambodia. They have their language called Bunong, which belongs to Bahnaric branch of Austroasiatic languages.