Definitions

1. Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia.
2. Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975.
3. Phnom Penh is the kingdom's capital and largest city, and is the center of political, commercial, industrial and cultural activities.
4. Phnom Penh is the largest population center, with over 1 million of Cambodia's 13 million people.
5. Phnom Penh was turned into a ghost city, while people in the countryside were dying of starvation, illnesses, or execution.

Phnom Penh International Airport

1. Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, the main airport in Cambodia, is the largest.

Beijing

1. Prince Sihanouk fled to Beijing and began to support the Khmer Rouge in their struggle to overthrow the Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh.

Order

1. There is only one ATM in Cambodia, at the Canadia Bank in Phnom Penh, and you must have a local account in order to use it.

Provinces

1. That year, there were 500 active Scouts and Guides in Phnom Penh, and some 700 Scouts in the provinces of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Mission

1. The Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh surrendered on April 17--5 days after the US mission evacuated Cambodia.

Crossing

1. Coming from Cambodia, this crossing is accessed primarily from Phnom Penh.

Paris

1. Son Sann studied in Phnom Penh and later Paris, where he graduated from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in 1933.
2. The intellectual ferment of Paris must have been a dizzying experience for young Khmers fresh from Phnom Penh or the provinces.

April 12

1. The operation was based on Operation Eagle Pull, the American evacuation by air of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 12, 1975.

South

1. As Angkor collapsed under the advancing jungles, the center of power of the Theravada Cambodia moved south toward present day Phnom Penh.

Southern Portion

1. Located in the southern portion of Phnom Penh it is so called because of its popularity among Russian expatriates during the 1980s.

Three Countries

1. PHNOM PENH: The tourism authorities in Malay­sia, Indonesia and Cambodia have agreed to complement each other in bringing tourists to these three countries.

Hotel

1. A quietly spoken and likeable French businessman, Darc had arrived in Cambodia in the 90s, building a hotel and restaurant business in Phnom Penh.

Time

1. Bach was in Phnom Penh in 1979 as the personal secretary of Le Duc Tho, the Political Bureau member in charge of Cambodia at that time.
2. He was living in Takai province, south of Phnom Penh, at the time.

Evacuation

1. Pol Pot 's brother - Chhay, who worked as a Republican journalist in the capital - was reported to have died during the evacuation of Phnom Penh.

Government

1. The center of government began to migrate away from Angkor to a more central location in the center of Cambodia, in the regions near present day Phnom Penh.

Vietnamese

1. Because Chinese and Vietnamese run many businesses in Phnom Penh, commerce grinds to a halt around this time.

April 21

1. Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak (January 22, 1914 — April 21, 1975) was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and was a prince of the Cambodian royal family.
2. Prince Sirik Matak and the officials that remained along with him, were executed by the Khmer Rouge on April 21, 1975, in Phnom Penh.

November

1. On November 24, 2000, a Cambodian Freedom Fighters team of about seventy (CFF) agents slipped into the center of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.

France

1. However, in October, when the Allies occupied Phnom Penh, Son Ngoc Thanh was arrested for collaborating with the Japanese and was exiled to France.

Country

1. The country code to dial into Cambodia from overseas is 855, followed by the area code (Phnom Penh is 023 & Siem Reap is 063) and then the phone number.

April 17

1. Phnom Penh surrendered on April 17, 1975--5 days after the U.S. mission evacuated Cambodia.
2. Lon Nol's government in Cambodia fell thirteen days earlier, on April 17, when Khmer Rouge forces took control of Phnom Penh.

Days

1. In Phnom Penh the travel agencies can arrange the visa the same day (but may charge as much as US$58) while getting it from the embassy takes a few days.
2. Within a few days the Vietnamese had captured Phnom Penh.

Cities

1. In April 1975, after a five-year struggle, Communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh and evacuated all cities and towns.
2. The Khmer Rouge ordered the complete evacuation of Phnom Penh and all other recently captured major towns and cities.

City

1. Immediately after the fall of Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge evacuated the city, spreading rumours that American soldiers were planning to bomb the city.
2. The President revealed that the city of Palembang be made water attractions such as Bangkok in Thailand and Phnom Penh in Cambodia.
3. For visitors entering Cambodia through Phnom Penh International Airport, a taxi into the city will cost USD7 and will take approximately 15 minutes.

Injuring

1. In April 2001, the Government of Free Vietnam was alleged to have caused a bomb to explode at the Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh, injuring a guard.

Capital

1. April 12, 1975 Ford evacuates the U.S. mission in Cambodia as the communist Khmer Rouge advance on the capital Phnom Penh.
2. With large popular support in the countryside, they were able to take the capital Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975.
3. On November 24, 2000, a Cambodian Freedom Fighters team of about seventy (CFF) agents slipped into the center of capital of Phnom Penh.

Laos

1. Following Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia, Laos established links with the Vietnamese- supported PRK in Phnom Penh.

Vietnam

1. January 7 - Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodian capital, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime.

Ho Chi Minh City

1. Some food products are even fresher when arriving in Cambodia due to the shorter distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh.

Hanoi

1. He was born in the South, received higher education in Hanoi, and after graduation, was sent to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to work for the French government [3].
2. Tension between the two states escalated into open warfare and, in 1978, Hanoi launched an invasion that toppled the Pol Pot regime in Phnom Penh.
3. The invasion and the subsequent establishment of a puppet regime in Phnom Penh were costly to Hanoi, further isolating it from the international community.

Saigon

1. North Vietnam, as the rival socialist country in Indochina, was determined to take Saigon before the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh.
2. During the Vietnam War, the strategic Route 1 that runs through the village became the main supply road between Saigon and Phnom Penh.

Pol Pot

1. In July 1963, Pol Pot and most of the central committee left Phnom Penh to establish an insurgent base in Ratanakiri Province in the northeast.
2. In late September, however, a few days before Pol Pot was forced to resign as prime minister, air links were established between Phnom Penh and Hanoi.
3. After they reached the edges of Phnom Penh, Pol Pot issued orders during the peak of the rainy season that the city be taken.

Khmer Rouge

1. The Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh and took power in 1975, changing the official name of the country to Democratic Kampuchea, led by Pol Pot.
2. On the same day that Lon Nol fled the country the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh.
3. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge had been evacuating captured urban areas for many years, but the evacuation of Phnom Penh was unique in scale.

Cambodian

1. The ruler of Cambodian in this period was Chey Chetta II and the capital was in Oudong, some forty kilometers north of Phnom Penh.
2. In May Cambodian and Vietnamese representatives met in Phnom Penh in order to establish a commission to resolve border disagreements.
3. When these troops finally reached Phnom Penh in September, fighting broke out between Cambodian and Vietnamese soldiers.

Cambodians

1. Phnom Penh for two months before April 1975, the beginning of a new lunar year for Cambodians, and the start of Year Zero for the Khmer Rouge.
2. For many Cambodians, the fall of Phnom Penh promised both a new year and a new era of peace.

Cambodia

1. January 7 - Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime.
2. January 7, 1979 The Cambodian government of Pol Pot overthrown when Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, falls to Vietnamese forces.
3. In the spring of 1975, Marines evacuated embassy staffs, American citizens, and refugees in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Saigon, Republic of Vietnam.

Phnom Penh

1. The fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh to communist forces in April 1975 hastened the decline of the coalition in Laos.
2. In Cambodia the attainment of the objective was delayed by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot, who seized control of Phnom Penh in April 1975.
3. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, seized control of Phnom Penh and overthrew the U.S.-backed government of Lon Nol.

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