Chaktomuk

      The area around Phnom Penh has been inhabited for at least 2000 years, probably much longer.The area enters the historical record in the 15th century AD when it was known as Chaktomuk ( mean the Four Faces) so called for its location at the four-branched confluence of the Mekong River a river crossroads in the heart of Cambodia, the Sap river running to the agricultural heartland and the Angkorian capital, and the Mekong River north to Laos and south to the open sea, Phnom Penh is before all else the city at Chaktomuk. The first record of the name Phnom Penh comes in the telling of the legend of Lady Penh.


  

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             Travelers along the Cambodia without company experienced sexual harassment far less annoying than in other Asian countries like India and Indonesia. Cambodia is a Buddhist country and there is no sexual repression that occurs in many of its neighbors, so the Western women tend not to call much attention.
             Having said this, as long as you go alone you must have a sharp eye, for example, when you do at night or wandering around empty.
             In general, regular exercise caution when traveling without followed with huge.

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Collateral Damage

            In August 1973, in the campaign of secret war against Cambodia, the B-52s bombed by mistake at Neak Luong, outpost of the Khmer Rouge.The attack caused 137 civilian deaths, 268 injured and destroyed the village, and the U.S. government tried to hide the fact, preventing the leading newspaper in Cambodia go to the site. but the journalist Sydney Schanberg, one of the characters in the film The Killing Fields, made it to the people. published in a boat and the truth of the horror. Once caught, the U.S. administration offered a hundred dollar of compensation to families for every civilian killed (Is it worth much the life of a Cambodian?) And the pilot was fined seven hundred bucks U.S. for not returning to wrong man, which is very bad.