Koh Rong island
Russian investor Konstantin Kagalovsky has reported met with Hun Sen at the premier's home to talk about plans to make the island off the coast of Sihanoukville into special economic zones.
It just a fortnight, it can be seen in links from this blog that the area has moved from being "the next Goa, the new Phi Phi" to a haven for foreign investment.
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posted by Unknown at 10:15 PM
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Tan & Trev,
It is good that you are very 'into' Cambodia, but keep your researcher's detachment. Examine area history from the outside as well as the inside.
I highly recommend a book "A Journey in Cambodia and Cochin-China (1864)" by Adolf Bastian (Belgian).
Other good reference works are: "Ruins of Angkor Cambodia (1909)" by P. Dieulefils (French)and "Royal Siamese Maps" by Sanatee Phasuk & Philip Stott (Thai), plus "The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh" by Julio A. Jeldres & Somkid Chaijitvanit (Cambodia). Within each of these books, are references and comments on Siam's suzainry over the Tonle Sap basin, starting in the mid 14th century and continuing until French seizure in the late 19th century (500 years).
In the foreword of the 'Phnom Penh' book, King Norodom Sihanouk refers to Cambodia's Tai ancestry.
After the fall of Angkor, due to Bubonic Plague, Siam rescued the county by re-establishing the royal family and building the first city of the new coastal country of Cambodia. That first city was built very near the Siamese border, in the western half of the country and was named U-Thong after the King of Siam. Phnom Penh was the business center built on the outskirts of U-Thong.
History records that the French gave Angkor and the Tonle Sap area to Thailand in 1941, but then bequeathed it to Cambodia in 1953, only 52 years ago.
Your friend,
Mike W.
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