Sophal ear biography of williams
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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
Introduction
nära the small hill (phnom in Khmer) that gives the city its name, the richer inhabitants of Phnom-Penh live in large villas, standing in spacious grounds along quiet, shady streets. Just to the south of the phnom, the city takes on a completely different aspect as one moves into the business district. Walking through its streets, even the most casual observer cannot help but be aware that a large part of the city’s population fryst vatten Chinese.
(Willmott 1970, 1)
Thus begins William Willmott’s seminal study on Cambodia’s ethnic kinesisk in the early 1960s. Willmott continues to describe the business district that is rendered as Quartier Chinois on colonial city maps: names of shops are displayed in kinesisk, schoolchildren learn Mandarin, people sell and read kinesisk novels or newspapers, and various kinesisk dialects are spoken (Willmott 1970, 1). What has changed in Phnom Penh since Willmott’s fiel
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Dialogues at Fulcrum
Fulcrum editor Dr Lee Hwok Aun and Dr Francis Hutchinson, both Senior Fellows at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, speak with Khairy Jamaluddin on a broad range of Malaysian political and policy issues. Six months after the 15th general election, UMNO, Prime Minister Anwar, and the unity government are each facing distinct challenges that will test their ability to reform, govern, contest state elections, and sustain the ruling coalition.
Khairy is a Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS, and was three-time member of Malaysia’s parliament representing Rembau. He has served as Minister of Youth and Sports; Science, Technology and Innovation; and Health.
Dialogues at Fulcrum is a podcast published by the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. For quick reference, the questions below were addressed during the podcast:
1:45 – Political icons like Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim have been cast into the political wilderness in the past – and made illustrious comebacks. What
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Cambodian genocide
| Cambodian genocide | |
|---|---|
Skulls from victims of the Cambodian genocide | |
| Location | Democratic Kampuchea |
| Date | 17 April 1975 – 7 January 1979 (3 years, 8 months and 20 days) |
| Target | Cambodia's previous leaders, business leaders, journalists, students, doctors, lawyers, Buddhists, Chams, Chinese Cambodians, Christians, intellectuals, Thai Cambodians, Vietnamese Cambodians |
Attack type | Genocide, classicide, politicide, ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings, torture, famine, forced labor, unethical human experiments, forced disappearances, deportation, crimes against humanity |
| Deaths | 1,500,000–3,000,000 |
| Perpetrators | Khmer Rouge |
| Motive | Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Anti-Buddhism, anti-Cham sentiment, anti-Christianity, anti-intellectualism, anti-Thai sentiment, anti-Vietnamese sentiment, Khmer ultranationalism, Sinophobia and Islamophobia |
During the Cambodian genocide (Khmer: ហាយនភាពខ្មែរorការប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ខ្មែរ), As many as 3,000,0