(2001 est. 11.4 million). Cambodia occupies 181,040 square kilometers of peninsular Southeast Asia. Modern Cambodia is bordered by Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and the Gulf of Thailand, which is a part of the South China Sea. It is all that remains of the...

Cambodia's political system is a product both of the country's troubled and oftentimes turbulent modern history and of factors rooted deeply in its premodern development. This article examines the political and governmental units that...

The intricately patterned ikat silks (silks that whose threads are tie-dyed before being woven) created by the Khmer and Cham ethnic groups may come to mind when thinking of Cambodian textiles, but the peoples of Cambodia have produced many other...

Cambodia's education system holds a very important place in the country's plans for integrating itself into the regional and international economies and for reducing the poverty of its people. The Cambodian government, and the many...

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Highlights and Key Issues * For the next 18 months, the economy will continue to reap the benefits of a boom in tourism, textile exports and oil-related investment. Real GDP should grow 9.2% in 2007, down a little from double-digit growth in the...

COMING FROM A small country, Pol Pot did not have the scope for savagery that made Stalin, Hitler and his role model Mao Zedong the 20th century's leading murderers. Each has tens of millions of victims. Still, though he lacked their industrial and military...