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Koh Pich
Diamond Island ( km, កោះពេជ្រ, , lit. "Diamond Island") is a satellite city in Phnom Penh on the Mekong and Bassac rivers. The land was a swamp until the year 2000, but it is now (2017) under work and could become the Phnom Penh residential district and a separate municipality. A neighborhood named "Elysée" has a style inspired by Paris. In other areas, high towers are under construction. Almost all of the island is in Chamkar Mon Section. Education The Canadian International School of Phnom Penh has its main campus in Koh Pich; this campus opened in 2015. Gallery File:Koh-Pich-Triumphal- arch-2018.jpg, File:KohPich2018-9.jpg, File:KohPich2018-8.jpg, File:Sangkat Tonle Basak, Phnom Penh, Cambodia - panoramio (2).jpg, File:KohPichCityHall-2017-2.jpg, The 2010 accident The Phnom Penh stampede was a deadly stampede that occurred during the Water Festival at Diamond Island in Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Cambodia
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (; km, ភ្នំពេញ, ) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic, industrial, and cultural centre. Phnom Penh succeeded Angkor Thom as the capital of the Khmer nation but was abandoned several times before being reestablished in 1865 by King Norodom. The city formerly functioned as a processing center, with textiles, pharmaceuticals, machine manufacturing, and rice milling. Its chief assets, however, were cultural. Institutions of higher learning included the Royal University of Phnom Penh (established in 1960 as Royal Khmer University), with schools of engineering, fine arts, technology, and agricultural sciences, the latter at Chamkar Daung, a suburb. Also located in Phnom Penh were the Royal University of Agronomic Sciences and the Agricultural School of Prek Leap. The city was nicknamed the "Pearl of As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Cambodia
This is a list of Cambodia's 162 districts ( ''srok''), 27 district-level municipalities ( ''krong'') and 14 sections ( ''khan'') organized by each province and an autonomous municipality ( Phnom Penh). Each has a code in parentheses displaying the first two digits as the province and the last two representing that province. Banteay Meanchey # Mongkol Borei (01-02) # Phnom Srok (01-03) # Preah Netr Preah (01-04) # Ou Chrov (01-05) # Serei Saophoan municipality (01-06) # Thma Puok (01-07) # Svay Chek (01-08) # Malai (01-09) # Poipet municipality (01-10) Battambang # Banan (02-01) # Thma Koul (02-02) # Battambang municipality (02-03) # Bavel (02-04) # Ek Phnom (02-05) # Moung Ruessei (02-06) # Rotanak Mondol (02-07) # Sangkae (02-08) # Samlout (02-09) # Sampov Loun (02-10) # Phnum Proek (02-11) # Kamrieng (02-12) # Koas Krala (02-13) # Rukhak Kiri (02-14) Kampong Cham # Batheay (03-01) # Chamkar Leu (03-02) # Cheung Prey (03-03) # Kampong Cham municipality ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamkar Mon District
Chamkar Mon ( km, ចំការមន, meaning 'Mulberry Farm') is the southernmost district in central Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The district has an area of 10.56 km2. As of the 2019 census, its population is 70,772. Administration Chamkar Mon was subdivided into 12 Sangkats and 95 Phums (villages). On January 8, 2019, according to sub-decree 03 អនក្រ.បក, 7 sangkats from Khan Chamkar Mon have been moved to a new khan, Khan Boeng Keng Kang. Cityscape Places of interest * Naga World *Phsar Tuol Tompoung Market (Russian Market) *Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum *Wat Tuol Tompoung Education Canadian International School of Phnom Penh maintains the main campus on Koh Pich in Chamkar Mon Section and the Bassac Garden Preschool in the Chamkar Mon Section. iCan British International School is in Tonle Bassac commune. - mentioned on list of schoolsby the U.S. State Department The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mekong
The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's List of rivers by length, twelfth longest river and List of longest rivers of Asia, the third longest in Asia. Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of , discharging of water annually. From the Tibetan Plateau the river runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The extreme seasonal variations in flow and the presence of rapids and waterfalls in the Mekong make navigation difficult. Even so, the river is a major trade route between western China and Southeast Asia. Names The Mekong was originally called ''Mae Nam Khong'' from a contracted form of Tai language, Tai shortened to ''Mae Khong''. In Thai and Lao, ''Mae Nam'' ("Mother of Water[s]") is used for large rivers and ''Khong'' is the proper name referred to as "River Khong". However, ''Khong'' is an archaic word meaning "river", loaned from Austroasiatic languages, such as Vietnamese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassac River
The Bassac River ( km, ទន្លេបាសាក់; Tonlé Bassac) is a distributary of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River. The river starts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and flows southerly, crossing the border into Vietnam near Châu Đốc. The name Bassac comes from the Khmer prefix “pa” (father or male) added to sak (សក្តិ) (power or honor), a Khmer word borrowed from the Sanskrit “sakti” (शक्ति). In Vietnam it is known as the Hậu River (''Sông Hậu'' or ''Hậu Giang'' in Vietnamese). The Bassac River is an important transportation corridor between Cambodia and Vietnam, with barges and other craft plying the waters. A city of the same name was once the west-bank capital of the Kingdom of Champasak. Sak (សក្តិ) can also be seen in the Khmer spelling of Champasak; (ចំប៉ាសក្តិ). USS ''Satyr'' (ARL-23), a recommissioned repair ship originally built for the United States Navy during World War II, served on the Bassac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamkar Mon Section
Chamkar Mon ( km, ចំការមន, meaning 'Mulberry Farm') is the southernmost district in central Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The district has an area of 10.56 km2. As of the 2019 census, its population is 70,772. Administration Chamkar Mon was subdivided into 12 Sangkats and 95 Phums (villages). On January 8, 2019, according to sub-decree 03 អនក្រ.បក, 7 sangkats from Khan Chamkar Mon have been moved to a new khan, Khan Boeng Keng Kang. Cityscape Places of interest * Naga World *Phsar Tuol Tompoung Market (Russian Market) *Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum *Wat Tuol Tompoung Education Canadian International School of Phnom Penh maintains the main campus on Koh Pich in Chamkar Mon Section and the Bassac Garden Preschool in the Chamkar Mon Section. iCan British International School is in Tonle Bassac commune. - mentioned on list of schoolsby the U.S. State Department The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian International School Of Phnom Penh
Canadian International School of Phnom Penh is an international school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It has three campuses: Koh Pich (Diamond Island), the Bassac Garden Preschool, and the Olympia City Preschool. The Koh Pich campus is in Chamkar Mon Section, the Bassac Garden Preschool is in Chamkar Mon Section, and the Olympia City Preschool is in Prampir Makara Section. History It was established in 2012. Initially it only had preschool grades. Construction on the main campus began in 2013. It opened the Koh Pich campus in 2015. The following year the Tuol Kork Tuol Kouk ( km, ទួលគោក ; meaning "Dry Hill") is a district (''khan'') in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tuol Kouk is well known for the large villas in its northern part of the district. This district is subdivided into 10 '' sangkats'' and 14 ... preschool opened. This campus was in the Sunway Tuol Kork. The Olympia City preschool opened in 2019. It is in the process of adding grades, with grade 12 to be added circa 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phnom Penh Post
''The Phnom Penh Post'' ( km, ភ្នំពេញប៉ុស្តិ៍, ) is a daily English-language newspaper published in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Founded in 1992 by publisher Michael Hayes and Kathleen O'Keefe, it is Cambodia's oldest English-language newspaper. The paper was initially published fortnightly as a full-color tabloid; in 2008 it increased frequency to daily publication and redesigned the format as a Berliner. ''The Phnom Penh Post'' is also available in Khmer. It previously published a weekend magazine, 7Days, in its Friday edition. Since July 2014, it has published a weekly edition on Saturdays called ''Post Weekend'', which was folded into the paper as a Friday supplement in 2017 and was discontinued in 2018. It has a staff of Cambodian and foreign journalists covering national news. The newspaper includes specific business, lifestyle and sports sections, and also prints a "Police Blotter", which has items related to crime translated from local Khmer-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phnom Penh Stampede
The Phnom Penh stampede occurred on 22 November 2010 when 347 people were killed and another 755 injured in a stampede during the Water Festival celebrations at Diamond Gate Bridge of Diamond Island, in Cambodia. Background The stampede occurred at the end of the three-day Water Festival to celebrate the end of the monsoon season and the semiannual reversal of flow of the Tonlé Sap river.... Initial reports suggest that festival-goers had gathered on ''Koh Pich'' ("Diamond Island"), a spit of land stretching into the Tonlé Sap, to watch boat races and then a concert. Around four million people had attended the festival. It was the third incident in the festival's history resulting in fatalities, though it was by far the worst; five rowers on a boat drowned in 2008, and another drowned in 2009. Incident The stampede began at 21:30 local time (14:30 UTC) on a bridge across the river, though witnesses said that people had been "stuck on the bridge" for several hours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Festival
The Water Festival is the New Year's celebrations that take place in Southeast Asian nations such as Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand as well as among the Dai people of China. It is called the 'Water Festival' by Westerners because they notice people splashing or pouring water at one another as part of the cleansing ritual (which a lot forgot about) to welcome the New Year. Traditionally people gently sprinkled water on one another as a sign of respect, but as the new year falls during the hottest month in South East Asia, many people end up dousing strangers and passers-by in vehicles in boisterous celebration. The act of pouring water is also a show of blessings and good wishes. It is believed that at this Water Festival, everything old must be thrown away, or it will bring the owner bad luck. China The annual Water Splashing Festival of the Dai ethnic minority falls during the New Year celebrations of the Dai Calendar. It is the most important festival observed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh. The sovereign state of Cambodia has a population of over 17 million. Buddhism is enshrined in the constitution as the official state religion, and is practised by more than 97% of the population. Cambodia's minority groups include Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and 30 hill tribes. Cambodia has a tropical monsoon climate of two seasons, and the country is made up of a central floodplain around the Tonlé Sap lake and Mekong Delta, surrounded by mountainous regions. The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh, the political, economic and cultural centre of Cambodia. The kingdom is an elective co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
