The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

The new government sought to completely restructure Cambodian society.

Donor countries have pledged the $ 43 million international share of the three-year tribunal budget, while the Cambodian government ’ s share of the budget is $ 13. 3 million.

* 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

Viet Minh units occasionally made forays into Cambodian bases during their war against the French, and, in conjunction with the leftist government that ruled Thailand until 1947, the Viet Minh encouraged the formation of armed, left-wing Khmer Issarak bands.

* 1970 – U. S. President Richard Nixon asks the U. S. Congress for $ 155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.

In 1979, after the Cambodian – Vietnamese War, Pol Pot fled to the jungles of southwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge government collapsed.

* October 23 – In Paris, the Vietnam-backed government of the state of Cambodia signs an agreement with the Khmer Rouge to end the civil war and bring the Khmer Rouge into government in spite of its role in the Cambodian genocide.

** Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after 3 months.

** U. S. President Richard Nixon asks the U. S. Congress for US $ 155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government ( US $ 85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam ).

* December 1 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, 10 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh.

* visiting Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1975, during which he denounced Fulgencio Batista's government and praised contemporary Cuban and Cambodian revolutionaries ;

Starting on March 29 to late April 1970 the South Vietnamese army and Cambodian government forced the PRG to flee deep into Cambodia.

As a result of an agreement with the Cambodian government made in 1966, weapons for the Viet Cong were shipped to the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville and then trucked to Viet Cong bases near the border along the " Sihanouk Trail ", which replaced the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

After the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in March 1970, the Viet Cong faced a hostile Cambodian government which authorized a U. S. offensive against its bases in April.

The Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ) has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of its Asian neighbors, to include the People's Republic of China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand.

George Coedès suggests the Cambodian myth is a basis for the legend of " Phra Daeng Nang Ai ", in which a woman who has lived many previous lives in the region is reincarnated as a daughter of Phraya Khom ( Thai for Cambodian ,) and causes the death of her companion in former lives who has been reincarnated as a prince of the Nagas.

Work resumed after the end of the Cambodian Civil War and, since 1993, has been jointly co-ordinated by the French, Japanese and UNESCO through the International Co-ordinating Committee on the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor ( ICC ), while Cambodian work is carried out by the Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap ( APSARA ), created in 1995.

According to APSARA, the official Cambodian agency charged with overseeing the management of Angkor, " vandalism has multiplied at a phenomenal rate, employing local populations to carry out the actual thefts, heavily armed intermediaries transport objects, often in tanks or armored personnel carriers, often for sale across the Cambodian border.

There are fairly large Thai, Laotian and Cambodian communities-Southeast Asian ethnic groups whom arrived in the 1980s has grown in size during the 1990s, with many more including Chinese Americans from the Los Angeles / Orange County area.

The group has parallels to the Cambodian Hokkien, who are descendants of Hoklo Chinese.

The site has been managed by the private SOKIMEX group since 1990, which rented it from the Cambodian government.

Tourism has also provided some additional funds for maintenance — as of 2000 approximately 28 % of ticket revenues across the whole Angkor site was spent on the temples — although most work is carried out by foreign government-sponsored teams rather than by the Cambodian authorities.

The cuisine of Laos is similar to other regional cuisines such as Thai and Cambodian cuisines, but has several unique distinguishing traits.

A recent example of poor sanitation recently has been the 2006 North American E. coli outbreak involving spinach, an outbreak that is still under investigation after new information has come to light regarding the involvement of Cambodian nationals.

The Cambodian government has expressed interest in building a cable car to carry tourists to the site, though this has yet to happen, pending resolution of the Cambodian – Thai border dispute.

In the province Siem Reap, a form of music called Kantrum has become popular ; originating among the Khmer Surin in Thailand, kantrum is famous for Thai and Cambodian stars like Darkie.

The Cardamom mountain range forms the boundary to Cambodia in the east of the province, where Trat has borders with three Cambodian provinces: Battambang, Pursat and Koh Kong.

Since 1990 Cambodia has gradually recovered, demographically and economically, from the Khmer Rouge regime, although the psychological scars affect many Cambodian families and émigré communities.

It is therefore likely that elephant-training was brought to Thailand from Cambodia and that krabi krabong has some Cambodian influence, probably dating back to Ayutthaya's invasion of Angkor.

In an interview with the London Daily Telegraph, Brinkley stated that Kerry had gone into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions, dropping off U. S. Seals, Green Berets, and CIA operatives.

According to a document issued after the reorganization, the Vietnam Workers ' Party would continue to " supervise " the smaller Laotian and Cambodian movements.

The Vietnamese portion of the Phnom Penh railway would begin with a junction of the North-South Railway at Di An Railway Station, and would end in Lộc Ninh, Binh Phuoc Province, close to the Cambodian border, linking up with a similar project on the Cambodian side.

With only 13 crewmen remaining onboard besides themselves, the mutineers sailed into Cambodian waters, where they assumed they would be welcomed as heroes.

He later informed Alexander Haig that his country had been placed in serious danger as a result ; when Haig told him that American ground forces would not be used to assist the Cambodian army, but that ( in accordance with the Nixon Doctrine ) a programme of aid would be given instead, Lon Nol openly wept.

In May 1978, on the eve of So Phim's Eastern Zone uprising, Radio Phnom Penh declared that if each Cambodian soldier killed thirty Vietnamese, only 2 million troops would be needed to eliminate the entire Vietnamese population of 50 million.

In particular, deals were made where China would purchase rice at inflated prices from the Cambodian government.

In late 1967 and in early 1968, Sihanouk signaled that he would raise no objection to hot pursuit of communist forces by South Vietnamese or by United States troops into Cambodian territory.

According to a document issued after the reorganization, the Vietnam Workers ' Party would continue to " supervise " the smaller Laotian and Cambodian movements.

On 29 April 1970, South Vietnamese and U. S. units ( alarmed at the North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the entire country ) unleashed a limited, multi-pronged Cambodian Campaign that Washington hoped would solve three other problems: First, it would provide a shield for the American withdrawal ( by destroying the PAVN logistical system and killing enemy troops ); second, it would provide a test for the policy of Vietnamization ; third, it would serve as a signal to Hanoi that Nixon meant business.

First, there were the political constraints imposed by Washington that limited the entire American effort in Southeast Asia ( the continued fiction of Laotian and Cambodian " neutrality ", failure to disrupt the trail with U. S. ground forces when it would have made a difference, etc.

:"... As part of the U. S. Navy's slice of the action, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and his sidekick, Captain Roy ( Latch ) Hoffmann, had devised ' Operation Sea Lords ,' in which the Swift boats would patrol the canals and secondary streams of the Mekong Delta, with particular emphasis on the areas near the Cambodian border.

In the book, O ' Neill argued that a Swift boat commander would have been " seriously disciplined or court-martialed " for crossing the Cambodian border.

He was one of the founders of the Khmer Students ' Association ( KSA ), out of which would grow the left-wing revolutionary movements that would so alter Cambodian history in the 1970s, most notably the Khmer Rouge.

The Cambodian Army would attempt to attack Khmer Rouge forces, however the rebels would simply slip away and move somewhere else.

General Kriangsak's objective in this brutal operation apparently was to demonstrate to the international community that his government would not bear alone the burden of hundreds of thousands of Cambodian refugees.