Now, in the jungle gloom of my Siem Reap hotel room, a glimmer of understanding grew.
Mr Kim met me at the airport to take me to my Siem Reap hotel.
Cambodia's skies have been opened, so that direct flights from Thailand to Siem Reap are possible.
The strongman has promised him safe passage to his meeting with the king in Siem Reap.
My last grand adventure of the trip occurred as Mr Kim drove me from Banteay Chhmar to Siem Reap.
And Singapore's Raffles group has pushed ahead with refurbishment projects on major properties in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.
On that day, before her waitressing shift, she and a co-worker went to visit a pagoda in Siem Reap.
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Over the next two and half days, I immersed myself in a giddy, deluge-dodging round of ruin-hopping and restaurant-gorging in Siem Reap.
Mr Kim dropped me at my hotel in Siem Reap at 5 pm, and we parted with assurances that we would see each other again.
The project launch meeting was held on 23 July in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with the participation of seven World Heritage site-related museum institutions.
As she guided tourists to the ancient Angkor Wat temples in Siem Reap, she saw children begging tourists for money at the temples.
At the school in Koh Ker, located three hours from Siem Reap, all the children receive breakfast each day, along with medical care.
Mr Kim had said he would stay with a friend who lived nearby, and we confirmed that he would meet me at the CBT office four days later for the drive back to Siem Reap.
She is a 35-year-old illiterate woman living in Kok Srok village in Siem Reap province, who had to leave primary school in grade 3, as her family was unable to afford her school uniform and other learning materials.
So are two Cambodian investments by Raffles's present owners: Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh and Grand Hotel Angkor in Siem Reap, a splendid colonial relic which will have a new life as a luxury hotel for visitors to the sublime temples of Angkor Wat.
The loss of Cambodia's artists spurred efforts to find survivors who could instruct future generations about the country's ancient arts, some of the instruments of which can be seen carved on the temples of Angkor Wat, which are up to 1, 200 years old, in Siem Reap.
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Recognising the vital role that business plays in our economic relationship and the success of the inaugural U.S.-ASEAN Business Summit in Siem Reap in August 2012, we agreed to expand our commercial engagement by holding an annual U.S.-ASEAN Business Summit and holding a second ASEAN Economic Ministers Roadshow to the United States in 2013.
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