The soldiers nodded and smiled at each other, and one of the Thais greeted the Cambodians in Khmer.
Its yellow-washed, green-shuttered, colonial-era buildings and angular, post-independence "new Khmer" architecture were both, rightly, renowned.
Khmer is the official national language and spoken by more than 95% of the population.
The imminent collapse of the Khmer Rouge does not end the questions, of course.
Ce reporter de 44 ans couvrait les questions environnementales pour le journal Vorakchun Khmer Daily.
Two other key Khmer Rouge figures are thought to be dead but may still be at large.
Veata and her parents spoke in Khmer, very softly and quickly, so as to prevent me from understanding.
The classes cover basic literacy in Khmer, and numeracy combined with health information specific to mothers and children.
During half-millennia of Khmer occupation, the city of Angkor became a pilgrimage destination of importance throughout Southeastern Asia.
The National Museum of Cambodia, founded in 1920, possesses one of the world's greatest collections of Khmer artefacts.
Hun Sen had asked the world body in 1997 to help find justice for the Khmer Rouge's atrocities.
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Concerted pressure from aid donors would win his co-operation, however reluctant, in bringing Khmer Rouge leaders to trial.
Whilst Khmer is spoken widely within the country, it is not spoken as generally in the remote highland regions.
Sihanouk later condemned the Khmer Rouge for the deaths of the Cambodians, including of several of his own children.
In one section, long ear-lobed Khmer soldiers bearing spears and shields march over a battlefield under the command of their larger-than-life-sized king.
There is no evidence linking him to Khmer Rouge atrocities in the 1970s.
The Vietnamese quickly overthrew the Khmer Rouge, who fled back into the jungle.
The exhibition of the National Museum will also present a particular aspect of Khmer culture which is still alive: Kbach.
" A clearly impressed foreign observer remarks: "This shows Cambodia has traveled a fair distance since the end of Khmer Rouge rule.
The sculptor Auguste Rodin once noted that the perfection of Khmer classical dance was equaled only by the classicism of the Greeks.
They veer between Khmer pop, film noir soundtrack, surf rock and folky, teenybopper hit parade fare, right out of the late '60s.
For years the Khmer Rouge could be blamed for much of the illicit trade, which they used to bankroll their guerrilla operations.
Aside from the defectors, there aren't many other Khmer Rouge leaders left.
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Since then, the U.N. has maintained offices in Phnom Penh, and has called for a special court to try detained Khmer Rouge bigwigs.
The Kbach is indeed accompanying the life of Khmer people from birth to death, at every important phase such as adulthood and marriage.
But for my money, Dengue Fever really hit their stride when they rock out and let Nimol lay into quirky, melodramatic Khmer melodies.
Next, his soldiers captured Ta Mok, the last Khmer Rouge commander who had not defected, and announced that national courts would try him.
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The Khmer Rouge Tribunal will soon be facing an even greater challenge - the trial of the organisation's four most senior surviving former leaders.
The Khmer people have continued using this artistic legacy for the ornamentation of everyday objects, houses, monuments, in addition to public and religious buildings.
Though most Khmer Rouge leaders are living in Pailin, a border town where the government's grip is tenuous, they no longer have an army.
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