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[edit] Religion?

How about a little on religion? Thnx, Athana

[edit] Nothing Major

Tidied up a little - seemed a little messy in patches for a feature article. A couple of typos, some vandalism and some inaccuracies - "great districts" indeed. Was a little US-centric so I added a couple of donors and a link to the TI corruption index. Hope nobody minds these changes. I have two additional suggestions for discussion:

1. The corruption links are now rather repetitive and, again US/UK centric, should these be cut down and the text expanded slightly instead? 2. Islands are not an administrative division in Cambodia. However, 'Sangkat', 'Quartier', 'Village' (added already) and even 'Group' are. Perhaps we could re-arrange this section to reflect and list administrative divisions (and the numbers of each from the Census). Then the list of Islands could be removed entirely thus neatly sidestepping the issue of territorial boundaries? In addition, we could then add a para on territorial integrity and disputes - a VERY hot issue in Cambodia today. What do you think? Paxse 15:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archive + External Links

Are ballooning again. I'm in the mood to prune. Any objections to pruning or suggestions for a maximum number of external links?

I've archived the previous 2.5 years of discussion - see box at page top. Paxse 13:56, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


I don't know who put the airport information in this article but there are only 2 functioning airorts in Cambodia. Most of the "airports" listed in the article are nothing but overgrown ruins now. Even the Sihanoukville airport is months away from completion

  • No, there are more than two airports in current use. Even the first flight to the refurbished Sihanoukville airport happened ages ago [1]. Also just because commercial carriers don't fly to a destination, doesn't mean the airport doesn't "function" or no longer exists. There is still a lot of charter traffic to many provincial airports. I'm reverting your deletion of other airports in Cambodia. Paxse 13:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Paxse, this IP is a known vandal. They don't usually target this article, but this edit came in the middle of one of their little sprees. Your revert was completely correct, and sadly explaining anything to them is probably slightly more pointless than smashing your hand with a hammer. Natalie 14:39, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
      • I see they've still been busy. I recently found 20 airports - 6 paved and 14 unpaved from a government source but note that we are back down to 4 in the article - I surrender! Paxse 10:33, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flora and fauna

Why there's no mention of flora and fauna of Cambodia in the geography section, nor the geography article? Cambodia is very famous for its biodiversity, which is of first-class in the world. One example is Cambodia holds the largest concentration of the indochinese tiger and southeast asian gaur in the region, 2 flagship conservation species:

(link removed ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 16:59, 18 August 2007 (UTC))

I think flora and fauna are important point and should not be neglected.

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[edit] Links`

I've cleaned up the links. To all editors, if you want to add any more links, please read Wikipedia:External links before you do. If you are a webmaster of a Cambodia-related website, please do not add it to Wikipedia. That's self-promotion, instead try adding it to Dmoz. Cambodia at the Open Directory Project --Dara 03:37, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Education

Not sure how it could be fitted in but should it not be mentioned that Cambodian history from the French occupation to the present day is not taught in schools? Apparently it is a deliberate policy and even libraries carry no books on the subject in their own language. Wayne 18:49, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Gidday Wayne. I think someone may have given you a bum steer. Modern Cambodian history is taught in government schools and books on history are available in libraries - there aren't many libraries around but that's a different problem. Interestingly school textbooks printed in the '80's were very full-on in their description of Pol Pot/Ieng Sary evildoing (when the Vietnamese-backed government was seeking legitimacy). The later revisions have toned it down a little. I know 'cos I have most of the school textbooks from either my kids or various young in-laws. Like you I'm a history nut and was fascinated to see how Khmer history was taught to Khmer. :) Cheers, Paxse 18:45, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Population and Land area

The last accurate Cambodian population figures are from the Inter-Censal population survey which has a reference date of March 3, 2004. Anything else is a 'projection' (i.e. a guess). Then the Population was 13,091,000 (after some political juggling upwards from 12.82 million) and the population growth rate from 1998 to 2004 was 1.81% with fertility declining. The Phnom Penh population was 1,044,000. We'll soon have more up to date figures (and hopefully an end to incremental population exaggeration) next year when the census is conducted. The land area of Cambodia is 181,035 km2 and has been for quite some time - in fact the government recently got quite upset with the webmaster of the ASEAN website who rounded off the 35 km2 [2] . Therefore we should be a little careful with the numbers to avoid any diplomatic incidents :) This number is unlikely to change any time soon so should not need constant revision. Please help to revert any numbers which don't match these basic facts - a few weeks ago the country info box was up to 14.9 million and today the article lead had 15 million and a doubled Phnom Penh population. Btw Tourist brochures (and websites) are more propaganda and advertising than fact - don't use them as sources. Try [3] instead. Cheers, Paxse 10:25, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Paxse on the last statement about propaganda. I'm Cambodian- American and I've been to Cambodia twice. I've learned a few things. Cambodia still has corruption but a tourist can make a vacation there as good as it can be if you know how to be cautious. Don't believe what some things say. Do your own research about it or even ask someone who's been there. I think tourism really boosted the country's economy, obviously, but be careful when you get there.

[edit] Scouting in Khmer script

Can you help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Khmer script? Thanks! Chris 03:17, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion vote

Please see the deletion vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Taiwanese Americans. Badagnani 02:59, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Province size table

I'm proposing we lose the recently added table with provincial sizes and total land area. Most of the information already appears elsewhere in the article and the all caps formatting is not pretty. Basically it just adds another bare (unreferenced) list to the article. Comments? Paxse 15:24, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Official Languages

Khmer and French are listed as Cambodia's official languages, but I see no reference. The CIA factbook lists only Khmer.[4] Does French have any official status in the country? Any references? AnthroGael (talk) 12:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

French is only official along the Seine. They should stop thinking about francophonie or whatever they call this French nightmare. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.2.139.158 (talk) 22:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Genocide

This article assumes there was genocide in Cambodia. There is a serious legal issue in the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia right now as to whether the word "genocide" is accurate. There were mass killings, certainly, but the actions of the Khmer Rouge may have been too reckless to qualify as "genocidal intent" under the Genocide Convention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.60.14.123 (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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