Facts about Cambodia

History
Early Beginnings
Cambodia came into being, so the legend goes, through the union of a princess and a foreigner. The foreigner was an Indian Brahman named Kaundinya. The princess was the daughter of a dragon king who ruled over a watery place. One day, as Kaundinya sailed by, the princess paddled out in a boat to greet him. Kaundinya shot an arrow from his magic bow into her boat, causing the princess to fearfully agree to marriage. In need of a dowry, her father drank up the waters of his land and presented them to Kaundinya to rule over. The new Kingdom was named Kambuja.

Like many legends, this one is historically opaque, but it does say something about the cultural forces that brought Cambodia into existence; in particular its relationship with its great subcontinental neighbour, India. Cambodia's religious, royal and written traditions stemmed from India and began to coalesce as a culteral tradition in their own right from around the 1st century AD.

Very little is known about prehistoric Cambodia. Evidence of cave dwellers has been found in the north-west of Cambodia. Carbon dating on ceramic pots found in the area shows they were made around 4200 BC. But it is difficult to say whether there is a direct relationship between these cave-dwelling pot makers and contemporary Khmers. Examination of bones dating back to around 1500 BC, however suggest that the people living in Cambodia at that time resembled Cambodians of today.

Archaeological evidence shows that Cambodians prior to 1000 BC lived in houses on stilts (as they do today), and subsisted on a diet that included large quantities of fish and cultivated rice. Early Chinese records report that the Cambodian were 'ugly' and 'dark' and went about naked; a pinch of salt is always required when reading the culturally chauvinistic reports of imperial China concerning its 'barbarian' neighbours.

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Nowadays, Cambodia economy is gloriously, because Cambodia has planty of investment, and public market so this country has many modern updated produce. Some of people who living in Cambodia are very interested in using different new technology (Computer, Telephone, camera, ...). Both of Computer and Telephone are the devices which can make people to communicate each other very fast even though we are anywhere of the world. Computer is a device has a lot of advantages such as storing datas or informations, controling school, company, and hospital….etc.

But unfortunately Cambodia has limited levels of access which looks low yet for the Information Technology (IT) in the South-east Asian region because we lack of IT human resource. Thus our Cambodian government has initiated a number of efforts to give a direction to IT application and development in higher education in the country, and ministry of education also insert IT subject to study in secondary school and university including a plan to establish a national computer training program, to encourage research activities in software development, to create a national information bank, and to develop a networking system to disseminate and collect data and information. So no longer, Cambodia will become a country that has gloriously IT.

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