An attempt by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to form a Communist peasant farming society resulted in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions. Pol Pot was born in 1925 (as Saloth Sar) into a farming family in central Cambodia, which was then part of French Indochina. In 1949, at age 20, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to study radio electronics but became absorbed in Marxism and neglected his studies. He l...

We arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the 8th, early after our night flight from Japan. We are both knackered our flight leaving Osaka to Bangkok was at 12:10 arrived at 04:30 then our flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penh was at 06:30 so we haven't had much sleep at all. Just thought I'd share that So once we checked into our hotel we basically just chilled out around the pool, and crashed out. The pool was on the roof of our hotel which also had a roof top bar ...