Ken Booth: Because of political forces, Cambodia was forgotten and ignored. The French explored during its colonial period in Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia.

A joint venture of the 544th Engineer Company, 52nd Eng. Battalion, and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces engineers concluded with a ribbon-cutting of a newly-constructed school in Taing Sia Village ...

About 65 kids are enrolled at the school, where classroom walls are made of painted car tyres and the entrance adorned with a mural of the Cambodian flag made entirely from colourful bottle caps.