Daily News: Cambodia's Fortunes Ebb And Flow Along The Mekong

The Khmer once ruled a vast kingdom that covered not just Cambodia but parts of Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, too. The empire had its capital at Angkor, near the present-day city of Siem Reap in northwest Cambodia. ... Invading armies also came up the Mekong in an effort to conquer the Khmer kingdom in the 12th century, a story told in the bas reliefs at Angkor's Bayon temple. Pyyoak says the Champa, or Cham, came up the Mekong from the south, from what is now Vietnam, ...