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Penh , commonly referred to as Daun Penh (; literally "Grandmother Penh" or "Old Lady Penh"), was a wealthy woman who is credited as having founded Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, in 1372 AD.

Usage examples of "penh".

The Mekong River is wide, warm, and calm just south of Phnom Penh, and I used to jump into the water with a towUne and bodysurf behind the patrol boats.

Went into some sort of business in Saigon and Phnom Penh, the way I heard it, and then came along right after Ricky started R.

Problem was, even though Chau Doc sat right on the Bassac River, which ran all the way northwest to Phnom Penh, it was about seventy-five miles from Bmh Thuy, and the Navy had no riverine operations anywhere close.

More significantly, the Phnom Penh posting would make it impossible for me to get an allimportant executive officer assignment.

I arrived in Phnom Penh in September 1973, happy to smell the pungent Asian air that filled my nostrils.

PBRs downriver one night to clear out a Khmer Rouge ambush site twenty-five miles or so south of Phnom Penh and went along for the ride.

I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog.

Phnom Penh, as well as design and launch a naval infantry force that had proved potent and effective in battle.

I was naval attache, Phnom Penh, and that I represented the president of the United States.

He was given a thousand US dollars in cash and told to travel to Phnom Penh and check into the Quai Ban guest house.

Jens, tomorrow I want you to travel with The Owl to Phnom Penh and try to trace that fax number.

Once Jens has done the groundwork in Phnom Penh, we all move into Cambodia.

So, while on a business trip to Saigon and Hong Kong, he had decided to drop in at Phnom Penh and pursue the matter.

You have a defensive team around our informer and his family, and your advanced team is in Phnom Penh and are already feeding back information.

At that point I gave Marcel Duprey my business card which identifies me as a private detective, and explained that her husband hired me and my colleague to come to Phnom Penh and check the details contained in that anonymous letter.