Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger ...
Driven by a deep love for the Pali Khmer language and a desire to pass on his ethnic culture to the younger generation, for ...
Come next year, the University of Washington (UW) may no longer teach Khmer, the Cambodian language. The university is considering cutting the hard-won language program in the wake of federal funding ...
The New Khmer Architecture movement emerged in post-independence, pre-war Cambodia. It was characterized by its consideration of traditional Cambodian culture. Today, architects are trying to preserve ...
Cambodian-American Khmer classical dancer and choreographer Charya Burt has brought Rebirth of Apsara back to Cambodia to ...
Douglas Latchford was a leading scholar of Khmer antiquities. But he was also charged with smuggling. Cambodian deputy Prime Minister Sok An shakes hands with British Khmer art collector Douglas ...
Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after ...
When a soldier from Surin, Sisaket or Buriram dies, mourning is quiet. Families grieve in villages. Funerals are modest.
In times of national crisis, whether due to war or any force majeure issues involving religious leadership, Khmer Buddhist ...
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy ...
Tourists who wander Cambodia’s Killing Fields don’t just encounter the ghosts of victims. Even today, scraps of clothing and bone fragments belonging to some of the 1.7 million people slaughtered by ...